These were the top five posts for the week of July 21–27. Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of July 21–27, 2025
2025 Archive
A Critical Appreciation Of Anglicanism (Or Why I Did Not Become Anglican)
Regular readers of this space will know that evangelical elements of the Anglican tradition have played a significant role in my spiritual development. As a very young Christian the first piece of Christian literature of any substance that I read was John . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast For July 27, 2025: Nourish and Sustain (11): The Teaching of John Calvin on the Lord’s Supper from His Institutes (1559), Part 3
In this episode Dr Clark continues the current series, “Nourish and Sustain” Continue reading →
Ninth Circuit Panel: Oregon’s Requirement That Adoptive Parents Affirm Trans Ideology Violates The First Amendment
The panel reversed the district court’s denial of plaintiff Jessica Bates’s motion for preliminary injunctive relief and remanded with instructions to enter a preliminary injunction enjoining the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) from applying Oregon Administrative Rule § 413- 200-0308(2 (k)—a . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: When Have We Gone Too Far When Changing Our Doctrinal Understanding? | Romans 2:13, Two Stages of Justification, and Future Justification Through Works
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
From Glory To Glory: The Story Of Christ In Psalms 15–24 (Part 1)—Introduction
On Valentine’s Day, I took my wife to a restaurant that I thought was going to prove insanely busy. I called in advance and learned they were no longer taking reservations. It seemed like it was going to take a lot to . . . Continue reading →
On The New Covenant (Part 2)
Having looked at Jeremiah 31 in the last part, we now turn to specific New Testament passages that shape our understanding of the new covenant as essentially a new administration of the Abrahamic covenant. 2 Corinthians 3 The New Testament view of . . . Continue reading →
Video: Mortimer Adler And Charles Van Doren On How to Read a Book
In this video from 1975, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren discuss how to read a book, the art of reading, and more. Continue reading →
Re-Thinking Thomas On The Effects Of Sin
One of the most common critiques of Thomas Aquinas to be found in contemporary Protestant theology and apologetics is that Aquinas either outright denies the noetic effects of sin (that is, the effect of original sin on the human intellect) or at least minimizes . . . Continue reading →
Review: Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers By T. David Gordon (Part 1)
I am a fan of T. David Gordon. He writes well. He speaks plainly. He does not mince words. With some writers, it is quite possible for five people to read them and come away with five different conclusions about what the . . . Continue reading →
Warfield On Calvin’s Doctrine Of The Natural Knowledge Of God
The first chapters of Calvin’s “Institutes” are taken up with a comprehensive exposition of the sources and guarantee of the knowledge of God and divine things (Book I. chs. i.-ix.). A systematic treatise on the knowledge of God must needs begin with . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (12): What Should We Say About the Atonement?
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on the good news of definite atonement, and why some have struggled with it, and how we should respond. Continue reading →
Misrepresenting God Or Bearing False Witness Against God?
Did Paul Allude To The Ninth Commandment In 1 Corinthians 15:15? Christ (and his apostles) lived a millennium and a half before the invention of the printing press; as individuals, they did not own Bibles (or any other books). Most would have . . . Continue reading →
Thinking Rightly About Images
Worship is a vital part of the Christian life, in fact, the most important facet of our life. It is how both the Westminster Larger and Shorter Catechisms direct us on what our proper end is: “Man’s chief end is to glorify . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (11): What Did Three 19th-Century Theologians Say About Amyraldianism?
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on the good news of definite atonement, and why some have struggled with it, and how we should respond. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (10): Is Amyraldianism Compatible with the Westminster Confession of Faith? (Part 2)
In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on the good news of definite atonement, and why some have struggled with it, and how we should respond. Continue reading →
John Knox On The Lord’s Supper, Part 3: Right And Biblical Administration
In the previous two installments, we have been arguing that, in light of the perceived softening of some Protestants’ attitudes with regard to the Roman Catholic Mass, a reexamination of a classical Reformed and Protestant theological view of the Roman Mass might . . . Continue reading →
The Incredible Shrinking Mainline
In 2008, I commented on a post by the Aquila Report: “The PCUSA continues its statistical decline. As a firm believer in Scottish revivals I might be tempted to take this as a sign of health but, in this case, it doesn’t . . . Continue reading →
New Online: Covenant, Justification, And Pastoral Ministry As A PDF
Thanks to the support of donors like you, the Heidelberg Reformation Association is pleased to be able to publish online Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry. For about the last year, we have been publishing online the chapters of the CJPM serially. Now we . . . Continue reading →
What Is Missio Dei?
What is God doing in creation? What is He aiming to achieve? The answer shapes how we think about what the world needs, what the church’s purpose is, and what it means for Christians to live on mission. The answer also has . . . Continue reading →