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Heidelcast 77: God’s Holy Law (1)

by Heidelcast on October 13, 2014

With this episode we begin a new series: God’s Holy Law. In this episode we consider what the law is, how the moral law is distinguished from the civil and ceremonial aspects of the law, the universality of the law, its expression . . . Continue reading →

The Birds!

by R. Scott Clark on October 13, 2014

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Owen: We Are Endowed With Liberty By Christ And His Apostles

by R. Scott Clark on October 13, 2014

Thus far, then, is the liberty given by Christ unto his church preserved entire; and the request seems not immodest that is made for the continuance of it. When men cry to God for the liberty in his worship which was left . . . Continue reading →

Free Reformation Conference In Santee November 1, 2014

by R. Scott Clark on October 13, 2014

It’s Autumn and that means it’s Reformation season in Reformed congregations all across North America. Christ United Reformed Church, Santee, California is holding a free, one-day Reformation conference on Saturday November 1, 2014 featuring Mike Horton on “Scripture Alone” (sola scriptura), Bob . . . Continue reading →

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There Is No Worship That Is Accidental

by R. Scott Clark on October 12, 2014

20. That is a most empty distinction which some people make to excuse their additions to worship: “Only corrupting and not conserving additions are forbidden.” For every addition as well as every subtraction is a departure from the observance and keeping of . . . Continue reading →

Heidelberg 35: Of The Virgin Mary

by R. Scott Clark on October 11, 2014

Reformed Christians are understandably ambivalent about the Virgin Mary. On the one hand she was truly blessed. God graciously ordained that she should bear in her womb God the Son, that she would be what the Definition of Chalcedon (451) called the . . . Continue reading →

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Ames: Redemption Is The Execution Of The Sentence

by R. Scott Clark on October 11, 2014

Redemption is a real deliverance from the evils of punishment, which is actually nothing but the carrying out of the sentence of justification. For in justification we are pronounced just and awarded the judgement of life. In glorification the life that results . . . Continue reading →

What American Journalists Once Did

by R. Scott Clark on October 10, 2014

Fog!

by R. Scott Clark on October 10, 2014

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The Covenant Of Works: Perfect Personal Obedience

by R. Scott Clark on October 10, 2014

God originally made everything from nothing, perfect. He made our first parents, Adam and Eve, the root of mankind, both upright and able to keep the law written in their hearts. This law they were naturally bound to obey upon penalty of . . . Continue reading →

Sometimes Nebraska Is Just Too Nice (UPDATED)

by R. Scott Clark on October 9, 2014

Until now the only thing for which Irving Middle School has been notorious was that the infamous spree murderer Charlie Starkweather (1938–59) attended there, in the 1950s, when it was a Junior High School. It is in the news today, however, because . . . Continue reading →

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Sectarians: Socinians, Arminians, And Pietists

by R. Scott Clark on October 9, 2014

By the end of the seventeenth century, there was a sense that sectarian groups – a list that included Socinians and Arminians, as well as Pietists — were increasingly establishing themselves throughout Europe to the detriment of true Christianity. As Elisée Géraud . . . Continue reading →

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The Big Factory

by R. Scott Clark on October 8, 2014

The Left’s model of society is still the model of Marx and Bismarck: one big factory to be managed by experts. The government schools are an assembly line for human widgets, who are in theory there to be taught what the state . . . Continue reading →

Calvin Flashing Gang Signs

by R. Scott Clark on October 7, 2014

(HT: Scott McDermand)

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Chiliasm And Soul Sleep

by R. Scott Clark on October 7, 2014

Our study began with Irenaeus’ contention that the belief in an immediate removal of the soul to the presence of God and Christ at death was a stumbling block to orthodox acceptance of chiliasm, and with his counter proposal that the chiliastic . . . Continue reading →

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Heidelcast 76: Was The Marrow Antinomian?

by Heidelcast on October 7, 2014

This is 13th and final part of the our series, nomism, antinomianism and The Marrow of Modern Divinity. If you’re just joining us, you can start at the beginning with episode 58. Why this series? Because The Marrow was an important classic . . . Continue reading →

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Rollock: Of Works Done By Strength And Nature

by R. Scott Clark on October 6, 2014

Man, after the fall, abides under the covenant of works; and to this day, life is promised him under condition of works done by strength and nature. But if he will not do so well, death and the everlasting curse of God . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Godfrey On What Is Wisdom?

by R. Scott Clark on October 6, 2014

Ours is not an age characterized by wisdom either inside or outside the church. Conferences on wisdom will not likely pack a football stadium (at least not a large one) but wisdom is a major theme in Scripture—terms for wisdom occur more . . . Continue reading →

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Ursinus On Circumstances And Worship

by R. Scott Clark on October 5, 2014

Thirdly, there are ecclesiastical or ceremonial ordinances, prescribed by men, which include the determinations of circumstances necessary or useful for the maintenance of the moral precepts of the first table; of which kind are the time, the place, the form and order . . . Continue reading →

Cat-A-Baptist?

by R. Scott Clark on October 4, 2014