Unlike Father Neuhaus, I guess few readers of this space will know who Henk Navis was, but he died today. Henk did not participate in any famous negotiations with anyone. He did not leave one communion for another. He wasn’t celebrated or . . . Continue reading →
2021 Archive
Sometimes The Comment Box Is Worth Reading
I do not typically read website comments. There are exceptions. Continue reading
Documentary: Chicago BLM Crushes Congregation And Deli Over LGBTQ Agenda
Editor’s Note: This video was produced by a group of people involved in a successful Chicago deli and a congregation with roots in the Assemblies of God tradition. It is posted here to document the agenda of the BLM organization. Caution: this documentary features footage of BLM protests, including graphic language. Continue reading →
It Is All Sola Gratia, Sola Fide
From first to last, the Christian life is a life of faith. At no point can fleshly works do anything to move the soul one inch closer to God. Do you believe this? I am not sure that all of us do. . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast 174: As It Was In The Days Of Noah (18): Applying The Analogy To Preaching, Sacraments, Baptism, And Salvation
The argument of the series is that this is Peter’s over-arching picture or paradigm for the way New Covenant believers are to think about their place in the world and about the return of Christ. There will be no literal 1,000 year . . . Continue reading →
Riddlebarger: 2 Chronicles 7:14 Is Not A Promise To The USA
The claim that “God is on our side” usually surfaces when politically active American evangelicals see themselves in another skirmish in the ongoing culture war–contending with secular-progressives for the soul of the nation in a Manichean struggle between good and evil. In . . . Continue reading →
Why You Should Get Your Child Out Of Public School
Note: Things are only getting worse in the public schools across the USA. When I first addressed this it was out of alarm about the amazing but largely ignored problem of sexual predators roaming the halls in public schools across the USA. . . . Continue reading →
Trueman: A New Pastoral Problem
ast week, a pastor friend told me about a new problem he is facing in his congregation. I hesitate to call it a “first world pastoral problem” because that runs the risk of trivializing it, of making it seem akin to those . . . Continue reading →
Talking Covenant Theology With Pastor Rudy Rubio On The Hood Grace Podcast
Happy to join Pastor Rudy Rubio for this episode of the Hood Grace Podcast to talk covenant theology and more. Continue reading →
Choose Wisely
One of the country’s largest adoption and foster care agencies, Bethany Christian Services, announced on Monday that it would begin providing services to L.G.B.T.Q. parents nationwide
Religious Liberty Watch: SCOTUS Affirms 6–3 “South Bay” vs. Ninth Circuit
Application (20A138) granted by the Court. The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is granted pending disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition . . . Continue reading →
Why Does Theology Matter?
Resources How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia All The Episodes of Office Hours How to support Heidelmedia: use the donate button below The HB Resource Page The Importance of Being More Than Earnest What Must A Christian Believe? Discovering The Reformed Confession
Will Christians Be Taken In A Secret Rapture?
As a young and newly converted evangelical, I was quickly introduced to the evangelical pop sub-culture that included Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). In 1969 the famous CCM artist Larry Norman released “I Wish We’d All Been Ready.” …The premise of the song . . . Continue reading →
Everything Is A Construct
The deconstructionists have a point: everything created is a construct. Continue reading
The Myth Of The Bell Rope
Events described by the author of the Savage manuscript, in other words, provide an opportunity to reimagine Edwards as an active promoter of the most radical dimensions of the evangelical new birth experience—a figure who, during the early months of the Awakening, . . . Continue reading →
The First Great Awakening: “A Confus’d But Very Affecting Noise”
It is difficult to imagine. Jonathan Edwards countenancing the “Confus’d, but very Affecting Noise” that erupted in Suffield, Massachusetts, on July 6, 1741. Yet there he stood, his loud voice rising in prayer above the din that emanated from an assembly of . . . Continue reading →
Office Hours: The Unfolding Word
The Bible is a big book. That’s what J. I. Packer told us seminary students in 1987. He was right. Not only that but it was written over 1,500 years, in three different languages, in multiple settings, under multiple governments, by multiple . . . Continue reading →
I’ve Had It With Organized Religion
Had I a nickel for every time someone has said “I’ve had it with the church” or “I’ve had it with organized religion” as they walked away from the visible church, I could retire the national debt. Walking away from the visible . . . Continue reading →
Upside Down Hermeneutics
To say that 1 Timothy 2:12 is “difficult” Continue reading
Eating Christ: What, Why, And How (John 6:53–56)
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him (John 6:53–56; ESV). Continue reading →