by Kevin Bauder | Sep 20, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
[This essay was originally published on January 21, 2011.] Civility is in vogue again, at least for a few moments. The nation has been traumatized by another mass murder. A psychopath in Arizona cut down half-a-dozen innocent people, including a federal judge. A...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 13, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
God has entrusted humans with the responsibility of managing the created order. He made it and brought it to a significant level of order and utility, but then charged them with exercising dominion, thereby increasing its order and usefulness. While humanity has...
by Kevin Bauder | Sep 6, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
Sometimes human beings undervalue the created order. When that happens, they may bring disorder into the natural world because they begin to prey upon creation. This behavior is a reversal of God’s intention, which was that humans should continue the work of...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 30, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
During creation week, God brought the world from a relatively lower level of order to a relatively higher level of order. In an unfallen world, humans would have continued this process of ordering creation as God’s sub-regents, exercising dominion and subduing...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 23, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
[This essay was originally published on November 2, 2007.] Historic Baptists agree that the work of missions is the work of planting churches. They derive this conviction from the uniform pattern of the New Testament. When the churches of the New Testament...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 16, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
God made humans as mediatorial rulers to rule over creation. In the beginning, God made the world at a relatively lower level of order. Throughout creation week, He brought it to higher levels of order. At the end of the week, He delegated the task of further ordering...
