Heidelminicast—Calvin On The Experience Of The Reprobate In The Covenant Of Grace

by Heidelcast on December 30, 2022

These are some of our favorite Heidelquotes. Something to think about from the Heidelcast. If you are subscribed to the Heidelcast or the Heidelblog (see below) you will receive these episodes automatically. All the Episodes of the Heidelcast How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia . . . Continue reading →

School Board Member Under Fire For Voicing Concern About Sexualized Posters In An Elementary School

by Heidelblog on December 30, 2022

Activists are calling for a New Jersey school board member to resign after she voiced opposition to a poster she said was inappropriate for schoolchildren, and criticized gender and sexual identity curriculum at large. “Last night, I attended an elementary ‘Math Night.’ . . . Continue reading →

One Major Difference Between The Reformed And The Evangelicals

by R. Scott Clark on December 30, 2022

American evangelical religion, whether one traces it to Edwards, Whitefield, and Wesley or to the nineteenth-century revivalists (e.g., Charles Finney), has always been oriented around personalities. Reasonably, American evangelical Christians nurtured in the personality-oriented tradition assume that pattern as the norm when . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Guy De Bres’ Letter To His Wife Before His Martyrdom For The Gospel

by Heidelcast on December 29, 2022

Review: Petrus van Mastricht’s Theoretical-Practical Theology Volume 3: The Works of God and the Fall of Man

by Harrison Perkins on December 29, 2022

Although it is bad practice to believe in golden ages in the absolute sense, the present is certainly a high point for the church in the specific sense of the English-speaking world gaining increasing access to rich material from Protestant Orthodoxy that . . . Continue reading →

Warranted Faith Is Not Blind Faith

by Heidelblog on December 29, 2022

But someone might say, “Does that mean we just have blind faith?” Blind faith is when you’re told to trust someone on something when you have no basis for trusting them. Let’s say I meet a stranger on the street and he . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: David’s Journey Away From Reformed Worship And Back

by Heidelcast on December 28, 2022

University Of Wyoming Bans Church Elder On The Basis Of Speech Content

by Heidelblog on December 28, 2022

The University of Wyoming’s (UW) decision to ban a church elder from operating a table inside the student union raises free speech concerns, lawmakers and legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. UW restricted Laramie Faith Community Church elder Todd Schmidt’s . . . Continue reading →

Secret And Sinister Messages From God: Does God Speak Outside Of His Word? (3)

by Mike Abendroth on December 28, 2022

There is another matter to ponder in this debate: many people want God to talk like a lover, a physical lover, personally, privately, with whispers. I wish I did not have to write that last sentence. Of course, Jesus is the lover . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Witsius On The Differences Between The Covenants Of Works And Grace

by Heidelcast on December 27, 2022

Trueman On What The Achord Affair Reveals

by Heidelblog on December 27, 2022

The recent controversy surrounding Thomas Achord, a classical Christian school headmaster exposed for running a white supremacist Twitter account, has proved instructive on a number of fronts. It demonstrates that real racism and white supremacy do exist, a point that the grade . . . Continue reading →

Secret And Sinister Messages From God: Does God Speak Outside Of His Word? (2)

by Mike Abendroth on December 27, 2022

Let us approach this from a different angle. Today’s charismatic has divorced the work of the Holy Spirit from the Word of God. They teach, essentially, that the Holy Spirit “talks” to them outside of and divorced from Scripture. Do not buy . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: The Marrow On The Distinction Between The Law And The Gospel

by Heidelcast on December 26, 2022

Heidelcast For December 25, 2022: Sin, Salvation, & Service: The Threefold Truth Of Romans (3)

by Heidelcast on December 26, 2022

In this episode, Dr. Clark continues his new Heidelcast series on Romans, looking at chapter 1:18–21, specifically, and what man can know about God as he has revealed himself in nature and what it means that humans “suppress” that truth. What does . . . Continue reading →

Colquhoun On The Twofold Nature Of The Mosaic Covenant

by Heidelblog on December 26, 2022

The violated covenant of works, as I observed above, was not, and could not be, made or renewed with the Israelites at Sinai: for it was a broken covenant, and besides, it was a covenant between God and man as friends, whereas . . . Continue reading →

Secret And Sinister Messages From God: Does God Speak Outside Of His Word? (1)

by Mike Abendroth on December 26, 2022

Sadly, married couples resort to many tactics when they argue and spar verbally but on occasion I have heard that they can resort to giving each other “the silent treatment.” Instead of talking through the issues and communicating properly, they simply do . . . Continue reading →

A Christmas Letter From Ukraine

by Fedor Minakov on December 25, 2022

The country woke up to the sound of air raid sirens today. Russians don’t cease their missile attacks on our infrastructure and civilian objects. Yesterday dozens of families in Cherson received a call from officials that their loved ones were killed or . . . Continue reading →

Merry Christmas From The Heidelblog!

by Heidelblog on December 25, 2022

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets . . . Continue reading →

Do Sundays Make You Exhausted?

by Heidelblog on December 24, 2022

Do you ever get to the end of a Sunday feeling shattered? If you’ve come to church in the morning, gone to someone’s house for lunch (or done the actual hosting), made it to the afternoon service, then talked to people after . . . Continue reading →

Saturday Psalm Series: Psalm 88 (Part 4): Light in the Midst of Darkness

The Fog of Darkness

by Robert Godfrey on December 24, 2022

Fog is such a perplexing form of weather. When miniscule droplets of water become suspended in the air, they suddenly surround us like blinding clouds of smoke. A thick fog can quickly cause panic when we drive on the road. When a . . . Continue reading →