Heidelcast For November 10, 2024: Righteous by Design with Rev. Dr. Harrison Perkins

Heidelcast

on November 10, 2024 | Comment

Dr Clark invites Rev. Dr. Harrison Perkins to the Heidelcast to discuss his new book, “Righteous by Design: Covenantal Merit and Adam’s Original Integrity,” part of the Reformed Exegetical Doctrinal Studies series published by Mentor. Continue reading →

Johnson: The Covenantal Structure Is Baked In

Tony Phelps

on December 5, 2023

The covenantal structure is built into God’s relationship with his human creatures from creation and finds various expressions in subsequent redemptive history. In view of this pervasive structure, readers and preachers of Scripture do well to approach every text with special attention . . . Continue reading →

Johnson On The Biblical Basis For The Covenant Of Works

Tony Phelps

on November 29, 2023

Although the term “covenant” (berith) is not used in Genesis to designate the original commitment that bound the newly created Adam to his creator, the essential features of later biblical covenants between God the covenant Lord and his people as his servant . . . Continue reading →

Johnson: Seeing Christ In All Of Scripture Requires Good Exegesis

Tony Phelps

on November 11, 2023 | 4 Comments

To understand how any Old Testament event (or office or officer or institution) preaches Christ and finds its fulfillment in him, we first must grasp its symbolic depth in its own place in redemptive history … The Passover lamb’s blood declared that . . . Continue reading →

Review: The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes By Nancy Pearcy

Stephen Spinnenweber

on October 26, 2023

The content of Nancy Pearcy’s The Toxic War on Masculinity is as thought-provoking as the title of the book itself. The fact that I had to train myself to stop saying, “The War on Toxic Masculinity” proves Pearcy’s point—whether a person agrees . . . Continue reading →

Review: How the Church Fathers Read the Bible by Gerald Bray

Stephen Spinnenweber

on May 11, 2023

If you were to survey your average Reformed churchgoer on the extent of their knowledge of church history, my guess is that their knowledge would extend as far back as the sixteenth century and the Protestant Reformation. They know the story of . . . Continue reading →

What the Bible is All About

R. Scott Clark

on September 4, 2012

R. Scott Clark, “What the Bible is All About” Modern Reformation 16.2 (March/April 2007) 20-24

Hermeneutics and the Creation Wars

R. Scott Clark

on September 4, 2012

Hermeneutics and the Creation Wars You have heard by now of the worship wars, i.e., the contest between the competing claims about how we ought to worship. There is another battle stirring in our churches, over the proper interpretation of Genesis 1. . . . Continue reading →

This Christian Life

R. Scott Clark

on September 4, 2012

[Published originally on the Westminster Seminary California website] Next to The White Horse Inn, one of my favorite radio programs is This American Life starring Ira Glass. I stumbled across this show several years ago, and for a while I did not . . . Continue reading →

Hermeneutics and the Creation Wars

R. Scott Clark

on August 31, 2012

You have heard by now of the worship wars, i.e., the contest between the competing claims about how we ought to worship. There is another battle stirring in our churches, over the proper interpretation of Genesis 1. One of the most frequently . . . Continue reading →

The Two Witnesses and Lampstands in Revelation 11

R. Scott Clark

on June 1, 2012

Bill asks, [C]ould you give me a quick answer to who the two witnesses are in Rev 11:3, and the identity of the two olive trees and two lampstands in verse 4? Dear Bill, I understand the Revelation to have been given . . . Continue reading →

Grace and Peace to Aliens and Strangers (1Peter 1:1-2)

R. Scott Clark

on August 31, 1999

GRACE AND PEACE TO ALIENS AND STRANGERS: 1 PETER 1:1-2 This sermon was originally published in Modern Reformation in the Ex Auditu section in the January/February 2000 issue and is republished here by permission. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to God’s . . . Continue reading →

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Heidelcast For November 10, 2024: Righteous by Design with Rev. Dr. Harrison Perkins

Johnson: The Covenantal Structure Is Baked In

Johnson On The Biblical Basis For The Covenant Of Works

Johnson: Seeing Christ In All Of Scripture Requires Good Exegesis

Review: The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes By Nancy Pearcy

Review: How the Church Fathers Read the Bible by Gerald Bray

What the Bible is All About

Hermeneutics and the Creation Wars

This Christian Life

Hermeneutics and the Creation Wars

The Two Witnesses and Lampstands in Revelation 11

Grace and Peace to Aliens and Strangers (1Peter 1:1-2)