Sacramental Streams

""Whether your understanding of baptism is marked more by question marks or by joyful confidence, Sacramental Streams has much to offer you. This is not a textbook or even a compendium of key propositions about baptism. Instead, Pastor Davenport offers a much more rewarding gift as he intensively, yet efficiently, explores the events, threads, and themes that surround, support, and flow through and out of baptism. This celebration of baptism will enrich every reader."" --Joel Biermann, Waldemar A. and June Schuette Professor of Systematic Theology, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis ""Christ Jesus instituted the washing of water with the Word so that fallen humanity might live eternally with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--ever bearing God's image restored. Dr. Davenport in Sacramental Streams draws forth the teaching concerning holy baptism from the holy Scriptures--giving special attention to the typology of the Old Testament--that the church might grow in wisdom, understanding, and praise of God's manifold gifts therein, above all Christ the God/Man himself."" --Joshua J. Willadsen, pastor, Bethel Lutheran Church Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Trinity Lutheran Church Sallisaw, Oklahoma ""Baptism is not just an event ('I was baptized'). It is a state of being ('I am baptized'). Richard Davenport explores what that means, demonstrating the continual role of baptism in the life and sanctification of Christians. He does so by stimulating explorations of the baptismal imagery of Scripture, which reveals the rich meanings of the sacrament--such as creation and re-creation, dying and rising, holiness and identity."" --Gene Edward Veith, author of Spirituality of the Cross