Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Does the Scottish Confession Teach Baptismal Regeneration?

by Heidelcast on December 27, 2025

In this episode of the Heidelcast, the Superfriends talk about the Scottish Confession and baptismal regeneration. Continue reading →

Ben Sasse And Spencer Cox On How To Disagree Like Americans

by Heidelblog on December 26, 2025

To open the NGA 2024 Summer Meeting, after a presentation of colors by the Utah National Guard and performance of the National Anthem by country artist Cole Hartley, Utah Governor Spencer Cox spoke with University of Florida President Ben Sasse about toxic . . . Continue reading →

Five Disturbing Discoveries About AI

by Heidelblog on December 24, 2025

Students are embracing the magical abilities of AI tools in ever-increasing numbers. Theological faculties and seminaries are scrambling to respond with appropriate ethical policies. Developers are forever finding new ways to foil AI detection. Unsurprisingly, specialist theological editors and proofreaders (such as . . . Continue reading →

The Tender Love A Father Has: The Christian’s Comfort, Even In Death (Part 9)

by Sean Morris on December 23, 2025

Our series on the Christian’s great hope in the face of death has so far thought about the theological reality of death as God’s judgment on sin, while also observing that Scripture offers a wonderfully tender perspective. In considering the great comfort . . . Continue reading →

The BCO Says Assistants Not Deaconesses

by Heidelblog on December 23, 2025

Churches should reconsider the practice of congregational nomination and election for those who assist the Diaconate. When the selection process mirrors or closely resembles the election of deacons, it creates unnecessary confusion. It blurs the distinction between ordained officers and those serving . . . Continue reading →

A Major Problem With Conspiracy Theories (Part 1)

by R. Scott Clark on December 22, 2025

Ben Shapiro recently gave a speech in which he issued a strong indictment against conspiracy theories and those who traffic in them. He warned, [t]he conservative movement is also in danger from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: The “Divine Council” Interpretation of Psalm 82:1

by Heidelcast on December 20, 2025

In this episode of the Heidelcast, the Superfriends talk about praying to Jesus. Continue reading →

A World Without Books Is A Dark World Indeed

by Heidelblog on December 19, 2025

He wanted above all . . . to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind . . . Continue reading →

Resources For Catechizing Our Children: The Tiny Hands Series by Hannah Duguid Estes

by Harrison Perkins on December 18, 2025

One challenging aspect in parenting is how to get important matters of faith in front of our kids. In our house, we pray together, we talk about church, and we try to answer questions about the Bible together. Our son is three . . . Continue reading →

Charnock: A Lamb Is Both Clothes And Meat

by Heidelblog on December 17, 2025

A lamb is both clothes and meat; Christ is clothing to us by his righteousness to cover our nakedness, and food to us by his body and blood to satisfy our appetite, a sacrifice and a feast for us. Stephen Charnock | . . . Continue reading →

The Church’s Holiday: Why Our Earthly Calendars Should Not Influence God’s Heavenly Worship

by Bryce Souve on December 17, 2025

For so many, myself included, it really is the most wonderful time of the year. The lovely smells and sights, the many feasts with family and friends—these provide us a hopeful transition from the heat of summer, lend a joyful anticipation even . . . Continue reading →

The Tender Love A Father Has: The Christian’s Comfort, Even In Death (Part 8)

by Sean Morris on December 16, 2025

Our series on the Christian’s great hope in the face of death has so far covered issues pertaining to our culture’s discomfort with death, noting it as God’s judgment on sin, while also observing that Scripture offers a wonderfully tender perspective. We . . . Continue reading →

Turretin: Adam Might Have Had It By His Own Obedience

by Heidelblog on December 16, 2025

Christ alone gives us promises of eternal life in the state of sin. Yet in the state of nature, Adam might have had them by his own obedience, according to God’s pact. Francis Turretin | Institutes of Elenctic Theology (P&R Publishing, 1992–97, . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Do We Pray to Jesus or to the Father in the Name of Jesus Through the Power of the Holy Spirit?

by Heidelcast on December 13, 2025

In this episode of the Heidelcast, the Superfriends talk about praying to Jesus. Continue reading →

Ursinus: It’s Christ’s Satisfaction For Us

by Heidelblog on December 12, 2025

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 →

Lewis On Theology For Devotion

by Heidelblog on December 9, 2025

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 →

Motherhood Is Not A Woman’s “Highest Calling”

by Mary Van Weelden on December 8, 2025

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 →

Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Double Predestination

by Heidelcast on December 6, 2025

In this episode of the Heidelcast, the Superfriends talk about elders & deacons, and law & gospel. Continue reading →

Only Blood Can Do It

by Heidelblog on December 6, 2025

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 →

Review: Paradox People: Learning to Live the Beatitudes By Jonathan Landry Cruse

by Anthony Faggiano on December 4, 2025

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 →