Josh Butler, a fellow at the newly launched Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics and author of a forthcoming book, Beautiful Union (Multnomah, 2023), has written a provocative essay, “Sex Won’t Save You (But It Points To The One Who Will).”1 He raises some . . . Continue reading →
Strong Meat from the Stacks: Augustine on Rightly Ordered Love
And thus beauty, which is indeed God’s handiwork, but only a temporal, carnal, and lower kind of good, is not fitly loved in preference to God, the eternal, spiritual, and unchangeable good. When the miser prefers his gold to justice, it is . . . Continue reading →
The Jigsaw Puzzle: Faith Alone And Faith’s Activity
Some people love jigsaw puzzles – they’ll work on them for hours and hours. When you’re doing a puzzle, you need some clues to figure out how the pieces fit together. You’ve got the picture on the box, its colours and shapes. . . . Continue reading →
Are Our Revivals Like Pentecost? (Part 2)
Is Pentecost Repeatable? The short answer is yes and no (see Part One for context with Asbury Revival). Luke records a “second Pentecost” among the Gentiles in Acts 10:34–38. In Caesarea, Peter had a vision (Acts 10:9–16) showing him that the Old . . . Continue reading →
Can We Remove Biases When Interpreting Scripture?
…It is not certain that there is any one particular method that holds true for all HRM proponents. What does appear to be common among HRM proponents, however, is the initially plausible-sounding cry “Put aside all lenses and biases and interpret the . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Muether Explains The Attraction Of Theonomy (8)
All the Episodes of the Heidelcast Subscribe to the Heidelcast! On Twitter @Heidelcast How To Support Heidelmedia: use the donate button below Subscribe in Apple Podcast Subscribe directly via RSS New Way To Call The Heidelphone: Voice Memo On Your Phone The . . . Continue reading →
Keep Yourselves in God’s Love––An Exposition of Jude’s Epistle (4): The Covenant of Grace
Now, I want to remind you, despite how you once fully knew it, that Jesus, after saving a people out from the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe,6 so too those angels who did not keep themselves in . . . Continue reading →
“Empathigination” And The PCA
The annual-assembling PCA, turning 50 and preparing to celebrate (or conflagrate?) in Memphis this June, is big, broad, and still orthodox in an evangelical sort of way. If this born-in-Birmingham denomination were a house, a cable TV remodeling show host might say . . . Continue reading →
The HB Top Five For The Week Of February 20–26, 2023t
R. Scott Clark, Asbury Is Having A Revival (Again) R. Scott Clark, Why Reformed Folk Become Lutheran R. Scott Clark, Asbury Is Ending Another Revival Bruce Waltke, Waltke Lays The Axe To The Root Of Dispensationalism David Clary, The Pragmatic Roots Of . . . Continue reading →
Are Our Revivals Like Pentecost? (Part 1)
The revival that broke out in the chapel of Asbury University on February 8, 2023 is spreading. Campus Reform, a publication devoted to reporting on the state of civil liberties on American college campuses, reports that there are “seven student-led revivals across . . . Continue reading →
Transgender Clinic Worker Blows Whistle On Patient Intake Practices
Until 2015 or so, a very small number of these boys comprised the population of pediatric gender dysphoria cases. Then, across the Western world, there began to be a dramatic increase in a new population: Teenage girls, many with no previous history . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Sin, Salvation, & Service: The Threefold Truth Of Romans (10)
In this episode Dr Clark looks at Romans 3:1–8 in light of last week’s discussion of Paul’s distinction between a purely external relation to the covenant of grace and an internal relation to the covenant of grace. What advantage has the Jew? “Much . . . Continue reading →
Saturday Psalm Series: Meditating On Psalm 8 (Part 1): The Mindfulness of Our Creator & Sustainer
Mindfulness is everywhere. Recently, as I was waiting in the grocery store checkout line, my eyes happened upon a special edition of TIME magazine titled, “Mindfulness: Your Path to Health & Happiness.” On the cover sat a young woman in a yoga . . . Continue reading →
If You Decide To Plant A Church, Remember…
1. Church planting should be done by seeking God’s face, for it is His eternal plan, work, and glory. Psalm 67 begins, “May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, that your way . . . Continue reading →
Reformed Piety And Practice
When Martin Luther (1483–1546) entered the Augustinian convent at Erfurt in 1505, it was a considered decision and the fulfillment of a vow he had made when he cried, “St. Anne, help me! I will become a monk.” So he did. Luther . . . Continue reading →
Did Machen Believe In Ordaining Women?
To anyone familiar with J. Gresham Machen’s biography the words, “Machen and women” will bring two facts to mind: that Machen never married and that he had a particularly intimate relationship with his mother. Much of what we know about Machen comes . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Muether Explains The Attraction Of Theonomy (7)
All the Episodes of the Heidelcast Subscribe to the Heidelcast! On Twitter @Heidelcast How To Support Heidelmedia: use the donate button below Subscribe in Apple Podcast Subscribe directly via RSS New Way To Call The Heidelphone: Voice Memo On Your Phone The . . . Continue reading →
Why You Cannot Earn Grace
To understand the importance of the statement “faith alone,” we need to remember why the Reformers sought to recover the doctrine of God’s grace. They wanted to emphasize the fact that we are made right with God not through any merit of . . . Continue reading →
Strong Meat from the Stacks: Sayers On Pope Nicholas In The Eighth Circle Of Hell
The paradox which Pope displays in balanced antitheses, is displayed by Dante in violently juxtaposed images. “Judge not” says the gospel, “that ye be not judged.” Nevertheless, “till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise, pass . . . Continue reading →
Why Reformed Folk Become Lutheran
Over the years I have watched a trickle of Reformed folk leave confessional Reformed churches for confessional Lutheran churches and in every case of which I know there was one reason: assurance. In Lutheranism, those folk found a clear, unequivocal message of . . . Continue reading →







