But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast For April 20, 2025: Comfort of the Covenant (33): The Holy Spirit and Our Sanctification
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series, “The Comfort of the Covenant.” Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Take Up Your Cross | Understanding Paedo Baptism Before Calvin | 1689 Federalist Covenant Theology
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
The Devil’s Mousetrap
“For our price he tendered his cross as a mousetrap; there he placed his blood as bait.” Augustine of Hippo Do you wonder if a mouse knows better, But can’t say “no” to a well-aged cheddar? Does he see the hammer? The . . . Continue reading →
Chrysostom: The Church Has Always Connected Baptism And Circumcision
Nothing of ourselves. For remission of sins and adoption and unspeakable glory are given to us by Him. For he exhorts them no longer from the things to come only, but even from those now present. For consider. He said, that we . . . Continue reading →
Suffered Under Pontius Pilate
The first part of the fourth article of our “undoubted Christian faith” (Heidelberg Catechism 22), which we confess in the Apostles’ Creed, says Christ “suffered under Pontius Pilate” (passus sub Pontio Pilato). This is a remarkable thing to say. After all, we . . . Continue reading →
Video: Relying On The Means of Grace
Christ builds His church through the ordinary means of grace: the Word, sacraments, and prayer. Continue reading →
Two PCA Pastors Arrested In Separate Cases
Two teaching elders from the Presbyterian Church in America are facing criminal charges in separate cases. The first case involves a pastor in Florida who was the driver in a fatal car crash. The second case involves a pastor in Mississippi who . . . Continue reading →
O. Palmer Robertson Against Intinction
Dipping the bread into the wine as a method of distributing and receiving the elements of the Lord’s supper is a matter that has recently come into discussion among some churches. This procedure, commonly called “intinction,” has significance in the life of . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Christian Liberty (6): Christian Liberty Delivers Us From the Opinions of the Pope
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series on Christian Liberty. Continue reading →
Review: Histories And Fallacies By Carl Trueman
As advocates of the Presuppositional approach to apologetics remind us ad infinitum, no one is neutral epistemologically. That is true enough. We must not, however, draw the fallacious inference that no one is objective. That does not follow. In Histories and Fallacies . . . Continue reading →
J. K. Rowling’s Heroic Resistance To The Trans Movement Is A Model
I’m not a Harry Potter fan. But please don’t cancel me or stop reading. The reason I’m not an HP fan has little to do with overblown concerns about magic and spirits. Neither do I dislike the HP canon. It’s just too . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Christian Liberty (5): What Does Christian Liberty Have To Do With Worldview?
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series on Christian Liberty. Continue reading →
Do Reformed Christians Confess The Sabbath?
Justin Taylor has posted material from Tom Schreiner’s 40 Questions About Christians and Biblical Law, which argues, “I do not believe the Sabbath is required for believers now that the new covenant has arrived in the person of Jesus Christ.”1 Schreiner considers the . . . Continue reading →
The Cradle Of Christian Truth: Apostles’ Creed (Part 11)—The third day he rose again from the dead
The Trojan Horse is the classic example of a bait and switch. Legend says that, for ten years, the Greeks waged war on the city of Troy. This war went so long because Troy was so well fortified. One morning, the Trojans . . . Continue reading →
Goodwin: Children And Gentiles Are Included In The External Administration Of The Covenant Of Grace
The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the Gospel, are included by God within the covenant of Grace, as well as Abraham’s or David’s seed within that covenant of theirs. Thomas . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Christian Liberty (4): Does Christian Liberty Give License to Coarse Jesting?
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series on Christian Liberty. Continue reading →
Calvin: The Abrahamic Covenant And The New Covenant Are Substantially Identical
Both can be explained in one word. The covenant made with all the patriarchs is so much like ours in substance and reality that the two are actually one and the same. Yet they differ in the mode of dispensation. But because . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of April 7–13, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of April 7—13. Continue reading →
Preaching Sola Fide Better
After a conference address that expounded the doctrine of justification by faith and showed its contemporary importance, the following comments were overheard during a coffee break. Continue reading →