Someone told me in high school that if I passed human physiology we would get to see cadavers. But in order to take human physiology I had to take biology, so I spent a fair bit of time my senior year studying . . . Continue reading →
March 2025 Archive
Top Five Posts For The Week Of March 24–30, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of March 24–30. Continue reading →
Colquhoun Contra Final Salvation Through Works
If he knows not the difference between the law and the gospel, he will be apt, especially in the affair of justification, to confound the one with the other. The consequence will be that in his painful experience, bondage will be mixed . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast For March 30, 2025: Comfort of the Covenant (30): The Ascension of Jesus Christ
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series, “The Comfort of the Covenant.” Continue reading →
Confessions Give Us Roots
Not only are Christian confessions consistent with Scripture and church history, they are practically conducive to positive societal engagement. Historic confessions help ground our evangelistic method in the larger scope of church history, essentially protecting us against inventing some new doctrine, or . . . Continue reading →
Lift Up Your Heads: Ascending Liturgy—Psalm 24 (Part 2)
In our first piece on Psalm 24, we heard the acclamation of the Lord, creator of all, to whom everything belongs, and to whom all owe reverence and obedience. Then, by the righteous inquiries of the priest, the people swore their oath . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Signing the Cross | The Purpose of the Book of Job
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
That He Might Bear In His Humanity
Already in the New Testament, the church faced one of its greatest and deadliest heresies: the denial of Jesus’ humanity. The Greeks had room for men becoming gods and human-like behavior by the gods, but they had no room for a God-Man. Continue reading →
Don’t Leave It In The Vault
As is especially evident in today’s context, it’s one thing to adopt a confession and quite another to be confessional’ to think, witness, live, and worship consistently with our profession. A confession can be a historical document that we leave in the . . . Continue reading →
What Is An Evangelical?
In this episode, Adam Kaloostian, Chris Gordon, and Dan Borvan explore the challenges and rewards of building a Reformed church culture that engages evangelicals without losing its theological distinctiveness. Continue reading →
Review: Beholding the Triune God: The Inseparable Work of Father, Son, and Spirit By Matthew Y. Emerson and Brandon D. Smith
The recent resurgence of classical Trinitarianism has borne tremendous fruit in bringing the reality of who God is to bear in the church’s ministry and proclamation. Even in confessionally Reformed circles where subscription vows have at least maintained a background fidelity to . . . Continue reading →
Owen: To Deny Baptism To The Children Of Believers Is To Deny Christ’s Faithfulness
To deny that the children of believing, professing parents…have the same right and interest with their parents in the covenant, is plainly to deny the fidelity of Christ in the discharge of his office. John Owen | The Works of John Owen, . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: On Biblicism (3): What is the Difference Between Biblicism and Sola Scriptura?
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series “On Biblicism” Continue reading →
Luther On God Pleasing Despair
I remember that Staupitz used to say: “More than a thousand times I have vowed to God that I would improve, but I have never performed what I have vowed. Hereafter I shall not make such vows, because I know perfectly well . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: On Biblicism (2): What is the Connection Between Biblicism and Socinianism?
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series “On Biblicism” Continue reading →
The Fruit Of The Spirit: The Eighth Fruit—Self-Control (Part 2)
In a moment, I will point out a few places in Scripture that talk about the layers of self-control we began talking about in part one. Continue reading →
Warfield: God Placed The Children Of Believers In The Church
But now, having run through these various arguments, to what conclusion do we come? Are they sufficient to set aside our reasoned conviction, derived from some such argument as Dr. Hodge’s, that infants are to be baptized? A thousand times no. So . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: On Biblicism (1): What is Biblicism?
In this episode Dr Clark begins the series “On Biblicism” Continue reading →
The Cradle Of Christian Truth: Apostles’ Creed (Part 8)—Conceived by the Holy Spirit, Born of the Virgin Mary
One of the flavors of the day in movies and television seems to be the reboot. You take an old story and retell it in a new way. Or you take an old character and reset the storyline, setting aside the previous . . . Continue reading →
Colquhoun: The Law And The Gospel Both Promise Eternal Life
The law, as it has a promise of life, is very unlike the gospel. The former promises eternal life to a man on condition of his own perfect obedience and of the obedience of no other, whereas the latter promises it on . . . Continue reading →