by Kevin Bauder | Jan 6, 2017 | A. W. Tozer, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Theology
Whatever God is, He is. When we talk about the unity of God and His attributes, we sometimes think of all of the parts of God working together harmoniously. That is an inadequate picture of God. God is not made up of parts. God is God. A man of God wisely once said...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 30, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Theology
No religion in the world that I know of would treat its God the way we Christians treat our God. We have the true God, yet we do not treat Him with the respect and dignity that the heathen treat their gods. Tozer, A.W. Delighting in God (Kindle Locations 569-570)....
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 28, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Evangelicalism, Pastoral Theology
The awesomeness and beauty and perfection of our God need to be the focus in our evangelical churches today. All efforts need to be directed here. I know the temptation is to correlate the church with the world in our misguided attempt to reach the world. But you...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 20, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Theology
I do not believe we need more religion; we need a better kind of religion. My great burden these days and for many years has not been for an extension of the kind of religion we have now. It has to be an improvement of the kind we have and then an extension of that....
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 15, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Hymnody
Ah, the roster of the sweet singers. There is Isaac Watts, the little man that nobody would marry because he was so homely, but he wrote hymns, and what hymns he did write. Meditating on an Isaac Watts hymn will take you further into the presence of God than any song...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 12, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Ecclesiology
Moses was instructed to make sure that the tabernacle was “according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount” (Hebrews 8: 5). Moses did not have the authority to improve upon God’s design. The pattern God gave Moses was not a suggestion, and then Moses could take...
