In liberty, not only spiritual (which also existed in the Old Testament), but also external, by which we are free from the legal ceremonies (Col. 2:20–22) and besides are become the servants of Christ alone and not of men (Gal. 5:1). Francis . . . Continue reading →
September 2025 Archive
Stressful Providences and Fit Faith: Psalm 30 (Part 1)
Time is a funny thing. For one, it is the constant we all live under. Time moves at the same rate. The second hand on the atomic clock does not speed up or slow down. Hours cannot be lost or added. We . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Addressing Church Councils that Disagree with the Reformed Confessions | Will God Forgive Me for Adultery?
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
The Canons Of Dork #43 For September 6, 2025
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Don’t Like Labels…Or Commitment?
In a recent news article about people attending a political rally, one of the participants was asked whether she identified with the group she was attending. She replied by saying, “I don’t like labels.” Indeed. The move toward political independency has been . . . Continue reading →
Video: Michael Horton on the Forgotten Person in the Trinity
In this keynote from the Sola and Credo Trinity Conference, Michael Horton demonstrates how Nicaea 2 defends the biblical teaching that the person of the Holy Spirit, along with the Father and the Son, is to be worshipped and glorified as “the . . . Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 4): In Adoption Without Servitude
In adoption, which in the New Testament not only as to the thing is such as it was in the Old, but also as to mode, condition and effects because: (a) in the New Testament it is proposed as having been acquired . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Grammar Guerrilla (14): Conversation, Discussion, and Arguments
In this episode Dr Clark continues his series on grammar. Continue reading →
Review: Created for Communion with God: The Promise of Genesis 1–2 By Harrison Perkins
As a Presbyterian minister, I have attended many Presbytery meetings where candidates for licensure or ordination are asked various questions touching on the Bible, theology, church government, and their commitment to the church’s confessional teaching. Inevitably, one question that is almost always . . . Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 3): The Calling Of The Nations
In the calling of all nations, which is peculiar to the New Testament as to the full knowledge of circumstance and of mode. This was not attended to by the ancients who thought that the Gentiles would be brought into the old . . . Continue reading →
Two Peoples of God?
Dispensationalism has fallen on hard times. What was the dominant eschatological view of twentieth-century Evangelicals, dispensationalism today is overshadowed by the resurgence of postmillennial eschatology and the ever-stalwart amillennial position. This article offers a brief critique of dispensationalism. My remarks about dispensationalism . . . Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 2): The Advent Of The Messiah
It consists (1) in the advent of the Messiah, his manifestation in the flesh and the fulfillment of the whole law by him (namely, of its ceremonies, prophecies and the entire righteousness prescribed by God in the law). (2) In the abrogation . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Grammar Guerrilla (13): Me and Him Most Definitely Did Not Talk About It
In this episode Dr Clark continues his series on grammar. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Grammar Guerrilla (12): “While” And “Though” Mean Different Things
In this episode Dr Clark continues his series on grammar. Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 1): The New Covenant Is Not New In Substance
Thus far the old dispensation; the new succeeds, the administration of the covenant without the law and ceremonies after the appearance of Christ. It is called “new” not as to the substance of the covenant (which is the same in both) but: . . . Continue reading →
The Tender Love A Father Has: The Christian’s Comfort, Even In Death (Part 4)
In our previous installments in this series, we have explored our culture’s discomfort with death, noting it as God’s judgment on sin, yet also observing that Scripture offers a wonderfully tender perspective. We discussed how believers, by God’s grace, escape the second . . . Continue reading →
Pray For The Church Planters In Ethiopia
Creeds, confessions, and catechisms are critically important in the evangelical Christian circles in Ethiopia. According to Ethiopian history, evangelical Christianity was introduced about a century ago to the land. It is held that it was first introduced by and as a result . . . Continue reading →
Warfield: Salvation Is Not By Grace And Cooperation With Grace
Thus it comes about that the doctrine of monergistic regeneration—or as it was phrased by the older theologians, of “irresistible grace” or “effectual calling”—is the hinge of the Calvinistic soteriology, and lies much more deeply embedded in the system than the doctrine . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of August 25–31, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of August 25–31. Continue reading →
What Is Reformed Theology? (Part 2)
Unfortunately, when most people think of Reformed theology, they think of the doctrine of predestination. The reasons for this have more to do with the critics of Reformed theology than with what the Reformed themselves confess. Indeed, one of the great weaknesses of the modern Reformed renaissance is that it tends to re-define Reformed theology almost entirely in terms of the doctrine of divine sovereignty. Continue reading →