As a follow up to my recent interview with Stella Morabito I thought that this clip illustrates some important realities that we discussed. Joe Klein and Jeff Greenfield have impeccable mainstream media credentials. Klein writes for Time. Greenfield is perhaps best known . . . Continue reading →
Escondido Fire News (May 17, 2014)
The air is relatively clear this morning in central and southeast Escondido. The fires never approached the southeast part of town (near the seminary). Earlier in the week there were a couple of small (a fence, a car, and an outbuilding), oddly . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast 69: Stella Morabito On Political Correctness
The Heidelcast is a broadcast about history and theology and recovering the Reformed confession but one of my great concerns in recent years has been the potential and actual loss of religious and other civil liberties. It’s not unusual for Reformed ministers . . . Continue reading →
Latest On San Diego Fires (May 16, 2014)
Authorities have determined that the Bernardo fire was the result of construction. One of the fires at Camp Pendleton was the result of a burning semi-trailer. The Las Pulgas fire (Camp Pendleton) has grown to 8,000 acres. The causes of the other . . . Continue reading →
Escondido Fire (May 15, 2014) UPDATED
The Escondido Fire Dept. is battling a two-alarm structure fire at Calvary Assembly Church, in central Escondido. It’s a little suspicious that this fire should start now. It’s warm and winds have died down. It’s still very dry (6% humidity) but . . . Continue reading →
He Goes Toward The Flames (UPDATED)
In 2007, in an earlier version of the Heidelblog, I posted this photo of (now) San Diego Fire Capt. Danny Miranda. He’s served as a deacon in the Oceanside URC and today he’s one of many firefighters from across Southern California who . . . Continue reading →
Video: DC-10 Super Tanker
Credit: NBC 7 San Diego
Is The URCNA Going Forward, Backward, Or Sideways?
Years ago a Protestant Reformed minister told me that the URCNA was nothing more than the CRCNA of the 1950s. I took exception to that statement but it did make me wonder how much truth was in it. Would the URC be . . . Continue reading →
San Diego Fire Update #2 (May 14, 2014) Updated

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As the sun has begun to set, the winds have calmed, and air tankers are flying overhead almost constantly now. Cal Fire has shifted their concentration from a fire to the south. They are picking up fire retardant at the Ramona airport . . . Continue reading →
San Diego County Fire Updates (May 14, 2014) Corrected
You may have seen online that wildfires have broken out in San Diego County. There was an 800 acre fire yesterday southwest of Escondido in the 4S Ranch area (west of Rancho Bernardo) but fire crews had that under control. Today the . . . Continue reading →
The Cadaver Synod
“…this see of St. Peter always remains unblemished by any error”—Vatican I, Session 4 (July, 1870), cap. IV.6. …A man of exceptional intelligence, exemplary life, and strict asceticism (the only fault alleged against him was ambition), Formosus had bitter and relentless foes . . . Continue reading →
John Owen: Two Short Catechisms
(minor style revisions by R. Scott Clark, March 2006) Wherein the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ, are unfolded and explained. To my Loving Neighbors and Christian Friends. Brethren, My heart’s desire and request unto God for you is, that you may . . . Continue reading →
Second Commandment + Sola Scriptura = Christian Worship
“You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the . . . Continue reading →
Postmillennial Constantinianism Drives The Federal Vision
it basically boiled down to this: 1) Have weekly communion; and 2) meet with the local RC priest and treat him as a brother. And then go from there. He has always tended towards mechanism in my mind, because his priority is . . . Continue reading →
Cruisin Grand May 2014

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The Dubious Aesthetic Virtues Of Some Contemporary Praise Songs
HT: Chortles Weakly
Greg Looked Behind The Curtain: You Should Too
I’m not so sure the FV folk haven’t maintained unity between Moscow and Birmingham. The connections are still there….. So who is the Davenant Trust? Of the five board members two (Rick and Bradford (M.A., New Saint Andrews College) Littlejohn, father and . . . Continue reading →
Churchill On VE Day 1945
HT: On this, the 69th anniversary of V-E Day, listen to Winston Churchill deliver the news. http://t.co/5AVtkkWhWo — Chris Stirewalt (@cstirewalt) May 8, 2014
Providence (4): Not A Chance In The World
In part 3 we considered the “as it were” principle when thinking and talking about God and his providence. We talk about chance all the time. “Not a chance” or “He never gave me a chance” and in those cases we’re talking . . . Continue reading →
The Key To Unlocking The FV Error: The Double Mode Of Communion
I would say that the most foundational error in the book is his rejection of the “dual aspects of the covenant” (55-56), a matter which I consider essential to good Reformed theology and well balanced Calvinism. Reformed theology at its best accepts . . . Continue reading →