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I am very pleased to announce the publication of a new book that I have been working on for the past three years—Tune My Heart:… Read More »New Book! Tune My Heart: Bible Narratives Devotional Guide for Families or Individuals
Last week I described how the layout and structure of the tabernacle communicated a particular transcendent theology of worship. Even the order of the sacrifices pictures… Read More »How the Order of OT Sacrifices Communicated a Theology of Worship
God does not hate all hate. Some hate is actively encouraged by God. Indeed, if hate exists as the opposite of love, it follows that… Read More »The Hate That God Hates
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
At Mt. Sinai, God established standardized practices of worship for his people. First, God commanded that the people build a sanctuary for him. They built… Read More »How the Tabernacle Communicated a Theology of Worship
Hate has become the only sin the left recognises. To them, it is apparently not possible to sin sexually, and any and every form of… Read More »Ten Mangled Words: Hate
What follows below is an attempt to piece together the life of Jude as told by the Bible, using what few references to him that… Read More »Lessons from the Life of Jude
Most Christians are familiar with the command to stir one another up to love in good works in Hebrews 10:24. The negative counterpart to this… Read More »Semi-regular Attenders: How to Think about Those Who Only Partially Attend a Church’s Services
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
In the context of giving the Law at Mt. Sinai and the promise that if they follow God’s commands as a nation, God will bless… Read More »Forming a Great Commandment Culture
Why are there such different “tastes” among people? Is the debate over music in worship simply a “preference issue”? Are matters of music, dress, recreation… Read More »Taste and Preference: A Last Word
Jude 22–23 states, “And have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear,… Read More »The Church’s Internal Rescue Mission: Jude 22–23
From the time our eldest child, Caleb, was just an infant (and possibly even before), I knew that I wanted to do something significant to… Read More »Manhood Ceremony for a Boy Becoming a Man
Taste is never shaped in isolation. We learn to love what we love from our family, our church, our school, and our society. In other… Read More »Taste Formed and Deformed by Culture
Of all the posts that I’ve put on this website, my past series on the cessation of apostles has received more comments than anything else.… Read More »Cessationism in a Nutshell
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
A discussion of taste is one of the most difficult (and unrewarding) ones to have, for most people are unreflective about their likes. “I know… Read More »Taste Spoiled By Sweetness
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
The first Patriarch of Israel, Abraham, was not originally a worshiper of the true God; he dwelt the land of Ur, worshiping many false gods… Read More »Called by God to Worship
In recent weeks, I’ve been corresponding with a young man who has been wrestling deeply with Christianity’s hard questions. As I read him, he has… Read More »On the value of arguments in defense of Christianity