Office Hours: From England To New Zealand To Australia To California—Meet Nick Brennan

by R. Scott Clark on April 5, 2021

From England to the United States, to New Zealand, to Australia, and back to the USA. That’s been Dr Nick Brennan’s journey over the last 11 years. April 2021 finds him assuming his new position as Associate Professor of New Testament at . . . Continue reading →

“Woman, Why Are You Weeping?”

by R. Scott Clark on April 4, 2021

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

Silent Saturday

by R. Scott Clark on April 3, 2021

During this season, which many Christians call “Holy Week,” I am perversely drawn to Saturday.

A Good Friday Meditation: The Three Marys

by R. Scott Clark on April 2, 2021

…but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene (John 19:25). Beginning in the late patristic and early medieval period, the eyes of the church were gradually drawn away from Christ . . . Continue reading →

“Bearing with one another in love”: Robert Rollock on Ephesians 4:3

by R. Scott Clark on April 2, 2021

We owe a debt of gratitude to Reformation Heritage Books and General Editors, R. Scott Clark and Casey Carmichael, for the latest publication in their “Classic Reformed Theology” series, Robert Rollock’s Commentary on Ephesians.

How To Avoid Accidentally Becoming One Of Job’s Friends

by R. Scott Clark on April 2, 2021

During my treatment, two friends with cancer reached the end of the line, moving from experimental chemotherapy to palliative care, to dying, to death. It all happened so quickly. I was in remission, but for what? To wait around for this to . . . Continue reading →

Can The PCA’s “Big Tent” Hold?

Which Way Will The Moderates Swing?

by R. Scott Clark on April 1, 2021

Is the PCA’s big tent capacious enough for “gay Christian” officers and Revoice doctrine? Adherents of a certain type of “missionalism” might consider Revoice-style contextualization and accommodation to be absolutely essential; thus they would make room in the tent. Moderate evangelicals in . . . Continue reading →

Classic Reformed Theology Series Volumes 1–5

by R. Scott Clark on March 31, 2021

Herman Witsius Against The Donum Superadditum

by R. Scott Clark on March 31, 2021

God gave to man the charge of this image, as the most excellent deposit of heaven, and, if kept pure and inviolate, the earnest of a greater good; for that end he endued him with sufficient powers from his very formation, so as . . . Continue reading →

On The Etymological Fallacy, Semantics, And Defining Reformed

by R. Scott Clark on March 31, 2021

I have been thinking a bit about the etymological fallacy, which seeks to define words and other things by their origin.

Bavinck Contra The Donum Super Additum

by R. Scott Clark on March 30, 2021

It was called a “covenant of nature,” not because it was deemed to flow automatically and naturally from the nature of God or the nature of man, but because the foundation on which the covenant rested, that is, the moral law, was known . . . Continue reading →

The Dillenburger Synod Abolished Organs In Worship

by R. Scott Clark on March 30, 2021

Latin songs, as well as organs (first introduced into the churches by Pope Vitellianus about 665) are for the most part abolished in the churches of this land. Not that use of the Latin language or of music is rejected of itself . . . Continue reading →

Is Your Pastor Beginning To Dress Strangely At Work?

by R. Scott Clark on March 29, 2021

To this very end have the Papists brought in such a variety of mass vestments, surplices, and other special clothing for the priests, in order that thereby they would have so much the more splendor and magnificence, as in the Old Testament . . . Continue reading →

The Hungarian Reformed Church Contra Instruments In Worship

by R. Scott Clark on March 29, 2021

The musical instruments, however, adopted for the pantomime (saltatrici) Mass of Antichrist, together with images, we abhor. There is no use for them in the church, and indeed they are marks and occasions of idolatry. Hungarian Reformed Church, Articles (1567) art. 17 . . . Continue reading →

A Brief History Of The Corruption Of Worship

by R. Scott Clark on March 28, 2021

…Through these witnesses of the Holy Scriptures and a hundred more, which one may provide here, we say the pope’s Mass, which he claims to be an offering for the living and the dead, is false, and an impure sacrifice of bread . . . Continue reading →

New Resource Page: On Christian Liberty

by R. Scott Clark on March 27, 2021

The doctrine of Christian liberty was one of the principal achievements of the Protestant Reformation. The medieval church had come to think that there are two streams of authority, Scripture and an alleged unwritten apostolic tradition curated by the church. Over time . . . Continue reading →

New In Print: Survival And Resistance In Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction In The Pacific Northwest

by R. Scott Clark on March 26, 2021

The publisher’s blurb says: Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society that they anticipate. These . . . Continue reading →

How The Tide Is Shifting (And Not In A Good Way)

by R. Scott Clark on March 25, 2021

As I mentioned in the latest episode of the Heidelcast, I am not a big fan of Oral Roberts (1918–2009). Please do not misunderstand me. He is a great American success story. Born in poverty, in Oklahoma, he helped to impel a . . . Continue reading →

A Follow Up Regarding Abuse In The Church: We Are Talking About Practice

by R. Scott Clark on March 24, 2021

Last week I wrote an introduction to spiritual abuse and how laity and officers should respond. A correspondent writes to ask what the laity are to do when when ruling elders and ministers refuse to address a situation. May a lay member . . . Continue reading →

Trans Activist Suing Jack Phillips

by R. Scott Clark on March 23, 2021

The poor Colorado cake-maker, Jack Phillips, Continue reading →