Office Hours: Stephen Nichols On Christian Education In The Late Modern Age

R. Scott Clark

on March 21, 2016

One might not know it to look at them now but it was orthodox Christians who built some of the greatest educational institutions in the world. The universities in Paris and Oxford were founded by Christians who believed the historic Christian faith. . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: S. M. Baugh On Ephesians

R. Scott Clark

on March 7, 2016

Westminster Seminary was founded by a scholar of the New Testament, J. Gresham Machen, in 1929. Since that time, the study of the Scriptures, in their original language and setting, has been at the heart of what we do. It is central . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: The Holy Spirit And Sanctification

R. Scott Clark

on February 22, 2016

We say the name of the Spirit so often and so quickly that perhaps we do not stop to consider what we have just said. Paul calls the Spirit, the “Spirit of Holiness,” the Spirit of separation and consecration to God, the . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Mike Horton On The Spirit’s Work In The Application Of Redemption

R. Scott Clark

on February 8, 2016 | 2 Comments

We know that Jesus came to save us. We know that he obeyed for us. We know that he died for us. We know that he was raised for us who believe by grace alone but how do we come into possession . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: The Trinity And The Covenant Of Redemption (Part 2)

R. Scott Clark

on January 25, 2016

There are passages in Scripture such as Psalm 110, Hebrews 7, and John chapter 17 that reflect something of the eternal relationship between the persons of the Trinity and especially between the Father and the Son. In the Reformation some of our . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: The Trinity And The Covenant Of Redemption (Part 1)

R. Scott Clark

on January 11, 2016 | 2 Comments

Office Hours: The Holy Spirit In The First Five Books Of Scripture

R. Scott Clark

on December 28, 2015

The Holy Spirit has sometimes been called the forgotten person of the Trinity. Yet he appears at the very beginning of the Biblical story. Genesis 1:2 says, “The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: John Fesko On The Holy Spirit In The Reformed Confessions

R. Scott Clark

on December 14, 2015 | 1 Comment

This is season 7 of Office Hours and our theme is “The Holy Spirit: Lord and Giver of Life.” When we think of the Reformed and Presbyterian confessions we might think first of the doctrines of grace and salvation but they reflect . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Preaching The Whole Counsel Of God

R. Scott Clark

on November 30, 2015

If you are a regular listener to Office Hours then you are probably a regular listener to sermons. If not, perhaps we should talk about that. You might be a preacher of sermons. Either way, at least 52 times a year, for . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: What Does It Mean To Say To God Alone Be The Glory?

R. Scott Clark

on November 16, 2015

When one enters the Reformed world one find that we still use Latin phrases from time to time. Particularly we will hear or read people using a few Reformation slogans frequently. We call them the Solas: Sola gratia (by grace alone), sola . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: What Happened To Reformed Orthodoxy? (2)

R. Scott Clark

on November 2, 2015

In the well-researched and written volume, Calvin Meets Voltaire: The Clergy of Geneva during the Age of Enlightenment, 1685-1798, Eighteenth-Century Studies Series (Ashgate: 2014), Jennifer Powell McNutt argued that there was more continuity, than has sometimes been thought, between 18th-century Genevan theology, piety, . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Bob Godfrey On The Holy Spirit In The Ecumenical Creeds

R. Scott Clark

on October 19, 2015

With this episode we begin season 7 of Office Hours and our theme is “The Holy Spirit: Lord and Giver of Life.” That phrase, “Lord and Giver of Life” was included in the Nicene Creed at Constantinople in 381. It is a . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: After Obergefell (pt 2)

R. Scott Clark

on October 5, 2015 | 5 Comments

Recently the Supreme Court of the United States issued a very significant decision widely known as Obergefell. In that 5–4 ruling, writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy argued that same-sex marriage is protected under the 14th Amendment, which was ratified after the . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours With Bob Godfrey: What Is The Papacy?

R. Scott Clark

on September 21, 2015 | 4 Comments

On March 13 2013 the world watched for white smoke to appear from a chimney in the Sistine Chapel, named for the late fifteenth-century Pope Sixtus IV. After it did, the Vatican announced the election of a new pope, whom Rome regards . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: After Obergefell (pt 1)

R. Scott Clark

on September 14, 2015

Office Hours: What Happened To Reformed Orthodoxy? (1)

R. Scott Clark

on August 24, 2015

Office Hours: The Great Disappointment, Graham Crackers, And American Religion

R. Scott Clark

on August 17, 2015 | 2 Comments

Nineteenth-Century American religion was wild and wooly. It began with an outbreak of Pentecostalism and concluded with the death of Dwight L. Moody and the beginning of the end of Old Princeton. In between saw the rise of Mormonism, the Second Great . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Side By Side With Ed Welch

R. Scott Clark

on August 10, 2015

We live in a fallen world. It is broken and dysfunctional. More importantly for us, we are fallen. We are not what we were made to be and we’re not what we shall be. I do not know where you are right . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: Calvin And Voltaire

R. Scott Clark

on July 27, 2015

When most of us think about the history of Reformed theology, if we think about it at all, we tend to think first of Calvin and then we typically jump to Jonathan Edwards, then perhaps to Princeton and thence to our own . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours: The Perspicuity Of Scripture In A Skeptical Age

R. Scott Clark

on July 14, 2015 | 2 Comments

The alternative to the essential clarity and sufficiency of Scripture is, ironically, the Romanist doctrine of implicit faith (fides implicita) according to which we should trust not in Scripture principally as we wait confidently for difficulties to be resolved in future but rather, according to Romanist doctrine of implicit faith, we begin with doubt about the clarity of Scripture and we trust that the church knows. This turn to the old Romanist doctrine of implicit faith is attractive to skeptical millennials and others because it fits the prejudice of the age toward personal relationships over than fixed truths. Continue reading →