With The Guilt, Grace, Gratitude Podcast On The Mosaic Covenant And The Republication Of The Covenant Of Works

It Is Not As Difficult As It Might Seem

R. Scott Clark

on August 2, 2021

It was good to talk with Nick, of the Guilt, Grace, Gratitude podcast about the Mosaic covenant generally and the question of the republication of the covenant of works specifically. This might seem like an impossible topic but it is not if . . . Continue reading →

Office Hours With Bob Godfrey On The Anxious Bench

R. Scott Clark

on August 2, 2021

Much of modern evangelical theology, piety, and practice, is not driven by Scripture as much as it is driven by history. Many evangelicals assume, as I once did, that the altar call is a biblical practice. They do not know, as I . . . Continue reading →

It Is Baked Into The Cake

by R. Scott Clark on July 31, 2021 16 Comments

This morning I read an account of a NAPARC pastor who confessed to violating his vows, of abusing his congregation, of violating the sixth and ninth commandments. Continue reading →

Trueman: The Danger Of A Carefully Curated Silence

R. Scott Clark

on July 31, 2021 | 1 Comment

When I was preaching week by week to the same congregation, one of my fundamental convictions was that I needed to keep politics out of the pulpit. Perhaps I should express that more precisely: I needed to keep party politics out of . . . Continue reading →

They Turned The Covenant Of Grace Into A Covenant Of Works (Or Why The Distinction Between Law And Gospel Matters)

Understanding The Duplex Regimen Would Also Help

R. Scott Clark

on July 30, 2021 | 10 Comments

…In replying to DeYoung, Kwon and Thompson could have replied in kind, foregrounding the theological questions raised by DeYoung. Indeed, they could easily have made the case that on the merits of DeYoung’s own theology he should be far more concerned about . . . Continue reading →

A Note To My Hometown About The Drag Queen Story Hour And The Powers That Be

R. Scott Clark

on July 30, 2021 | 2 Comments

The lede in the Lincoln Journal-Star says it all (and perhaps more than the writer intended): “A planned drag queen story hour started like a normal event for the Lincoln group, said organizer Waylon Werner-Bassen.” He was talking about a private event . . . Continue reading →

Pandemic Living: Facts About Loneliness

R. Scott Clark

on July 29, 2021 | 6 Comments

Everyone likes to be alone; no one likes to be lonely. Being alone is fine. We need time by ourselves. Being lonely is not fine. We are made to be social. Large portions of Americans are disconnected from normal connecting institutions. And . . . Continue reading →

What Reformed Churches Can Learn From Mark Driscoll

R. Scott Clark

on July 29, 2021

…A new megachurch in Lynden was drawing out the boomers from classic Reformed churches by the thousands. This church purchased the local shopping mall and created the closest thing as they could achieve, in appearance and message, to Rick Warren’s Saddleback church, . . . Continue reading →

New Resource Page: Reformed Piety

R. Scott Clark

on July 28, 2021 | 2 Comments

Theology, piety, and practice— regular Heidelblog readers and Heidelcast listeners will be familiar with that formula. In classic and confessional Reformed Christianity these three things have always been understood to be intimately, organically related to each other. Our piety flows from our . . . Continue reading →

Searching For An Aid To Piety?

R. Scott Clark

on July 28, 2021

Tending to the means of grace in public worship every Lord’s Day should be at the top of the list for anyone who wants to improve his personal and family piety. Further, people who are committed to spending more time in Bible . . . Continue reading →

Racism Is A Sin And A Social Problem But Maoist Struggle Sessions Are Not The Answer

R. Scott Clark

on July 27, 2021

This is Penn State sociology prof, Sam Richards teaching Sociology 119. It is fine for a prof to call out a student for being unprepared but it is fundamentally wrong and un-American to humiliate a student for an immutable characteristic. Continue reading →

“It is difficult To Imagine A Ruling More Hostile To Free Speech”

R. Scott Clark

on July 27, 2021

In a stunning ruling yesterday in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a divided panel of the Tenth Circuit held that Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act “permissibly compels” a graphic and website design company to offer wedding websites that “celebrate same-sex marriages” if it is . . . Continue reading →

Former Mars Hill Elders Plead For Driscoll To Resign Over Continuing Abuse Of The Sheep

R. Scott Clark

on July 27, 2021 | 10 Comments

Kate Shellnut posted a story yesterday at Christianity Today revealing that 39 elders from the former Mars Hill church, from which Mark Driscoll was removed because he abused the staff and members, have published a letter calling for him to resign from . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 187: What Must A Christian Believe? (5): The Holy Trinity

Heidelcast

on July 26, 2021 | 7 Comments

The Heidelcast is back and better than ever, well, as mediocre as ever anyway. As I’m recording this it’s late July and I’m trying to finish the commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism. Something had to give way so I put the Heidelcast . . . Continue reading →

Grammar Guerilla: It Is “He And I” Not “Me And Him”

R. Scott Clark

on July 24, 2021 | 18 Comments

I have been warning students for some years about the impending collapse of Western civilization. It used to be a joke. Now, the warnings are rueful. Another evidence that the end is closer than it might seem is the apparent loss of . . . Continue reading →

We Are Like Nube

by R. Scott Clark on July 23, 2021 2 Comments

Someone from my part of town just reported that her gray cockatiel, “Nube,” just out the door toward the local high school. Continue reading →

A Brief Note On The “Higher Life” Allegation Against The Critics Of Side-B/Revoice Theology

by R. Scott Clark on July 22, 2021 18 Comments

I am in the throes of trying to make real progress on the commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism. Today, I hope to finish the section on Heidelberg Catechism 92. Continue reading →

What Is Orthodoxy?

by R. Scott Clark on July 21, 2021 2 Comments

A reader wrote to ask about the definition of orthodoxy. Continue reading →

There Is No Evidence That Calvin Bowled On The Christian Sabbath

R. Scott Clark

on July 20, 2021 | 4 Comments

A remarkably durable anecdote about John Calvin, the great Protestant Reformer of Geneva, is often related by those critical of the Puritan view of the Sabbath…The goal seems to be to demonstrate that the Reformers were not tainted with that ‘pharisaical’ of . . . Continue reading →

Would You Know A Bad-Faith Argument If You Saw One?

R. Scott Clark

on July 20, 2021 | 22 Comments

These questions, however—important as they are—do not yet capture the essence of our disagreement. In our view, our disagreement lies not in the questions themselves, but in the starkly differing ways in which we respectively relate to them. Namely, while DeYoung appears . . . Continue reading →