Wafting over the airwaves of the local Christian radio station came the predictable chord progressions of every modern worship song known to humanity. I had turned on the radio to quell the boys’ incessant bickering currently testing my patience, and after a . . . Continue reading →
2025 Archive
Review: A History of Contemporary Praise and Worship: Understanding the Ideas that Reshaped the Protestant Church By Lester Ruth and Lim Swee Hong
Whenever someone introduces himself to me as a worship pastor, my standard response is, “Me too.” Inevitably, my reply prompts inquiry about how I lead worship. So, I explain that I call the church to worship, I pray a lot, I read . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Fencing the Lord’s Table (6): If We Baptize Infants, Why Do We Not Allow Them to Receive Holy Communion?
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on fencing the Lord’s Table. Continue reading →
Round Up Of New Commentaries On The Nicene Creed
First, I am happy to recommend Crossway’s recent release of Kevin DeYoung’s The Nicene Creed: What You Need to Know about the Most Important Creed Ever Written. It is succinct and can be read quickly. Typical of KDY, he is mainstream, wonderfully averse . . . Continue reading →
Toward A Confessional CRC: Synod 2025
The 2025 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC) met from June 13–19 at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada. The 49 Classes of the denomination sent 176 delegates to deliberate on important matters of the church. The headline . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Fencing the Lord’s Table (5): In Communion, Are We Fed by Christ or the Person Sitting Next to Us in Church?
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on fencing the Lord’s Table. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Fencing the Lord’s Table (4): Fencing the Table or the Scandal of Church Discipline
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on fencing the Lord’s Table. Continue reading →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (4)
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 →
Murray On The Sabbath
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 →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (3)
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 →
Looking For Peter’s Successor
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 →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of June 16–22, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of June 16–22. Continue reading →
Heidelcast For June 22, 2025: Nourish And Sustain (6): The Teaching On The Lord’s Supper Of Heinrich Bullinger
In this episode Dr Clark continues the current series, “Nourish and Sustain” Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: John Piper and Final Justification
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (2)
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 →
The Burden of the Lord’s Silence: Psalm 28 (Part 1)
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 →
John Owen Contra The Limbus Patrum (1)
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 →
Video: ‘Hot-Take Theology’, Watchdogs & Trolls
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 →
Christian Banking?
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 →
Hodge On The Baptists, The Romanists, The Limbus, And The Abrahamic Covenant
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 →