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Top Five Posts For The Week Of December 8–14, 2025
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Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Do We Pray to Jesus or to the Father in the Name of Jesus Through the Power of the Holy Spirit?
In this episode of the Heidelcast, the Superfriends talk about praying to Jesus. Continue reading →
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Ursinus: It’s Christ’s Satisfaction For Us
The righteousness with which we are here justified before God, is not our conformity with the law, nor our good works, nor our faith; but it is the satisfaction which Christ rendered to the law in our stead; or the punishment which . . . Continue reading →
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Adoption: An Embodied Apologia For An Addled Age
Ours is an age marked by profound alienation, anxiety, and hopelessness. The previous U.S. Surgeon General observed that Americans suffer from a pervasive epidemic of loneliness. “Deaths of Despair,” such as drug overdose and suicide, have cut short the average American life expectancy for the past decade. Continue reading →
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Lewis On Theology For Devotion
The present book is something of an experiment. The translation is intended for the world at large, not only for theological students. If it succeeds, other translations of other great Christian Books will presumably follow. In one sense, of course, it is . . . Continue reading →
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Motherhood Is Not A Woman’s “Highest Calling”
Could it be that the way we speak about motherhood betrays a pharisaical tendency to self-aggrandize the ordinary, good, and faithful work that mothers do, while minimizing the ordinary, good, and faithful work of everyone else? And this mindset doesn’t only minimize . . . Continue reading →
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Top Five Posts For The Week Of December 1–7, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of December 1–7. Continue reading →
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What Is Reformed Theology? (Part 8)
Being included into the visible, Christ-confessing covenant community (the church) is only the beginning of the story of our Christian life. There is still the living of the Christian life. As the Reformed churches understand Scripture, the church is essential to the . . . Continue reading →
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Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Double Predestination
In this episode of the Heidelcast, the Superfriends talk about elders & deacons, and law & gospel. Continue reading →
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Only Blood Can Do It
Every sin leaves a stain. Hasty words, undone duties, secret thoughts that rot in the corners of conscience. Water cannot reach them. Resolve’s solvent cannot lift them. Only one blood has power to cleanse what lies beneath the surface of the soul. . . . Continue reading →
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Good Mormon Families?
When discussing the success of Mormons, who prefer to be known as Latter Day Saints, in spreading their religion, people point to four points of persuasion: They have good families. They are nice people. They have had an intense religious experience. They . . . Continue reading →
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Review: Paradox People: Learning to Live the Beatitudes By Jonathan Landry Cruse
There is a strange tension pulsing through American Christianity right now. At the very moment when many believers are shouting louder to “take back the culture,” Jesus whispers a counterintuitive paradox: “Blessed are the meek.” It is precisely this upside-down ethic—the quiet . . . Continue reading →
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Your AI Lover Is An Idol
You have probably seen the recent television commercial starring Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson in which Davidson is talking to an AI bot about whether he should change his name. He floats a couple of possibilities to the bot but ultimately decides . . . Continue reading →
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Top Five Posts For The Week Of November 24–30, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of November 24–30. Continue reading →
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The Allure Of The Hidden And The So-Called Lost Gospels
Two years ago—in fall 2023—the internet was abuzz over the publication of an ancient manuscript that seemed to contain material from one of the most famous gospels outside our New Testament: the Gospel of Thomas. The online chatter was immense, which was . . . Continue reading →
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Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Term Limits for Elders and Deacons | What Should the Balance be Between Preaching Law and Gospel?
In this episode of the Heidelcast, the Superfriends talk about elders & deacons, and law & gospel. Continue reading →
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Thanksgiving, George Washington, Constitutions and Presbyterians
Over four-hundred years after the Pilgrims celebrated God’s preservation of their lives through a difficult winter and his gracious gift of an abundant harvest in the spring of 1621, the United States will once again have its annual holiday of Thanksgiving on . . . Continue reading →
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Rufo: Fuentes Is An Attention-Seeking Fraud
The racialist influencer Nick Fuentes has caused an uproar with his appearance on Tucker Carlson’s podcast. Fuentes, a 27-year-old live-streamer, has built a reputation as the most controversial voice on the right. He’s embraced seemingly every taboo: praising Hitler, disputing the Holocaust’s . . . Continue reading →
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Top Five Posts For The Week Of November 17–23, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of November 17–23. Continue reading →
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The Quest For Illegitimate Religious Gnosis: How “Fringe” Theology Deforms Christology
Recently a theological controversy that had been simmering in podcasts and blog articles for many months finally reached a painful, public climax. In the first week of November, ministries that had been respected pillars of the online Particular Baptist world fractured. Justin . . . Continue reading →