by Kevin Bauder | Mar 16, 2018 | In the Nick of Time
The first time I met John Javaux was on the gridiron. He was playing linebacker; I was a tight end. We got acquainted when he decided to blitz the quarterback. I met him with a cross-body block, then slipped down into a crab block. He was bigger and stronger than me,...
by Kevin Bauder | Mar 9, 2018 | In the Nick of Time
My parents were led to the Lord by a church planting missionary in Freeland, Michigan. I was only three or four years old. When that missionary left, the church went through a series of pastors. Some were more qualified and some less. The congregation finally called a...
by Kevin Bauder | Mar 8, 2018 | America, Bauder's Reading, Central Blog, Culture, Faculty Publications, Reviews, What We're Reading
Douglas R. McLachlan. Thirsting for Authenticity: Calling the Church to Robust Christianity. St. Michael, MN: Reference Point Publishers, 2017. 394 pages. Back in the 1990s Douglas McLachlan published a helpful critique of fundamentalism entitled Reclaiming Authentic...
by Kevin Bauder | Mar 2, 2018 | In the Nick of Time
Some of you new students may not understand just exactly why we take the position we take in regard to Billy Graham’s ecumenical evangelism…. Billy Graham and I have been for many years personal friends. This is not a personal difference between my father and...
by Kevin Bauder | Feb 23, 2018 | In the Nick of Time
Imagine a man who has, somewhere deep within his cranium, a pair of dice. Every time he has to make a decision, a spasm in his brain casts these dice. How the dice roll is what determines the choice. In other words, every decision is pure, random chance. Would it make...
