by Kevin Bauder | Sep 4, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
When I came to Central Seminary nearly thirty years ago, I had little exposure to the biblical or nouthetic counseling movement. I had read Jay Adams’s Competent to Counsel as an undergrad, but that was years before. I couldn’t have told you how nouthetic counseling...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 28, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
Christians debate the meaning of the Lord’s table. All agree that it is a picture of the gospel and a memorial of the sufferings of Christ. But is it more than that? Many—perhaps most—professing Christians want to see some real presence of the Lord in the communion...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 21, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
[This essay was originally published on October 3, 2020.] All people everywhere want justice. Even a hardcore logical positivist feels a sense of injustice if you step ahead of him after hours of waiting at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The universal yearning for...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 14, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
God has created humans to exercise dominion over the created order. Exercising dominion includes the ability to invent devices that allow us to bend the natural world to our use, sometimes in wonderful ways. Such machines and their products reflect the image of God in...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 7, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
A friend recently forwarded a copy of A. T. Pierson’s little history of the Keswick Movement. I had read this work some years ago when I was more favorably disposed toward Keswick influences than I am now. But at my friend’s urging, I read it again. In particular, he...
