Next To Be Banned?

by on January 9, 2021 | 20 Comments

There would be no end to what could be censored. Trans-sceptical feminists, already victims of Silicon Valley’s woke purges, would be completely wiped out on the basis that some idiot might interpret their intellectual, non-bigoted critiques of genderfluidity as an instruction to . . . Continue reading →

Indy Reformed Holding Services January 17 and 24, 2021 (Updated)

by on January 8, 2021 | 2 Comments

Indy Reformed is a group of Reformed Christians who are committed to seeing a URCNA church planted in the Indianapolis area. The group has been adopted by Zeltenreich Reformed Church in New Holland, PA. The church planting efforts are currently in the development phase with the goal to launch in the Spring of 2022. Continue reading →

Some Reasons Why Visitors Do Not Stay And What To Do About It

by on January 7, 2021 | 17 Comments

Presbyterian and Reformed congregations occupy an odd space in American Christianity. We do not really belong to American Christianity in significant ways. Our roots are not in the nineteenth-century revivals nor even in the eighteenth-century revivals. We are no part of the . . . Continue reading →

A New Calvin Title In English: God Or Baal—Two Letters On The Reformation Of Worship And Pastoral Service

by on January 6, 2021 | 2 Comments

The French “Nicodemites” have long been an interest on the HB. I first wrote about them here in 2009, from which I borrow here to give some background by which to understand the value of a first-ever English translation of two early . . . Continue reading →

Americans Are Going Home. Maybe It Is Time To Think About About Planting Churches There Too?

by on January 5, 2021 | 11 Comments

Some dear friends left their life in the city and moved back home a few years ago. They live in his Mom and Dad’s place in the Sandhills of Nebraska. North Platte (pop. 23,000), a hour to the south, is the nearest . . . Continue reading →

A New Edition Of Two Important Treatises By Calvin (With A Video Series By Bob Godfrey)

by on January 5, 2021 | 2 Comments

To say that John Calvin (1536–64) was a prolific and important author is to say the obvious. What is remarkable, however, is how much of what he wrote remains not only useful for the church but even vitally important. Two of his . . . Continue reading →

Are Confessions Themselves QIRC-Y?

by on January 2, 2021 | 19 Comments

A correspondent to the Heidelblog writes: …I have been living in the Heidelblog lately, and have been challenged to rethink so many previous convictions. Thank you for this resource! I especially have been edified by the QIRC/QIRE idea, but thinking through it . . . Continue reading →

A Little Wisdom Might Help Us Love Our Neighbor

by on December 31, 2020 | 20 Comments

Two Albuquerque, NM megachurches are being fined by the governor for disobeying regulations on gathering for worship. Both held Christmas Eve services with crowded auditoriums. In one video there are few masks evident. KOAT has the story. One congregation claims to have . . . Continue reading →

Crisp: Edwards Was A Panentheist

by on December 30, 2020 | 2 Comments

…Such a picture of God’s relation to the creation is undoubtedly striking, combining as it does aspects of classical theism, theological aesthetics, panentheism, and the doctrines of continuous creation and occasionalism (about which, more presently). Far from being the product of some . . . Continue reading →

Criticizing Edwards On Religious Affections Does Not Lead To Dead Orthodoxy: There Is Another Way

by on December 29, 2020 | 2 Comments

In the wake of my latest essay, which cautions readers regarding Jonathan Edwards, has come questions about the role of affections and emotion in the Christian life. These questions signal how deep the Pietist tradition (see the resources below) runs in American . . . Continue reading →