Many factors, cultural and theological, converged to form what we might call today “Evangelical Worship,” including Enlightenment philosophy, German Pietism, John and Charles Wesley, American… Read More »Roots of Evangelical Worship: Charles G. Finney
Kevin T. Bauder Some of you new students may not understand just exactly why we take the position we take in regard to Billy Graham’s… Read More »The Fundamentalists and Billy Graham
A few weeks ago, Roger Olson of Baylor University devoted a blog post to asking “What Is ‘Fundamentalism?’” By way of contrast he was also… Read More »Roger, Roger | Part Four: Today’s Situation
Kevin T. Bauder [Editor’s note: A technical difficulty prevented last week’s essay from being emailed. Part Two of this series can be found on Central… Read More »Roger, Roger | Part Three: Necessary Qualifications
Kevin T. Bauder I am responding to colleague Roger Olson who, in a recent blog post, attempted to articulate the difference between fundamentalism and evangelicalism.… Read More »Roger, Roger | Part Two: Fundamentalism and New Evangelicalism
Paul’s Words to the Ephesians The beginning of Ephesians 5 is striking. Paul writes to former idolaters and fornicators, reminding them of their new life in… Read More »tobyMac and the state of Evangelical piety
During the summer of 2014, Pastor Matt Recker published a series of blog posts in which he argued that the New Calvinism is essentially a… Read More »Matt Recker and the Gospel Coalition, Part 8: Charismatic Theology
Earlier this year, Pastor Matt Recker from Heritage Baptist Church in New York City authored a series of blog posts dealing with “New Evangelicalism and… Read More »Matt Recker and The Gospel Coalition, Part 6: Knowledge and Certainty
For many years, Matt Recker has been a church planter and pastor in New York City. He has started churches in Brooklyn and Queens, and… Read More »Matt Recker and The Gospel Coalition: Part One
From their earliest days, Baptists have erected organizations to assist them in coordinating ministries that are beyond the ability of most individual churches. Among these… Read More »The Fundamental Baptist Fellowship International
Many conservative evangelical and even fundamentalist churches today have transformed the Christian faith into a kind of pop-culture version of The Way. This change began… Read More »Intensely audience-conscious and market-driven
Much has been written and posted about being a young man in the landscape of fundamentalism. I don’t remember anyone defining what “young” means in… Read More »Young, Brazen, and Proud
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 I have been arguing that Paul’s method of ministry deliberately avoided… Read More »Relevance is Irrelevant (Part 13)
And the most notable era of Scottish preaching was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they had great power. In fact, the strongest reformational preaching… Read More »Neglected Battle Fronts
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 I believe that the first three chapters of 1 Corinthians ought to guide our thinking concerning the relationship of our… Read More »Relevance is irrelevant (Part 4)
Nathan Hatch, in his Democratization of American Christianity, writes concerning the changes in American religion due to the implicit notion of the “Sovereign Audience”: Popular… Read More »Wrested . . . from churchly control
This morning I was rifling through blog posts in Google reader and noticed a familiar looking image on my feed from the Gospel Coalition. The… Read More »He brought it up