Top Ten Posts And Podcasts Of 2025—Happy New Year From The Heidelblog!

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Happy New Year from the Heidelberg Reformation Association! This is the eighteenth year of the Heidelblog, and since 2012 we have had more than 13.3 million views and four million visitors. Thank you to our loyal readers and supporters. If you are just discovering us, welcome!

2025 On The Heidelblog

The top posts of 2025 tell us something about what was on the minds of our readers. Again, the most popular post on the HB this year was The Ten Points of Marxism. This post is a quotation from the Communist Manifesto. For those just discovering the Heidelblog, we posted this summary purely for informational purposes, so that readers might be intelligent about the goals of communism. What is interesting about this post is it was published more than a decade ago and did not get much attention but in the last three years it has been widely read, and the traffic does not seem to be slowing down.

Evangelical Christianity in North America is largely Baptistic in its orientation, so for millions of Christians, the patristic, Reformation, and post-Reformation understanding of the continuity of the covenant of grace, the distinction between the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants, and the way Christ has ordained to administer the covenant of grace outwardly in the visible church is mostly unknown. It is encouraging, therefore, to see thousands of people in North America and across the globe (hello India!) are discovering through Heidelblog and the Heidelcast the Reformed (i.e., the historic Christian) understanding of covenant theology. Through these resources, not only individual Christians but whole congregations are discovering the Reformed confession (theology, piety, and practice) and even uniting with confessional Reformed churches and denominations.

The first part of our mission is to help those who confess the Reformed faith rediscover the riches of our theology, piety, and practice. At the heart of that confession is how we read the Bible. For many in confessional Reformed churches and for those just finding the Reformed churches, the riches of the Reformed understanding of redemptive history are still to be discovered. So it is encouraging to see how many people are finding the resource page How To Read The Bible.

The HB aims to be not merely a place to think through the issues facing the church at the moment but a resource for further reading and learning. One of our most popular resources this year has been our version of the Heidelberg Catechism (after which this site and the Heidelberg Reformation Association are named). You can find many other Reformed confessions on our confessions page. Another very popular resource in 2025 has been our collection of the ancient ecumenical creeds (the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, the Definition of Chalcedon, and the Athanasian Creed). Our ever-growing collection of 168 book reviews and notices continues to be one of the most popular destinations on the HB. Readers look forward to seeing a new review each Thursday.

We launched the Heidelapp late in 2024, so this past year has been the first full year of operation. It has proved to be very successful and useful for thousands of users. In that regard, we are also pleased to report that the number of subscribers has grown by more than six hundred percent in 2025.

The second purpose for which the HRA exists is to help others discover the Reformed confession. One indication that we are fulfilling that part of our mission is the popularity of the essay Why I Am A Christian, which first appeared in 2021. Please pray that those reading this essay, who do not yet believe, might be brought to new life and true faith in the only Savior, Jesus.

The Ten Most Popular Posts Published in 2025

  1. R. Scott Clark, New Insight Into Olevianus And Ursinus On The Imputation Of The Active Obedience
  2. R. Scott Clark, Heidelminicast: In Defense Of Female Seminarians
  3. Shane Lems, The Fruit Of The Spirit: The Fourth Fruit—Patience
  4. R. Scott Clark, Concerning Scandals And Scandalizers
  5. Tony Arsenal, The Quest For Illegitimate Religious Gnosis: How “Fringe” Theology Deforms Christology
  6. Stephen Spinnenweber, The Federal Vision (Part One): Redefining Covenant And Justification
  7. R. Scott Clark, Heidelminicast: The American Experiment
  8. Brian Lee, Pastoral Openings In The URCNA
  9. Josh Christoffels, Toward A Confessional CRC: Synod 2025
  10. Brad Isbell, Prayers And Images: A Video That Never Should Have Been Made

Other Popular Posts and Pages

  1. David Hall, No Longer Married To Coach Satan: Terry Saban As A Role Model For Pastor’s Wives
  2. R. Scott Clark,  Reformed Basics On Dichotomy And Trichotomy
  3. Heidelblog, 33 Ministers And 26 Congregations Leave The CRC For The RCA After Synod Requires Churches To Uphold Christian Doctrine On Sexuality
  4. R. Scott Clark, Covenant Theology Is Not Replacement Theology
  5. R. Scott Clark, Any Text Without A Context Is a Pretext For A Prooftext
  6. Heidelblog, Resources On The Federal Vision Theology
  7. Heidelblog, What The Confessional Reformed Churches Have Said About Doug Wilson
  8. Harrison Perkins, Babies And Baptisms For The Dead: Another Look At 1 Corinthians 15:29
  9. Heidelblog, What Doug Wilson’s Own Federation Said About His Pastoral Practice
  10. R. Scott Clark, Baptism and Circumcision According to Colossians 2:11–12

