Dipping the bread into the wine as a method of distributing and receiving the elements of the Lord’s supper is a matter that has recently come into discussion among some churches. This procedure, commonly called “intinction,” has significance in the life of . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Christian Liberty (6): Christian Liberty Delivers Us From the Opinions of the Pope
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series on Christian Liberty. Continue reading →
Review: Histories And Fallacies By Carl Trueman
As advocates of the Presuppositional approach to apologetics remind us ad infinitum, no one is neutral epistemologically. That is true enough. We must not, however, draw the fallacious inference that no one is objective. That does not follow. In Histories and Fallacies . . . Continue reading →
J. K. Rowling’s Heroic Resistance To The Trans Movement Is A Model
I’m not a Harry Potter fan. But please don’t cancel me or stop reading. The reason I’m not an HP fan has little to do with overblown concerns about magic and spirits. Neither do I dislike the HP canon. It’s just too . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Christian Liberty (5): What Does Christian Liberty Have To Do With Worldview?
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series on Christian Liberty. Continue reading →
Do Reformed Christians Confess The Sabbath?
Justin Taylor has posted material from Tom Schreiner’s 40 Questions About Christians and Biblical Law, which argues, “I do not believe the Sabbath is required for believers now that the new covenant has arrived in the person of Jesus Christ.”1 Schreiner considers the . . . Continue reading →
The Cradle Of Christian Truth: Apostles’ Creed (Part 11)—The third day he rose again from the dead
The Trojan Horse is the classic example of a bait and switch. Legend says that, for ten years, the Greeks waged war on the city of Troy. This war went so long because Troy was so well fortified. One morning, the Trojans . . . Continue reading →
Goodwin: Children And Gentiles Are Included In The External Administration Of The Covenant Of Grace
The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the Gospel, are included by God within the covenant of Grace, as well as Abraham’s or David’s seed within that covenant of theirs. Thomas . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Christian Liberty (4): Does Christian Liberty Give License to Coarse Jesting?
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series on Christian Liberty. Continue reading →
Calvin: The Abrahamic Covenant And The New Covenant Are Substantially Identical
Both can be explained in one word. The covenant made with all the patriarchs is so much like ours in substance and reality that the two are actually one and the same. Yet they differ in the mode of dispensation. But because . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of April 7–13, 2025
These were the top five posts for the week of April 7—13. Continue reading →
Preaching Sola Fide Better
After a conference address that expounded the doctrine of justification by faith and showed its contemporary importance, the following comments were overheard during a coffee break. Continue reading →
Heidelcast For April 13, 2025: Comfort of the Covenant (32): The Return of Christ and Last Things
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series, “The Comfort of the Covenant.” Continue reading →
Calvin: Children Are Included In The New Covenant Because It Is Abrahamic
Yet Scripture opens to us a still surer knowledge of the truth. Indeed, it is most evident that the covenant which the Lord once made with Abraham [cf. Gen. 17:14] is no less in force today for Christians than it was of . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Participation in the Liturgy | Christian Liberty and the Conditions for Church Membership | Jesus Fulfilling All Righteousness
It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →
Remember Not My Sin, But Remember Me: Psalm 25 (Part 2)
In the first installment on Psalm 25, we identified the agony for which the psalmist was praying for relief. The community around him shamed and ridiculed him as beyond the reach of forgiveness. Even his own memory tormented him that the sins . . . Continue reading →
Zanchi: We Agree With The Ancient Church That Children Are Included In The New Covenant
We believe, with the whole ancient Church, that not only adults who have declared that they repent of their sins and believe in Christ, but also their little children, must be admitted to the sacrament of baptism, since the covenant also concerns . . . Continue reading →
Was Paul Mean?
I was meditating on Paul’s words in 2 Thessalonians 3:6–12. Paul was concerned about those in the congregation who were obsessed with and confused over Jesus’ return (parousia). They had what theologians (rightly) call an “over realized eschatology.” In their anticipation of . . . Continue reading →
Why Does The Council Of Chalcedon Matter?
Dr. R. Scott Clark explains why the Council of Chalcedon matters for our theology today. Continue reading →
Review: The Gospel in the Stars By Joseph A. Seiss
In 1882 the Lutheran minister Joseph A. Seiss (1823–1904) published the provocative volume, The Gospel in the Stars, Or, Prímeval Astronomy (Philadelphia: E. Claxton & company, 1882). Evidently, it found an audience, and it has been reprinted as recently as the early 1970s and . . . Continue reading →