So, just as a man with a dislocated leg cannot walk in a straight line but limps along, so it is impossible for those who are reborn, in whom resides this principle of moral dislocation, to offer all their works with the . . . Continue reading →
October 2026 Archive
Top Five Posts For The Week Of September 28–October 4, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of September 28–October 4, 2026. Continue reading →
Get Married, Have Children (Part 3)
Qualifications and Caveats The decision to have children is obviously deeply personal and fraught with uncertainty (from a merely human perspective). Some readers complained that the exhortation in part 1 of this series was unnecessary and even burdensome. Dear reader, it was . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast For October 4, 2026: Legacy In Ministry—Remembering The Reformed Confession With Dr Harrison Perkins & Dr J. V. Fesko
In this episode of the Heidelcast, Rev. Scott McDermand joins Dr. Clark in studio to discuss pastoral ministry, particularly what Rev. McDermand has learned since graduating from seminary and then being called to shepherd God’s people at First Presbyterian Church in Bad Axe, Michigan. They discuss the character of a pastor and how Rev. McDermand’s perspective has changed and/or matured over the years. Continue reading →
Sneak Peek of Remembering the Reformed Confession from Darryl Hart
A Missing Ingredient in the Recovery of Reformed Confessionalism As much as God’s frozen chosen may overdo the awkward and embarrassing features of evangelical piety, it is still true that born-again Protestantism and Reformed confessionalism have different practices that, in turn, nurture . . . Continue reading →
New in Print from the HRA: Remembering The Reformed Confession In Honor Of Dr. Clark
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Readers of the Heidelblog know that R. Scott Clark has helped countless people understand the confessional Reformed tradition in new and richer ways. Scott has been laboring to this end for more than thirty years by teaching church history at Westminster Seminary . . . Continue reading →
Calvin: We Find Our Assurance In Christ And His Promises
Now he gave us that sure communion with himself, when he testified through the preaching of the gospel that he had been given to us by the Father to be ours with all his benefits [Rom. 8:32]. We are said to put . . . Continue reading →
The Canons Of Dork #56 For October 3, 2026
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Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Did the Holy Spirit Indwell Believers Before Pentecost?
In this episode, the Superfriends answer the question, “Did the Holy Spirit indwell believers before Pentecost?” Considering how a person is regenerated and blessed with the benefits of the covenant of grace, even under the types and shadows found in the Old Testament. In other words, how would believers live a Christian life, even under the types and shadows, without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit? Continue reading →
Trueman On The Tyranny Of The Sexual Revolution
Critical theorist Max Horkheimer, who co-authored Dialectic of Enlightenment with Theodor Adorno, would go on to repudiate the sexual revolution. In an interview in the late 1960s, he expressed support for the encyclical Humanae Vitae, arguing that contraception, and the sexual revolution . . . Continue reading →
Video: Selling Jesus—Why Witnessing Isn’t a Sales Pitch (Part 2)
On this episode of Abounding Grace Radio (AGR), Rev. Chris Gordon welcomes Dr. R. Scott Clark to talk about what faithful witness looks like for ordinary Christians. They begin with the story of a gang member who walked into a church elders . . . Continue reading →
Morabito On The Soulless Machinery That Isolates Us From One Another
Consider a few questions. In terms of the effect on the human psyche, how different is the playground taught of “cooties” to cancel culture? How different from Big Tech’s efforts to spear and deplatform the “unwoke”? How different from being supervised by . . . Continue reading →
Review: Church History for Everyone: The Story of Christianity From The Fall Of Jerusalem To The Dawn Of The Reformation (Volume 1) By Kevin DeYoung
The apostles died, the church went apostate almost immediately except for small remnants here and there, the Reformers rediscovered the gospel but did not go nearly far enough in their reforms, and then the Baptist movement came along and started doing the . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: How Did We Come to Faith? (Part 8)
In this episode, Dr. Clark the sovereignty of our Lord and his use of means and instruments to accomplish his will for our good and his glory. Continue reading →