Video: A Brief Defense of a Self-Authenticating Canon with Michael Kruger

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on October 31, 2025

Michael Kruger challenges the modern assumption that the Bible was chosen arbitrarily. With clarity and care, he explores the historical, theological, and cultural evidence that the canon wasn’t imposed, but emerged within the early Christian community. RESOURCES Subscribe To The Heidelblog! Download the . . . Continue reading →

From The Reading Revolution To The Counter-Reading Revolution

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on October 30, 2025

It was one of the most important revolutions in modern history—and yet no blood was spilled, no bombs were thrown, and no monarch was beheaded. What happened was this: In the middle of the 18th century, huge numbers of ordinary people began . . . Continue reading →

5 Reformation Doctrines That Still Transform The Church

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on October 29, 2025

By most accounts, the Reformation began when a young monk challenged ecclesiastical and academic authorities to debate a controversial practice that had developed in the late-medieval period. Why do we continue to remember it roughly five hundred years later? Waving off Martin . . . Continue reading →

Trueman: Rehumanizing Humanity

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on October 27, 2025

“What is man?” So urgent is the question of man that the question of God has re-emerged among our intellectual and cultural leaders. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Niall Ferguson, Paul Kingsnorth, and Russell Brand have all recently professed faith. Tom Holland and Elon . . . Continue reading →

What The Loincloths Signalled

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on October 25, 2025

While the problems of the evangelical Purity Movement have been well documented, one of its biggest errors was promoting a non-theological account of modesty focused almost exclusively on behaviors. With few exceptions, modesty was largely cast as the responsibility of women to . . . Continue reading →

Video: The Second Blast Of The Trumpet Against Women’s Ordination

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on October 24, 2025

In this critical episode, Rev. Chris Gordon and Rev. Dr. Dan Borvan engage in a robust, biblical discussion on the Ordination of Women in the Church. They explore the common argument that rejecting the ordination of women suggests they are of less . . . Continue reading →

Gathercole: Did Paul Really Expect Christ To Return In His Lifetime?

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on October 24, 2025

The mystery in 1 Corinthians 15.51–52 has long been a standard prooftext for the idea that Paul envisaged the parousia happening in his lifetime.1 On this view of the passage, Paul assumes his survival and that of a portion of his generation until . . . Continue reading →

Vos On The Startling Character Of What Happened On The First Christian Sabbath

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on October 23, 2025

Our text takes us to the tomb of the risen Lord, on the first Sabbath-morning of the New Covenant. It is impossible for us to imagine a spot more radiant with light and joy than was this immediately after the resurrection. Even . . . Continue reading →

What John Owen Actually Said About Biblicism

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on October 21, 2025

And the same is objected against them by Maimonides in Pirke Aboth: as though it were not known that the greatest part of their Talmud, the sacred treasury of their oral law, is taken up with differences and disputes of their masters . . . Continue reading →

Christian Camp Litigates For Religious Liberty

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on October 20, 2025 | 2 Comments

For more than 75 years, Camp IdRaHaJe has welcomed children each summer to hear the Gospel, build character, and grow in faith. Nestled in Bailey, Colorado, the camp’s name comes from a simple hymn lyric: “I’d rather have Jesus.” In 2024, the . . . Continue reading →

Video: R. Scott Clark’s Monumental New Heidelberg Commentary

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on October 17, 2025

R. Scott Clark chats with the Presbycast about his new book: The Heidelberg Catechism: A Historical, Theological, & Pastoral Commentary. Continue reading →

Second Circuit Rules For Christian School

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on October 17, 2025

Mid Vermont Christian School forfeited a girls’ playoff basketball game to avoid playing a team with a transgender athlete. The school believes that forcing girls to compete against biological males would affirm that those males are females, in violation of its religious . . . Continue reading →

Berkhof: The Minute Examination Of The Soul Does Not Produce Assurance

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on October 15, 2025 | 5 Comments

In the eighteenth century the religious life of Europe suffered from the blight of Rationalism. Religion became a matter of the intellect only, and religious truth was made to depend on rational arguments. Religious certainty was identified with a rational insight into . . . Continue reading →

Nihilism And The American Middle

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on October 14, 2025

In recent years, a new form of terror has emerged: decentralized, digitally driven violence organized not around coherent ideologies but around memes, fantasies, and nihilistic impulses. The perpetrators of this low-grade terror campaign do not belong to hierarchical organizations or pursue concrete . . . Continue reading →

Calvin: Christ Is The Mirror Of Our Election

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on October 13, 2025 | 1 Comment

First, if we seek God’s fatherly mercy and kindly heart, we should turn our eyes to Christ, on whom alone God’s Spirit rests [cf. Matt. 3:17]. If we seek salvation, life, and the immortality of the Heavenly Kingdom, then there is no . . . Continue reading →

We’re Not The First Christians To Live In A Sexualized Culture

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on October 11, 2025

We’re not the first Christians to live in a highly sexualized culture. In fact, many of the first New Testament Christians lived in exactly that kind of culture. Over and over again the apostles warn against sexual immorality. They had to do . . . Continue reading →

Berkhof: Assurance Was A Tower Of Strength For The Reformers

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on October 10, 2025 | 1 Comment

The Reformers rejoiced in the assurance of salvation as a tower of strength. This Christian certitude made them irresistible in their attacks on the church of Rome and adamant in resisting the onslaughts of the enemy. They were the first to place . . . Continue reading →

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