These were the top five posts for the week beginning January 8–14, 2024. Continue reading →
Godfrey On What Is True Worship?
AGR’s Chris Gordon talks to Bob Godfrey about true worship is. Continue reading →
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Chris Gordon, Theocast, And W. Robert Godfrey January 18, 2024: Suffering And The Hope Of Christ’s Return
More information & registration» RESOURCES Subscribe To The Heidelblog! The Heidelblog Resource Page Heidelmedia Resources The Ecumenical Creeds The Reformed Confessions The Heidelberg Catechism Recovering the Reformed Confession (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2008) Why I Am A Christian What Must A Christian Believe? . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For the Week of January 8–14, 2024
Getting To Know Godfrey
AGR’s Chris Gordon talks to Bob Godfrey about how he became a Christian and Reformed at the same time. Continue reading →
Muller: Scholasticism Is A Method Not A Doctrine
In my own usage, throughout the study, I have attempted to work with terms that have substantive use in the historical documents and I have tried to confine my meanings to the meanings of the era. Thus, ‘scholastic’ indicates an academic style . . . Continue reading →
Video: The Abraham Paradigm
Friday and Saturday of this past week I had the privilege of speaking to congregation of Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC) and to their guests in Ft Worth, TX on “The Abraham Paradigm.” They were very gracious and patient with me. It is . . . Continue reading →
Driscoll: Same Song, Second Stanza
But despite Driscoll’s early assurances to change, many of the same leadership traits that led to the problems at Mars Hill have carried on at the new church, according to former Trinity staff members and church attendees. . . . For several . . . Continue reading →
Machen’s Reply to Lordship Salvation
Very different is the conception of faith which prevails in the liberal Church. According to modern liberalism, faith is essentially the same as “making Christ Master” in one’s life; at least it is by making Christ Master in the life that the . . . Continue reading →
The Most Powerful Book On Sexual Abuse
Rachael DenHollander’s What is a Girl Worth? is the most powerful book on sexual abuse I’ve ever read. Her “story of breaking the silence and exposing the truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics” is well-known. What I didn’t know is that . . . Continue reading →
The Last Man (As It Were) Standing?
It’s 2024 and NAPARC denominations stand almost alone on male-only pastors/preachers and lay leaders (elders). The SBC is far from solid on this issue (https://sbcamendment.org/) and most evangelicals are giving way by degrees. Decisive action from the SBC would help, but many . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For the Week of January 1–7, 2024
These were the top five posts for the week beginning January 1–7, 2024. Continue reading →
Warfield’s Fist-Fight
Princeton College alumni who remembered Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield’s student days at Princeton recall that on November 6, 1870, the young Warfield and a certain James Steen, “distinguished themselves by indulging in a little Sunday fight in front of the chapel after Dr. . . . Continue reading →
Better Late Than Never . . . Presbycast’s Survival Guide For 2024
Dr Clark joins hosts Brad (Chortles Weakly) Isbell, Wresbyterian, and Presbycast guests pastor Job Dalomba and Sean Moore to have some fun and to talk about how to prepare for the craziness that 2024 promises to bring. Subscribe to the Presbycast in . . . Continue reading →
Muller: The Reformation Was Not An Attack On All Medieval Theology
When this orthodox or scholastic Protestantism is examined in some depth and viewed as a form of Protestant theology in its own right rather than as merely a duplication or reflection of theology of the Reformation, it is clearly a theology both . . . Continue reading →
Berkhof: Systematic Theology Is Not A Corruption Of The Truth
Man is endowed with reason, and the human reason cannot rest satisfied with a mere collection of separate truths, but wants to see them in their mutual relationship, in order that it may have a clearer understanding of them… There seems to . . . Continue reading →
Bavinck: We Learn Spiritual Realities Through The Material World
Fully adequate [exhaustive] knowledge is something of which we possess very little. Everywhere and in every area of life we finally run into mystery. The inner being of things, the thing as such, escapes our perception. We observe phenomena and from them . . . Continue reading →
Vos On Divine Simplicity
What is God’s simplicity? That attribute of God whereby He is free of all composition and distinction. God is free: a) Of logical composition; in Him there is no distinction between genus and species. b) Of natural composition; in Him there is . . . Continue reading →
Allen: Systematic Theology Helps Us To Keep Our Eyes On God
Scholastic and systematic theology has been much maligned in recent decades, often for putting God in a box and distorting the dramatic character of more occasional or narratival modes of thought. Yet the best historical studies of scholastic theology in its medieval . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For the Week of December 25–31, 2023
These were the top five posts for the week beginning December 25–31, 2023. Continue reading →
Heidelcast For Dec, 31 2023: Sin, Salvation, & Service: The Threefold Truth Of Romans (47)
In this episode Dr Clark looks at Romans 14:13–23, where Paul teaches us how to put our brothers above ourselves and how to preserve the peace of the church without sacrificing the purity of the church. Continue reading →