These were the top five posts for the week of September 8–14. Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of September 8–14, 2025
Author: Heidelblog
The Heidelblog has been in publication since 2007. It is devoted to recovering the Reformed confession and to helping others discover Reformed theology, piety, and practice.
Video: Reformed Pastors Discuss Why We Should Be Singing the Psalter
Join Pastor Chris Gordon and Pastor Peter Holtvlüwer in a discussion about Peter’s new Book series “Christ’s Psalms, Our Psalms” which shows how each psalm reveals the Saviour Jesus Christ, demonstrating the importance of the Psalter in our worship. They explore the . . . Continue reading →
Three AI Challenges
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is rapidly developing. It’s hard to keep up with some of the new ethical challenges Christians are facing. Especially our young people are being bombarded with all kinds of tempting new possibilities for distraction, entrapment, deceit, and apostasy. . . . Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 7): In The Accomplishment Of Eternal Life
In eternal life, which belongs to the New Testament: (a) as to actual aquisition obtained by the blood of Christ (which in the Old Testament was only moral); (b) as to the actual entrance of Christ as man into heaven, as the . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of September 1–7, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of September 1–7. Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 6): In Sanctification
In sanctification, which is greater in the New Testament as to higher illumination of the intellect (as to mode), which is not external and ceremonial (which even a hypocrite may have), but internal (as to efficacy), which is greater on account of . . . Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 5): In Liberty From Ceremonies
In liberty, not only spiritual (which also existed in the Old Testament), but also external, by which we are free from the legal ceremonies (Col. 2:20–22) and besides are become the servants of Christ alone and not of men (Gal. 5:1). Francis . . . Continue reading →
Video: Michael Horton On The Forgotten Person In The Trinity
In this keynote from the Sola and Credo Trinity Conference, Michael Horton demonstrates how Nicaea 2 defends the biblical teaching that the person of the Holy Spirit, along with the Father and the Son, is to be worshipped and glorified as “the . . . Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 4): In Adoption Without Servitude
In adoption, which in the New Testament not only as to the thing is such as it was in the Old, but also as to mode, condition and effects because: (a) in the New Testament it is proposed as having been acquired . . . Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 3): The Calling Of The Nations
In the calling of all nations, which is peculiar to the New Testament as to the full knowledge of circumstance and of mode. This was not attended to by the ancients who thought that the Gentiles would be brought into the old . . . Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 2): The Advent Of The Messiah
It consists (1) in the advent of the Messiah, his manifestation in the flesh and the fulfillment of the whole law by him (namely, of its ceremonies, prophecies and the entire righteousness prescribed by God in the law). (2) In the abrogation . . . Continue reading →
Turretin On What Is And Isn’t New About The New Covenant (Part 1): The New Covenant Is Not New In Substance
Thus far the old dispensation; the new succeeds, the administration of the covenant without the law and ceremonies after the appearance of Christ. It is called “new” not as to the substance of the covenant (which is the same in both) but: . . . Continue reading →
Warfield: Salvation Is Not By Grace And Cooperation With Grace
Thus it comes about that the doctrine of monergistic regeneration—or as it was phrased by the older theologians, of “irresistible grace” or “effectual calling”—is the hinge of the Calvinistic soteriology, and lies much more deeply embedded in the system than the doctrine . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of August 25–31, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of August 25–31. Continue reading →
Heidegger: We Are Under The Abrahamic Promises Therefore We Act Like Abrahamic Christians
The subject of baptism is the faithful people of God, without any distinction of nation, sex, or age. Indeed, infants of the covenanted must be baptized as equally as the infants of the covenanted were once circumcised because the promise made to Abraham . . . Continue reading →
Warfield: Double Predestination Preserves And Protects Against Synergism In The Doctrine Of Salvation
One needs to read but a little way into the treatise to perceive how strongly and indeed even passionately Calvinsisted upon this point. The reason for this is that he looked upon election not merely as the warrant for assurance of faith, . . . Continue reading →
Video: Is The Doctrine Of Election Biblical?
Rev. Chris Gordon and Rev. Dr. Dan Borvan tackle a difficult and often misunderstood theological topic: God’s sovereignty in election. They address common objections, like the idea that election is “not fair,” and contrast Reformed theology with Arminianism, which they argue is . . . Continue reading →
How Presbyterians Shifted On Church-State Relations
I am not suggesting that American Presbyterians of the eighteenth century would approve of the political arrangement of the twenty-first century. Surely, in many respects they would not. They assumed an overwhelmingly Protestant nation where Catholics and (more so) Jews could be . . . Continue reading →
The Path To The Extraordinary Is Through The Ordinary
If we truly believe that Scripture is sufficient, then we must not only believe rightly—we must also worship, live, and love according to the word of God. Semper reformanda must remain more than a slogan; it must become the heartbeat of the church today. . . . Continue reading →
Vos: The Israelite Theocracy Was A Type And Shadow Of Heaven
Next we must consider the general organization of Israel that originated in this berith. This is usually designated as ‘theocracy’. This name for it is not found in the Scriptures, although it admirably describes what the Biblical account represents Israel’s constitution to have . . . Continue reading →