With The New Geneva Podcast On Reformed Comfort: Salvation In The Heidelberg Catechism

by R. Scott Clark on February 3, 2020

That there is a Reformed doctrine of salvation is clear from the confessions and catechisms of the confessional Presbyterian and Reformed churches. We are saved by grace alone (sola gratia), through faith alone (sola fide), in Christ alone. God’s Word says: “For . . . Continue reading →

The United Reformed Churches In North America Reject Final Justification Through Works

by R. Scott Clark on February 3, 2020

Dear Fathers and Brothers in Christ: On November 24, 2002 our pastor Rev. BBB preached a sermon entitled “The Lion Won’t Bite the Innocent.” In this sermon he taught both the doctrine of justification on the ground of Christ’s imputed righteousness and . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours With Craig Troxel On With All Your Heart

by R. Scott Clark on February 3, 2020

The word “heart” is a truly important word in the English language. In the introduction to his new book, With All Your Heart: Orienting Your Mind, Desires, and Will Toward Christ, Westminster Seminary California’s Craig Troxel observes that one can have a . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 139: Of Megachurches, Busses, And Woodchippers

by Heidelcast on January 30, 2020

More than a decade ago I noted on the HB that one of the dominant stories in American Christianity in the last 25 years has been the rise of the “megachurch.” According to a recent study published in June, 2009, in USA . . . Continue reading →

Should We Talk About Breaking The Covenant Of Grace?

by R. Scott Clark on January 28, 2020

Introduction Two correspondents have written in recent days to ask about whether those who confess the Reformed confessions (e.g., the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Dort, and the Westminster Standards) and the Reformed confession, which is a broader category . . . Continue reading →

Savannah River Presbytery (PCA) Requests GA To Assume Jurisdiction In Revoice Case

by R. Scott Clark on January 28, 2020

Savannah River Presbytery requests that the 48th General Assembly assume original jurisdiction of the case of the investigation by Missouri Presbytery of Greg Johnson and the session of Memorial Presbyterian Church with regard to theological error and involvement in the 2018 Revoice . . . Continue reading →

Central Georgia Presbytery (PCA) Overtures GA To Assume Jurisdiction Of The Revoice Case

by R. Scott Clark on January 28, 2020

Whereas TE Greg Johnson has and continues to teach that Christians can be identified as homosexuals, and that those who experience same-sex temptations are not normally delivered from these, and are not normally changed in nature by the LORD; and Whereas Memorial . . . Continue reading →

History Of The Organ

by R. Scott Clark on January 27, 2020

By J. H. Cook (originally posted at bsc.edu/jhcook/orghist/history/hist001.htm) and preserved at archive.org The discussion below covers approximately 1000 years in the history of the organ. Under the best circumstances, this would be a long enough time to be confusing, and that is . . . Continue reading →

Walter Marshall: Abraham Is Not Moses

by Inwoo Lee on January 27, 2020

The end which God aimed at in giving the law of Moses, was not, that any should ever attain to holiness or salvation by condition of perfect or sincere obedience to it; though, if there had been any such way of salvation . . . Continue reading →

How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia

by R. Scott Clark on January 27, 2020

I have had questions lately about subscribing to the Heidelblog and the Heidelcast (Heidelmedia). There are a variety of ways of keeping up with both. Heidelblog First, how to subscribe to the Heidelblog? 1. Email. On the left side of the HB . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 138: With Darryl Hart On Why You Should Not Convert To Rome

by Heidelcast on January 25, 2020

Darryl Hart is Distinguished Associate Professor of History at Hillsdale College. He holds degrees from Temple, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins and has taught in numerous schools, including Westminster Seminary California where we will colleagues for a few years. He is one of . . . Continue reading →

Living All The Bible: A Response To A Faddish Argument

by R. Scott Clark on January 24, 2020

One of the stranger arguments against Christianity that has found an audience (and publishers) is the argument that Christians are hypocrites because they do not adhere to the Bible the way that pagan critics think they should. As I recall, there have . . . Continue reading →

The Corrosive Consequences Of Speech Codes

by R. Scott Clark on January 24, 2020

Here’s the column that got me fired from the Denver Post. I’ve been a regular columnist for the Denver Post since 2016. …Plain talk that doesn’t conform to the newspeak law of “use only the words mandated by the perpetually offended.” So, . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 137: How To Avoid The TheoRecon Tollbooth

by Heidelcast on January 22, 2020

Arguably Reformed theology has never been more popular among evangelicals than it is right now. There are multiple large parachurch movements that extol the virtues of Reformed theology in a way that was unknown thirty years ago. It has never been easier . . . Continue reading →

Princeton Historian Rebukes 1619 Project: The Facts Still Matter

by R. Scott Clark on January 22, 2020

No effort to educate the public in order to advance social justice can afford to dispense with a respect for basic facts. In the long and continuing battle against oppression of every kind, an insistence on plain and accurate facts has been . . . Continue reading →

Ralph Erskine: Do Not Imagine Christ’s Imputed Righteousness Is Anything But Perfect

by Inwoo Lee on January 21, 2020

Ought it not be a terror to us, to cut off a lap of Christ’s garment, or clip it so short, as to think that it cannot cover us completely, without some rags of our own rotten righteousness sewed into it? Again, . . . Continue reading →

New Resource Page: On The Atonement

by R. Scott Clark on January 20, 2020

Few Christians doctrines have been as controverted, in the modern period, as the atonement. For whom did Christ die? What did he accomplish in his death? Should we say that Christ died for all? These are just some of the questions addressed . . . Continue reading →

Dickson: Theonomy Is An Error

by R. Scott Clark on January 18, 2020

Quest. IV. Did the Lord by Moses give to the Jews, as a Body Politick, sundry Judicial Laws, which expired together with their state? Yes. Do they oblige any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require. No. Exod. 21. . . . Continue reading →

Gillespie And Piscator: The Natural Law Remains In Force

by R. Scott Clark on January 18, 2020

But how doth it appear that these or any other Judicial Laws of Moses do at all appertain to us, as rules to guide us in like cases? I shall with him who scrupleth this, to read Piscator his Appendix to his . . . Continue reading →

Rollock: The Judicial Laws Are Abolished But The Natural Law Remains

by R. Scott Clark on January 18, 2020

It is true, indeed, a prince should be loath to put out that life that God hath put in, and should beware, to judge rashly in capital crimes. It is no small matter to make a crime capital; but if the crime . . . Continue reading →