Heidelcast For April 7, 2024: “Feathers And All:” The Scriptures Are Enough (8)

by Heidelcast on April 7, 2024

In this episode Dr Clark interacts with a prominent Baptist Christian Nationalist and reviews a significant volume on theology and practice of some of the Westminster Divines concerning continuing revelation. Continue reading →

Biblicism Never Dies

by Heidelblog on April 6, 2024

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 →

The Canons Of Dork #27 For April 6, 2024

by Harrison Perkins, R. Scott Clark, Sarah Perkins on April 6, 2024

Gomer gets some vitamin sea. Continue reading →

Psalm 22: The Psalm Of Calvary (Part 2)

by Sean Morris on April 6, 2024

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

by Tony Phelps on April 5, 2024

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

by R. Scott Clark on April 5, 2024

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

by Heidelblog on April 5, 2024

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

by Heidelcast on April 4, 2024

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

by T. David Gordon on April 4, 2024

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

by Heidelblog on April 4, 2024

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

by R. Scott Clark on April 3, 2024

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?

by Heidelcast on April 3, 2024

Dr Clark takes a phone call and answers a challenging question about the military draft. Continue reading →

Luther: We Have Nothing Apart From Christ

by Tony Phelps on April 3, 2024

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

by Tony Phelps on April 2, 2024

…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

by Heidelcast on April 2, 2024

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)

by Harrison Perkins on April 2, 2024

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 →

Imaginary Differences: Part 1

by R. Scott Clark on April 1, 2024

Let us begin with God’s Word as the Reformed in the classical period typically read and even heard it—in Latin: ergo fides ex auditu auditus autem per verbum Christi (“Therefore faith is from hearing and hearing through the Word of Christ,” Rom 10:17). Continue reading →

How Did The Substitutionary Atonement Work?

by Andrew Menkis on April 1, 2024

On the surface the logic of the atonement is straightforward. We sin and are therefore under God’s wrath. When Jesus died on the cross, he suffered the punishment that sin deserves. If we put our faith in Christ, we have eternal life. . . . Continue reading →

They Did Not Need The Spices

by Heidelblog on March 31, 2024

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the . . . Continue reading →

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