Durante nuestro último año de secundaria (1978-79), tres de nosotros salimos a comer. Nuestra escuela secundaria pública tenía un campus abierto, lo que significaba que se nos permitía ir y venir siempre y cuando asistiéramos a clase. Nos amontonamos en el Ford . . . Continue reading →
Many Christians today take it as an article of faith that God must deliver Christians from trials and tribulations. This is an age in which Benny Hinn’s ridiculous books have sold millions, and he is but the latest charlatan selling health and . . . Continue reading →
In the second petition of the Lord’s Prayer every Christian prays, “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt 6:10). This is an implicit recognition that we do not presently live in heaven. Continue reading →
That slogan puzzled me the first few times I heard it, but I think I understand it more clearly now. I was puzzled because the word scholar means “student.” It is a Latin word derived from the noun schola, or school. A scholar is . . . Continue reading →
Se a evidência objetiva e histórica é tão clara quanto afirmo sobre a definição histórica da palavra reformado, por que esse debate existe? Novamente, as raízes desse debate encontram-se, em parte, na maneira como os batistas pensam sobre si mesmos e sobre os . . . Continue reading →
Jonathan Edwards (1703–58) is America’s most famous theologian and perhaps its most famous philosopher too. He is an important and influential figure and worth seeking to understand for these reasons alone. We should think about Edwards for other reasons, however. He is the theologian par . . . Continue reading →
The truth is that elder visits can too often be like a home visit from a dentist. We all dread the dentist because we know that he is a bearer of bad news, not good news. Continue reading →
The History Channel reminds us that on November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II ordered the First Crusade. Before 1979 it was more difficult than it is today to imagine such a thing, a leader of a world religion ordering a military crusade to conquer . . . Continue reading →
Let me be clear: I am not opposed to presidents, prayer, or breakfast. I am not opposed to praying presidents having breakfast.1 I am not opposed to prayer before breakfast. All these are good things. The annual presidential prayer breakfast, however, is . . . Continue reading →
The AP ran a story in October 2022 on the naming of seven new Roman “saints.” According to the story, “Two of the new saints were Americans: Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American saint from the U.S., and Mother Marianne Cope, a 19th-century . . . Continue reading →
I was driving through town, and I noticed the logo on a Ford truck and was impressed by how well the artwork has held up since the 1920s. This made me think of companies that have tried to change their brand or . . . Continue reading →
In The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis worried about the effects of replacing sin and forgiveness with disease and therapy. His chief concern is that we would lose our humanity. This remains a great concern. Recently, one of the Supremes, not Diana Ross . . . Continue reading →
Our older theologians used to say that we are justified in order that we might be sanctified.1 The order in that expression was intentional. Before the Reformation many in the church had come to reverse justification and sanctification. Continue reading →
Each fall I teach a course on the ancient church and a seminar on patristics. For the first half of the seminar, we use Michael Holmes’s third edition of the Apostolic Fathers, a collection of texts mainly from the second century. It did . . . Continue reading →
Under the types and shadows of the Old Testament, before the death of Christ, circumcision was the sign of God’s covenant promise to be a God to believers and to their children. That bloody sign and seal has been replaced by a . . . Continue reading →
Having looked in part one at how the Reformed church has recognized Scripture’s distinction between the law and the gospel, we will look in this article at how this distinction plays out in warning passages. A Look at Some Warning Passages There . . . Continue reading →
“Word and sacrament piety” is perhaps an expression with which you are unfamiliar. It is a shorthand way of saying that the way God has ordained to work in the lives of his people is through the ministry of the Word, chiefly . . . Continue reading →
There is concern by some in the Reformed community that there is too much emphasis on grace in the doctrine of sanctification, and not enough emphasis on obedience and even godly fear. The question has arisen about how this matter should be addressed. Continue reading →
Happy New Year from the Heidelberg Reformation Association! This is the eighteenth year of the Heidelblog, and since 2012 we have had more than 13.3 million views and four million visitors. Thank you to our loyal readers and supporters. If you are . . . Continue reading →
The case of the murder of Charlie Kirk is a stark example of the amateur confusion of research presented for research conducted. The most probable explanation for the murder of Charlie Kirk is that it was done by a lone gunman, just . . . Continue reading →