Tried with Fire: Teaching a Lesson
Kevin T. Bauder It was the best day of his life. He had been blind from birth. One day as he sat begging he heard… Read More »Tried with Fire: Teaching a Lesson
Kevin T. Bauder
Kevin T. Bauder is Research Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Central Baptist Theological Seminary. Not every one of the professors, students, or alumni of Central Seminary necessarily agrees with every opinion that this post expresses.
Tried with Fire: Those Who Cannot Believe
Kevin T. Bauder The missionary was well stricken in years and ready to see her Lord. She didn’t regret the decades that she and her… Read More »Tried with Fire: Those Who Cannot Believe
Tried with Fire: Why Us?
Kevin T. Bauder The early chapters of Genesis trace death to Adam’s sin. Along with death came an entire brood of calamities. Alienation from God,… Read More »Tried with Fire: Why Us?
Tried with Fire: Death and Its Brood
Kevin T. Bauder God did not create human beings to suffer or die. Nothing in the Bible teaches that pain had any place in the… Read More »Tried with Fire: Death and Its Brood
Tried with Fire: The Way Things Used to Be
Kevin T. Bauder Human suffering is universal. We all feel pain. We ought to expect it, but usually we don’t. When suffering intrudes, we default… Read More »Tried with Fire: The Way Things Used to Be
Tried with Fire: When Pain is Personal
Kevin T. Bauder For just a moment, Carlos’s tearless gaze turned defiant. “I don’t understand it,” he said. “What I do know is that I’m… Read More »Tried with Fire: When Pain is Personal
Tried with Fire: The Suffering of the Righteous
Kevin T. Bauder Discussions about the problem of evil quickly become abstract and theoretical. Skeptics raise questions about how a God who is supposed to… Read More »Tried with Fire: The Suffering of the Righteous
Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Nine: Reflections
Kevin T. Bauder Over the past several years I have read a number of books and articles about “growing up fundamentalist.” Almost without exception these… Read More »Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Nine: Reflections
Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Eight: Seminary
Kevin T. Bauder At the time my father enrolled in Bible college, few fundamentalist pastors went to seminary. That was beginning to change a decade… Read More »Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Eight: Seminary
Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Seven: Vocation
Kevin T. Bauder One of the rituals of life at Bible college was the daily chapel service. In chapel we heard preaching by local pastors… Read More »Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Seven: Vocation
Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Six: College and Conviction
Kevin T. Bauder My parents always stressed the importance of college education. My father actually modeled his commitment to higher education by going to college… Read More »Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Six: College and Conviction
Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Five: Adolescence
Kevin T. Bauder During my childhood my father was a rising manager with a national airline. When I was thirteen, however, he moved us from… Read More »Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Five: Adolescence
Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Four: Special Meetings
Kevin T. Bauder When I was growing up our church held at least four public meetings every week. During Sunday school the children would be… Read More »Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Four: Special Meetings
Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Three: Camp
Kevin T. Bauder One aspect of growing up fundamentalist was going to summer camp. Every fellowship of churches seemed to have a camp of its… Read More »Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Three: Camp
Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Two: Pastors and Church
Kevin T. Bauder During the years following my parents’ conversion, our little church went through a series of pastors. Some were more qualified and some… Read More »Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part Two: Pastors and Church
Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part One: Salvation and Baptism
Kevin T. Bauder My parents were not Christians when I was born. As far as I know, my mother’s parents never went to church and… Read More »Growing Up Fundamentalist, Part One: Salvation and Baptism
Most Interesting Reading of 2018: Part Two
Kevin T. Bauder In last week’s “In the Nick of Time” I began listing my most interesting reading from 2018. Here that list continues. Both… Read More »Most Interesting Reading of 2018: Part Two
Most Interesting Reading of 2018: Part One
Kevin T. Bauder Every now and then I try to provide a list of the books I’ve found most interesting during the preceding year. These… Read More »Most Interesting Reading of 2018: Part One
Incarnation and Inculturation
Kevin T. Bauder The incarnation of Jesus Christ is a fundamental of the gospel. Essential to our salvation is the teaching that the Second Person… Read More »Incarnation and Inculturation
Knowing God’s Will: Part Nine
Kevin T. Bauder Years ago I began an unsuccessful career in sales. My manager warned me that I would have to learn to help people… Read More »Knowing God’s Will: Part Nine