Beauty and Knowledge
Beauty does not only encourage a pursuit of reality, but beauty encourages a Christian epistemology. It teaches how we know what we know. The Enlightenment… Read More »Beauty and Knowledge
Articles
Browse articles on various topics below.
The Infant Church’s Continual Commitments
Christ’s disciples obeyed his command to remain in Jerusalem until he sent them the Holy Spirit and formed his spiritual body. Acts 2 records the… Read More »The Infant Church’s Continual Commitments
How Shall We Be Like God?
Ponder a paradox with me. In Genesis 1, we learn that God creates humanity in his own image and likeness. Exactly what that means has… Read More »How Shall We Be Like God?
Equality and Necessary Hierarchy
The current proponents of social justice have little idea of what they may be creating in pursuit of their goal. Their goal is a just… Read More »Equality and Necessary Hierarchy
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
Mission: Make Worshipers
After Jesus died and rose again, he appeared to his disciples and many others, beginning a short period of teaching before he ascended back to… Read More »Mission: Make Worshipers
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?
Memorial
The requirement for Israel of specific times and rituals for worship, both weekly and annually, established a fundamental principle for God’s people that did not… Read More »Memorial
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
Worship at Sinai
Fifty days after the exodus from Egypt, the people of Israel arrived at the foot of Mt. Sinai, where God specifically set apart the worshiping… Read More »Worship at Sinai
What Is the Call to Be a Pastor?
I wrote last week on the desire to be a pastor, primarily from 1 Timothy 3:1, but also from other passages that shed light on… Read More »What Is the Call to Be a Pastor?
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
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi
What we have seen over the past several weeks is a dynamic interplay between four realities: worldview, theology, culture, and cultus. Worldview and theology affect… Read More »Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi
Every Pastor’s Greatest Desire
What does it mean to desire to be a pastor? Granted, this desire is only properly present and fulfilled when joined to a giftedness to… Read More »Every Pastor’s Greatest Desire
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
The Liturgical Nature of Cultus
Last week I described the liturgical nature of culture. Yet there is a second element within the broader concept of liturgy, actually the more common use… Read More »The Liturgical Nature of Cultus
Discipling Younger Men: A Personal Testimony
Over the last three weeks, I dished out the meat and potatoes of what made for a workshop that I presented a conference near my… Read More »Discipling Younger Men: A Personal Testimony
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
Converted clog-dancers: Spurgeon on drawing a crowd
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was known for being an ardent “soul winner.” He maintained that a gospel minister will see certain fruit. A lack of success… Read More »Converted clog-dancers: Spurgeon on drawing a crowd
The Liturgical Nature of Culture
I am arguing that liturgy forms our religion, and religion forms our liturgy. When I left off last time, I defined religion as worldview +… Read More »The Liturgical Nature of Culture