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Top Five Posts For The Week Of June 2–8, 2025
June 2025 Archive
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What Is A Reformed Liturgy? (Part 2)
What follows is intended to reflect the liturgies of Geneva (1542), Strasbourg (1545), and Heidelberg (1563) but I have borrowed language from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and the Forms and Prayers of the United Reformed Churches in North America. Continue reading →
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Heidelcast For June 8, 2025: Nourish And Sustain (4): The Medieval Church On The Lord’s Supper
In this episode Dr Clark continues the current series, “Nourish and Sustain” Continue reading →
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The Canons Of Dork #40 For June 7, 2025
Consider your options. Continue reading →
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Psalm 26: Denouncing Sin Yet Seeking The Lost (Part 1)
Hatred, is this a virtue or a vice? This is a no brainer, of course—hatred is an evil, as we hear about all the time. The trending morality of the day is to be nice, accepting, tolerant, and respectful to all. There . . . Continue reading →
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Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Who are the False Teachers in 2 Peter 2? | How to Think About Retirement
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
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Turretin Contra The Limbus Patrum (2)
The reasons are: (1) the formula of the covenant of grace under which the fathers lived does not suffer them to be hurled into a limbo, but demands that they should be admitted into heaven. For since God promised that he would . . . Continue reading →
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On Precisionism And Latitudinarianism (Again)
In 1520 Martin Luther published one of his most influential treatises, On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church. In it he attempted to set the church free from bondage to human opinion by unleashing again, as it were, God’s Word as the . . . Continue reading →
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Baillie Versus Tombes (5): How The Particular Baptists Appeared To Early Presbyterians
The most applauded Tenets of our modern Anabaptists, are the self-same with what the old Anabaptists did invent The errors of the Anabaptists and their divisions amongst themselves are so many, that to set them down distinctly in any good order, is . . . Continue reading →
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Video: Righteous by Design and Created for Communion
In this rich theological conversation, Camden Bucey welcomes Dr. Harrison Perkins—pastor, scholar, and author—to discuss his two latest books: Righteous by Design: Covenantal Merit and Adam’s Original Integrity (Christian Focus) and Created for Communion with God: The Promise of Genesis 1–2 (Lexham . . . Continue reading →
Book Review
Review: Confession of the Christian Religion By Girolamo Zanchi (trans. Patrick O’Banion)
Girolamo Zanchi (1516–90) is certainly not a household name in Christian circles. He was very well known among seventeenth-century Reformed Christians, however. For just one example, Puritan Thomas Goodwin wrote that Zanchi was “the best of Protestant Writers.”1 So why are many Reformed . . . Continue reading →
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Turretin Contra The Limbus Patrum
This question lies between us and the papists who (the more easily to defend their hypothesis concerning the imperfection of the Old Testament) maintain that the fathers who lived under it were not immediately admitted into heaven, but were detained in limbo . . . Continue reading →
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Heidelminicast: One Person, Two Natures (4): How the Athanasian Creed Could Have Helped
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series called, “One Person, Two Natures” Continue reading →
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Dreher On The Woke/Anti-Semitic Right
I knew that the left had succumbed to the soft totalitarianism of wokeness. It was part of the reason that I moved to the former Eastern bloc country of Hungary—not to escape wokeness so much as the fact that, through the research . . . Continue reading →
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Heidelminicast: One Person, Two Natures (3): Ignatius of Antioch
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series called, “One Person, Two Natures” Continue reading →
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Baptism Between the Minarets: The Gospel at Work In Turkey
The ancient city of Smyrna holds a significant place in the annals of church history. It was one of the seven churches addressed by Christ in the book of Revelation, and it was the home of the early church father Polycarp (AD . . . Continue reading →
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Heidelminicast: One Person, Two Natures (2): What Does Captain Kirk Have to do With Christology?
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series called, “One Person, Two Natures” Continue reading →
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Review: Ordinary Means, Extraordinary Ends
A rediscovery of the ordinary means of grace** is not only a needed correction to many of the excesses of our day, but it is also a key to the health and longevity of normal churches. Contrary to the ascension of parachurch . . . Continue reading →
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The Cradle Of Christian Truth: Apostles’ Creed (Part 18)—The Resurrection of the Body
In one elementary school science lesson, we were given bug eggs that we were supposed to help get through the various life-cycle stages. However successful I was at that endeavor with those particular bugs, the principle is something I think we all . . . Continue reading →
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Kuyper And The Moral Shift In Society
We are living in an age of profound cultural shift. Up until the early twenty-first century, Western history was dominated by a form of Christianity that was legally established and culturally honored. While not everyone was a Christian, being a Christian was . . . Continue reading →