Heidelcast Special: Chad Vegas On Covenant and Baptism (3)

Heidelcast

on March 8, 2023 | 5 Comments

This is a special episode of the Heidelcast and a special series featuring my dear friend and colleague in ministry, Chad Vegas, pastor of Sovereign Grace Bakersfield. He’s been walking his congregation from a Baptist to a Reformed understanding of covenant theology . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast Special: Chad Vegas On Covenant And Baptism (2)

Heidelcast

on March 7, 2023 | 13 Comments

Heidelcast Special: Chad Vegas On Covenant And Baptism (1)

Heidelcast

on March 6, 2023 | 2 Comments

This is a special episode of the Heidelcast and special series featuring my dear friend and colleague in ministry, Chad Vegas, pastor of Sovereign Grace Bakersfield. He’s been walking his congregation from a Baptist to a Reformed understanding of covenant theology and . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Why Liam Golligher Changed His Mind About Baptism

Heidelcast

on December 22, 2022

These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes automatically. All the Episodes of the Heidelcast How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Tadaka Maruyama On Calvin’s Response To The Anabaptists

Heidelcast

on December 7, 2022

These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes automatically. Heidelminicast Series: Contra Postmillennialism All the Episodes of the Heidelcast How . . . Continue reading →

Settling In And Standing Firm

Keith Giles

on December 6, 2022 | 3 Comments

It is now around nine months since my wife and I moved to Grande Prairie (GP) in Alberta, Canada where I have taken a call as Minister of Word and Sacrament at Covenant Reformed URC. We are so thankful to the Lord . . . Continue reading →

Warfield: Infants Who Belong To The Lord Have A Right To Be Baptized

B. B. Warfield

on November 24, 2022

Naturally, therefore, this sign and seal belongs only to those who are the Lord’s. Or, to put it rather in the positive form, this sign and seal belongs to all those who are the Lord’s. There are no distinctions of race or . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: John Calvin Versus The Anabaptists

Heidelcast

on November 22, 2022

John Calvin refutes the Anabaptists from Genesis 9. Continue reading →

Acts 2:39: What Is The Promise And To Whom Is It Made?

R. Scott Clark

on September 21, 2022 | 5 Comments

For the promise is to you and to your children and to all those who are far away, as many as the Lord our God shall call. 1 This passage is an important text in the Reformed understanding of the continuity of . . . Continue reading →

Engaging Confessional Baptists on Covenant Theology (Part 2): Unity of Salvation in the Old and New Testaments

Harrison Perkins

on September 20, 2022 | 14 Comments

This two-part series engages recent confessional Baptist publications on the nature of covenant theology in order to help Reformed readers understand the Baptistic view better and to have some starting points for responding to it. Part one looked at new developments in . . . Continue reading →

Engaging Confessional Baptists on Covenant Theology (Part 1): Typology

Harrison Perkins

on September 13, 2022 | 23 Comments

The elephant in the room of any discussion about the development of redemptive history is the disagreement between Baptist and Reformed theologies about the unity of the covenant of grace, including the whole language of the covenant’s substance and administration. Continue reading →

1689 Vs. The Westminster Confession (3): The Play-By-Play

R. Scott Clark

on July 29, 2022

Our comparison and contrast of the WCF with the 2LC continues through chapter 1, “Of the Holy Scriptures.” After the first section, the documents are identical until section 2, where the Savoy and the 2LC add a definite article to the last . . . Continue reading →

Review: Guy Richard’s Baptism: Answers To Common Questions

Jacob Aitken

on July 28, 2022 | 2 Comments

One often hears the refrain, “Doctrine is not practical,” and many Reformed folk might protest, but of all the doctrines, we can agree that baptism is the most practical. When my own daughter was born, I knew I needed to have a . . . Continue reading →

1689 Vs. The Westminster Confession: Narrowing The Lens On Particular Baptist History

R. Scott Clark

on July 25, 2022 | 25 Comments

The discussion of the differences between Baptist and Reformed theology is a sensitive but important question. Thus, I think I should explain why I am writing this series. In my experience, some Baptists, especially those who identify with the Particular Baptist tradition, . . . Continue reading →

Witherow’s Responses To “Anabaptist Objections”

Heidelblog

on June 3, 2022

That infant baptism is the practice of all branches of the Christian church, with one solitary exception, is a well-known fact. That it has been the practice of the church of God for eighteen centuries is also beyond dispute. When one sect, . . . Continue reading →

Dunking, Sprinkling, Or Pouring (Or Does It Matter)?

R. Scott Clark

on March 30, 2022 | 7 Comments

Le Ann Trees, publisher of Beautiful Christian Life and friend of the HB, wrote to ask for resources on the mode of baptism. So, I thought it would be useful to explain how the Reformed think about this matter generally and why . . . Continue reading →

Brothers, We Are Not Baptists

Heidelblog

on March 8, 2022 | 4 Comments

It is possible for someone to have been brought up in a Christian home, who has never known a day when they didn’t know about the Lord Jesus, who have been taught to pray Our Father in Heaven, and have loved being . . . Continue reading →

What Is Figurative And What Is Literal In The Promise To Abraham In Genesis 17?

R. Scott Clark

on February 4, 2022 | 2 Comments

Jackson writes to ask, “As it relates to continuity with the Abrahamic covenant, for example, Abraham and his children get circumcised, therfore in the new administration, Jesus and his children (spiritual) get baptized. Do you think that someone can retain their Reformed . . . Continue reading →

Discovering the Reformed Confession: Ryan Broadhurst’s Journey From Left Behind To Loving Covenantal Baptism

Ryan Broadhurst

on November 29, 2021 | 6 Comments

Though the mode of baptism is not the primary argument that moved me away it was the starting point that caused me to re-examine Reformed covenant theology as a whole and Jeremiah 31 in particular. Continue reading →

Défense Du Baptême Des Enfants

R. Scott Clark

on October 27, 2021 | 5 Comments

Cet essai a d’abord été écrit sous forme de livret vers 1988 pour ma congrégation à Kansas City comme une explication simple de la doctrine réformée du baptême des enfants pour ceux qui ne sont pas familiers avec notre théologie et notre pratique. Pour des explications et des réponses plus détaillées, voir les annexes ci-dessous. Continue reading →