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December 2025 Archive

Heidelminicast: On the New Covenant (3)

by Heidelcast on December 17, 2025

In this episode Dr. Clark continues his series on the New Covenant Continue reading →

The Tender Love A Father Has: The Christian’s Comfort, Even In Death (Part 8)

by Sean Morris on December 16, 2025
heart sunset

Our series on the Christian’s great hope in the face of death has so far covered issues pertaining to our culture’s discomfort with death, noting it as God’s judgment on sin, while also observing that Scripture offers a wonderfully tender perspective. We . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Christian Life

Heidelminicast: On the New Covenant (2)

by Heidelcast on December 16, 2025

In this episode Dr. Clark continues his series on the New Covenant Continue reading →

Turretin: Adam Might Have Had It By His Own Obedience

by Heidelblog on December 16, 2025

Christ alone gives us promises of eternal life in the state of sin. Yet in the state of nature, Adam might have had them by his own obedience, according to God’s pact. Francis Turretin | Institutes of Elenctic Theology (P&R Publishing, 1992–97, . . . Continue reading →

Calvin: Christ Does Not Call His Ministers To Conquer The Church

by Heidelblog on December 15, 2025

For as he who marries a wife does not call and invite his friends to the marriage, in order to prostitute the bride to them, or, by giving up his own rights, to allow them to partake with him of the nuptial . . . Continue reading →

What Is Reformed Theology? (Part 9)

by R. Scott Clark on December 15, 2025
wirt 2

And they were devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the communion, that is, the breaking of the bread, and to the prayers. (Acts 2:42)1 Teaching The first words to consider here are “devoting” and “teaching.” The first expression . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Faith, Five Solas

Top Five Posts For The Week Of December 8–14, 2025

by Heidelblog on December 15, 2025

These were the top five posts for the week of December 8–14. Continue reading →

Categorized Heidelnews

Heidelcast For December 14, 2025: Best of… The Noah Paradigm

by Heidelcast on December 14, 2025

In this “Best of” episode, Dr. Clark discusses the Noah Paradigm. Continue reading →

The Mere Fact That A Westminster Divine Said Something…

by Heidelblog on December 13, 2025

The mere fact that a particular doctrine was held by an individual Westminster divine during the assembly’s debates does not automatically mean that doctrine was considered within the bounds of confessional orthodoxy by the assembly. Not everything in the WCF is a . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Do We Pray to Jesus or to the Father in the Name of Jesus Through the Power of the Holy Spirit?

by Heidelcast on December 13, 2025

In this episode of the Heidelcast, the Superfriends talk about praying to Jesus. Continue reading →

Joy in the Face of Chaos: Psalm 33 (Part 2)

by Zach Keele on December 13, 2025

In its first half, Psalm 33 disclosed to us the reason behind its happy music—God’s power of creation and providence—and how this truth produces our blessed happiness. But why are the people of the Lord so happy, when the designs of the . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Psalms, Saturday Psalm Series

Why Did the Geneva Consistory Insist on Biblical Names at Baptism?

by R. Scott Clark on December 12, 2025

Matt Tuininga, a friend and former student, wrote an interesting post at Christian in America in which he tells about the conflict between the consistory and some of the people in Geneva over the question of how the people should name their . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Reformation History

Ursinus: It’s Christ’s Satisfaction For Us

by Heidelblog on December 12, 2025

The righteousness with which we are here justified before God, is not our conformity with the law, nor our good works, nor our faith; but it is the satisfaction which Christ rendered to the law in our stead; or the punishment which . . . Continue reading →

Video: From Bishops, to Super-Pastors, to Gig Eva Personalities.

by Heidelblog on December 12, 2025

Rev. Chris Gordon, Rev. Dr. Daniel Borvan, and Rev. Adam Kaloostian discuss the historical and theological development of the pastoral office, tracing its evolution from the biblical model of a humble, serving presbuteros and episkopos to the centralized authority of the Pope . . . Continue reading →

Review: The Nicene Creed: An Introduction By Phillip Cary

by R. Scott Clark on December 11, 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, you may know by now that this is the 1,700th anniversary of the promulgation of the creed of the Council of Nicaea in AD 325. This was a monumental event, first because the Council of Nicaea . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Reviews

Ridderbos: Postmillennial Christian Nationalism Incompatible With The New Testament

by Shane Lems on December 11, 2025

After reading hundreds of pages of PCN writing, I submit that PCN’s “this world conquest” version of eschatology 1) minimizes or ignores the NT teaching of suffering, 2) downplays the strong NT emphasis on longing for Christ’s end of time return, and . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: On the New Covenant (1)

by Heidelcast on December 11, 2025

In this episode Dr. Clark begins a new series on the New Covenant Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: What the Dying of the PCUSA Really Means

by Heidelcast on December 10, 2025

In this episode Dr. Clark answers the question, “What Would Calvin Say About Premillennialism?” Continue reading →

The Hall of God’s Faithfulness, Part 7: Faith and Christ (Hebrews 12:1–3)

by Christopher Smith on December 10, 2025
light breaking through the clouds

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Psalms, Saturday Psalm Series

Calvin On The Spirituality Of The Kingdom Of God

by Brad Isbell, Heidelblog on December 10, 2025

My kingdom is not of this world. By these words he acknowledges that he is a king, but, so far as was necessary to prove his innocence, he clears himself of the calumny; for he declares, that there is no disagreement between . . . Continue reading →

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