Baptism

What's inside

1. 1Water Before the Font6 lessons
   • The Spirit Over the Waters
   • Through the Sea and Into the River
   • The Baptism of Repentance
   • Why Jesus Stepped Into the Water
   • Go and Baptize
   • Buried With Him
2. 2What Baptism Does6 lessons
   • The Door That Opens the Rest
   • A Sacrament, Not a Ceremony
   • Every Sin, and the Debt With It
   • A Share in God's Own Life
   • The Mark That Cannot Be Erased
   • Marked for Worship
3. 3The Fathers and the Councils6 lessons
   • The Oldest Instructions We Have
   • What They Said the Water Did
   • The Argument That Started With Babies
   • What the Church Decided
   • What Must Be There for a Baptism
   • One Baptism, and What It Binds
4. 4How the Church Came to Baptize6 lessons
   • Three Years to the Font
   • The Night the Church Baptized
   • Why the Church Baptizes Babies
   • The Question Under the Question
   • The Catechumenate Comes Back
   • Baptizing the Nations
5. 5Inside the Rite6 lessons
   • Water and the Words
   • The Words That Cannot Change
   • At the Door and at the Font
   • After the Water
   • Who Can Baptize
   • If You Ever Have To
6. 6Questions People Ask6 lessons
   • Is Baptism Necessary?
   • Those Who Never Reached the Font
   • Just a Symbol?
   • Faith and the Font
   • Whose Baptism Counts?
   • The Fight Over Rebaptism
7. 7Living Your Baptism6 lessons
   • The Promises Made in Your Name
   • Renewed Every Easter
   • Priest, Prophet, and King
   • Offering the Ordinary
   • Water at the Door
   • Keeping the Date