Video: Law And Gospel Distinction

Heidelblog

on July 11, 2025 | Comment

In this episode of “No Compromise Radio” Pastor Mike Abendroth delves into the essential distinction between Law and Gospel, breaking down its theological significance and practical application for believers. Using insights from his new book “Law & Gospel: A Primer”, Mike explains . . . Continue reading →

How Recovering Traditional Reformed Categories Helps Us Understand What Civil Law Is

Harrison Perkins

on July 11, 2025 | Comment

Few Christians today doubt that our relationship to our civil governments has gotten at least more complicated, if not outright harder, in recent years. Still, we often do not know how to navigate that challenge very effectively. We can be left thinking . . . Continue reading →

Interpreting Providence

R. Scott Clark

on July 11, 2025 | 62 Comments

Apparently a bizarre and unforeseen tornado struck Minneapolis. According to this post by John Piper, it hit an ELCA (mainline) Lutheran Church just as they were about to consider ecclesiastical policy regarding homosexuality.1 John offers a somewhat restrained interpretation of providence, suggesting . . . Continue reading →

Review: The God Who Judges and Saves: A Theology of 2 Peter and Jude By Matthew S. Harmon

Harrison Perkins

on July 10, 2025 | Comment

the god who judges and saves a theology of 2 peter and jude

Books on New Testament theology are often stale and lack depth of real theological analysis. I have regularly felt that when biblical studies attempt to do theology, the fruit is either obvious or seriously off track. Against this backdrop, Matthew Harmon’s exploration . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On Not Mixing Water In Communion Wine

Heidelblog

on July 10, 2025 | Comment

Common “wine” is instituted, of indifferent color, undiluted with water because it is called simply the “fruit of the vine” (Mt. 26:29; Mk. 14:25). Thus the Romanists here without reason urge the mixture of water with the wine, which although according to . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (6): What Did Amyraut Say the First Time That He Was Put on Trial?

Heidelcast

on July 10, 2025 | Comment

In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on the good news of definite atonement, and why some have struggled with it, and how we should respond. Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (5): Who Was Moses Amyraut?

Heidelcast

on July 9, 2025 | Comment

In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on the good news of definite atonement, and why some have struggled with it, and how we should respond. Continue reading →

Campus Ministry On The Last Frontier

Seth Adams

on July 9, 2025 | 4 Comments

Long, long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, I struggled through a great amount of insecurity as I studied for my undergraduate degree, as many college students do. I was not sure where I wanted to live, what career I . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On Unleavened Bread In Communion

Heidelblog

on July 9, 2025 | 1 Comment

V. Christ used bread because with the divine blessing it is of all the elements the most efficacious for nourishing and strengthening the body; the most common, the most familiar and to be found everywhere, easily prepared and the most pleasant. However, . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (4): Scripture Teaches Both Definite Atonement and the Free Offer of the Gospel

Heidelcast

on July 8, 2025 | Comment

In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on the good news of definite atonement, and why some have struggled with it, and how we should respond. Continue reading →

John Knox On The Lord’s Supper, Part 1: Against The Roman Mass

Sean Morris

on July 8, 2025 | 7 Comments

Historically, Protestant views on the Roman Mass, particularly during the Reformation, were sharply critical. Reformers like Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Huldrych Zwingli rejected the Roman doctrine of transubstantiation. They viewed the Mass as unbiblical, often criticizing it as a “resacrifice” of . . . Continue reading →

Warfield Contra Biblicism

Jacob Aitken

on July 8, 2025 | Comment

It must be observed, however, that the teachings and prescriptions of Scripture are not confined by the Confession to what is “expressly set down in Scripture.” Men are required to believe and to obey not only what is “expressly set down in . . . Continue reading →

Owen Contra Baptismal Regeneration

Inwoo Lee

on July 7, 2025 | Comment

Thus, some would have baptism to be regeneration itself, and that there is no other evangelical regeneration but that alone, with the profession which is made thereon. Every one who is baptized is thereby regenerated. The sign and figure of grace, they . . . Continue reading →

In Defense Of Female Seminarians

R. Scott Clark

on July 7, 2025 | 17 Comments

In the public sphere, for example in online publications and on social media, one sees two extremes regarding women in the church generally: let us call the first the “make me a sammich” crowd. Continue reading →

Heidelcast For July 6, 2025: Nourish and Sustain (8): The Teaching on the Lord’s Supper of John Calvin

Heidelcast

on July 6, 2025 | Comment

In this episode Dr Clark continues the current series, “Nourish and Sustain” Continue reading →

Owen On Worship

Inwoo Lee

on July 5, 2025 | Comment

In general, it is certain that God intended to declare hereby that the work which Moses had to do, —the tabernacle he was to erect, and the worship thereof, —was not, either in the whole, or in any part of it, or . . . Continue reading →

The Canons Of Dork #41 For July 5, 2025

on July 5, 2025 | Comment

Like watching paint dry. Continue reading →

The Psalm of Yahweh’s Seven Thunders: Psalm 29 (Part 1)

Zach Keele

on July 5, 2025 | Comment

There is a basic assumption many of us share about our modern age, and this is that we have it better than any other age. We live in the best period of history. Strictly speaking, such an estimation is unprovable; it is . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Did Adam Have Any Knowledge of the Ten Commandments? | The Eucharist: Where Does the Changing of the Elements Come From?

Heidelcast

on July 5, 2025 | 1 Comment

It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →

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Video: Law And Gospel Distinction

How Recovering Traditional Reformed Categories Helps Us Understand What Civil Law Is

Interpreting Providence

Review: The God Who Judges and Saves: A Theology of 2 Peter and Jude By Matthew S. Harmon

Turretin On Not Mixing Water In Communion Wine

Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (6): What Did Amyraut Say the First Time That He Was Put on Trial?

Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (5): Who Was Moses Amyraut?

Campus Ministry On The Last Frontier

Turretin On Unleavened Bread In Communion

Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (4): Scripture Teaches Both Definite Atonement and the Free Offer of the Gospel

John Knox On The Lord’s Supper, Part 1: Against The Roman Mass

Warfield Contra Biblicism

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Owen Contra Baptismal Regeneration

In Defense Of Female Seminarians

Heidelcast For July 6, 2025: Nourish and Sustain (8): The Teaching on the Lord’s Supper of John Calvin

Owen On Worship

The Canons Of Dork #41 For July 5, 2025

The Psalm of Yahweh’s Seven Thunders: Psalm 29 (Part 1)

Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Did Adam Have Any Knowledge of the Ten Commandments? | The Eucharist: Where Does the Changing of the Elements Come From?