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The Canons Of Dork #42 For August 2, 2025
2025 Archive
What You Consider Traditional Worship Is A Modern Innovation
To be fair, congregational singing has been under assault for a century or more. The “contemporary” worship of 100 years ago in some P&R churches already suffered from invasive species propagated by Oxford Movement’s high-church, Anglo-Catholic tendencies. Low churches got high. Organs . . . Continue reading →
From Glory To Glory: The Story Of Christ In Psalms 15–24 (Part 2)—Psalm 15 And The Law’s Demand For Perfection
We tread carefully when we enter an important space. Moses stopped cold and removed his shoes when he came near the burning bush. Israel’s high priests knew they stepped on hallowed ground as they entered the holy of holies. We too tend . . . Continue reading →
On The New Covenant (Part 3)
There are some who understand the promises of Jeremiah 31 to be realized entirely in the future. There are reasons, however, why this is not the best way to understand Jeremiah 31. First, as we have already seen, each of these benefits was already promised under the covenant of grace to Abraham. Continue reading →
Video: Regeneration Precedes Faith
In this insightful discussion, Rev. Chris Gordon and Rev. Dan Borvan delve into the biblical account of Nicodemus in John Chapter 3, unpacking profound theological truths about salvation, regeneration, and evangelism. Continue reading →
Hippolytus On Infant Baptism
Now at the time when the cock crows they are at the water. The water should be flowing, or at least running. It should be so if there is no necessity, but if there is continuous and sudden necessity use any water you . . . Continue reading →
Cyprian On Infant Baptism
2.1 As far as concerns the case of infants, you expressed your view that they ought not to be baptised within the second or third day of their birth; rather, the ancient law on circumcision ought to be respected and you therefore . . . Continue reading →
Review: Why Johnny Can’t Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers By T. David Gordon (Part 2)
Up to chapter four, Gordon has focused on the form of preaching. But at this point he turns to questions of content. He says, “In addition to the cultural matters that have concerned me throughout, I also believe that preaching today fails . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (15): Did the Suffering Servant Suffer for Everyone Who Ever Lived?
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 →
The Reformation, The Regulative Principle, And The Modern Church: Examining Calvin’s Dedication To Purity In Worship (Part 1)
Walk into any corporate worship service today and you will almost certainly observe that the congregational singing is accompanied by instruments. There is no doubt that the common worship style of today, filled with various instruments and too often supplemented by stage lights and smoke machines, differs significantly from the worship one would have observed in a seventeenth-century Reformed church. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (14): What Do We Mean When We Say Expiation and Propitiation?
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 →
Sixth Circuit Denies That A Roman Catholic College’s Vaccine Mandate Imposed An Undue Burden On His Religious Liberty
COLE, Circuit Judge. Matthew Warman, a former graduate student at Mount St. Joseph University (MSJU), objected to taking the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds. When MSJU announced that it would require all students and employees to be vaccinated, Warman applied for a . . . Continue reading →
The Resurrection Means Everything
Without Christ’s resurrection, Christian hope disappears. Among many indispensable articles of our faith, Christ’s resurrection crowns the list. Part of the reason for its critical role is because we worship the risen Christ, who is God the Son in power with all . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: All Those and Only Those (13): Why Was the Atonement Necessary?
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 4: Knox’s Polemical and Pastoral Agenda
In our previous three articles, we have been arguing that, in light of the perceived softening of some Protestants’ attitudes regarding the Roman Catholic Mass, a reexamination of a classical Reformed and Protestant theological view of the Mass might be in order. . . . Continue reading →
Calvin: Do Not Make An Idol Of Me Or A Jerusalem Of Geneva
Now, as they did us injustice in that, it appears to me that you ought to have been too reasonable and humane to suffer us to be mixed up and implicated in their follies. One of them, of whom I had heard . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of July 21–27, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of July 21–27. Continue reading →
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 →