These were the top five posts for the week beginning August 28–September 3, 2023. Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For the Week of August 28–September 3, 2023
Christopher Yuan: How Does The Gospel Relate To Holy Sexuality?
Christopher Yuan talks with HRA board member Chris Gordon about holy sexuality. Continue reading →
Heidelcast For Sep 3, 2023: Sin, Salvation, & Service: The Threefold Truth Of Romans (33)
In this episode Dr Clark turns to Romans 9:6–13, explains what Paul means when he says “not all from Israel are Israel,” and what Paul says about the spirituality of the Abrahamic covenant and its connections to the New Covenant in Paul’s . . . Continue reading →
What I Learned Reading Difficult Books Very Slowly
So what did my days as a student look like? Really, I spent hours and hours each day just… reading. For variety, I did some studying with fellow students, but most of the work was done alone. All Classics majors got a . . . Continue reading →
Diary of a Traveling Pastor: EU Reformation
After a great couple of weeks in the UK, I traveled to Bucharest, Romania to visit Mihai Corcea and the Evangelical Reformed Church of Bucharest. Mihai was born in Transylvania, but does not recoil at the sight of a cross. He does, . . . Continue reading →
The Canons Of Dork #20 For September 2, 2023
Rage against the machine. Continue reading →
Descubriendo La Confesión Reformada (Parte 4): Joven, Inquieto y el Conglomerado Evangélico
En mi camino hacia el descubrimiento de la confesión reformada, se desarrollaron múltiples cambios en mi vida. Así que quiero tomar un momento para retroceder cronológicamente en mi historia. Cuando comencé el esfuerzo de plantar iglesias, me reuní con un hombre llamado . . . Continue reading →
Wanted: Gifted Young Men For Pastoral Ministry
The confessional Presbyterian and Reformed churches are facing a challenge that I have not seen since I first joined St John Reformed Church over 40 years ago: a shortage of pastors. For decades, there have been more candidates for ministry than there . . . Continue reading →
Scott Swain on the Four Marks of the True Church
The church is the crowning achievement in the work of salvation, planned by the Father, accomplished by the Son, and brought into reality by the Spirit (Eph 1:3–14). The Father’s “plan for the fullness of time” is to sum up all things . . . Continue reading →
The Church Is Not Organized Around Any Personality But Christ’s
Chris Gordon and Dan Borvan discuss difference between the Reformed Churches and Big Eva congregations. Continue reading →
Review: Family Worship Bible Guide Edited by Joel Beeke et al.
The family that worships together, stays together—this quirky little phrase is packed with truth. The triune God of creation and redemption works through families. This is true in both testaments of the Christian church. But unlike a quickly turned phrase, the family . . . Continue reading →
Augustine Contra The Postmodernists
In Augustinian thought, signs, then play a key role in bringing us into contact with the realities they signify. Drawing lines to the Christian life, Augustine argued that catechesis means explaining how “the signs of divine realities are visible, but the invisible . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: The Gospel According to John (MacArthur) Pt 6
This is part 6 in our audio series on The Gospel According to John (MacArthur). Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: The Gospel According to John (MacArthur) Pt 5
This is part 5 in our audio series on The Gospel According to John (MacArthur). Continue reading →
Where Is The Church Heading?
Introduction None of us knows the specifics of the future. There are a few things that every Christian knows from Scripture about the future. We know that Christ shall return (Acts 1:11), that there shall be a bodily resurrection (1 Thess 4:16), . . . Continue reading →
Junius on Providence
Aristotle said it with style: people who set their heart on, proving to themselves with drawn-out arguments “that some providence is,” actually deserve whips, not words; a reply from an executioner, not a philosopher (nor, I add, a theologian). And what is . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: The Gospel According to John (MacArthur) Pt 4
This is part 4 in our audio series on The Gospel According to John (MacArthur). Continue reading →
Dennis Johnson: Two Truths Of Apostolic Preaching
The skillful and pastoral interweaving of theological discussion and exhortation, of doctrine and application, [as demonstrated in Hebrews] illustrates two truths about apostolic preaching that are often ignored in the polarized atmosphere of contemporary preaching. On the one hand, truly apostolic preaching . . . Continue reading →
The Belief Continuum
Often, we employ a single word for many uses; even for similar uses. We employ belief (and its cognate verb) to mean at least four things, each of which can also be usefully distinguished from the others, on a continuum: prejudice, opinion, . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For the Week of August 21–27, 2023
These were the top five posts for the week beginning August 21–27, 2023. Continue reading →