How do you relate to God? Since the triune God is truly transcendent, what binds us to him that we might know that he is near to his people? We long for certainty and assurance to know that our God is with . . . Continue reading →
Christian Life
Heidelminicast: Theonomy and the Federal Vision; Separated at Birth?
In this episode Dr. Clark talks about theonomy. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: The Theonomy of the Christian Left—Refugees and the Two-Fold Kingdom
In this episode Dr. Clark talks about how the USA is not Old Testament Israel. Continue reading →
When The Marxists Come For The Birders
Why, birders might ask, this curmudgeonly reception to a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusivity in intersectional spaces in the birding community? The reason is that this relabeling movement betrays a Jacobin zealotry for politicizing something inherently unpolitical, in the process demanding . . . Continue reading →
The Independent Pulpit And The Bound Conscience: Ecclesiology And The Necessity Of Appeal
In the late sixteenth century, as the Reformed churches sought to consolidate their confession amid the tumult of the Counter-Reformation, a central tension emerged that continues to occupy the mind of the church today: the relationship between the binding of the conscience and the liberty of the Christian. It is a tension famously navigated by the Westminster divines, who confessed that “God alone is Lord of the conscience” in Westminster Confession of Faith 20.2, yet simultaneously affirmed the church’s authority to settle controversies of faith and strictly prohibit what contradicts the Word of God. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: The USA is not Old Testament Israel (Part 2)
In this episode Dr. Clark talks about how the USA is not Old Testament Israel. Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of March 9–15, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of March 9–15, 2026. Continue reading →
Contra Webbon et al.: Denying That Jesus Is A Jew Denies His True Humanity (Part 1)
You may have likely heard or read something about Christian nationalism. Regular readers of this space will be familiar with this movement.1 As it exists in the USA, among those who identify as Reformed—whether they are actually Reformed is quite another question . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: The USA is not Old Testament Israel (Part 1)
In this episode Dr. Clark talks about how the USA is not Old Testament Israel. Continue reading →
Good Works Matter Because They Are Fruit On A Growing Root
Good works matter because they are the fruit growing on the root of love. After all, God created humanity as an act of love toward us. He made us to glorify and enjoy Him. By ruling creation in righteousness, we would have . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of March 2–8, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of March 2–8, 2026. Continue reading →
The Tender Love A Father Has: The Christian’s Comfort, Even In Death (Part 10)
Our series on the Christian’s great hope in the face of death has so far considered 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 Scripture . . . Continue reading →
What Is Reformed Theology? (Part 13)
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 →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of February 23–March 1, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of February 23–March 1, 2026. Continue reading →
Frankfurt Presbyterian Church: Making Disciples in Offenbach, Germany
Dear Friends, It is with joy that I share with you an update about our English-speaking, church-planting work Frankfurt Presbyterian Church, which, by the Lord’s grace, has experienced modest growth over the past two years and is slowly but surely taking root . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of February 16–22, 2026
These were the top five posts for the week of February 16–22, 2026. Continue reading →
The Last Work of a Student or the First of a Scholar?
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 →
Calvin On John 13:15: Christ Did Not Establish Lent
It deserves our attention that Christ says that he gave an example; for we are not at liberty to take all his actions, without reserve, as subjects of imitation. The Papists boast that, by Christ’s example, they observe the forty days’ fast, . . . Continue reading →
Review: Truth Changes Everything: How People Of Faith Can Transform The World In Times of Crisis By Jeff Myers
In 2019 atheist historian Tom Holland published Dominion, an ambitious work detailing the revolutionary impact Jesus Christ and Christianity have had on Western civilization. Holland set out to explain why “in a West that is often doubtful of religion’s claims, so many . . . Continue reading →
Calvin: Lent Is An Error That Crept Into The Church
For what kind of candour is it that quotes an epistle which scarcely one of the monkish herd would acknowledge to be genuine? Those who have read this silly production know that it speaks only of Lent, and chrism, and tapers, and . . . Continue reading →