by Kevin Bauder | Aug 10, 2017 | Conservatism, Manners, Modesty, Sacred and Mundane, Tradition
South African Pastor David DeBruyn draws a comparison between what Titus found in the holy place and what lies behind forms, customs, and manners. He even includes an extended quotation from Weaver. Here’s DeBruyn: What the sincerity-junkie cannot see is that...
by Kevin Bauder | Jul 12, 2017 | Art and Literature, Church Services, Ecclesiology, Lord's Day, Sacred and Mundane, Worship
Here is a video of three men performing a concert dance to the Largo from Glinka’s Trio Pathétique in D Minor. The occasion is an offertory at Tim Keller’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. The audience responds with applause after the...
by Kevin Bauder | Jan 26, 2017 | Civility, Culture, Rhetoric, Sacred and Mundane
Jon D. Payne at Reformation 21 talks about why our words matter. To be sure, the problem of unwholesome speech is not new. It’s been around for ages. I remember on one occasion, while I was young, my parents washed my mouth out with soap after I had used a bad...
by Kevin Bauder | Dec 24, 2016 | Christianity, Church Services, Ecclesiology, Holidays, Local Church, Pastoral Theology, Sacred and Mundane, Theology, Worship
You don’t have to be a strict Sabbatarian to understand that Adam Parker nails it.
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 25, 2016 | Anthropology, Christianity, Culture, Sacred and Mundane, What We're Reading
In summary, the Noahic covenant of Genesis 8: 20– 9: 17 constitutes the formal establishment of the common kingdom. This means that God himself established and rules the common kingdom. It exists under the lordship of the triune God— Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The...
by Kevin Bauder | Nov 22, 2016 | Anthropology, Bauder's Reading, Christianity, Culture, Politics, Sacred and Mundane
Scripture requires a high view of creation and of cultural activity, but it also requires a distinction between the holy things of Christ’s heavenly kingdom and the common things of the present world. It requires a distinction between God’s providential sustaining of...
