About R. Scott Clark

R. Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. Read more» He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.

Office Hours: The Struggle Of Sanctification In The Psalms (2)

R. Scott Clark

on January 27, 2014

There are different types of the psalms in the psalter (the 150 Psalms). In this episode, Bryan Estelle, Professor of Old Testament at Westminster Seminary California, returns to complete our discussion on how the psalter helps us to think about sanctification, the Christian . . . Continue reading →

Doctrinal Precision: Too Great A Price For The Worldview?

R. Scott Clark

on January 27, 2014

Most worldview champions would probably argue doctrine does matter to one’s worldview. But, if this is the case, then how Catholics, Protestants, and Eastern Orthodox, much less Lutherans, Calvinists, and Pentecostals, share a worldview is unclear. At best, it seems contemporary evangelicals . . . Continue reading →

Palm Springs In January

by R. Scott Clark on January 27, 2014 10 Comments

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Calvin: Rome Is A Bird With Borrowed Feathers

R. Scott Clark

on January 26, 2014

Having ascertained Paul’s meaning, let us return to the Papists. First, by applying this eulogium to themselves, they act wickedly; because they deck themselves with borrowed feathers. For, granting that the Church were elevated above the third heaven, I maintain that it . . . Continue reading →

Refusing To Land Is Not Humility

R. Scott Clark

on January 25, 2014 | 2 Comments

I use this analogy when explaining to my students why they have to take positions on difficult theological issues: women in ministry, image of God, election, etc. Every year I have at least some students who don’t want to land the plane. . . . Continue reading →

Of Worldviews And Christian Liberty

R. Scott Clark

on January 24, 2014 | 5 Comments

There is no question that there is a Christian worldview. There is a Christian way of interpreting reality, of ascribing meaning to creation. There is a Christian faith that forms the grid or the lenses through which Christians are to interpret God’s . . . Continue reading →

No One Really Turns 5-Year Olds Loose To Save The World

R. Scott Clark

on January 24, 2014 | 1 Comment

This tribalism is damaging to children. Young people long to belong to something bigger than themselves (and this means bigger than their own generation). Children need community, structure, guidance, and history. In short, they need to belong to a culture instead of . . . Continue reading →

On The Absence Of Musical Instruments From The Synagogue

R. Scott Clark

on January 23, 2014 | 25 Comments

Ancient Jewish cultic music was valid only in connection with the cult, and the cult was valid only at the Temple in Jerusalem. When Jerusalem fell to the Romans in 70 CE, and the Temple destroyed, the cult ceased, and with it . . . Continue reading →

56,662,169 Babies

R. Scott Clark

on January 22, 2014 | 5 Comments

56,662,169 Babies .

The Lord Will Provide

R. Scott Clark

on January 22, 2014 | 4 Comments

Below is the sermon from last Lord’s Day morning, by Chris Gordon, primary preaching pastor at the Escondido United Reformed Church. He’s also the host of Abounding Grace Radio (San Diego, Phoenix, Seattle/Vancouver) and on the web. Chris preached on Genesis 22 . . . Continue reading →

The Marrow On Antinomians

R. Scott Clark

on January 21, 2014

And are there not others, though I hope but a few, who being enlightened to see their misery, by reason of the guilt of sin, though not by reason of the filth of sin, and hearing of justification freely by grace, through . . . Continue reading →

Stop Elder Abuse

R. Scott Clark

on January 21, 2014 | 10 Comments

While we were back in Nebraska Mrs Heidelblog and I had occasion to drive past a billboard warning about the dangers of elder abuse. You know you’re Reformed when the first thing such a warning brings to mind is life in the . . . Continue reading →

Ninth Circuit Extends First Amendment Protection To Bloggers

R. Scott Clark

on January 20, 2014 | 6 Comments

The Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that bloggers are protected by the first amendment of the bill of rights. The case arose after a court-appointed trustee sued a blogger for defamation. A jury sided with the lawyer but the Ninth Circuit overturned the . . . Continue reading →

We Will Not Surrender Our Liberties

R. Scott Clark

on January 20, 2014

We by no means desire to shake off our duty or allegiance to our lawful sovereign, but on the contrary, shall ever glory in being the loyal subjects of a Protestant prince descended from such illustrious progenitors, so long as we can . . . Continue reading →

Big

R. Scott Clark

on January 20, 2014

Bob Clark was a big man, who took big steps, because he had a big heart. He was born in 1937, in Kansas City. Grandpa, Grandma, and Dad moved around quite a bit in the early years as Grandpa worked for IBM. . . . Continue reading →

The Legacy Of Martin Luther King (Updated)

R. Scott Clark

on January 20, 2014 | 3 Comments

In view of the Martin Luther King holiday I’m re-posting the interview with Mika Edmondson about his work on Dr King. § Americans are in the midst of a national discussion about race. It’s a difficult discussion, one that is not always . . . Continue reading →

Berkhof On Union With Christ

R. Scott Clark

on January 19, 2014 | 4 Comments

The mystical union in the sense in which we are now speaking of it is not the judicial ground, on the basis of which we become partakers of the riches that are in Christ. It is sometimes said that the merits of . . . Continue reading →

Is There An Apostolic Hermeneutic And Can We Imitate it?

R. Scott Clark

on January 18, 2014 | 7 Comments

Yes and yes. No, it’s not in the Scofield Reference or Ryrie Study Bibles. It seems that some of our dispensational friends have yet to read the memo. See this example sent to me a by a friend. This writer, whom I do . . . Continue reading →

The USA, North Korea, And China

R. Scott Clark

on January 18, 2014 | 8 Comments

Today, the United States is one of only four nations in the world that allows for abortion on demand at any time during pregnancy. We’re in the company of those great paragons of moral virtue and human rights, North Korea and China. . . . Continue reading →

Scripture Is Sufficient

R. Scott Clark

on January 17, 2014 | 1 Comment

Seeing that Christ Jesus is he whom God the Father hath commanded only to be heard and followed of his sheep, we judge it necessary, that his gospel be truly and openly preached in every church and assembly of this realm; and . . . Continue reading →

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