In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on fencing the Lord’s Table. Continue reading →
Want of a due apprehension of the truth herein hath caused many, especially those of the Church of Rome, to follow after vain imaginations about the state of the souls of the faithful, departed under the Old Testament. Generally, they shut them . . . Continue reading →
2025 marks the fiftieth year since the death of John Murray, who was undoubtedly one of the most important Reformed theologians of the twentieth century. Murray contributed to Reformed theology in several significant ways, but one perhaps overlooked area is with respect . . . Continue reading →
Those of the church of Rome do hence fancy a limbus, a subterraneous receptacle of souls, wherein they say the spirits of believers under the old testament were detained until after the resurrection of Christ, so as that they without us were . . . Continue reading →
In the last month, we have witnessed the death of one pope and the election of another, and as typically happened, we saw reporters speaking in solemn tones about the unbroken line of succession from Peter to Leo XIV. Also, recent months . . . Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week of June 16–22. Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark continues the current series, “Nourish and Sustain” Continue reading →
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
It is generally supposed by expositors that it is heaven itself which is hereby intended. Hence some of the ancients, the schoolmen, and sundry expositors of the Roman church, have concluded that no believers under the old testament, none of the ancient . . . Continue reading →
Do you like to stick out or to fit in? The teacher tells your class to dress in black, but this is not you, so you come in red—the red umbrella amid a sea of black ones. Or maybe you decide to . . . Continue reading →
And he was their forerunner also. For although I have no apprehension of the “limbus patrum” fancied by the Papists, yet I think the fathers that died under the old testament had a nearer admission into the presence of God upon the . . . Continue reading →
In this episode, Rev. Chris Gordon and Rev. Dr. Dan Borvan tackle the pervasive issue of controversy within Christian circles. They discuss the rise of ‘hot take theology’ mentalities, exemplified by figures like Joel Webbon, and the dangers of mistaking attention-seeking for . . . Continue reading →
Planet Money is an interesting and usually fair-minded (they talk to Keynesians and to free-market capitalists) account of economic theory and the global economy. Their most recent podcast was a story about a Spanish savings bank called cajas de ahorros.1 It is . . . Continue reading →
The Baptists, especially those of the time of the Reformation, do not hold the common doctrine on this subject. The Anabaptists not only spoke in very disparaging terms of the old economy and of the state of the Jews under that dispensation, . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on fencing the Lord’s Table. Continue reading →
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When the strongest criticism I can make of a book is that the author used an obscure word (complexify, 45) that says something about the strength of a work.1 Let me say at the outset, I really like this book. This is . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on fencing the Lord’s Table. Continue reading →
The popular Roman Catholic apologist Trent Horn recently published a video criticizing the Protestant principle of sola scriptura on historical grounds, and arguing that sola scriptura was a novel idea invented by the Protestant Reformers with no basis in the writings of . . . Continue reading →
Rendering “sheol”: Beza and Acts 2:27. Beza, for example, worried textually and linguistically over the problem of the citation of Psalm 16:8–11 in Acts 2:25–28. Specifically, verse 10 of the Psalm (Acts 2:27) had been used in the church as one of the . . . Continue reading →
And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their . . . Continue reading →