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 18, 2016 | Devotion, Poetry
Paraphrased from Isaiah 40:1-5 By Johann Olearius Tr. by Catherine Winkworth Comfort, comfort, ye my people, Speak ye peace, thus saith our God; Comfort those who sit in darkness, Bowed beneath their sorrows’ load. Speak ye to Jerusalem Of the peace that waits for...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 15, 2016 | Art and Literature, Christianity, Church Services, Culture, Devotion, Downloads, Education, Hymnody, Pastoral Theology, Theology, Worship
The Artistic Theologian is a peer-reviewed journal of ministry and worship arts. It is published by Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. Back issues are available for download in PDF and Logos formats. The Artistic Theologian is edited by...
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 | Christianity, Devotion, Ecclesiology, Local Church
His essay is “The Narcissism of ‘Solitary Religion.'” Here’s part of what he says: There is, I suppose, a sort of paradox here, but it is a very natural one. Faith is something that no one else can do for you. It must be your own faith, or it...
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...
