by Kevin Bauder | Jun 8, 2018 | Education, In the Nick of Time, Pastoral Theology
What training do pastors need? It depends entirely upon the ministry that they intend to pursue. Becoming a social justice warrior takes one kind of training. Becoming an ecclesiastical impresario takes another. Learning to work a crowd for high-pressure evangelism...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 25, 2017 | Anthropology, Apologetics, Argumentation and Debate, Culture, Liberalism, Pastoral Theology, Politics, Social Issues, Theological News
As usual, what Mohler writes is worth reading. His purpose is not to trounce Peterson. In fact, he incorporates a definite pastoral twist. . . . [Y]ou had better have your answer ready. Evasive, wandering, and inconclusive answers will be seen for what they are. Those...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 24, 2017 | Baptists, Ecclesiology, Pastoral Theology
The local church which elects its pastor is the source of his ecclesiastical authority. He carries no inherent authority as a person and does not rule the local church by any native rights or gifts. This type of authority is bestowed by the local church and may be...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 5, 2017 | Church History, Devotion, Our Alumni, Pastoral Theology, Philosophy, Theology
Joel Zartman is an alumnus of Central Seminary. His ministry experience includes pastoring a church in Colombia. He is presently a doctoral student in theology at Westminster Seminary. Here Joel begins with an observation of Thomas à Kempis as a preface to a...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 28, 2017 | Devotion, Ecclesiology, Hymnody, Music, Pastoral Theology, Theology, Worship
An extended biblical investigation by Central Seminary alumnus Chuck Bumgardner. Here is his conclusion: Now, these passages are not, strictly speaking, “prescriptive” (as we may think of that term); they do not command with an imperative that worshippers of God must...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 28, 2016 | A. W. Tozer, Bauder's Reading, Devotion, Evangelicalism, Pastoral Theology
The awesomeness and beauty and perfection of our God need to be the focus in our evangelical churches today. All efforts need to be directed here. I know the temptation is to correlate the church with the world in our misguided attempt to reach the world. But you...
