by Kevin Bauder | Sep 15, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Technology, What We're Reading, Worship
Christians have always needed an interconnected set of virtues in order to pray well. Virtues refer to character traits, but character traits can be good or bad; we refer to these, respectively, as virtues and vices. . . . [O]ur new technologies tend to promote...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 12, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, What We're Reading, Worship
The new technologies’ emphases upon speed, efficiency, multitasking, multimedia presentation, and the like tend to make many characteristic features of Reformed worship—for example, pastoral prayers, the singing of psalms and hymns, sermons, the celebration of the...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 11, 2017 | Theology, Trinitarianism
God’s self-existence is fundamental to His being, and therefore to the gospel. Read Barrick’s discussion of divine self-existence here. God’s self-existence makes Him the sole determiner of absolute truth — truth we can depend upon. God is someone we can...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 11, 2017 | Minnesota
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by Kevin Bauder | Sep 9, 2017 | Bauder's Reading, Conservatism, History, Philosophy, Theology, What We're Reading
Medievals experienced the divine as far more present in their daily lives. As it has been for most people, Christian and otherwise, throughout history, religion was everywhere, and— this is crucial— as a matter not merely of belief but of experience. In the mind of...
