[This is my Faith Post for April 2025.]
I've been blessed to get some baby time lately. I have a new niece and our family spent spring break getting to meet her. While I've been through my fair share of baby time in my years (*ahem* 5 kids) my youngest is now 3+ and those days are increasingly behind us. Still, there is nothing quite like holding a newborn in your arms.
I've also spent a fair amount of time thinking about baptism lately. I've been in the midst of several new member classes at my church and with each of them the topic of baptism comes up. I also met with a younger couple at my church preparing for the baptism of their first-born and we went through the nice review of Baptism and its ins and outs.
Babies and baptism make a great combination, without a doubt. Being a Lutheran pastor I spend a fair amount of time teaching and preaching on this very thing. The Scriptures are quite clear on what a wonderful thing it is to baptize, and babies are surely a part of it. Nonetheless, not all of Christianity agrees with this sentiment. That's unfortunate.