Heidelcast News

The podcast remains one of the most popular Reformed podcasts in the world and continues to be among the .5 percent of podcasts worldwide. Our number of subscribers and listeners is growing, and we are reaching more listeners across the globe than ever before. Since 2009 we have produced about 1,214 episodes, including five episodes every week in 2025. The biggest change to the podcast this year was the addition of the Saturday Superfriends series last January. The Superfriends shows feature Rev. Scott McDermand, a frequent Heidelblog contributor and pastor of First Presbyterian Church (PCA), Bad Axe, MI; Dr Harrison Perkins, a prolific author and pastor of Oakland Hills Community Church (OPC), Oakland Hills, MI; and yours truly. The Superfriends episodes have been very popular and a great source of joy for the hosts and, we hope, the listeners. In other developments, by popular demand, the Heidelcast is now on YouTube and on all podcast platforms.

This year, we finished the series on Caspar Olevianus’ Firm Foundation (1567), The Comfort of the Covenant, and also a series on the Lord’s Supper To Nourish and Sustain. To supplement that series, we produced an audio version of Calvin’s Short Treatise on the Lord’s Supper. We also completed the Christian Liberty series and a series on the due use of the ordinary means of grace, Ordinary Means. As the year closes, we are eight episodes in to a new Sunday series on Philippians, Have This Mind. We have begun recording the Canons of Dort. We hope to finish this project during the summer of 2026. We also expect to begin producing videos in 2026. Stay tuned.

Thank you, listener, and thanks to Brian the Producer for his outstanding work.

The top ten Heidelcast episodes for 2025 were

  1. Heidelcast For May 11, 2025: Comfort Of The Covenant (36): Our Final Standing Before God
  2. Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Did Christ Die for All The Children Of Believers? | Limbus Patrum
  3. Heidelcast For May 25, 2025: Nourish And Sustain (2): What Is A Sacrament And What Does It Do?
  4. Heidelminicast Q&A: How Does the Second London Baptist Confession (1689) Disagree With The Westminster Confession Of Faith (1647)?
  5. Heidelcast For January 5, 2025: Best Of: Neonomianism & Antinomianism In The Marrow of Modern Divinity (1645)
  6. Heidelcast For June 8, 2025: Nourish And Sustain (4): The Medieval Church On The Lord’s Supper
  7. Heidelminicast: On Biblicism (1): What Is Biblicism?
  8. Heidelcast For June 1, 2025: Nourish And Sustain (3): The Early Church Fathers On The Lord’s Supper
  9. Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: John Piper And Final Justification
  10. Heidelcast For May 18, 2025: Nourish And Sustain (1): An Interview With Harrison Perkins About His Forthcoming Book, Take and Eat

The Top 10 Countries for HB Readers:

  1. USA
  2. India
  3. Canada
  4. United Kingdom
  5. Bangladesh
  6. Australia
  7. Brazil
  8. Philippines
  9. Pakistan
  10. South Africa

These are only the ten countries with the most visitors to the Heidelblog. Readers from hundreds of nations visited the Heidelblog and listened to the Heidelcast in 2025.

HRA News

Thanks for the prayers and labors of our HRA board members:

The Heidelshop went online in 2025. We are selling merchandise as close to cost as possible. This is a fun way to let others know that you read the Heidelblog or listen to the Heidelcast. Thanks to all who have purchased Heidelmerch. The Heidelberg Reformation Association expects to publish our first book in the first half of 2026. Later in 2026, we hope to publish Discovering the Reformed Confession. Stay tuned to the Heidelblog and Heidelcast for further details.

To those who prayed for and donated to the Heidelberg Reformation Association, thank you. Our readership and listenership grew considerably in 2025 as did the number of subscribers to the Heidelblog. For those subscribing via the Heidelblog, we produce a daily newsletter with links to that day’s content. Those subscribing via WordPress continue to receive an email with each post and every new post or podcast is available via the Heidelapp.

Help Us Help You!

In 2025 we took another step toward financial stability, but we still need you prayerfully to consider helping us in 2026. If you benefit from the work of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, won’t you help us help you? Click on the donate button or send a check to:

Heidelberg Reformation Association
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Escondido, CA 92027

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Thank you.

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1637 E. Valley Parkway #391
Escondido CA 92027
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    R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.

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