Heidelcast 178: Responding To Criticisms Regarding Ontology, Feminism, Nature, and Grace

Heidelcast

on April 17, 2021 | 5 Comments

With this episode (the second this week) I am interrupting the series, on eschatology and 1 Peter, As it Was In The Days Of Noah, for a brief reply to some comments recently made on another podcast. In this episode I play . . . Continue reading →

The Spiritual Source Of Apostasy And Its Cure

by R. Scott Clark on April 17, 2021

Apostates will often give an ostensible intellectual reason for their apostasy but, in my experience, the root cause is rarely intellectual. It is typically spiritual. Continue reading →

Apostasy Characterizes The Last Days

by R. Scott Clark on April 16, 2021 4 Comments

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. Continue reading →

Christianity Is Not A Construct

by R. Scott Clark on April 15, 2021 1 Comment

In order for something to be deconstructed, it must first be a construct, i.e., an artifice, a mere human convention, something that could be other than it is, something that might not be. There are such things in the world (e.g., stop signs) but Christianity is not among them. Continue reading →

What Does A Pastor Do?

R. Scott Clark

on April 15, 2021 | 2 Comments

This week I was chatting with someone who curiously asked me: “What does a pastor do?” Unsurprisingly, it’s a question I get from people inside and outside of the church. Sometimes it’s asked with a note of interested inquisitiveness, and other times . . . Continue reading →

A Guide To Interpreting Scripture: All Scripture Has Two Authors

R. Scott Clark

on April 15, 2021

It is common to hear admonishments to read the Bible and interpret it in context; that is, that we ought to avoid detaching a particular verse, story, or portion of Scripture from the immediate and original context in which it was written. . . . Continue reading →

There Is Only One Way—But Thank God That There Is A Way

R. Scott Clark

on April 14, 2021 | 1 Comment

The Illusion Of Choices One of the first Bible verses I learned as a young Christian remains near the forefront of my mind because it captures an essential truth. It is John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. . . . Continue reading →

Understanding Our Brave New World

by R. Scott Clark on April 14, 2021

The “narrative” (as people say) and the algorithm are real. Continue reading →

A Phrase To Be Retired: Best Practice

by R. Scott Clark on April 13, 2021 3 Comments

Every human endeavor has its own vocabulary. Auto mechanics shorthand expressions and jargon—though beware if he or she tells you that you need a new Johnson Rod as you will pay good money for no part and no service—like every other endeavor under the sun. Continue reading →

Heidelcast 177: As It Was In The Days Of Noah (21)—Be Not Surprised (2)

Heidelcast

on April 11, 2021

This series is a study of what Scripture says about eschatology, i.e., the relation of heaven to earth and last things. We began with a survey of what Scripture says generally and now we are working through 1 Peter. We have come . . . Continue reading →

How The Athanasian Creed Can Help Contemporary Evangelical Theological Discourse

R. Scott Clark

on April 10, 2021 | 6 Comments

33. Equal to the Father, as touching his deity: and inferior to the Father as touching his humanity (Aequalis Patri secundum divinitatem: minor Patre secundum humanitatem)—Athanasian Creed. Yesterday, in our Reformed confessions course, we were considering Belgic Confession articles 18 and 19 . . . Continue reading →

SCOTUS Rebukes Ninth Circuit For The Fifth Time, Sides With Religious Freedom Versus California

R. Scott Clark

on April 10, 2021

…The Ninth Circuit’s failure to grant an injunction pending appeal was erroneous. This Court’s decisions have made the following points clear. First, government regulations are not neutral and gener- ally applicable, and therefore trigger strict scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause, whenever . . . Continue reading →

This Heartbreaking Story Is Being Repeated With More Frequency

R. Scott Clark

on April 9, 2021 | 2 Comments

But the further my transition went, the more I realized that I wasn’t a man, and never would be. We are told these days that when someone presents with gender dysphoria, this reflects a person’s “real” or “true” self, that the desire . . . Continue reading →

Federal District Court Rules Against Wayne State University And In Favor Of Religious Liberty And Free Speech

R. Scott Clark

on April 9, 2021

Plaintiffs InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Wayne State Chapter, (“Intervarsity”) has for 75 years operated a Christian student organization on the campus of Wayne State University, but in 2017 was denied continued official recognition or registration as a legitimate student . . . Continue reading →

British Christians Object To Vaccine Passports

R. Scott Clark

on April 9, 2021 | 7 Comments

Dear Prime Minister, As Christian leaders across a range of denominations, we continue to pray at this time for your government “and all in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity” (1 . . . Continue reading →

Grammar Guerrilla: “Speak Into” And “Love On”

The American Evangelical Abuse Of Prepositions Continues

R. Scott Clark

on April 8, 2021 | 17 Comments

Two popular expressions entered the American colloquial lexicon about a decade ago. I first heard them both used by an evangelical from the American South. He wanted to “speak into” an issue and “love on” some people. It seems as if the . . . Continue reading →

Why Are Confessionalists Just A Niche?

by R. Scott Clark on April 8, 2021 6 Comments

That was one of the questions I asked in Recovering the Reformed Confession. Continue reading →

The Church Has A Twofold Mission And Three Marks And Ending Payday Lenders Is None Of Them

R. Scott Clark

on April 7, 2021 | 10 Comments

Just before our Lord Jesus ascended to the right hand of the Father, he gave the visible, institutional church as twofold mission: “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, . . . Continue reading →

Grace Neither Obliterates Nor Transforms Nature

by R. Scott Clark on April 6, 2021 10 Comments

This morning we were working through the first article of the first question of Aquinas’ Summa Theologica. Continue reading →

New Resource Page: The Ecumenical Creeds

R. Scott Clark

on April 6, 2021 | 1 Comment

The word ecumenical means universal and the ecumenical creeds are the church’s articulation of the universal (or, in that same sense) catholic faith taught in Holy Scripture and confessed by the church since the time of the apostles. The apostolic church itself . . . Continue reading →