First, all that belong to the covenant and church of God are to be baptized. But the children of christians, as well as adults, belong to the covenant and church of God. Therefore they are to be baptized as well as adults. . . . Continue reading →
2025 Archive
Review: The Cure for Unjust Anger By John Downame, Edited by Brian Hedges
Among the sins you and I both have wrestled with is the sin of unjust anger. When faced with injury or injustice—whether real or perceived, whether against our person, someone else, or some group of people—we have been moved to respond in . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Christian Liberty (9): Christian Liberty versus the Church of Elaboration
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series on Christian Liberty. Continue reading →
To Obey Or Not To Obey, That Is The Question: An Examination Of Anthony Burgess’s Theology Of Law And Gospel In Vindiciae Legis: Part 1
After his suspension on June 25, 1629, by the High Commission for the charge of “doctrinal heterodoxy,” Robert Towne (1592–1663) desperately sought to meet with those “godly opponents” who had been criticizing his preaching, perhaps to explain himself.1 He found a few . . . Continue reading →
The French Reformed Church: We Baptize Children Because God Receives Them
We hold, also, that although we are baptized only once, yet the gain that it symbolizes to us reaches over our whole lives and to our death, so that we have a lasting witness that Jesus Christ will always be our justification . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Christian Liberty (8): What Does Vocation Have to do With Christian Liberty?
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series on Christian Liberty. Continue reading →
Dort: We Are Bound To The Scriptures As Confessed By The Churches Not To Private Opinions
Finally, this Synod exhorts all their brethren in the gospel of Christ to conduct themselves piously and religiously in handling this doctrine, both in the universities and churches; to direct it, as well in discourse as in writing, to the glory of . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Christian Liberty (7): Is the Bible an Engineering Manual?
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series on Christian Liberty. Continue reading →
The Cradle Of Christian Truth: Apostles’ Creed (Part 12)—He Ascended into Heaven and is Seated at the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty
It is a common bug of humanity that we do not like saying goodbye. We even have stock phrases like, “I’m bad at goodbyes,” or, “Let’s say ‘see you later’ rather than ‘goodbye.’” Even “Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” as true . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of April 14–20, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of April 14–20. Continue reading →
James K. A. Smith’s Bad Argument Is An Indicator Of Improving Health In The CRC
Regular readers of this space are aware that there is something of a confessional renaissance within the Christian Reformed Church in North America. For example, in 2023, Synod rejected decisively an appeal by a prominent progressive CRC congregation against Synod’s decision upholding . . . Continue reading →
Christ’s Resurrection Is Non-Negotiable
Without Christ’s resurrection, Christian hope disappears. Among many indispensable articles of our faith, Christ’s resurrection crowns the list. Part of the reason for its critical role is because we worship the risen Christ, who is God the Son in power with all . . . Continue reading →
Why Do You Seek The Living Among The Dead?
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 →
Heidelcast For April 20, 2025: Comfort of the Covenant (33): The Holy Spirit and Our Sanctification
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series, “The Comfort of the Covenant.” Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Take Up Your Cross | Understanding Paedo Baptism Before Calvin | 1689 Federalist Covenant Theology
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
The Devil’s Mousetrap
“For our price he tendered his cross as a mousetrap; there he placed his blood as bait.” Augustine of Hippo Do you wonder if a mouse knows better, But can’t say “no” to a well-aged cheddar? Does he see the hammer? The . . . Continue reading →
Chrysostom: The Church Has Always Connected Baptism And Circumcision
Nothing of ourselves. For remission of sins and adoption and unspeakable glory are given to us by Him. For he exhorts them no longer from the things to come only, but even from those now present. For consider. He said, that we . . . Continue reading →
Suffered Under Pontius Pilate
The first part of the fourth article of our “undoubted Christian faith” (Heidelberg Catechism 22), which we confess in the Apostles’ Creed, says Christ “suffered under Pontius Pilate” (passus sub Pontio Pilato). This is a remarkable thing to say. After all, we . . . Continue reading →
Video: Relying On The Means of Grace
Christ builds His church through the ordinary means of grace: the Word, sacraments, and prayer. Continue reading →
Two PCA Pastors Arrested In Separate Cases
Two teaching elders from the Presbyterian Church in America are facing criminal charges in separate cases. The first case involves a pastor in Florida who was the driver in a fatal car crash. The second case involves a pastor in Mississippi who . . . Continue reading →