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...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 9, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
The creation account of Genesis 1–2 is indispensable for a right understanding of both God as creator and the world as His creation. It is also essential for a right understanding of human beings in relation to both God and the created world. What the Bible teaches is...
by Kevin Bauder | Aug 2, 2024 | In the Nick of Time
[This essay was originally published on October 12, 2016.] Dispensational theology has gone out of style. Fifty years ago, probably a majority of American evangelicals held some version of dispensationalism. Today, the balance has tilted in the opposite direction. Not...
