In this episode Dr Clark continues his series on “giving up lent”. Continue reading →
A few years ago, the United Reformed Churches in North America (URCNA) began regularly posting a list of pastoral openings on our website.1 This week I searched for the list to share with a young seminarian in our congregation, and I was . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark continues his series on “giving up lent”. Continue reading →
An old joke pokes at the irony of rejecting God by describing an atheistic scientist talking to God about why we supposedly no longer need him. He says to God, “You know, it used to be that we needed you to help . . . Continue reading →
But before one decides to avoid the alleged “ivory tower” of seminary, before one decides not to fight the battle of uprooting one’s self or family, we should count the costs. One of the benefits of in-person seminary education is that it . . . Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week of February 24–March 2. Continue reading →
As this is a great error [to mingle law and gospel], so it is a very dangerous error. If a man attempts to add any works of his own to the consummate righteousness of Jesus Christ as the ground of his justification . . . Continue reading →
In reaction to Rick Phillips’ critique of a response by a Federal Visionist to his (then) presbytery, one of the proponents of the Federal Vision made the following argument: Surely, we all know there’s a difference between how we use terms in . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series, “The Comfort of the Covenant.” Continue reading →
We also rebuke and reject all Anabaptists, who repeat their baptism and do not allow little children among God’s people to be baptized. James T. Dennison Jr. ed., Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation: 1523–1693, vol. 3 . . . Continue reading →
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
We have decided, in accordance with the Word of God, that despite the howls of Servetus and the new Anabaptists, infants must be baptized together with adults, for the following reasons: 1. The matter of the sacrament, the covenant itself, righteousness, life, . . . Continue reading →
Life is a classroom. Continue reading →
Last time, in part 1 of our study on Psalm 92, we began to consider how the Lord’s Day is an often neglected, yet crucial, component in the Christian’s arsenal. It is an essential ingredient and marvelous gift of God meant for . . . Continue reading →
I believe that baptism is the sign of the covenant of God with the seed of Abraham, ought to be given to those who belong to the covenant of grace, and, as a consequence, to the infants of believers. Thus I reject . . . Continue reading →
We’re talking about practice; not a game, not a game, not a game. We’re talking about practice. Continue reading →
It is no longer revolutionary (no pun intended) to hold that the earth revolves around the sun, but it was not always so. The observation of Nicholas Copernicus (1473–1543), that the universe is heliocentric (sun-centered) and not geocentric (earth-centered) was met with . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark begins a new series on “giving up lent”. Continue reading →
Growing up in the craggy mountains of Southern California, I developed a healthy fear of snakes, particularly of the venomous variety. As a young lad, whenever I would climb rocks and boulders, every crevice was considered a dark pit of hell from . . . Continue reading →
We teach that baptism should not be ministered in the church by women or midwives. For Paul excludes women from ecclesiastical callings: but baptism belongs to ecclesiastical offices. We condemn the Anabaptists, who deny that young infants, born of faithful parents, are . . . Continue reading →