These were the top five posts for the week beginning April 1–7, 2024. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Sub-Christian Nationalism (1)
Dr Clark begins a series on Christian Nationalism. Continue reading →
April 2024 Archive
Top Five Posts For the Week of April 1–7, 2024
A Better March Madness
From Scott Howard-Cooper’s introduction to Kingdom on Fire,1 a memoir about the turbulent 1960s through the intersected lives of UCLA legends, Coach John Wooden, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Bill Walton, we learn of some of the zany madness underneath some earlier student protests compared to . . . Continue reading →
Johnson On The Timing Of The Kingdom
Jesus’ parables sometimes send mixed messages about the timing of the coming kingdom. He speaks the parable of the wedding banquet in response to a fellow dinner guest’s pious-sounding beatitude that seemed to envision a distant future age, “Blessed is everyone who . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast For April 7, 2024: “Feathers And All:” The Scriptures Are Enough (8)
In this episode Dr Clark interacts with a prominent Baptist Christian Nationalist and reviews a significant volume on the theology and practice of some of the Westminster Divines concerning continuing revelation. Continue reading →
The Canons Of Dork #27 For April 6, 2024
Gomer gets some vitamin sea. Continue reading →
Biblicism Never Dies
In 2016, there was an eruption in conservative Evangelical and Reformed theologians surrounding the doctrine of the Eternal Functional Subordination of the Son (EFS). There’s no need to rehash what has already been said, as that has been summarized helpfully elsewhere. Needless to . . . Continue reading →
Psalm 22: The Psalm Of Calvary (Part 2)
As we noted last time, this psalm was written some three thousand years ago and some one thousand years before the life of Christ. According to Matthew 27:46, Jesus quotes a portion of these words as he is suffering and dying on . . . Continue reading →
Riddlebarger: Christ Is The Central Character
The central character of the story, even in the Old Testament, was the Redeemer, Jesus Christ, the only mediator between God and sinful humans (1 Tim. 2:5). He lay hidden in Old Testament shadows but was revealed in the New. Seeing the . . . Continue reading →
Spending, The Crisis, And Idols
In recent years there was a move to focus Reformed and evangelical piety on “the idols of the heart.” Of course, as one of those who agrees entirely with Calvin’s dictum that after the fall the “perpetual disposition” of human beings is . . . Continue reading →
Video: WSC den Dulk Lectures 2024 (Part 2)—The Commitments Necessary to Reform the Church
On March 14th and 15th, Westminster Seminary California held its annual den Dulk lectures. Chad Vegas delivered two lectures on Pastoral Ministry. Below is a video from the second day of the lectures. RESOURCES Subscribe To The Heidelblog! The Heidelblog Resource Page . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: The Gospel According To John (MacArthur) 25
Dr Clark concludes his TLDR; (too long, didn’t read) series reviewing The Gospel According to Jesus. Continue reading →
Review: Jesus And The Powers: Christian Political Witness In An Age Of Totalitarian Terror And Dysfunctional Democracies By N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird—Part 2
Part one of my review discussed the perceived (by me) strengths of the book. My review continues with part two, in which I will discuss its perceived (by me) weaknesses. Perceived Weaknesses 1. Social Gospel 201. I do not recall finding Walter . . . Continue reading →
The CIA Considered Using Clergy As Intelligence Operatives
Further, as the committee knows, I have found no circumstances while I am Director of Central Intelligence, that have caused me to do either. But, Mr. Chairman, as the Director of Central Intelligence, I must be in a position to assure the . . . Continue reading →
Imaginary Differences: Part 2
Against the “fanatics”—early Anabaptists such as Thomas Müntzer, as well as spiritualists and Libertines, who claimed to receive additional revelations directly from the Spirit, apart from the Scriptures—Calvin wrote. . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast Q&A: Is There A Reformed View Of The Military Draft?
Dr Clark takes a phone call and answers a challenging question about the military draft. Continue reading →
Luther: We Have Nothing Apart From Christ
The word “Gospel” is Greek and signifies “joyous news,” because it proclaims the wholesome doctrine of life by divine promise and offers grace and forgiveness of sin. Therefore, works do not belong to the Gospel, for it is not Law; rather, only . . . Continue reading →
Perkins On The Abrogation Of The Law
…how far forth the law is abrogated? Answer. The law is threefold: moral, ceremonial, judicial. Moral is the law of God concerning manners or duties to God and man. Now the moral law is abrogated in respect of the church and them . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: A Call And A Question About The Death Of God
Dr Clark takes a phone call and answers a challenging question about the death of God. Continue reading →
The Custom Of God’s Churches: Head Coverings And Cultural Appropriateness (Part 1)
The evangelical impulse to submit our practices to Scripture is a noble instinct. So is the attempt to search the Scriptures diligently to understand what it says and how to apply it. Continue reading →