This talk is by Dr. R. Scott Clark on day two of Westminster Seminary California’s Annual Conference. This year, the topic was “Blessed Assurance: Resting in the Promises of God.”
One of the most comforting truths of the Christian life is the reality that there is nothing in all of creation that can separate us from the love of the Father, in the Son, through the Holy Spirit. This session will explore how the Scriptures and the Heidelberg Catechism declare and cultivate our understanding and experience of this comfort.
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Dr Clark, I greatly enjoyed watching your segment from Day 2 of the Escondido Conference you posted on the Heidelblog today. I view the Heidelblog regularly . Comfort is vital to our Assurance. My background is my coming from an atheist family, becoming a Southern Baptist for 40 years, and now for the last 17 years in the PCA and mostly the URCNA. There was no assurance of faith in Baptist theology. My son moved his family to Moscow, Idaho in one of Doug Wilson’s CREC churches and it grieves me. Federal Vision takes them back to their need to help the Holy Spirit to attain salvation. Roman Catholic theology. They want us to move there to be closer to our grandchildren . I can’t do it for several reasons, but especially because there isn’t a true Reformed church nearby. You know my Pastor from Calvary URC, Brian Vos and his predecessor Chuck Tedrick, our former Pastor. We hope to join the Escondido Conference in 2027. Our Donor manager John Bales will send us an invitation later this year.
Thank you Thomas.
I’m sorry about the separation from your grandchildren you’re experiencing and I’m grateful for your faithfulness in putting the truth ahead of relationships, even one as precious as that one. I hope that the people in Moscow will wake up one day and realize that they’ve been sold a bill of goods.