Video: What’s the Difference Between Covenant Theology And Dispensationalism?

Harrison Perkins

on June 27, 2025 | Comment

What are some of the differences between Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism? Why are there so many debates over Covenant Theology? Dr. Harrison Perkins joins Pastor Adriel Sanchez to discuss some of the themes in his two recent books, Reformed Covenant Theology: A . . . Continue reading →

Hodge On The Baptists, The Romanists, The Limbus, And The Abrahamic Covenant

Heidelblog

on June 19, 2025 | 3 Comments

The Baptists, especially those of the time of the Reformation, do not hold the common doctrine on this subject. The Anabaptists not only spoke in very disparaging terms of the old economy and of the state of the Jews under that dispensation, . . . Continue reading →

It Was Christ All Along

Harrison Perkins

on April 25, 2025 | Comment

The final layer is that Christ is the substance of the covenant of grace since He was always its Mediator…. Moreover, the New Testament explicitly designates Christ as the Savior who was active in the Old Testament. Harrison Perkins | Reformed Covenant . . . Continue reading →

Why Adriel Sanchez Changed His Mind About Infant Baptism

Heidelblog

on March 7, 2025 | 1 Comment

Pastor Adriel Sanchez shares his journey from credobaptist to paedobaptist. While our Baptist brothers and sisters disagree, Pastor Adriel shares how the more he studied the Bible, the more he came to believe that the scriptures don’t just allow for infant baptism, but necessitate it. Continue reading →

Audio: Chad Vegas On “The Bride Groom Of Blood”

Chad Vegas

on February 7, 2025 | 2 Comments

At a lodging place on the way the LORD met him and sought to put him to death. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!” So he let him alone. It was then that she said, “A bridegroom of blood,” because of the circumcision (Ex 4:24–26 (ESV). Continue reading →

New: Resources On The Internal/External Distinction In The Covenant Of Grace

Heidelblog

on November 19, 2024

Baptism, Election & the Covenant of Grace

When God said to Abraham, “And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your children after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your children after you” (Genesis 17:7) and “As . . . Continue reading →

Kuiper: Pentecost Reversed Babel

Charles Vaughn

on October 29, 2024

Both at Babel and at Jerusalem God supernaturally caused men to speak in various tongues. But the consequences differed radically. At Babel there was confusion and division. Men were scattered abroad on all the face of the earth. That was the beginning . . . Continue reading →

Kuiper: The Covenant Of Grace Includes Believers And Their Children

Charles Vaughn

on October 22, 2024

God has promised to be the God, not only of those who believe, but also of their seed, and that, hence, He is wont as a general rule to bestow saving grace on the children of believers. R. B. Kuiper | God . . . Continue reading →

New Resource Page: On The Internal/External Distinction In The Covenant Of Grace

Heidelblog

on October 21, 2024

Boston: Baxter Turned The Gospel Into Law

Heidelblog

on October 9, 2024 | 1 Comment

As to the point of justification; no man is, nor can be justified by the law. It is true, the Neonomians or Baxterians, to wind in a righteousness of our own into the case of justification, do turn the gospel into a . . . Continue reading →

Boston: The Mosaic Covenant Was An Administration Of The Covenants Of Grace And Works

Tony Phelps

on October 4, 2024 | 1 Comment

Wherefore I conceive the two covenants to have been both delivered on Mount Sinai to the Israelites. First, The covenant of grace made with Abraham, contained in the preface, repeated and promulgate there unto Israel, to be believed and embraced by faith, . . . Continue reading →

Erskine: The Order Of Assurance Matters Because Grace And Works Are Two Distinct Things

Heidelblog

on September 27, 2024

Before we proceed to the more particular consideration of the words, it is very much worthy of our notice, to observe the apostle’s order and method of doctrine, and how he knits the believer’s privilege and duty together. He would have the . . . Continue reading →

Boston: In The Covenant Of Grace We Are Not Sent Back To The Covenant Of Works

Tony Phelps

on September 25, 2024 | 2 Comments

For Adam, by his sin, being become the child of wrath, and both in body and in soul subject to the curse, and seeing nothing due to him but the wrath and vengeance of God, was “afraid, and sought to hide himself . . . Continue reading →

The Covenant Before The Covenants

on September 24, 2024

Those not well read in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Reformed theology might be forgiven their ignorance of the covenant of redemption or for concluding that it is an arcane doctrine long abandoned. Continue reading →

Colquhoun: No Natural Knowledge Of The Gospel

Tony Phelps

on September 9, 2024 | 2 Comments

The law is known partly by the light of nature (Rom. 2:14–15), but the gospel is known only by a revelation from heaven (Matt. 11:27). Man, though he is a fallen creature, has in some degree a natural knowledge of the law, . . . Continue reading →

Colquhoun: We Were Created Able To Obey

Tony Phelps

on September 2, 2024

The law [as a covenant of works] regards us as creatures originally formed with sufficient ability to yield perfect obedience to it; and accordingly, it requires us to retain and exert that ability in performing perfectly all the duties that we owe . . . Continue reading →

Colquhoun: We Are Wired For Works

Tony Phelps

on August 28, 2024

The children of fallen Adam are so bent on working for life that they will on no account cease from it till the Holy Spirit so convinces them of their sin and misery as to show them that Mount Sinai is wholly . . . Continue reading →

Covenant Nomism And The Exile

Iain M. Duguid

on August 28, 2024 | 1 Comment

At first sight, covenantal nomism may seem to be strongly supported by the analogy of a marriage relationship that the Old Testament uses to describe the relationship between the Lord and Israel. Continue reading →

Colquhoun: Republication Revealed Self-Righteousness

Tony Phelps

on August 21, 2024

One reason, therefore, why the Lord displayed the law as a covenant of works* on Sinai was that self-righteous Israelites and all pharisaic professors to the end of time might see that as they have sinned and so have not performed perfect . . . Continue reading →

Colquhoun: Sinai As A Covenant Of Works Was Subservient To The Covenant Of Grace

Tony Phelps

on August 14, 2024

God therefore displayed on Mount Sinai the law of the Ten Commandments as a covenant of works in subservience to the covenant of grace. He displayed it in that form in order that the people might, by contemplating it, see what kind . . . Continue reading →