by Kevin Bauder | Jan 24, 2017 | Hermeneutics, Homiletics
Preaching at a pre-inauguration service, Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas had this to say: When I think of you, President-elect Trump, I am reminded of another great leader God chose thousands of years ago in Israel. The nation had been in...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 24, 2017 | Israel
One of President Trump’s first official acts has been to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington. Read the story and the agenda at Israel Hayom.
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 23, 2017 | Ethics, How the Left Thinks, Liberalism
Sojourners worries that “Peaceful Protests Could Be Criminalized In Several U.S. States.” The protests they’re talking about are mobs that block streets and highways. That behavior is not protest, it is extortion. Since one of the states is...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 23, 2017 | Apropos of Nothing
Yes, it’s true. The amputated arm received its own burial and marker. Read the story at Atlas Obscura. Incidentally, Stonewall Jackson was a devout believer. It’ll be interesting to know what happens to his arm at the resurrection.
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 23, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Theology, Trinitarianism, What We're Reading
Somehow, right at the beginning of the church, the exclusive loyalty and worship demanded by God alone in the Old Testament was assumed to be upheld and not violated by worship offered to Jesus. For all the diversity we can discover in early Christian communities —...
