Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 101—May We Swear Reverently By God’s Name

Heidelcast

on June 24, 2022 | 1 Comment

The Heidelberg Catechism is one of the most beloved and well used catechisms to emerge from the sixteenth and seventeenth century Reformation. Published in its final form in 1563, the catechism has been used by millions of Christians to teach the faith . . . Continue reading →

The End Of Roe, Doe, And Casey

Heidelblog

on June 24, 2022 | 4 Comments

The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives. Pp. 8–79. …(a) The critical question is whether the Constitution, properly understood, confers . . . Continue reading →

Secular When It Should Be Sacred

R. Scott Clark

on June 24, 2022 | 6 Comments

A significant part of the process of recovering and applying classical Reformed theology to our contemporary situation (sometimes called ressourcement, a French word which refers to getting back to original sources) is recovering the distinctions that we lost in the 19th and . . . Continue reading →

Colquhoun: Every Passage Of Scripture Is Either Law Or Gospel

Heidelblog

on June 24, 2022 | 1 Comment

The law and the gospel are the principal parts of divine revelation; or rather they are the center, sum, and substance of all the other parts of it. Every passage of sacred Scripture is either law or gospel, or is capable of . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 100—Does God Hate Abuse Of His Name?

Heidelcast

on June 23, 2022

Perkins: The Doctrine Of A Two-Stage Justification Is A “Popish Device”

Heidelblog

on June 23, 2022 | 5 Comments

That popish device of a second justification is a satanical delusion for the Word of God does acknowledge no more but one justification at all, and that absolute and complete of itself. There is but one justice, but one satisfaction of God . . . Continue reading →

Reconciling the Divine Processions-Missions Relationship with Confessional Reformed Theology: An Engagement with Adonis Vidu’s The Divine Missions: An Introduction (Part 1)

Harrison Perkins

on June 23, 2022

Recent years have seen a flourishing of new research and reflection upon classical trinitarian theology, producing a large swath of publications on theology proper. This development has most welcomely highlighted areas where Protestant theology had lost its diligence and rigor in listening . . . Continue reading →

The Problem Of Divine Intent

Heidelcast

on June 22, 2022 | 3 Comments

How Error Seeps Into The Church

Heidelblog

on June 22, 2022 | 24 Comments

When error is admitted into the Church, it will be found that the stages of its progress are always three. It begins by asking toleration. Its friends say to the majority: You need not be afraid of us; we are few, and . . . Continue reading →

The New Covenant In My Blood (Luke 22:20) (Part 6)

Cornelius Van Til

on June 22, 2022 | 1 Comment

We ask now what it means to the world? But if the church of Jesus Christ is to remember Him in His finished work of Prophet, Priest, and King, for her, she must do so before the eyes of the whole world. . . . Continue reading →

The Selective Memory Of Apocalyptic Chatter

Heidelblog

on June 21, 2022 | 1 Comment

As I have recounted on other occasions, I grew up with my younger brother and our mother and grandmother in Pomona, California, attending mostly Baptist churches where it wasn’t unusual to hear conversations after the service about the founding of the State . . . Continue reading →

Faith, Love, and Piper: Distinguishing Reformed Categories

William Edison

on June 21, 2022 | 4 Comments

What’s love got to do with it? According to John Piper’s recent book What is Saving Faith?, affectional elements, including one’s love, satisfaction in and treasuring of God, are included in the definition of justifying faith itself—though, this may not come as a . . . Continue reading →

Witsius On Aspects Of True Faith

Heidelblog

on June 20, 2022

A True faith in God through Jesus Christ is the principal act of that spiritual life, which is begun in the elect by regeneration, as well as the fountain head, from whence, all those living works which follow after regeneration, proceed: the . . . Continue reading →

The New Covenant In My Blood (Luke 22:20) (Part 5)

Cornelius Van Til

on June 20, 2022

And because He suffered for us and not for Himself, He could remain forsaken of God. Thus He was not hopeless, because of an endless death, when He cried, “It is finished.” It was finished. He was again accepted of the Father. . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast For June 19, 2022: What Happens When Christians Try To Be “Relevant” And Why The Focus On The Confessions?

Heidelcast

on June 18, 2022

Despite our fondest wish to get back to the series on the Canons of Dort, the Science tells us that it is time for only our second ever best of episode. In this episode we feature some audio from January 2010, where . . . Continue reading →

Christian, Get Involved

R. Scott Clark

on June 18, 2022 | 7 Comments

One of the more pernicious misrepresentations of the distinction between the eternal and temporal spheres of Christ’s kingdom, which Calvin called the “twofold kingdom” (Institutes, 3.19.15), is that it counsels or leads Christians to withdraw from society (e.g., politics). Nothing could be . . . Continue reading →

Calvin: Repentance Is A Fruit Of Faith

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on June 18, 2022 | 11 Comments

Even though we have taught in part how faith possesses Christ, and how through it we enjoy his benefits, this would still remain obscure if we did not add an explanation of the effects we feel. With good reason, the sum of . . . Continue reading →

The Fundamental Significance Of The Lord’s Supper (pt 3)

B. B. Warfield

on June 17, 2022 | 2 Comments

Further than is obviously implied in this, it seems also a necessary for us just now to inquire into the precise meaning of a sacrificial feast. Its general law is laid down by the apostle Paul in the tenth chapter of First . . . Continue reading →

The Pride Flag And A Divided Movement

Heidelblog

on June 17, 2022

For a flag to be a powerful, sacred symbol of unity and purpose, it has to symbolize a real common sense of unity—a unified moral vision around which individuals can rally as part of a larger imagined community. That the Pride flag . . . Continue reading →

Get Your Spring, 2022 NTJ Here

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on June 16, 2022 | 1 Comment

In order to help make the latest issue of the NTJ more easily available, the editor has allowed us to host it. Nicotine Theological Journal 16.2 (Spring, 2022) Resources How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia The Heidelblog Resource Page Heidelmedia Resources The Ecumenical . . . Continue reading →