Heidelcast 216: Our Father (6): “Your Kingdom Come”

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on March 12, 2022 | 2 Comments

In this episode we answer a Heideltext and an email. The first is a question about how it is that the Baptists (from a Reformed perspective) confuse the divine decree with the external administration of the covenant of grace. The second is . . . Continue reading →

All Over-Realized Eschatologies Are Attempts To Change The Rules Of The Game

by R. Scott Clark on February 7, 2022 9 Comments

Some years ago, while explaining Heidelberg Catechism 114, on the moral law, I wrote, “Paul was not a Gnostic, a Valentinian, an Anabaptist, a Familist, nor an Antinomian. Continue reading →

An Interesting Biographical Note On One Man’s Exodus From The TheoRecon Movement

R. Scott Clark

on February 2, 2022 | 7 Comments

Jacob Aitken, sometime author at the HB, left the TheoRecon movement. What is that? TheoRecon is a shorthand word I coined (as far as I know) for the theonomic-Christian reconstruction movement. Now you know why I use TheoRecon instead. Short story: the movement . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 207—What Must A Christian Believe? (23): Life Eternal

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on January 10, 2022 | 1 Comment

This is the 23rd and final episode in the series, What Must A Christian Believe? In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we have reached the twelfth article, “life eternal.” The twelfth article has been a part . . . Continue reading →

Erick Read The End Of The Book

Eschatology Matters

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on January 6, 2022 | 8 Comments

Being nice or civil is now a sign of weakness. Having friends across the aisle is too. We can’t turn the other cheek or love our neighbors if they disagree with us. Loving our neighbors who are gay now means we have . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 206—What Must A Christian Believe? (22): The Resurrection Of The Dead

Heidelcast

on January 1, 2022 | 1 Comment

Happy New Year from the Heidelcast! This is episode 22 in the series, What Must A Christian Believe? In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we have reached the eleventh article, “the resurrection of the dead.” The Ancient . . . Continue reading →

What Dispensationalism Misses About The Temple

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on December 17, 2021 | 3 Comments

This is a serious interpretive problem for those dispensationalists who argue, in effect, that redemptive history takes a U-turn in the millennial age, as the reality which is found in Christ’s fulfillment of the Old Temple imagery in his own body, supposedly returns to the types and shadows of the Old Testament. Continue reading →

Discovering the Reformed Confession: Ryan Broadhurst’s Journey From Left Behind To Loving Covenantal Baptism

Ryan Broadhurst

on November 29, 2021 | 6 Comments

Though the mode of baptism is not the primary argument that moved me away it was the starting point that caused me to re-examine Reformed covenant theology as a whole and Jeremiah 31 in particular. Continue reading →

Heidelcast 199—What Must A Christian Believe? (16): Christ Returning

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on November 22, 2021 | 6 Comments

This is episode 16 in the series, What Must A Christian Believe? In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we have reached the seventh article: “Whence he shall come to judge the living and the dead.” Now . . . Continue reading →

Another Reason Why The Covenant Of Works Matters

R. Scott Clark

on November 17, 2021 | 5 Comments

Yesterday a prominent evangelical theologian tweeted “The gospel does not begin with Genesis 3 and human sin. The gospel begins with Genesis 1 and God’s goodness and our grandeur. If we start with Genesis 3, we make the gospel seem tiresome, predictable. . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 198—What Must A Christian Believe? (15): Christ Reigning

Heidelcast

on November 15, 2021

This is episode 15 in the series, What Must A Christian Believe? In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we have reached the sixth article: “He ascended to heaven and is seated at the right hand of . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 195: What Must A Christian Believe? (12) On Christ’s Descent Into Hell

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on October 25, 2021 | 4 Comments

In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we have reached the fourth article: “suffered under Pontius, Pilate, crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell.” In this episode we focus on the last clause, “he descended into . . . Continue reading →

Gregory of Nyssa Against The Chiliasts

R. Scott Clark

on October 13, 2021 | 3 Comments

Now if we loudly preach all this, and testify to all this, namely that Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God, always changeless, always imperishable, though He comes in the changeable and the perishable; never stained Himself, but . . . Continue reading →

How Christians May Avoid Panic In The Midst Of A Cultural Revolution

R. Scott Clark

on October 2, 2021 | 4 Comments

Christianity offers the best news in the world. The gospel declares that through faith in Jesus Christ, we receive the forgiveness of our sins. With this assurance of God’s love, comes the promise that we receive a citizenship in heaven, a home . . . Continue reading →

Hywel Jones: The Lamb Is The Lamp (Rev 21:23)

Hywel Jones

on September 21, 2021

Whom will Christians see in Heaven? Will it be God or Jesus? Both answers have been given throughout the history of the Church and they are still to be heard today. But will it be the one and not the other? Or . . . Continue reading →

Why You Should Pay Attention To The Reconstructionists In Moscow, ID

R. Scott Clark

on June 18, 2021 | 4 Comments

Previous accounts of Christian Reconstructionists have tended to focus on these believers’ theocratic vision of a future Christian polity rather than their separation from mainstream society. Today, Gribben concludes, these practitioners of “strategies of hibernation” may no longer be as marginal as . . . Continue reading →

Preparing For Persecution

R. Scott Clark

on June 2, 2021 | 3 Comments

Since becoming a pastor I’ve been convinced that one of my most important responsibilities it to preach and pray in a way that prepares people to suffer for the glory of God. Suffering – which is a wide and broad biblical category . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 182: As It Was In The Days Of Noah (25)—Peaceful Pilgrims

Heidelcast

on May 23, 2021

This is the 25th and final episode in the series, As It Was In The Days of Noah. When I began I thought I would cover both 1 and 2 Peter but I didn’t know that the series would stretch to 25 . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 181: As It Was In The Days Of Noah (24)—We Are Pilgrims Under Christ’s Lordship

Heidelcast

on May 16, 2021

With this episode we have almost reached the end of 1 Peter and in our passage (1 Pet 5:6–11) Peter turns again to one of his major themes: the Christian’s pilgrimage to the heavenly city under the Lordship of Christ. This passage, . . . Continue reading →

A Brief Note On The History Of Amillennialism

by R. Scott Clark on April 20, 2021 3 Comments

There have always been three main types of Christian eschatology: chiliasm (historic premillennialism), postmillennialism, and amillennialism. From about the middle of the 19th century there developed subsets of chiliasm (e.g., pre-tribulational premillennialism etc). The same cannot be said of the nomenclature used to describe the views. Continue reading →