A Smear Memorialized

R. Scott Clark

on December 10, 2019 | 10 Comments

This is the portion of the trailer for the video By What Standard? released by Founders Ministry in which video, known in the business as “B-roll,” of Rachael Denhollander is used to illustrate the words, “always having the powers, the spiritual powers . . . Continue reading →

Owen: The Promise Is Received Through Faith Alone

R. Scott Clark

on December 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

Fallen, sinful man stands in need of the utmost encouragement that divine condescension can extend unto, to prevail with him to receive and lay hold of the promise of grace and mercy by Jesus Christ. There is nothing that we are so . . . Continue reading →

As It Was In The Days Of Noah (26): 2 Peter 1:3–11 (part 1)

R. Scott Clark

on December 9, 2019 | 1 Comment

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. Continue reading →

Guelzo: “The 1619 Project Is Not History; It Is Ignorance“

R. Scott Clark

on December 9, 2019 | 2 Comments

So, let us speak of slavery. The American republic inherited slavery from the British empire, in much the same way that it inherited its fiscal poverty, its lack of manufacturing capability, and its primitive infrastructure. We expected to overcome all of these . . . Continue reading →

Gnosticism And Christian Universalism

R. Scott Clark

on December 6, 2019 | 2 Comments

Universal salvation (or universalism) seems to have first emerged as a distinct religious doctrine among Christian gnostic teachers in or around Alexandria, Egypt, during the early to mid-second century CE, several decades before the influential and well-known Christian author Origen (ca. 185-251)… . . . Continue reading →

Heidegger: Good Works Are Necessary As Fruit And Evidence Of Faith

R. Scott Clark

on December 4, 2019 | 3 Comments

VIII. New Obedience; Good Works New obedience is exercised through good works. Moreover, there are good works, voluntary actions of the sanctified, which come from a pure heart, love of God, true faith in Christ, according to the law of God, for . . . Continue reading →

James White: The Federal Vision “Stands In Opposition To The Gospel”

R. Scott Clark

on December 2, 2019 | 1 Comment

How can anyone not read [the Federal Vision theology] as blatant, unvarnished sacerdotalism that stands in opposition to the gospel….

Office Hours: Carl Trueman On Luther As Theologian Of The Cross

R. Scott Clark

on December 2, 2019

There are few figures more central to the history of the West than Martin Luther (1486–1546). Without him there would have been no Reformation, or at least it would have looked very differently. The confessional Protestant churches, i.e., Lutherans and the Reformed . . . Continue reading →

Classic Reformed Theology Series

R. Scott Clark

on December 2, 2019 | 5 Comments

The Reformed faith has deep roots in the patristic and medieval church, but its emergence as a distinct tradition, growing out of the Lutheran Reformation, may be traced to the early 1520s. The development of Reformed theology as distinct from Lutheranism is . . . Continue reading →

New In Print: J. H. Heidegger’s Concise Marrow Of Theology

R. Scott Clark

on November 28, 2019

J. H. Heidegger (1633–98) was a significant Swiss Reformed theologian, in Zürich, at the end of the 17th century. This volume is a clear, accessible introduction to Reformed theology. It is not technical. It was meant to be a starting point and . . . Continue reading →

Machen’s Warrior Children, Ed Stetzer, And Beth Moore

R. Scott Clark

on November 26, 2019 | 6 Comments

John Frame first published his essay “Machen’s Warrior Children” in 2003, in a Festschrift (a volume of congratulatory essays usually in honor of a 65th birthday or a retirement) for Alister McGrath. The essay was ostensibly a historical analysis of what happened to . . . Continue reading →

The Federal Vision Has A Different Definition Of Faith

R. Scott Clark

on November 23, 2019

Here are all the episodes of the Heidelcast. Subscribe in Apple Podcasts. Subscribe directly via RSS Call the Heidelphone anytime at (760) 618-1563. Leave a message and we may use it in a future broadcast. If you benefit from the Heidelcast please . . . Continue reading →

Until December 3, 2019: On Being Reformed For $10.00

R. Scott Clark

on November 22, 2019 | 1 Comment

This slender volume contains four essays. One written jointly by Crawford Gribben and Chris Caughey, one by Matthew Bingham, one by D. G. Hart, and one by yours truly. Ordinarily this volume is, for its size, rather expensive. The price of the . . . Continue reading →

The Heidelberg Catechism Confesses Salvation By Grace Alone, Through Faith Alone

R. Scott Clark

on November 22, 2019 | 10 Comments

It has become fashionable among some who identify as confessionally Reformed and among so-called Reformedish (i.e., Baptists who identify with aspects of Reformed theology) types to claim that the Reformed doctrine of salvation hold that there two stages to salvation: initial and . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Contra Final Justification Through Good Works

R. Scott Clark

on November 21, 2019 | 1 Comment

VIII. Although our justification will be fully declared on the last day (our good works also being brought forward as the sign and proof its truth, Mt. 25:34–40), still falsely would anyone maintain from this a twofold gospel justification—one from faith in . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Talking Like Luther On Justification

R. Scott Clark

on November 20, 2019

VII. This appears more clearly when we come to the thing itself and the controversy is not carried on coldly and unfeelingly in scholastic cloud and dust (as if from a distance), but in wrestling and agony—when the conscience is placed before . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast Minute: “Fundamentally I Believe That The Federal Vision Is A Denial Of The Gospel”

R. Scott Clark

on November 15, 2019

Heidelcast 53: The Story Of The Meyers Case And State Of The FV Controversy (Pt 1) Resources On The Federal Vision Theology Here are all the episodes of the Heidelcast. The Heidelcast is available wherever podcasts are available. Subscribe in Apple Podcasts. . . . Continue reading →

When The Culture War Trumps The Gospel

R. Scott Clark

on November 13, 2019 | 16 Comments

The German expression, Der Kulturkampf (The Culture War), originally referred to the attempt by Otto von Bismarck (1815–98), the German politician who created the modern, unified Germany, to suppress the Roman Catholic Church in Germany because he feared that Romanism in Germany . . . Continue reading →

Now Easier To Use: The HB Resources Page

R. Scott Clark

on November 12, 2019

There are over 6,000 posts on the Heidelblog. In our never-ending quest to make the HB easier to use, we have re-designed the resources page. This page allows you, the reader, to access some of the many libraries of resources on the . . . Continue reading →

Owen: The Mortification Of Sin Apart From The Gospel Is Self-Righteousness

R. Scott Clark

on November 6, 2019

This was seconded by an observation of some men’s dangerous mistakes, who of late days have taken upon them to give directions for the mortification of sin, who, being unacquainted with the mystery of the gospel and the efficacy of the death . . . Continue reading →

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