by Kevin Bauder | Oct 15, 2016 | America, Christianity, Church History
Paul Gottfried asks, “Was Washington a Christian?” Here’s an excerpt: These founders were most emphatically not modern secularists, and Washington was not an exponent of modern democracy. Our first president was a man of the eighteenth century, who...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 15, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Charismatic Movement, Pneumatology
Osteen’s muddled comment about Latter-day Saints introduces an interesting point of discussion— especially since the founders of Mormonism claimed to experience the same supernatural phenomena that Pentecostals and charismatics experience today. At the dedication of...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
A dear brother recently wrote to me asking whether there is any evidence that the New Testament churches engaged in worship. His question grew out of his background: the fundamental Baptist churches in which he had been reared did not worship (as that term is now...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 14, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, America, Apologetics, Bauder's Reading, Church Services, Conservatism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism
From Tozer: Our trouble is that we are trying to confirm the truth of Christianity by an appeal to external evidence. We are saying, “Well, look at this fellow. He can throw a baseball farther than anybody else and he is a Christian, therefore Christianity must be...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 14, 2016 | America, Conservatism, Logic and Argumentation
John Goerke argues that tone is important. “Right intention” means holding to an ideal of peace, to an ideal of the finer things in life. It is a striking feature of J.R.R. Tolkien that the smallest and most vulnerable of Middle-Earth’s inhabitants rise to be the...
