Earlier R. Scott Clark wrote A Case for Confessional Membership.1 There he argued that Reformed churches should seek to raise their standards for church membership. One of the supporting arguments he listed in a footnote was the pastoral advice on church membership . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark answers a listener question on “zoning out” during the Lord’s Supper. Continue reading →
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, resigned on Tuesday after an investigation found he’d mishandled the John Smyth abuse scandal. The resignation is a shock but, for those aware of the story, not a surprise. One of the vices I developed as a . . . Continue reading →
Happy New Year from the HRA! This is the seventeenth year of the Heidelblog, and since 2012 the Heidelblog has had more than 11.5 million views and 3.5 million visitors. Thank you to our loyal readers and supporters. If you are just . . . Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week of December 23–29, 2024. Continue reading →
[The Gospel] serves, likewise, the highly important purpose of discovering to sinners their warrant to trust in Christ Jesus for complete salvation. In the blessed gospel, Christ, and God in Christ, are freely offered to sinful men, and men are graciously invited . . . Continue reading →
In his influence on the Reformed theological tradition, Girolamo Zanchi was a giant. Zanchi was born in Alzano, in northern Italy, in 1516, one year before Luther famously nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg. He received a first-rate . . . Continue reading →
So far in this series we have considered four ways that Christians can engage secular politics in our time, between the ascension and return of Christ: Prayer, Organize, Persuade, Legislate, and Litigate. Certainly the first point, prayer, cannot be controversial, since Scripture . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark continues the series, “The Comfort of the Covenant.” Continue reading →
Nearly half a century after R. T. Kendall published “Calvin and English Calvinism to 1649,” the debate of “Calvin versus the Calvinists” rages on. Kendall’s was not the first attempt at pointing out supposed discontinuity between Calvin and his successors, of course. . . . Continue reading →
It is not unusual to encounter infertility. Perhaps you have walked through this yourself, or alongside friends and family who have. It may be a common prayer item at church, or in your daily prayers. It may be tempting to see this as a modern phenomenon, but the Bible attests in multiple places that it is not. Continue reading →
Dr Clark continues the series “Ordinary Means Ordinary” Continue reading →
In my first church out of seminary, I preached a sermon in which I mentioned specific atrocities of the 20th century as illustrations of human sinfulness. After the service a man came up to me livid that I had singled out Nazi . . . Continue reading →
Dr Clark joins HRA board members Brad Isbell, Dr Dan Borvan, Chris Gordon, as well as Presbycast co-host Wresbyterian, and HB contributors Sean Morris, Zoe Miller, and remarkably, the late Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones to air grievances and to crack jokes as we . . . Continue reading →
A Third Error Previously I wrote that there are two classes of Christological errors. That is not strictly true. There are three: those that deny the humanity, those that deny the deity, and those that deny the union of the two natures . . . Continue reading →
We pick up again with Alan Strange’s treatment of Hodge in Empowered Witness. There are some questions raised by this work that bear consideration in a review. A reader who is not already in sympathy with the essential argument or who perhaps . . . Continue reading →
The genuine believer takes the whole of Scripture as a living organism produced by the Holy Spirit to present Christ to him. On every page of Scripture, he finds traits and traces of the Mediator. Geerhardus Vos | Reformed Dogmatics, ed. Richard . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark answers a listener question on “zoning out” during the Lord’s Supper. Continue reading →
And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled . . . Continue reading →
A loom binds together both warp and weft. The Spirit hovers, the Word becomes flesh. A figure forms as fine strands intersect. The virgin’s womb frames the image made fresh. A tapestry hangs for all to inspect. The shepherds gaze at the . . . Continue reading →