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Heidelcast For December 7, 2025: Best of… with Reverends Chris Gordon and John Fonville
In this “best of” episode, Dr. Clark speaks with Reverends Chris Gordon and John Fonville. Continue reading →
The Canons Of Dork #46 For December 6, 2025
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Double Predestination
In this episode of the Heidelcast, the Superfriends talk about elders & deacons, and law & gospel. Continue reading →
Only Blood Can Do It
Every sin leaves a stain. Hasty words, undone duties, secret thoughts that rot in the corners of conscience. Water cannot reach them. Resolve’s solvent cannot lift them. Only one blood has power to cleanse what lies beneath the surface of the soul. . . . Continue reading →
Joy in the Face of Chaos: Psalm 33 (Part 1)
Control versus chaos—which is winning? If you scan the world and your life, which one seems to be prevailing? Control is generally the team we want to win; it is the good, and chaos is not. But in this contest or battle . . . Continue reading →
Calvin Contra Selfishness
In a season where we are obsessed about inconveniences stemming from government shutdowns and market fears, a longer historical perspective with clearer vision is needed. Then, again, since the shutdown began, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is flat and the NASDAQ is . . . Continue reading →
Video: Reformed Poli-Sci Guys on the Young (and New?) Right
Listen as Brad Isbell from the Presbycast and some Reformed Poli-Sci Guys talk about the Young (and New?) Right Continue reading →
Good Mormon Families?
When discussing the success of Mormons, who prefer to be known as Latter Day Saints, in spreading their religion, people point to four points of persuasion: They have good families. They are nice people. They have had an intense religious experience. They . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: A Beginner’s Guide to Addressing Spiritual Abuse in the Church (4)
In this episode Dr. Clark continues his series on abuse in the church. Continue reading →
Review: Paradox People: Learning to Live the Beatitudes By Jonathan Landry Cruse
There is a strange tension pulsing through American Christianity right now. At the very moment when many believers are shouting louder to “take back the culture,” Jesus whispers a counterintuitive paradox: “Blessed are the meek.” It is precisely this upside-down ethic—the quiet . . . Continue reading →
Bavinck: The English Delegates To Dort Agreed In Substance With Amyraut And So Did Baxter
At the Synod of Dort, the foreign delegates spoke as broadly as possible about the worth and sufficiency of Christ’s sacrifice. The English theologians even stated that Christ, in a sense, had died for all: “Christ so died for all that all . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: A Beginner’s Guide to Addressing Spiritual Abuse in the Church (3)
In this episode Dr. Clark continues his series on abuse in the church. Continue reading →
The Hall of God’s Faithfulness, Part 6: Faith And The Future (Hebrews 11:32–40)
Bumper sticker theology—it does not seem to be as big today, but years ago you would see all sorts of theological statements on car bumpers. Some were better than others, of course. But the problem with all of these slogans was that . . . Continue reading →
Berkhof: Hypothetical Universalism Is Universalism
The Compromise of the School of Saumur. The School of Saumur represents an attempt to tone down the rigorous Calvinism of the Synod of Dort, and to avoid at the same time the error of Arminianism. This is seen especially in the . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: A Beginner’s Guide to Addressing Spiritual Abuse in the Church (2)
In this episode Dr. Clark continues his series on abuse in the church. Continue reading →
John Owen Versus John Davenant On Hypothetical Universalism
Since not only the complete finishing of this treatise under my hand, which is now about five months ago, but also the printing of some part of it, the two dissertations of Dr Davenant, of the Death of Christ, and of Predestination . . . Continue reading →
Justification By Faith And Social Justice By Works (Part 3)
The late German-American political philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901–1985) observed that history is marked by recurring attempts to divinize a fallen created order as a way of escaping the anxiety of fragile and finite existence. He identified in the early church heresy of Gnosticism a paradigm for understanding how private spiritual ambitions are transposed into public political projects—from Constantinianism and medieval Christendom to the totalitarianisms of the modern left and right. Continue reading →
Your AI Lover Is An Idol
You have probably seen the recent television commercial starring Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson in which Davidson is talking to an AI bot about whether he should change his name. He floats a couple of possibilities to the bot but ultimately decides . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of November 24–30, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of November 24–30. Continue reading →
Presbyterian Polity Does Not Assume The Normative Principle
To begin with, the most popular argument I have heard for non-ordained commissioned deaconesses is that the constitution of the PCA BCO does not forbid it. This statement is correct, but I also believe it is not helpful. Liberals use this argument to express that Jesus . . . Continue reading →