In the Nick of Time

Kevin T. Bauder Last week I published the first half of my “Most Interesting Reading of 2019” list. These books aren’t necessarily the best that… Read More »Most Interesting Reading of 2019, Part Two

Kevin T. Bauder Every year I try to publish a list of the books that I found most interesting during the preceding twelve months. Usually… Read More »Most Interesting Reading of 2019

Michael Riley In Kevin Bauder’s excellent series on Christian suffering, he made an exegetical case for the salvation of those incapable of believing, especially infants.… Read More »Justification and Life for All Men

Kevin T. Bauder The book of Job makes sense to us readers because we know what happened outside the story. We know that Job was… Read More »Tried With Fire: Finally: Mystery

Kevin T. Bauder Paul and Silas arrived in Thessalonica with their backs still torn from their whipping in Philippi. In spite of their pain they… Read More »Tried With Fire: Vindication and Retribution

Matt Shrader Recent days and years have seen an increased interest in the idea of theological retrieval. While the interest in this idea has grown… Read More »Retrieving Theology: A Question of Posture

Jon Pratt Here at Central Seminary we are fast approaching our annual MacDonald Lecture Series. Readers of the Nick of Time will be greatly encouraged… Read More »Issues in Sanctification Eleven Months Later

Brett Williams In 1947, the French Nobel Laureate Albert Camus wrote the novel The Plague. The fictional story is set in the city of Oran… Read More »The Human Problem

Jeff Straub I am in Kansas City this week at the first of what may become a new biennial conference aimed at encouraging young people… Read More »Advance the Gospel: A Report from Kansas City

Kevin T. Bauder The conception of Jesus Christ and His birth in the manger were events that occurred in history, but they pertained to a… Read More »Tried With Fire: Like Jesus, Part Three

Kevin T. Bauder Last week we explored the concept of Jesus Christ as the God-man. We learned that He is one person in two natures.… Read More »Tried With Fire: Like Jesus, Part Two

Kevin T. Bauder The incarnation of Jesus Christ brings with it certain mysteries that defy complete description. When we speak of them we step to… Read More »Tried With Fire: Like Jesus, Part One

Kevin T. Bauder We face a kind of paradox in doing the Lord’s work. On the one hand, God often places us in positions that… Read More »Tried With Fire: Direction

Kevin T. Bauder We must beware of mixing the metaphors that God uses to teach us about salvation. For example, the work of salvation can… Read More »Tried With Fire: Chastening

In 1763 Britain emerged from the Seven Years’ War as the world’s leading power. Ten years later George Macartney wrote of British rule as a… Read More »Give to the Max Day 2019

Jon Pratt Words are powerful things. Proverbs 18:21 reminds us that death and life are in the power of the tongue. Our words can produce… Read More »Sword Thrusts or Honey?

Jon Pratt In the movie classic “The Princess Bride,” Vizzini repeats the word “inconceivable!” again and again as the masked pursuer of him and his… Read More »On Using Labels

Brett Williams My previous essay briefly introduced the limits of scientific knowledge and the rise of Scientism, the modernistic belief that science is superior to… Read More »Toward a Softer, Gentler Science

Brett Williams Science has become a proper noun. Its hegemony and authority are all but unrivaled. Sitting atop the pantheon of disciplines, it enjoys both… Read More »Scientism

Kevin T. Bauder For all humans, believers and unbelievers alike, life in this world and in this present body is filled with pain. Mortality takes… Read More »Tried With Fire: The Afflictions of Christ