Kevin T. Bauder According to 2 Timothy 3:16, all scripture is God-breathed or inspired. In other words, inspiration applies to the scriptures themselves, not to… Read More »The Holy Spirit and Production of Scripture
For the past couple of weeks I have been establishing the need to root our theology and practice of worship in the authoritative and sufficient… Read More »The Extent of Biblical Authority over Worship
Jesus’s confrontation with the Pharisees during his earthly ministry highlights the fact that God rejects worship based on the traditions of men; rather, he insists… Read More »The Authority of Scripture over Worship
Ever since Cain and Abel, God’s people have been asking, “What is the proper way to worship God?” Uncertainty reigns today in churches over whether… Read More »The Traditions of Men
Week 14: Samson Weekly memory verse: Psalm 17:8 – “Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.”… Read More »Bible Narratives Devotional, Week 14: Samson
Several years ago when my oldest was beginning his homeschooling in earnest and my wife and I were choosing our curricula for different school subjects,… Read More »Help your children learn the content of Scripture
This is the final post in a series I’ve been writing over the past couple months in order to more thoroughly develop an idea I… Read More »Worship forms regulated by Scripture
Last week I argued that if we believe in verbal-plenary inspiration, then the meaning of the aesthetic forms we employ in our contemporary worship must accurately… Read More »Fittingness
In this series of essays, I have argued that Scripture presents God’s truth to us, not merely in didactic propositions, but also (in fact, mostly!)… Read More »Aesthetic Correspondence
In By the Waters of Babylon, I make a brief statement about how the aesthetic forms of Scripture should guide and regulate worship forms today. In… Read More »Translating the Aesthetic Forms of Scripture
Conservative evangelicals admirably repudiate emergent leaders who argue that both content and form must be contextualized; evangelicals insist that since God’s Word is inspired and… Read More »The Aesthetic Nature of Truth
Over at Pyromaniacs, Dan Phillips offered a series of points for discussion regarding worship music. He and a few others encouraged me to head over… Read More »My reply to Dan Phillips’ approach to the worship music debate
Faced with numerous denials of inerrancy from professing evangelicals, theologians and church leaders gathered in 1978 to form the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy. Meeting… Read More »Matt Recker and The Gospel Coalition, Part Four: In All That It Affirms
The wording of 2 Timothy 3:16-17 forces the reader to certain conclusions about biblical inspiration. First, the writings and not the writers are inspired. Second,… Read More »Matt Recker and The Gospel Coalition: Part Three: The Production of Scripture
In his recent series on The Gospel Coalition, Pastor Matt Recker devoted an entire essay to the doctrine of Scripture. Pointing to a 1956 article… Read More »Matt Recker and The Gospel Coalition: Part Two
Last week we discovered that the founders of the first church were characterized by united, fervent prayer. But prayer is not the only thing with which… Read More »The founders of the first church had a proper respect for Scripture
(The articles in this series were originally written for publication in the local newspaper of the town in which I pastor.) What do you look… Read More »A Sound Church: Submitted to Scripture
There is an interesting conversation taking place in response to my post last week about “authenticity” in worship. The question revolves around affirmation from God… Read More »Inward affirmation that our worship is acceptable to God?
Tomorrow I begin another semester teaching a graduate class in the history and theology of worship. The class is largely a survey of the historical,… Read More »Why should we study the history of Christian worship?
In these book recommendations, we have worked our way back in time to the fourth century. We could spend much more time back there, and… Read More »“Ideas Have Consequences” by Richard Weaver