Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 27—What Do You Understand By The Providence Of God?

by Heidelcast on March 8, 2022

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 →

New In Print: NTJ Volume 15, Number 1

by R. Scott Clark on March 8, 2022

The Nicotine Theological Journal is alive again and online. If you have a printer attached to a computer and choose to do so, it can also be in print again. Co-edited by D. G. Hart and John Muether, the NTJ has been . . . Continue reading →

Expressive Individualism And Trans Children?

by Heidelblog on March 7, 2022

Last week, three news stories threw into sharp relief the ambitions of the sexual revolutionaries who govern the United States. First, there was the predictable outrage from the usual elites concerning Florida’s Parental Right in Education Bill, which would significantly restrict the . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 215: Behind The Scenes Of The Collapse Of The West

by Heidelcast on March 7, 2022

We are interrupting our series on prayer, Our Father, to air to a talk I gave yesterday to the Escondido URC Adult Sunday School class. We also got an interesting question on the Heideltext line about the nature of the presence of . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 26—What Do You Believe By “God The Father Almighty”?

by Heidelcast on March 6, 2022

Update On Ukrainian Refugees In Hungary

by Heidelblog on March 5, 2022

Every day brings new stories. Last evening we welcomed Irina, a young Ukrainian lady. Her family is from Donetsk, and she was in Kiev when the war started. She was in the last transports of refugees that left the encircled city. Somebody . . . Continue reading →

Grammar Guerrilla: Grammar Is For Everyone

by R. Scott Clark on March 5, 2022

I submit that given a library of about 300 well chosen books, a chalkboard/dry erase board, a supply of paper, pencils, and pens, a cadre of dedicated, well educated teachers, who had authority to discipline students, produce outstanding high school graduates who, upon examination, could gain entrance into any university in the West. A substantial percentage of what, after Dewey is reckoned education is, in fact, a waste of time and energy. Continue reading →

K–12 Schools Are Downstream From The University

by Heidelblog on March 5, 2022

This outsized influence of the university on K–12 schools occurs not without precedent. Once before, our nation’s dominant philosophy of education universally altered. Prior to the 20th century, American education was almost universally classical in nature — great books, grammar and rhetoric, . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 25—Since God Is One Why Do We Speak Of Father, Son, And Holy Spirit?

by Heidelcast on March 5, 2022

Question A Major Revoice Premise: Is SSA An Immutable Characteristic?

by Heidelblog on March 4, 2022

Johnson’s personal experience of unrelenting homosexual desire leads him to a total rejection of the “ex-gay script,” but this judgment does not meet with the approval of all in the field of gay therapy. For example, he dismisses the work of Joseph Nicolosi, a . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 24—How Are These Articles Divided?

by Heidelcast on March 4, 2022

A New Reformed Federation Of Reformed Churches Is Forming In The Democratic Republic Of The Congo

The Reformed Faith Is A Global Faith

by Jim Faucett on March 4, 2022

This week over three days, our dear brother Ephrem Bufole held a conference teaching elders and children’s ministry teachers the Heidelberg Catechism. These men are serious about the Reformed faith. They are leaving Pentecostalism behind. The pictures show the participants, the Three . . . Continue reading →

Meet A Confessional Hungarian Reformed Church

by R. Scott Clark on March 3, 2022

Brad Isbell recently interviewed Péter Szabó on the Presbycast about the history and renewal of Reformed theology, piety, and practice in Hungary. Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 23—What Are The Articles Of Our Christian Faith?

by Heidelcast on March 3, 2022

Obedient From All Eternity? 1 Corinthians 15:20–28 (Part 2)

by Christopher Smith on March 3, 2022

What Do We Do With All of This?

If what we saw in part 1 is what the ecumenical creeds and Reformed confessions teach, and if this is where the biblical data point, then what do we do with all of this? Continue reading →

A Report From A Christian In Ukraine

by Heidelblog on March 2, 2022

It is very hard to process all that is going on right now in my country. I was in Kyiv when Putin sent his missiles and cruise rockets in every major city of Ukraine (including Kyiv). I woke up from explosions at . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Heidelberg Catechism 22—What Must A Christian Believe?

by Heidelcast on March 2, 2022

The Truth About Fasting

by Heidelblog on March 2, 2022

Fasting has ordinarily been practiced as giving up food for a fixed time, and has been a fixture of the Christian tradition since its beginnings. One of the earliest Christian documents, the Didache, has several instructions regarding fasting that touch multiple aspects . . . Continue reading →

Obedient From All Eternity? 1 Corinthians 15:20–28 (Part 1)

by Christopher Smith on March 2, 2022

Introduction

I will never forget that Sunday. I was about thirteen years old—or maybe a little younger. Continue reading →

How Hungarian Reformed Christians Are Helping Ukrainian Refugees

by Heidelblog on March 1, 2022

In the middle of the night a car arrived. Two families got out of the vehicle, that is two moms and three children. Both ladies are wives of pastors in northern Ukraine, in a city with an important transport hub, which makes . . . Continue reading →