Heidelcast Minute: What Are The Conditions In The Covenant Of Grace?

Heidelcast

on December 16, 2019

Resources Heidelcast 98: Salvation, Good Works, And Conditions Resources On Conditions In The Covenant Of Grace (Updated) Resources On Norman Shepherd Resources On The Federal Vision Theology

Thousands Of Women Did Not Die Annually In Botched Abortions Before Roe

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on December 14, 2019 | 1 Comment

We dug through the statistics and it turns out she was citing numbers from the 1930s, before the advent of antibiotics. In 1972, the number of deaths in the United States from legal abortions was 24 and from illegal abortions 39, according . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast Minute: The Federal Vision Theology Is Dialectical

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on December 13, 2019 | 2 Comments

The adjective dialectical, can refer generally to a discussion of different points of view. In this context, however, it refers to a specific theological method. In short, a dialectical theologian says contradictory things about the same at the same time. It is . . . Continue reading →

Found: Hardcopies Of Always Reformed

R. Scott Clark

on December 12, 2019

Always Reformed: Essays in Honor of W. Robert Godfrey

This volume was published in 2010 in celebration of Bob Godfrey’s sixth-fifth birthday. It is a collection of essays by Reformed scholars on a variety of topics. Contributors: Sinclair Ferguson, D. G. Hart, Richard Muller, Michael Horton, Kim Riddlebarger, R. C. Sproul, . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast Minute: Understanding The Roots Of The Federal Vision

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on December 12, 2019

Resources Resources On The Federal Vision Theology Source episode: Heidelcast 55: Why We Can’t Move On (1) Should I Buy It? (1) Should I Buy It? (2) Resources On Norman Shepherd

Grammar Guerrilla: Pronoun Primer

R. Scott Clark

on December 11, 2019 | 5 Comments

In yet another indicator that the West is collapsing, Webster’s Dictionary has apparently named they, used to designate a particular, non-gendered person, the word of 2019. This seems to call for a quick refresher on basic grammar: There are two kinds of . . . Continue reading →

Perkins: God Finds In Our Good Works More To Damn Than To Save

Inwoo Lee

on December 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

Q: How is he accepted righteous before God? A: By the righteousness of Christ imputed to him [2 Col 5:21]. Q: What profit comes by being thus justified? A: Hereby and by no other means in the world, the believer shall be . . . Continue reading →

A Smear Memorialized

R. Scott Clark

on December 10, 2019 | 10 Comments

This is the portion of the trailer for the video By What Standard? released by Founders Ministry in which video, known in the business as “B-roll,” of Rachael Denhollander is used to illustrate the words, “always having the powers, the spiritual powers . . . Continue reading →

Owen: The Promise Is Received Through Faith Alone

R. Scott Clark

on December 10, 2019 | 1 Comment

Fallen, sinful man stands in need of the utmost encouragement that divine condescension can extend unto, to prevail with him to receive and lay hold of the promise of grace and mercy by Jesus Christ. There is nothing that we are so . . . Continue reading →

As It Was In The Days Of Noah (26): 2 Peter 1:3–11 (part 1)

R. Scott Clark

on December 9, 2019 | 1 Comment

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, 4by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. Continue reading →

Guelzo: “The 1619 Project Is Not History; It Is Ignorance“

R. Scott Clark

on December 9, 2019 | 2 Comments

So, let us speak of slavery. The American republic inherited slavery from the British empire, in much the same way that it inherited its fiscal poverty, its lack of manufacturing capability, and its primitive infrastructure. We expected to overcome all of these . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 133: I Am That I Am (10): The Attributes Of God

Heidelcast

on December 6, 2019

In this episode we continue our consideration of the divine attributes, particularly divine immensity and immutablity. By immensity we mean that attribute whereby God fills all that can be filled with all of himself all of the time, yet so that the Creator . . . Continue reading →

Gnosticism And Christian Universalism

R. Scott Clark

on December 6, 2019 | 2 Comments

Universal salvation (or universalism) seems to have first emerged as a distinct religious doctrine among Christian gnostic teachers in or around Alexandria, Egypt, during the early to mid-second century CE, several decades before the influential and well-known Christian author Origen (ca. 185-251)… . . . Continue reading →

Heidegger: Good Works Are Necessary As Fruit And Evidence Of Faith

R. Scott Clark

on December 4, 2019 | 3 Comments

VIII. New Obedience; Good Works New obedience is exercised through good works. Moreover, there are good works, voluntary actions of the sanctified, which come from a pure heart, love of God, true faith in Christ, according to the law of God, for . . . Continue reading →

James White: The Federal Vision “Stands In Opposition To The Gospel”

R. Scott Clark

on December 2, 2019 | 1 Comment

How can anyone not read [the Federal Vision theology] as blatant, unvarnished sacerdotalism that stands in opposition to the gospel….

Office Hours: Carl Trueman On Luther As Theologian Of The Cross

R. Scott Clark

on December 2, 2019

There are few figures more central to the history of the West than Martin Luther (1486–1546). Without him there would have been no Reformation, or at least it would have looked very differently. The confessional Protestant churches, i.e., Lutherans and the Reformed . . . Continue reading →

Classic Reformed Theology Series

R. Scott Clark

on December 2, 2019 | 5 Comments

The Reformed faith has deep roots in the patristic and medieval church, but its emergence as a distinct tradition, growing out of the Lutheran Reformation, may be traced to the early 1520s. The development of Reformed theology as distinct from Lutheranism is . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 132: I Am That I Am (9): The Attributes Of God

Heidelcast

on November 30, 2019

In this episode we turn our attention from the doctrine of the Trinity to the divine attributes. Of course, in God, there are not attributes since God is what he is. Francis Turretin called the attributes “the essential properties by which [God] makes . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast Minute: What Do We Mean By “Comfort”?

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on November 29, 2019

Here are all the episodes of the Heidelcast. Subscribe in Apple Podcasts. Subscribe directly via RSS Call the Heidelphone anytime at (760) 618-1563. Leave a message and we may use it in a future broadcast. If you benefit from the Heidelcast please . . . Continue reading →

New In Print: J. H. Heidegger’s Concise Marrow Of Theology

R. Scott Clark

on November 28, 2019

J. H. Heidegger (1633–98) was a significant Swiss Reformed theologian, in Zürich, at the end of the 17th century. This volume is a clear, accessible introduction to Reformed theology. It is not technical. It was meant to be a starting point and . . . Continue reading →