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Jonathan Hastings

My name is Jonathan Hastings, I am a pastor at Vintage Faith Church in Manhattan, Ks and have received much better than I deserve.

  • When Should a Child be Baptized?

    When Should a Child be Baptized?

    And so, according to the circumstances and disposition, and even age, of each individual, the delay of baptism is preferable; principally, however, in the case of little children. For why is it necessary—if (baptism itself) is not so necessary (to salvation)—that the sponsors likewise should be thrust into danger? Who both themselves, by reason of…

  • Politics, Pastoring, and Wokeism

    A Pastor’s Job Description [Jude 1:3 ESV] “3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” One of the key parts of the job description of…

  • Vintage, the Joy of the Lord is Your Strength

    Vintage, the Joy of the Lord is Your Strength

    Assurance will make us love God, and praise him. Love is the soul of religion, the fat of the sacrifice; and who can love God as he who has assurance? The sun reflecting its beams on a burning-glass makes the glass burn that which is near it; so assurance (which is the reflection of God’s…