How much does sin trouble us? I do not mean necessarily the sin we see in society. We are not thinking here specifically about the sexual revolution or the moral decay of our nation, though these are devastating. But rather, consider sin . . . Continue reading →
Dr Clark continues evaluating the Statement on Christian Nationalism. Continue reading →
Chris Gordon and Dan Borvan continue their discussion on redemptive-historical preaching. Continue reading →
As described in R. Scott Clark’s Recovering the Reformed Confession, the Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRC) has been a borderline denomination that appears to have been moving in the direction of the mainline.1 A large concentration of CRC churches, institutions . . . Continue reading →
Calls for amnesty among those who defended and implemented the protocols of the COVID-19 pandemic are hardly news. Emily Oster was the first to call for clemency of advocates for governments’ restrictive measures. She argued that many officials simply did not have sufficient knowledge . . . Continue reading →
As of late, popular Christian culture has been saturated with books critical of evangelicalism—for supporting President Trump and Republicans as a voting bloc, for causing political divisiveness in the church, for being largely white, and for just generally supporting things that the . . . Continue reading →
The first coming of Christ and his resurrection ensured that in the present age Christians are already raised with him. Christ’s resurrection from the dead also ensured that we believers will be raised bodily at the end of the age (1 Cor. . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark talks about justification and faith. Continue reading →
The Harry Potter movies were enchanting movies (pun intended). They are shot through with overt theological themes: ontology, good and evil, cosmology, sin, and redemption. Part way through one of them, I remembered something that Bob Godfrey once said, something that I . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark answers the question: What is the connection between circumcision and baptism? Continue reading →
All the Reformed Churches, as well as the Lutherans, practically and confessedly recognized the Validity of Romanish Baptism. Gallic Conf., Art. 28. “Because, nevertheless, that in the papacy some scant vestiges of the true Church remain, and especially the substance of Baptism, . . . Continue reading →
It is hard to imagine a more pleasant experience of fellowship with God’s people on earth than to set them in a temperate mountain environment, overlooking a lake, with morning dew rising into a mist, and the saints vigorously singing the Psalms . . . Continue reading →
Meanwhile, a certain Hilary, a Catholic layman of tribunitial rank, incited to anger, for some reason or other, against the ministers of God, as often happens, in abusive, censorious language, wherever it was possible, was violently attacking the custom which, at the . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark answers the question: is Reformed theology a form of replacement theology? Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week beginning June 24–30, 2024. Continue reading →
Editor’s Note: The following is the complete chapter as it appeared in R. Scott Clark, ed., Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry: Essays by the Faculty of Westminster Seminary California (Phillipsburg: P&R Publishing, 2007), 25–57. In 2021, the publisher returned the publication rights . . . Continue reading →
Although the law as a rule of duty to believers requires perfect obedience from them, yet it admits of God’s accepting their sincere obedience performed in faith, though it is imperfect. It admits of His accepting this obedience not indeed as any . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark considers Paul’s apostolic credentials in contrast to the hyper-apostles. He also explains Paul’s view of what Christianity is as opposed to the view of the hyper-apostles. Continue reading →
Dr Clark continues evaluating the Statement on Christian Nationalism. Continue reading →
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” It is one of those lines we tell our children to help them deal with aspects of life that can hit hard. It is also one of those lies . . . Continue reading →
