Heidelcast Minute: What Are The Conditions In The Covenant Of Grace?

Heidelcast

on December 16, 2019

Resources Heidelcast 98: Salvation, Good Works, And Conditions Resources On Conditions In The Covenant Of Grace (Updated) Resources On Norman Shepherd Resources On The Federal Vision Theology

Good News! The Dividing Wall Is Gone

R. Scott Clark

on September 17, 2019 | 5 Comments

Like a lot of American evangelicals, the faith I was taught as a teen-aged convert was a sort of Dispensationalism. There were no charts that I recall but I did learn that Jews are God’s earthly people and that the church is . . . Continue reading →

Ligon Duncan On Patristic Covenant Theology (1995)

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Some Practical Consequences Of Reformed Covenant Theology

R. Scott Clark

on August 22, 2019

It is exciting to discover what are sometimes called “the doctrines of grace,” i.e., the teaching that even though by nature we are dead in sins and trespasses, we came to faith because God loved us in Christ from all eternity and . . . Continue reading →

John Owen: The New Covenant Is The Abrahamic Covenant Renewed

R. Scott Clark

on August 17, 2019 | 4 Comments

18. Thus under the old testament, when God would take the posterity of Abraham into a new, peculiar church-state, he did it by a solemn covenant. Herein, as he prescribed all the duties of his worship to them, and made them many . . . Continue reading →

Some Practical Consequences Of Reformed Covenant Theology

R. Scott Clark

on August 14, 2019 | 8 Comments

In Matthew 16:18 he promised to build “his church” and that the gates of hell would not prevail against his church. He gave the “keys of the kingdom” (16:19) to Peter as a Christ-confessor an anticipation of his office as apostle. In . . . Continue reading →

For Whom Is Christ Mediating?

R. Scott Clark

on July 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

If you are an adult you know about mediators. It is not uncommon now, when one signs a contract, to agree to “binding arbitration” or to “mediation” either in lieuof going to court or before going to court. A mediator, then, . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours With Ligon Duncan On Covenant Theology and More

R. Scott Clark

on July 1, 2019 | 2 Comments

Dr J. Ligon Duncan III is Chancellor and CEO of Reformed Theological Seminary, where he is also the John E Richard Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. He was senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Jackson, Mississippi for 17 years . . . Continue reading →

Yes, The Reformed Churches Do Baptize On The Basis Of The Abrahamic Promise

R. Scott Clark

on June 22, 2019 | 34 Comments

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the largest evangelical Christian denomination in the USA reporting a total membership of 14.8 million (of whom 1/3 attend weekly). The SBC is Baptist in name and practice but about 99% of the other 45 million . . . Continue reading →

Video: The Abraham Paradigm

R. Scott Clark

on May 26, 2019 | 7 Comments

Friday and Saturday of this past week I had the privilege of speaking to congregation of Covenant Presbyterian Church (OPC) and to their guests in Ft Worth, TX on “The Abraham Paradigm.” They were very gracious and patient with me. It is . . . Continue reading →

Does Romans 8:9–11 Require Believer’s Baptism?

R. Scott Clark

on May 21, 2019 | 9 Comments

A reader writes with a question about biblical interpretation and baptism: I was going through Colossians 2 when I read the footnote from the Reformation Study Bible… which sent me to page 41 for a more in-depth explanation. Infant baptism seems to make . . . Continue reading →

See You In Fort Worth—May 24 & 25, 2019 For The Abraham Paradigm

R. Scott Clark

on April 24, 2019

If you are in the Metroplex May 24–25, it would be good to see you at the Spring conference hosted by Covenant OPC (10750 Westpoint Blvd Fort Worth, TX 76108). The conference is: The Abraham Paradigm. You may register online before the . . . Continue reading →

John Owen Was Not A Baptist (Part 2)

R. Scott Clark

on April 11, 2019 | 19 Comments

Obs. I. Believers under the new testament have lost nothing, no privilege that was enjoyed by them under the old. Many things they have gained, and those of unspeakable excellency, but they have lost nothing at all. Whatever they had of privilege . . . Continue reading →

Is Abraham “Our Father” Or “A Father”?

R. Scott Clark

on March 30, 2019

Abounding Grace Radio exists to make known the riches of God’s grace to sinners in Christ. We confess the great Protestant doctrines of salvation sola gratia (by grace alone), sola fide (through faith alone). With the ancient Christian fathers Barnabas (AD 120), Justin . . . Continue reading →

Is Abraham Our Father Or A Father?

R. Scott Clark

on March 23, 2019 | 1 Comment

The Reformed Churches confess the great Protestant doctrines of salvation sola gratia (by grace alone), sola fide (through faith alone). With the ancient Christian fathers Barnabas (AD 120), Justin Martyr (AD 150), and Irenaeus (AD 170), and the Reformed theologians and churches of . . . Continue reading →

Owen On The Covenant Of Works And The Imputation Of Christ’s Active Obedience

Inwoo Lee

on October 3, 2018 | 11 Comments

There is yet something more required; it is not enough that we are not guilty, we must also be actually righteous,—not only all sin is to be answered for, but all righteousness is to be fulfilled. By taking away the guilt of . . . Continue reading →

Witsius: The Decalogue Reflects The Dual Character Of the Mosaic Covenant

R. Scott Clark

on August 29, 2018 | 6 Comments

XIV. The law, which God in this manner published, consists of ten words or commandments, Exod. 34:28, Deut. 4:13. Wherefore the Greeks also called it δεκάλογος, the decalogue. Moreover the contents of those ten words are various. 1st, There is the prescription . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast Series: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children

Heidelcast

on August 25, 2018 | 7 Comments

The question of baptism, who should be baptized and why, is not just a question about the sacraments. It is a question that is integrally connected to the way we read the Scriptures (hermeneutics), the way we understand redemptive history, the way . . . Continue reading →

Owen: The New Covenant Is The New Administration Of The Abrahamic Covenant

More Evidence That Owen Was Not A Baptist

R. Scott Clark

on August 5, 2018 | 26 Comments

6. We have seen that Abraham, on the account of his faith, and not of his separation according to the flesh, was the father of all that believe, and heir of the world. And in the covenant made with him, as to . . . Continue reading →

What Do We Mean By Sacrament, Sign, And Seal?

R. Scott Clark

on July 8, 2018 | 15 Comments

The Reformed churches and Reformed theologians (i.e., those who confess and teach within the bounds of the Reformed confessions, e.g., the French Confession (1559), the Scots Confession (1560), the Belgic Confession (1561), the Heidelberg Catechism (1563), the Second Helvetic Confession (1566), the . . . Continue reading →