An old allegory tries to describe religion with the story of four blind men feeling an elephant. The blind man feeling the trunk thinks he is touching a long, thick creature. The one touching the elephant’s leg says he is touching a . . . Continue reading →
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Bavinck: Pelagius Scatters Flowers On Graves
The difference between Augustine and Pelagius, Calvin or Castellio, Gomarus and Arminius is not that the latter were that much more gentle, loving, and tenderhearted than the former. On the contrary, it arises from the fact that the former accepted Scripture in . . . Continue reading →
The Cradle Of Christian Truth: The Apostles’ Creed (Part 2)—I Believe
As we start this series, the whole first line, “I believe in God the Father Almighty,” is too much to tackle in one go. As a way of introduction to the whole idea of studying the Creed, then, this article focuses on . . . Continue reading →
The Cradle Of Christian Truth: The Apostles’ Creed (Part 1)—Introduction
For good or for ill, I have a taste for shows about comic book heroes and science-fiction stories. The nature of the stories, character development, and plotlines necessarily invites the question: “What is this about?” What seems like relatively normal story development . . . Continue reading →
Review: The Psalms: A Christ-Centered Commentary By Christopher Ash—Part 2: Commentary Volumes
Christopher Ash has published a slew of material on the Psalms in his career.1 That trajectory has culminated in his massive four-volume commentary on the whole Psalter. This work is a tremendous contribution, not in the cliché sense, but in every way . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Ordinary Means Ordinary (10): Is Efficiency a Virtue in the Church?
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Review: The Psalms: A Christ-Centered Commentary By Christopher Ash—Part 1: Intro Volume
Good commentaries that are useful for preaching are hard to find. Rarely do commentators manage to blend exegesis, theology, and pastoral significance together very well. When it comes to the Psalms, several good commentaries exist that address strictly exegetical issues, dealing with . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Ordinary Means Ordinary (9): Strategic, Authentic, and Confessional (Part 3)
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Heidelminicast: Ordinary Means Ordinary (8): Strategic, Authentic, and Confessional (Part 2)
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Heidelminicast: Ordinary Means Ordinary (7): Strategic, Authentic, and Confessional
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Heidelminicast: Ordinary Means Ordinary (6): The Five Points of a Calvinist
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Vos: Christ Is On Every Page
The genuine believer takes the whole of Scripture as a living organism produced by the Holy Spirit to present Christ to him. On every page of Scripture, he finds traits and traces of the Mediator. Geerhardus Vos | Reformed Dogmatics, ed. Richard . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Ordinary Means Ordinary (5): The Killer “B”s
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Heidelminicast: Ordinary Means Ordinary (4): The American Evangelical Fall From the Means of Grace (Part 3)
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Heidelminicast: Ordinary Means Ordinary (3): The American Evangelical Fall From the Means of Grace (Part 2)
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Heidelminicast: Ordinary Means Ordinary (2): The American Evangelical Fall From the Means of Grace
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Review: Who Chose the Books of the New Testament? By Charles E. Hill
We have twenty-seven New Testament books in our Christian Bibles. More properly, we have twenty-seven historical records, accounts, and letters about Jesus the Christ and his church at work through the Holy Spirit in the first-century world. These, together with the Hebrew . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Ordinary Means Ordinary (1): What is Ordinary Means Ministry?
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Heidelminicast: How to Read the Bible (10): The Three Equal Sides of Redemptive History
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Heidelminicast: How to Read the Bible (9): Jesus in the Old Testament
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