Heidelminicast
In this episode, Brad welcomes special guest Rev. Everett Henes. The Heidelblog is publishing a series by Rev. Henes called, “The Forgotten Christian Art of Dying Well,” in which he considers how Christians are to understand dying from a historical approach. Continue reading →
Heidelcast Live!
In this episode Brad Isbell and Dr Clark interact with some observations from Heidelcast listener Jonathan, who was responding to a recent Heidelminicast on the topic of slow growth among confessional Reformed churches. His observations lead to a wide-ranging and lively discussion of Reformed church life, worship and more. The hosts also answer a question from Daniel about why Dr Clark has spoken about God the Son as the Lord God identified in Genesis 3:8. Continue reading →
Heidelminicast
In this episode, Brad welcomes special guest Rev. Everett Henes. The Heidelblog is publishing a series by Rev. Henes called, “The Forgotten Christian Art of Dying Well,” in which he considers how Christians are to understand dying from a historical approach. Continue reading →
Heidelcast Live!
In this episode Dr Clark and Brad Isbell discuss ecumenism. What is it? From where does the word come (hint: it’s Greek), what should we think about it and can we be ecumenical and faithful to the Scriptures as confessed by the Reformed churches? Continue reading →
Article
Bad government and national decline grieve those who love their country and bring a kind of chaos—a hard providence for Christian citizens. Yet even worse forms of chaos stand at the door if enough citizens (including Christians) give in to anger, passion, . . . Continue reading →
Video
Here is the audio only version: RESOURCES Subscribe To The Heidelblog! Download the HeidelApp on Apple App Store or Google Play Browse the Heidelshop! The Heidelblog Resource Page Heidelmedia Resources The Ecumenical Creeds The Reformed Confessions The Heidelberg Catechism The Heidelberg Catechism: . . . Continue reading →
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I think the provision of the Foreign Mission Board that utterances of missionaries should not be subject to criticism until formal charges are brought is the most preposterous interference of speech of which I ever heard. The same tactics were pursued by . . . Continue reading →
Article
My friend Dr. R. Scott Clark employed the quest motif in his important defense of Reformed confessionalism. He identified two tendencies that are counter to Reformed theology, piety, and practice: the quest for illegitimate religious certainty (QIRC1) and the quest for illegitimate religious experience (QIRE2). In today’s Presbyterian . . . Continue reading →
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Because I have been busy with selling a business (successful, transition nearly complete) and finding a house to move to another state (thus far unsuccessful), I have not been writing or podcasting much at all. I have not missed a PCA General . . . Continue reading →
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In my sixth decade, Cold War spy novels captured me, and I believe I know why. As a child, I was about all things related to war and the military. I say all things, but really my interests were limited to the American . . . Continue reading →
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The real defenders of liberty are those who are devoted to it for its own sake, who believe that freedom of speech means not only freedom for those with whom they are agreed but also freedom for those to whom they are . . . Continue reading →
Video
At the end of March Brad Isbell, Wilson Van Hooser and I discussed whether Revivalism can be Reformed. As usual, great fun was had by all. Here’s the video: Here’s the audio-only episode in the Presbycast Libsyn feed. Subscribe to the Presbycast . . . Continue reading →
Article
There is an idea floating around that all the teachings of the original version of the Westminster Confession of Faith (1646/1647) are basically included in or assumed by the revised American version of 1788/1789 and that agreeing with/preferring the original is more or . . . Continue reading →
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Many in Prague were deeply uncomfortable with courting the Ottomans, yet the leadership was seduced by the fantastical scheme of a grand alliance smashing both Poland and the Habsburgs. Scultetus (court preacher to the Elector of the Palatinate Frederick V) did a . . . Continue reading →
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The issue is actually not about sex; it is about polity and ordination. Yet the bearers of non-standard titles seem to usually be women, not men. Women cannot be (and are not being) ordained in the PCA, though there seems to be . . . Continue reading →
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Dr Machen answered my call to help in presenting the cause of The Presbyterian Church of America in Bismarck, North Dakota. The Presbytery of Bismarck of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. had painted Dr. Machen as a very unsavory and troublesome . . . Continue reading →
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At the end of the first paragraph of Christianity and Liberalism, the quotable Machen spun out a sentence for the ages, a statement striking rightness: In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt . . . Continue reading →
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“I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.” This is an old saw often deployed against the Reformed by revivalist evangelicals to imply that the Reformed do not “do” evangelism at all (not true), and . . . Continue reading →
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The second BCO clause, which refers to prior approval by the session, is not a lower bar, but a higher one, and is rarely used. The standards that would guide the session would be the same. The difference is that the session . . . Continue reading →
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My kingdom is not of this world. By these words he acknowledges that he is a king, but, so far as was necessary to prove his innocence, he clears himself of the calumny; for he declares, that there is no disagreement between . . . Continue reading →
