Hence I believe that there is one Church of those who have the same Spirit, through whom they are made certain that they are the true children of the family of God; and this is the first fruits of the Church. I . . . Continue reading →
2025 Archive
Heidelcast For February 23, 2025: Comfort of the Covenant (25): Jesus Christ—Two Distinct, Inseparable Natures
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series, “The Comfort of the Covenant.” Continue reading →
Reformed Church Of Basel (1534): The Denial Of Infant Baptism A “Damnable And Depraved Opinion”
We clearly protest those strange and erroneous doctrines, which turbulent spirits have invented [so as] to reject and condemn, among other damnable and depraved opinions, as when they say infants are too small to be baptized (whom we baptize according to the . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—The Angel of the LORD | Gospel Preaching
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
Psalm 92: A Psalm For The Sabbath (Part 1)
Many of us (ministers, elders, and church members alike) regularly give thought to how we can, by God’s grace, cultivate healthy churches. In that vein, I daresay one of the most underappreciated and underutilized tools we have at our disposal is the . . . Continue reading →
Colquhoun: You Won’t Get Away With It. Flee To Christ
Can you imagine that the omniscient and righteous Judge of all the earth will take no notice of you or that He who is “of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity” (Hab. 1:13) but with infinite . . . Continue reading →
Clarifying Issues In Schreiner’s Soteriology
The rest of the book focuses mostly on aspects of Paul’s explanation of salvation in Galatians. Schreiner defends the traditional Protestant view that the Galatian error involved legalistic tendencies to require some kind of work—namely, circumcision—as a condition of law keeping for . . . Continue reading →
Audio: A Frank Discussion About Baptism And Reformed Church Membership
We’re still talking about practice; not a game, not a game, not a game. We’re talking about practice. Continue reading →
His Face Bound With A Linen Cloth
I do not like thinking about death, but I have been doing a good lot of thinking about it lately. It is no fun to think about death. As an American, always moving, restless, ever conquering, I resist it. Death is the . . . Continue reading →
The Reformed Churches Detest The Error Of Those Who Refuse To Baptize The Children Of Believers
For that reason we detest the error of the Anabaptists who are not content with a single baptism once received and also condemn the baptism of the children of believers. We believe our children ought to be baptized and sealed with the . . . Continue reading →
Review Roundup: Covenant Theology (Part 1)
Antonio Coppola’s Faithful God: An Introduction to Covenant Theology Faithful God is a pastoral treatment of covenant theology meant to equip ordinary Christians to see the categories of law and gospel and to understand how Christ is at the center of redemptive history. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: POPLL (9): Litigate: Is it Okay for Christians to Go to Court?
In this episode Dr Clark continues his series on POPLL (Pray, Organize, Persuade, Legislate, Litigate). Continue reading →
20 Federal Vision Errors
1. Pitting Scripture and Confession against each other. 2. Regarding the enterprise of systematic theology as inherently rationalistic. 3. A mono-covenantalism that sees one covenant, originating in the intra-Trinitarian fellowship, into which man is invited, thus flattening the concept of covenant and . . . Continue reading →
The Fruit Of The Spirit: The Seventh Fruit—Gentleness (Part 1)
I am guessing most of us are familiar with the word gentle. If you helped your friend move into an apartment, he probably told you to be gentle with the box containing dishes. When your son was holding his newborn brother, you . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: POPLL (8) | Legislate: How Does a Law Get Passed?
In this episode Dr Clark continues his series on POPLL (Pray, Organize, Persuade, Legislate, Litigate). Continue reading →
It Is Not That Complicated
One of the reasons terminology matters is because the BCO is not just for professional presbyterians. Imagine the confusion of a member (maybe one under discipline or appointed or nominated for some office or role) who opened a PDF of the BCO . . . Continue reading →
The Cradle Of Christian Truth: The Apostles’ Creed (Part 3)—God the Father
An old allegory tries to describe religion with the story of four blind men feeling an elephant. The blind man feeling the trunk thinks he is touching a long, thick creature. The one touching the elephant’s leg says he is touching a . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: POPLL (7) | Legislate: Can Christians Legislate?
In this episode Dr Clark continues his series on POPLL (Pray, Organize, Persuade, Legislate, Litigate). Continue reading →
Shut It Down
Since its creation in 1979, the Department of Education has sent well more than $1 trillion to schools with the express purpose of closing the gaps between the highest and lowest performers. Today, those gaps are as wide as they have ever been, . . . Continue reading →
The Order Of Love (Ordo Amoris): Proximity, Not Ethnicity (Part 2)
Three times in his discussion of the nature of virtue Thomas Aquinas (c. 1224–74) referred to Augustine’s AD 388 treatise against the Manichaeans, On The Morals of the Church (De moribus ecclesiae) regarding the “order of love.”1 Even though it was a . . . Continue reading →