Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets . . . Continue reading →
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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.
Do Sundays Make You Exhausted?
Do you ever get to the end of a Sunday feeling shattered? If you’ve come to church in the morning, gone to someone’s house for lunch (or done the actual hosting), made it to the afternoon service, then talked to people after . . . Continue reading →
Religious Freedom Watch: The Government Is Choosing Which Rights Are Worthy Of Protection
As Alliance Defending Freedom’s Kristen Waggoner so aptly put it in her closing remarks, everyone in Colorado is allowed to speak freely about same-sex marriage except those who object to it. The Biden administration’s Deputy Solicitor General Brian Fletcher even admitted during . . . Continue reading →
A Kansas Supreme Court Justice On The State Of Free Speech At KU Law
So you will understand why I was disappointed to hear from KU Law students who recently came to me to express concern over administration actions surrounding a lunch-hour event sponsored by the student chapter of the Federalist Society. My understanding, from participants, . . . Continue reading →
Horton: What Makes Faith Reasonable Is Its Object
To hear many characterize faith it might seem irrational but is it? Continue reading →
A Nationalism That Does Not Honor Christ
The message—that ethnicities shouldn’t mix, that heretics can be killed, that violent revolution is already justified, and that what our nation needs is a charismatic Caesar-like leader to raise our consciousness and galvanize the will of the people—may bear resemblance to certain . . . Continue reading →
The Church Should Speak Up In The Moral Revolution
The breathtaking success of the new moral revolution has made both clarity and, yes, redundancy on issues of sexuality and gender all the more pressing. Bottom line, it would be difficult for the church of Jesus Christ to speak too often of . . . Continue reading →
New: NTJ Volume 16 (No 4) For Fall 2022
The NTJ is not quite venerable but it is memorable and there is a new issue just before Autumn ends. It is perfect way to spend a cold and blustery day—inside with the NTJ, the HB, and catching up on the Heidelcast. . . . Continue reading →
Why A Faculty Conference On “From Faith To Faith”?
Brad Bitner Explains
Find out more about the conference! Continue reading →
St. Nicholas And The Account Of Constantine
Though we don’t have the full book, we have a chapter from the oldest known biography of Nicholas. It is called Stratelatis (Greek for Military Generals), and it was written sometime around 400 AD. This chapter recounts two stories about Nicholas. In . . . Continue reading →
The Implications Of Obergefell As Law
So it is precisely because the law is a teacher, and precisely because of its wide variety of social implications, that I oppose the Obergefell decision. I do not want the mad, cruel, confused, and lonely society that a fundamental denial of the reality of marriage must produce. . . . Continue reading →
Introducing Me and God: A 21-Day Country Music Devotional by Iain Duguid
Country Music is a unique genre in terms of its Christian connections and interest in telling compelling stories. As a result, it faces up to the deep questions in life more often than other genres of music: it goes beyond mere love . . . Continue reading →
How Will Protestants Maintain Orthodoxy In A Changing America?
It is now clear that orthodox Protestants, specifically evangelicals, do not own the country. Whether they ever did is a matter for debate; that they thought they did is indisputable. It serves to explain, for example, the rather odd (from an English . . . Continue reading →
Natural Man And The Covenant Of Works
All natural and unregenerate men function entirely within the context of the covenant of works, and regardless of what their religious mindset may be, their singular objective is to be justified before God by their own merits and by the works of . . . Continue reading →
Chris Gordon’s Reformed Catechism On Sexuality
As Christians grapple with living in a world where sexual identity has become a fluid concept for many people, how can believers develop a solid understanding regarding what the Bible actually says about our sexuality? Thankfully, pastor and Abounding Grace Radio host . . . Continue reading →
Clinging To Nostalgic Tradition May Be A Symptom Of Golden-Age Thinking
A lot of things are trad right now—tradwives, tradlife, tradcaths (in theory, pre-Vatican II Catholics; in practice, zoomer converts with a flair for ornamental aesthetics). In each case, tradness refers to the ambiguous yearning for an idealized version of the old days, . . . Continue reading →
On Being Reformed Now Discounted 70% Until Dec 31, 2022
The publisher has discounted the hardcover version of On Being Reformed 70% until December 31, 2022. The coupon code is PALHC. It is typically $74.99 and it is now $22.50. Read more»
Theonomy Imposes An Artificial Worldview
Those who have been swept up with various forms of theonomy (or Christian Nationalism) should reflect deeply on the redemptive-historical role of the Old Covenant civil law as well as on how the Apostles spiritually applied it to the New Covenant church. . . . Continue reading →
Why Do Believers Still Sin?
Sin is greatly confusing for believers. The apostle captures this in Romans 7 when he says “the things that I will not, these I do.” How could the apostle seem to speak in such a defeated manner with regard to sin in . . . Continue reading →
Christian Nationalism Might Be Cosplay: The Babylon Bee Interview
R. Scott Clark interviewed on the Babylon Bee Podcast about Christian Nationalism, Christ and Culture, Baptism, Calvinism and More Continue reading →