by Kevin Bauder | Nov 12, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Culture, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, What We're Reading
Scripture requires a high view of creation and of cultural activity, but it also requires a distinction between the holy things of Christ’s heavenly kingdom and the common things of the present world. It requires a distinction between God’s providential sustaining of...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 6, 2016 | Art and Literature, Bauder's Reading, J. R. R. Tolkien, Library
J. R. R. Tolkien’s Children of Hurin for Kindle is under two bucks at Amazon. I thought you’d want to know.
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 6, 2016 | Art and Literature, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Poetry, Prayer, Uncategorized
Prayer (I) George Herbert Prayer the church’s banquet, angel’s age, God’s breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth Engine against th’ Almighty,...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 2, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Hamartiology, Problem Passages, Soteriology
According to Rolland McCune, There are nineteen biblical references to the hardening of Pharaoh, only four of which put Pharaoh himself as the active agent; the rest refer to God. This hardening, while divinely caused was simply divine withholding of the Spirit’s...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 1, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Hamartiology, Problem Passages, Soteriology
Here is what Rolland McCune says: Preterition is supported by the following texts. First, Jude warns his readers that “certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 31, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Soteriology
Rolland McCune is a former professor at Central Baptist Theological Seminary and president of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. The most primitive basis of divine election must be in God Himself and not man. It is in His sovereign good pleasure as understood in...
