Heidelcast For June 23, 2024: Best Of: What Is New About The New Covenant?

by Heidelcast on June 23, 2024

In this “Best of” episode Dr Clark begins to help us understand what’s new about the New Covenant. He discusses the continuity between the Old Covenant (types and shadows) and the New Covenant, and begins to think about if there is any discontinuity between them. Continue reading →

Stealthy Psalters In The PCA?

by Brad Isbell on June 22, 2024

Many PCA churches (more than half?) have a psalter and they don’t even know it. Of course, some churches have switched to the excellent, newer Trinity Psalter Hymnal or another good psalter, but if a church has the very common Trinity Hymnal they already have . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Sub-Christian Nationalism (9)

by Heidelcast on June 22, 2024

Dr Clark continues evaluating the Statement on Christian Nationalism. Continue reading →

Psalters!

by R. Scott Clark on June 22, 2024

When I began to become Reformed (c. 1980–81), the Reformed churches I knew were hymn-singing congregations. Typically, they used the blue Trinity Hymnal (1961), published by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (and later by Great Commission Publications). There are Psalms (for singing and . . . Continue reading →

It’s Not Your Church: Recovering Mission For The Church

by R. Scott Clark on June 21, 2024

We often speak of “my church.” That is a colloquial way of saying, “the congregation of which I am a member.” We sometimes act, however, as if the church actually belongs to us. One doubts that many would be willing to admit . . . Continue reading →

How Representative Of Reformed Orthodoxy Was Davenant?

by Heidelblog on June 21, 2024

However, does Lynch fully make his case that hypothetical universalists taught that Christ died for all human beings in one sense and for the elect alone in another sense? He appears persistently to blur the lines between the impetration and application of . . . Continue reading →

Video: Eschatology And Hope (Part 2)

by Heidelblog on June 21, 2024

Chris Gordon is joined by Pastor Jon Moffitt and Pastor Justin Perdue of Theocast to discuss the promise of the return of Christ and how Christians can stay optimistic and heavenly-minded during these trying times. Continue reading →

Colquhoun: What The Covenant Of Works Requires

by Tony Phelps on June 20, 2024

Although the law in its covenant form requires of all who are under it since the fall perfect obedience as the condition of life and full satisfaction for sin their own persons, and at the same time, upon the revelation and offer . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast Q&A: Figures of Speech, Reformed vs. Calvinism, and Genesis 12 & Modern Israel

by Heidelcast on June 20, 2024

In this episode Dr Clark answers listener questions about figures of speech, Calvinism, and modern Israel. Continue reading →

Review: The Sabbath As Rest And Hope For The People Of God By Guy Prentiss Waters

by Nathan White on June 20, 2024

Of the Ten Commandments, I am not sure there is one more ignored, or at least more misunderstood, than, “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” (Exod 20:8). The issue is not simply that it is disobeyed, but that it seems . . . Continue reading →

Church Membership And Our Witness To The World

by Jonathan Landry Cruse on June 19, 2024

What does it mean to be a member of a local church? Those who take church membership seriously recognize it comes with a lot of responsibilities. The faithful church member attends worship regularly and engages meaningfully in the divine service. They pray . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast Q&A: Isaiah 65, Baptismal Regeneration, and Being Baptized Before Taking the Lord’s Supper?

by Heidelcast on June 19, 2024

In this episode Dr Clark answers listener questions about Isaiah 65 and baptism. Continue reading →

Perkins On The Divine Mission

by Tony Phelps on June 19, 2024

How can the Father send the Son, considering they are both one? Answer. In the doctrine touching the Trinity, nature and person must be distinguished. Nature is a substance common to many, as the Godhead. A person is that which subsists of . . . Continue reading →

A Wonderful Sound From Synod Escondido (URCNA) 2024

by Heidelblog on June 18, 2024

The sounds of Synod 2024 Continue reading →

Heidelminicast Q&A: Is the Requirement to be Baptized Adding to the Gospel?

by Heidelcast on June 18, 2024

In this episode Dr Clark talks about omnicompetent ministers Continue reading →

Thinking About Time: All Of Creation And History As God’s Story

by Charles Vaughn on June 18, 2024

I am a junior high history teacher. For pre-teens and teenagers, history is not the most thrilling of school subjects. Gratefully, I teach at a Christian school, so my particular spin on history involves the triune God’s involvement. (This does not always . . . Continue reading →

Luther On Law And Grace

by Tony Phelps on June 18, 2024

Therefore we are pronounced righteous, not on the basis of the Law or of works or of our own righteousness but on the basis of pure grace. Paul insisted on the promise so vigorously and stressed it so often because he saw . . . Continue reading →

Calvin As Exegetical Moderate

by R. Scott Clark on June 17, 2024

Understood in his own context, as he saw himself, John Calvin (1509–64) was before anything else an interpreter of texts. This is the task for which his humanist education prepared him. Thus, his first published work was a 1532 commentary on Seneca’s . . . Continue reading →

Calvin On The Purpose Of Gospel Preaching

by Tony Phelps on June 17, 2024

The end of the whole Gospel ministry is that God, the fountain of all felicity, communicate Christ to us who are disunited by sin and hence ruined, that we may from him enjoy eternal life; that in a word all heavenly treasures . . . Continue reading →