For All The Saints

Children and Godparents

Ruth Clarke, Associate Minister for Children and Families at St Leonard's Exeter, joins Paul Sutton to talk about godparents.

Children and Baptism

Rhys Laverty joins Paul Sutton to talk about how his thinking changed on infant baptism.Rhys works for the Davenant Institute, which aims to retrieve the riches of classical Protestantism to renew and build up the contemporary Church. He also writes Christian commentary for a changed Britain at The New Albion on Substack.

Children and Salvation (2)

Following up on the previous two episodes, Paul Sutton explains the Bible's teaching about the fate of children who die in infancy and why that matters.

Children and the Promises

Peter Leach, currently assistant minister at Christ Church Derby and soon-to-be church planter in Coventry, joins Paul Sutton to discuss the place of children in the Bible's promises.

Children and Salvation

If children are human beings and children are sinners, guilty and corrupt in Adam, how can infants be saved? Paul Sutton surveys the answers given to that question throughout history with the help of a book by B. B. Warfield.
ResourcesEdward Taylor, 'Upon Wedlock, and Death of Children'
B. B. Warfield, The Development of the Doctrine of Infant Salvation
John Macarthur, Safe in the Arms of God
Jackie Gibson, You Are Still a Mother

Children are Sinners

Paul Sutton explains the doctrine of original sin from the Bible and applies it to our children.

Children are Human Beings

Paul Sutton introduces the new podcast and tackles our first topic in a series on the theology of children, looking at the humanity of the child.Resources:Jackie Gibson, You Are Still A Mother