Readers of the Heidelblog know that R. Scott Clark has helped countless people understand the confessional Reformed tradition in new and richer ways. Scott has been laboring to this end for more than thirty years by teaching church history at Westminster Seminary . . . Continue reading →
Join the Heidelcast for a live streaming event as the Heidelverse expands to include a new show featuring R. Scott Clark and Brad Isbell. Heidelcast Live! will be live at 8:00 AM Pacific and 11:00 AM Eastern, Wednesday October 7, 2026 on the Heidelcast Youtube channel and on the Heidelcast X account. Continue reading →
In this episode, Dr. Clark looks at the failure of the state to uphold the social covenant by looking at a case where one trouble twenty year old and his accomplice was able to turn every-town USA of Lincoln, Nebraska into an armed and fearful camp of citizens seeking to protect themselves during a murdering spree happening in their midst. Continue reading →
What is especially odd about Renn’s reflections on Protestant churches and American society is that the institution-building conservative Protestants performed after liberalism and the Social Gospel captured the mainline denominations – creating seminaries, denominations, colleges, magazines, publishing companies – don’t register on . . . Continue reading →
While much of the literature on the ars moriendi comes from the Puritans, examination of the subject did not begin in their era. By the time Reformed and Puritan writers began producing their own manuals, sermons, and prayers on death, they were . . . Continue reading →
So, just as a man with a dislocated leg cannot walk in a straight line but limps along, so it is impossible for those who are reborn, in whom resides this principle of moral dislocation, to offer all their works with the . . . Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week of September 28–October 4, 2026. Continue reading →
Qualifications and Caveats The decision to have children is obviously deeply personal and fraught with uncertainty (from a merely human perspective). Some readers complained that the exhortation in part 1 of this series was unnecessary and even burdensome. Dear reader, it was . . . Continue reading →
In this episode of the Heidelcast, Rev. Scott McDermand joins Dr. Clark in studio to discuss pastoral ministry, particularly what Rev. McDermand has learned since graduating from seminary and then being called to shepherd God’s people at First Presbyterian Church in Bad Axe, Michigan. They discuss the character of a pastor and how Rev. McDermand’s perspective has changed and/or matured over the years. Continue reading →
A Missing Ingredient in the Recovery of Reformed Confessionalism As much as God’s frozen chosen may overdo the awkward and embarrassing features of evangelical piety, it is still true that born-again Protestantism and Reformed confessionalism have different practices that, in turn, nurture . . . Continue reading →
Now he gave us that sure communion with himself, when he testified through the preaching of the gospel that he had been given to us by the Father to be ours with all his benefits [Rom. 8:32]. We are said to put . . . Continue reading →
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In this episode, the Superfriends answer the question, “Did the Holy Spirit indwell believers before Pentecost?” Considering how a person is regenerated and blessed with the benefits of the covenant of grace, even under the types and shadows found in the Old Testament. In other words, how would believers live a Christian life, even under the types and shadows, without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit? Continue reading →
Critical theorist Max Horkheimer, who co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Theodor Adorno, would go on to repudiate the sexual revolution. In an interview in the late 1960s, he expressed support for the encyclical Humanae Vitae, arguing that contraception, and the sexual revolution . . . Continue reading →
On this episode of Abounding Grace Radio (AGR), Rev. Chris Gordon welcomes Dr. R. Scott Clark to talk about what faithful witness looks like for ordinary Christians. They begin with the story of a gang member who walked into a church elders . . . Continue reading →
Consider a few questions. In terms of the effect on the human psyche, how different is the playground taught of “cooties” to cancel culture? How different from Big Tech’s efforts to spear and deplatform the “unwoke”? How different from being supervised by . . . Continue reading →
The apostles died, the church went apostate almost immediately except for small remnants here and there, the Reformers rediscovered the gospel but did not go nearly far enough in their reforms, and then the Baptist movement came along and started doing the . . . Continue reading →
In this episode, Dr. Clark the sovereignty of our Lord and his use of means and instruments to accomplish his will for our good and his glory. Continue reading →
In this episode, Dr. Clark discusses how we come to faith through grace alone and how that grace is God’s divine favor. Continue reading →
People are perverted, and Christians are people too. Hopefully that grabs your attention. By perverted, I mean its most basic definition of “twisted, distorted, warped.” One thing that “perverted Christians” have warped is discerning how societal change comes about. Continue reading →
