by Kevin Bauder | Aug 21, 2017 | Church Services, Ecclesiology, Preaching
Protestantism is not simply a set of theological doctrines. Those doctrines stand in direct relation to practice. If the Reformation understanding of grace is taken seriously, then the reading and especially the preaching of the word of God will stand at the center of...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 7, 2017 | Church Services, Music, Poetry, Worship
I know that plenty of fundamentalists don’t like Mark Dever (though many do). And I know that plenty of fundamentalists don’t like Keith Getty (though many do). But one of the elementary rules in the life of the mind is that you don’t have to agree...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 12, 2017 | Art and Literature, Church Services, Ecclesiology, Lord's Day, Sacred and Mundane, Worship
Here is a video of three men performing a concert dance to the Largo from Glinka’s Trio Pathétique in D Minor. The occasion is an offertory at Tim Keller’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. The audience responds with applause after the...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 10, 2017 | America, Christianity, Church Services, Music, Politics, Worship
“Make America Great Again” is now a CCLI licensed Christian worship song. See Jonathan Aigner at Ponder Anew.
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 10, 2017 | Christianity, Church Services, Evangelicalism, Worship
Joe Thorn writes on “Entertainment and Worship” for Tabletalk Magazine. His thesis? One of the more dangerous drifts happening in our local churches today is within our corporate worship. In many churches there is a de-emphasis on the means of grace...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 24, 2016 | Christianity, Church Services, Ecclesiology, Holidays, Local Church, Pastoral Theology, Sacred and Mundane, Theology, Worship
You don’t have to be a strict Sabbatarian to understand that Adam Parker nails it.