by Kevin Bauder | Aug 21, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
[This essay was originally published on October 3, 2020.] All people everywhere want justice. Even a hardcore logical positivist feels a sense of injustice if you step ahead of him after hours of waiting at the Department of Motor Vehicles. The universal yearning for...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 14, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
God has created humans to exercise dominion over the created order. Exercising dominion includes the ability to invent devices that allow us to bend the natural world to our use, sometimes in wonderful ways. Such machines and their products reflect the image of God in...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 7, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
A friend recently forwarded a copy of A. T. Pierson’s little history of the Keswick Movement. I had read this work some years ago when I was more favorably disposed toward Keswick influences than I am now. But at my friend’s urging, I read it again. In particular, he...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 31, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
This past week, Central Seminary was privileged to host the annual Bible Faculty Summit. This meeting has been going on for about thirty years now. It grew out of a collaboration between David Doran and Bob Jones III. Both men led institutions of higher learning, and...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 24, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
[This essay was originally published on February 5, 2016.] The Reformers erected the doctrine of calling in reaction to the Romanist distinction between clergy and laity. At the time, Catholics recognized only two vocations: the calling to consecration (which...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 17, 2026 | In the Nick of Time
Certain terms that get thrown around in theological conversation sometimes perplex novices. In fact, they sometimes perplex more advanced students, too. One reason is that these terms can be used in multiple senses. A word may have a more general meaning but also a...
