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A brief Introduction:

While studying to be a pastor in college I abandoned my faith. In fact, I abandoned everything I thought I believed and rebuilt.

To my own surprise at the time, I found that Christianity was much stronger than I had thought. As I rebuilt my belief system, I realized that there needed to be people out there responding to the questions people have. I had them myself. So, while not continuing on to be a pastor, I have focused on educating people about what Christianity is all about and responding to the various charges and accusations made against it.

There are some obvious challenges to being successful in that capacity, but a big part of it consists not in arguing with atheists and skeptics, but rather in providing Christians with accurate information in the first place to prevent them from leaving the faith in the first place.

Questioning is a very normal and natural part of growing up, and I am convinced that it is not wrong to ask questions of God at any age. God doesn't strike people down. On the other hand, if people are going to reject Christianity, it is my aim to at least make sure they reject the real Christianity and not a false view of it. Also, much heartache can be avoided by educating Christians properly to begin with. My experience has helped me... but it was unnecessary.

Paul said that some plant, some water, and others reap the increase. My job is to go out into the land and move rocks- or break them if necessary- till the land, and struggle through knee deep fertilizer... all in the effort to allow those who come later to plant, water, and reap the harvest. I look forward to the prospects of either serving you as someone who needs to haul rocks out of the field, or as someone who can look at the field, detect problems, and help farmers more effectively plant, water, and reap.

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Book Review: Water for Your Soul, Living in Baptism Every Day

Posted by Anthony on June 1, 2008

A review of Glenn Borreson’s Water for Your Soul: Living in Baptism Every Day. Available on Amazon.com

Product Description
WATER FOR YOUR SOUL is your spiritual invitation to experience how Christian baptism can give meaning, shape, and new excitement to your whole life as a believer.

Paperback: 110 pages
Publisher: Infinity Publishing (February 1, 2008)
ISBN-13: 978-0741444370
Web Page: Water and the Word

Full Disclosure: Pastor Borreson is the pastor at the church I used to work at.

Water for your Soul’s 110 page book is divided into 31 2-4 page vignettes on baptism: its purpose, its function, its significance, its importance, etc. The 31 chapter division is designed to make itself compatible for a daily devotional on baptism for the period of a month. As such, Bible study groups and book clubs might find Borreson’s book to be an accessible exploration on baptismal theology.

Pastor Borreson is a Lutheran pastor, so it should follow that the book proceeds from a distinctly Lutheran point of view. There are numerous similarities between the Lutheran and the Roman Catholic views on baptism, so presumably Catholics might appreciate the book, as well. These two denominations have a view of baptism which embraces so called ‘infant baptism’ but the book is not a treatise on ‘infant baptism,’ though in more than one place Borreson explains how what he was just talking about leads to the practice of baptizing infants. For those Christians who cannot fathom why one would baptize infants, and for nonChristians generally confused about baptism, this book could be useful in exposing the reader to ruminations on baptism as it has been understood for more than a thousand years.

Finally, I think that pastors themselves can make use of the book. They can put it into the hands of parents and members of the congregation wishing to have a deeper understanding of baptism.

To my surprise, one of the things that I enjoyed about the book were the quasi-Haiku poems that came at the end of each chapter. Poetry is not my favorite genre. Read the rest of the entry… »