Sola Fide

Simul Iustus et Peccator: The Role of Justification in Pastoral Counseling

by on February 24, 2025 | Comment
Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry

As shepherds of Jesus’s flock, pastors wrestle with the wounds and waywardness of the human heart. They counsel the guilty, who are consumed by self-condemnation. They counsel the defensive, who try to deflect God’s heart-piercing word through self-justification and blame-shifting. Continue reading →

Re-Formation Conference January 17–19, 2025 Jacksonville, FL

by Heidelblog on October 26, 2024 | 3 Comments

Don’t miss the RE-FORMATION Conference, January 17-19, hosted by Paramount Church at the Salem Centre. Featured speakers include Michael Horton, Ashley Null, Jonathan Linebaugh, Dorothea Wendebourg, and R. Scott Clark. The conference is presented by the Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies. Registration . . . Continue reading →

Luther: Bernard Trusted In Christ Alone

by on September 4, 2024

Therefore we are fighting today, not against the obvious wickedness and vice of the papacy but against its fictitious saints, who think that they lead an angelic life when they observe not only the commandments of God but also the counsels of . . . Continue reading →

Free E-Book: Beza, Polanus, And Turretin On Justification

by on August 8, 2024

For the month of August, 2024, Reformation Heritage Books is giving away copies of the electronic (e-book) version of R. Scott Clark and Casey Carmichael ed.  Justification By Faith Alone: Selected Writings From Theodore Beza (1519–1605), Amandus Polanus (1561–1610), and Francis Turretin . . . Continue reading →

Was the Reformation a Big Misunderstanding?

by on January 26, 2024 | 6 Comments

The socially conservative evangelicals do not have a doctrine of a twofold kingdom; nor do they typically distinguish between nature and grace or between the sacred and the secular. Thus the only way they can cooperate with Roman Catholics on social questions is to get them converted and baptized. Continue reading →

Vos: Don’t Give Stones For Bread

by on November 24, 2023

In the Judaistic controversy which shook the early church, forces and tendencies were at work deeply rooted in the sinful human heart. In modernized apparel they confront us still to the present day. There are still abroad forms of a Christless Gospel. . . . Continue reading →

Perkins: The Use Of Sola Fide

by on November 3, 2023

This doctrine is of great use. First, we learn hence that a man is justified by the mere mercy of God, and that there is excluded from justification all merit of congruity,* all meritorious works of preparation wrought by us, all cooperation . . . Continue reading →

Hot off the press! Beza, Polanus, and Turretin On Justification By Faith Alone

by on April 14, 2023

For the first time ever in English, the Classic Reformed Theology Series is proud to present a treatise by Theodore Beza (1519–1605), a section from the Syntagma of Amandus Polanus (1561–610), and an academic disputation by Francis Turretin (1623–1687) on the doctrine of justification. Continue reading →