Bauder's Reading - Central Baptist Theological Seminary

Tozer on What We Need

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....

Tozer’s Favorite Hymn Writers

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...

Tozer on the Regulative Principle (And He Wasn’t Even Reformed)

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...

Premodern Sensibilities

by Kevin Bauder | Dec 10, 2016 | Affections, Bauder's Reading, C. S. Lewis, History, What We're Reading

The deepest of worldly emotions in this period [the Middle Ages] is the love of man for man, the mutual love of warriors who die together fighting against odds, and the affection between vassal and lord. We shall never understand this last, if we think of it in the...

Tozer on the Preacher’s Task

by Kevin Bauder | Dec 9, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Homiletics

But my task is to give a report on the character of God, or as I like to state it, the perfection of God. I want to tell you what God is like, and when I am telling you what God is like, if you read and listen with an open mind, you will find faith spring up...