I think many church planters overestimate what can be done in two years and underestimate what can be done in ten years. We overemphasise the need for rapid numerical growth and underemphasise the wisdom of building slowly and faithfully. I remember preaching to . . . Continue reading →
Is It Live Or Is It Memorex?
The Church of Scotland was recently convulsed by a controversy over the call of a practicing homosexual minister.1 According to a recent news report it appears that the Church of Scotland has more trouble with her ministry in her consideration of virtual pastoring.2 . . . Continue reading →
Video: Moses-Centered Legalism (Part 1)
Chris Gordon and Dan Borvan discuss the importance of preaching from the perspective that as the Bible progresses, it reveals more and more about the salvation of Christ. Continue reading →
Review: Thank God By Reuben Bredenhof
“Thank God!” It rolls right off the tongue. It is so easy to say most times that you do not even need to think about it. But perhaps that is the problem. How often do we think about giving thanks? When and . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast Q&A: Baptism | Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry | Prayer | Instruments
In this episode Dr Clark answers listener questions on Covenant, Justification, and Pastoral Ministry and more. Continue reading →
Colquhoun: The Believer’s Interest In The Covenant Of Grace
Since true believers are already irrevocably interested in the covenant of grace, in the righteousness of Christ, and in the favor of God; and since they have in Christ and on the ground of His righteousness imputed to them a complete security . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast Q&A: Images, Ordination, and Inerrancy
In this episode Dr Clark answers listener questions on images, ordination, and inerrancy. Continue reading →
Laura Gregory On Discovering The Reformed Confession
My dad’s side of the family has spent many years piecing together our family history. I think what drew them to genealogy is our relationship to the Hatfields of the Hatfield and McCoy feud (which obviously was started by the McCoys and . . . Continue reading →
Why Are Baptistic Evangelicals Attracted To Anglicanism?
By now, the pattern is familiar. A young evangelical becomes disenchanted with her religious upbringing, discovers the liturgical church, and “walks the Canterbury Trail,” joining an Anglican or Episcopal church. She may even conclude the Anglican tradition is insufficiently Catholic and turn . . . Continue reading →
Featley: The Sweet Dipper (Part 5)
The actual account of the meeting between Featley and the Baptists is quite interesting. The substance of it begins when Featley was challenged by an anonymous “Scotch-man” who challenged him thus: Master Doctor, we come to dispute with you at this time, . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast Q&A: What Does Baptizo (βαπτίζω) Really Mean?
In this episode Dr Clark answers the question: what does baptizo really mean? Continue reading →
Evangelical Repentance, The Marrow, And The Auchterarder Creed
How did the theological examination of a man in a presbytery (body of regional church elders) in a small town in Scotland in 1717 fuel a deep-seated theological schism among ministers in the Church of Scotland and result in a movement that . . . Continue reading →
Top Five Posts For The Week Of June 17–23, 2024
These were the top five posts for the week beginning June 17–23, 2024. Continue reading →
Is There Distinctively Reformed Medicine?
After a visit to my father at his local hospital, I had a worldview moment. What should have alerted me from the outset was the name of the place – St. Mary’s. But then I noticed that the spiritual services wing of . . . Continue reading →
Synod Escondido (2024): Fellowship, Cooperation, And Mission
The first thing that Synod Escondido (URCNA) did was to gather for prayer, the singing of the Psalms (principally), and devotions led by the Rev. Chris Gordon, pastor of Escondido United Reformed Church. Anyone who heard the singing of the Psalms—and especially . . . Continue reading →
Heidelcast For June 23, 2024: Best Of: What Is New About The New Covenant?
In this “Best of” episode Dr Clark begins to help us understand what’s new about the New Covenant. He discusses the continuity between the Old Covenant (types and shadows) and the New Covenant, and begins to think about if there is any discontinuity between them. Continue reading →
Stealthy Psalters In The PCA?
Many PCA churches (more than half?) have a psalter and they don’t even know it. Of course, some churches have switched to the excellent, newer Trinity Psalter Hymnal or another good psalter, but if a church has the very common Trinity Hymnal they already have . . . Continue reading →
Heidelminicast: Sub-Christian Nationalism (9)
Dr Clark continues evaluating the Statement on Christian Nationalism. Continue reading →
Psalters!
When I began to become Reformed (c. 1980–81), the Reformed churches I knew were hymn-singing congregations. Typically, they used the blue Trinity Hymnal (1961), published by the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (and later by Great Commission Publications). There are Psalms (for singing and . . . Continue reading →
How Representative Of Reformed Orthodoxy Was Davenant?
However, does Lynch fully make his case that hypothetical universalists taught that Christ died for all human beings in one sense and for the elect alone in another sense? He appears persistently to blur the lines between the impetration and application of . . . Continue reading →