by Kevin Bauder | Oct 15, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Charismatic Movement, Pneumatology
Osteen’s muddled comment about Latter-day Saints introduces an interesting point of discussion— especially since the founders of Mormonism claimed to experience the same supernatural phenomena that Pentecostals and charismatics experience today. At the dedication of...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 14, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, America, Apologetics, Bauder's Reading, Church Services, Conservatism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism
From Tozer: Our trouble is that we are trying to confirm the truth of Christianity by an appeal to external evidence. We are saying, “Well, look at this fellow. He can throw a baseball farther than anybody else and he is a Christian, therefore Christianity must be...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 13, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Apologetics, Bauder's Reading, Pneumatology
From Tozer: There is another kind of evidence. It is the immediate evidence of the inner life. That is the evidence by which you know you are alive. If I were to prove that you weren’t alive, you would chuckle and go home just as alive as you are now and not a bit...
by Kevin Bauder | Oct 10, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, Charismatic Movement, Evangelicalism, Pneumatology
“The incredible irony is that those who talk the most about the Holy Spirit generally deny His true work. They attribute all kinds of human silliness to Him while ignoring the genuine purpose and power of His ministry: freeing sinners from death, giving them...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 27, 2016 | Bauder's Reading, C. S. Lewis
“What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.” –C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress (p. 123).
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 26, 2016 | Apologetics, Bauder's Reading, C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis regularly argued that naturalism is self-defeating. On a naturalistic account, reasons are only accidental because beliefs are caused. Here is a version of the argument from his allegorical autobiography. =============================================== IN...
