Justification takes place once for all. It is not repeated, neither is it a process; it is complete at once and for all time. There is no more or less in justification; man is either fully justified, or he is not justified . . . Continue reading →
May 2023 Archive
Sub-Christian Nationalism? (Part 2)
Until the early twentieth century, most Christians used some distinction between nature and grace, and the sacred and the secular. In the 1970s and 80s, however, American Christian fundamentalists (e.g., Jerry Falwell) began to use the adjective “secular” disparagingly. Similarly, the use . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Machen On Christianity & Liberalism (29)
This is part 29 in our series from Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. Continue reading →
Discovering the Reformed Confession (Part 1): Young, Restless, and “Calvinistic”
I first heard the terminology of the “five points of Calvinism” in the mid-1990s from a youth pastor at our evangelical megachurch. He was convinced that Calvinism is true and biblical. One evening, my wife and I went to dinner with him . . . Continue reading →
Baylor Charters LGBTQ Organization
PRISM, an LGBTQ student organization, hosted an on-campus “Queer Sex Ed” event on Mar. 23 at Baylor, a Christian university in Waco, Tex. “Secret is out. See you tomorrow,” the flyer caption, posted to the group’s Instagram, reads. “You can still DM . . . Continue reading →
Small Is Beautiful
If Google is a reliable search engine, the anniversary of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church on June 11 passed without any mention by the press. The reasons are not hard to fathom. The OPC is small, and it lacks a celebrity. In an . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For the Week of May 22–28, 2023
These were the top five posts for the week beginning May 22–28, 2023. Continue reading →
The Gospel According To John (MacArthur)—Part 7
In chapter three, MacArthur turns to Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus in John 3. Since I have been primarily critical of his methods and conclusions, let me begin with some areas of agreement. When he writes, “the central theme of the Old Testament . . . Continue reading →
Video: With Chris Gordon On Christ And Culture And Ministry In An Anti-Christian Age
RESOURCES Subscribe To The Heidelblog! The Heidelblog Resource Page Heidelmedia Resources The Ecumenical Creeds The Reformed Confessions The Heidelberg Catechism Recovering the Reformed Confession (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2008) Why I Am A Christian What Must A Christian Believe? Heidelblog Contributors Support Heidelmedia: . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast Q&A For May 28, 2023 On The Holy Spirit In The Old Testament, “General Equity Theonomy,” Baptismal Regeneration And More
In this episode Dr Clark returns to Romans 5:12–21 and answers emails about Romans 11 and question from a Baptist listener who asks, in effect, what the Reformed think that baptism does in Canons of Dort 1.17 (and in 1 Cor 7:14). The opening audio is from the Theocast podcast. Continue reading →
Saturday Psalm Series: Singing With Good King David—Calvin On The Psalms
But the peculiar gift of man is to sing knowing what he says. Further, the understanding ought to accompany the heart and affections, which cannot be unless we have the song imprinted in our memory, that we may be ever singing it. Continue reading →
Hostility Against Churches On The Rise In The USA
On March 27, 2023, three children and three adults were killed in a shooting at The Covenant School, a private Christian school and a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee. The assailant shot through glass side doors to access areas . . . Continue reading →
Foppe On Being Reformed In America (Part 2)
This series is a transcription of an article published originally in Dutch by the Christian Reformed theologian Foppe Ten Hoor (1855–1934), who was a minister in the Christian Reformed Church and professor of Systematic Theology, from 1900–24, at what became Calvin Theological . . . Continue reading →
Of Catholics, Evangelicals, and Rome
Mr. White, Mr. Black, and Mr. Gray Cornelius Van Til used to write about Mr. White (the confessionally Reformed fellow), Mr. Black (the Roman Catholic fellow), and Mr. Gray (or Grey, the Arminian fellow). His point was that, on some issues, the . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Machen On Christianity & Liberalism (28)
This is part 28 in our series from Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. Continue reading →
Foppe On Being Reformed In America (Part 1)
This series is a transcription of an article published originally in Dutch by the Christian Reformed theologian Foppe Ten Hoor (1855–1934), who was a minister in the Christian Reformed Church and professor of Systematic Theology, from 1900–24, at what became Calvin Theological . . . Continue reading →
Review: Divine Providence: A Classic Work for Modern Reader by Stephen Charnock
To paraphrase the concern of one of the leading theologians of the past century: one of the great issues with reading texts from within the tradition, but from a much earlier time, is that it is as if we live in a . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Machen On Christianity & Liberalism (27)
This is part 27 in our series from Machen’s Christianity and Liberalism. Continue reading →
Sub-Christian Nationalism? (Part 1)
The term nationalism is inherently slippery. Indeed, the idea of a nation, as we think of it, is fairly new. We should not assume that there have always been sovereign nations the way that we think of them in the Modern period. . . . Continue reading →
10 Ways Churches Should Respond To Sexual Abuse
After a few decades of publicity surrounding the issue of sexual abuse in the broader culture, one might think that churches have developed better ways of handling it. However, there are regularly reports that indicate otherwise. Especially churches without a Safe Church . . . Continue reading →