Video: Did the Reformation Cause Secularization?

Heidelblog

on November 8, 2024

Professor and Reformed theologian Michael Horton responds to Tom Holland’s analysis and tries to answer the question of whether the Protestant Reformation did indeed lead to the secularization of the West. Continue reading →

Vos Against An Earthly Glory Age Before Christ Returns

Heidelblog

on November 8, 2024

The idea of the Antichrist in general and that of the apostasy in particular reminds us that we may not expect an uninterrupted progress of the Christianization of the world until the parousia. As the reign of truth will be extended, so . . . Continue reading →

The Mystery Of Children’s Church

R. Scott Clark

on November 7, 2024 | 122 Comments

I can understand why evangelicals and others who do not have a covenantal theology would exile their children during public worship, but I do not understand why so many ostensibly Reformed congregations have adopted the practice of dismissing their covenant children from . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast Q&A: What About The Anabaptists On Justification?

Heidelcast

on November 7, 2024

In this episode Dr Clark answers the listener question “Heidelminicast Q&A: What Do We Know About Early Christian Worship?” Continue reading →

The Church Turned To Social Issues When It Should Have Turned To Doctrinal Issues

Heidelblog

on November 7, 2024

This discrepancy points to the prevailing interests of our Protestant churches in the twentieth century. At that time, much more attention was given to Christianity’s relationship with social issues than with doctrinal matters, and Philemon seems to touch more on social issues—specifically, . . . Continue reading →

Political Sermons From The Past: The Church’s Flight Into The Wilderness By Samuel Sherwood

David Hall

on November 6, 2024

An American sermon . . . on a choice morsel from the book of Revelation . . . associating corruption with hierarchies . . . and warning the church to resist sycophantic governments in league with that . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast Q&A: What About Eternal Justification?

Heidelcast

on November 6, 2024

In this episode Dr Clark answers the listener question “Heidelminicast Q&A: What Do We Know About Early Christian Worship?” Continue reading →

On The Cowardice Of Philosophers

Heidelblog

on November 6, 2024

Debates on sex and gender have suffered from a want of moral and intellectual toughness. More detailed, less question-begging diagnoses are possible of why so many smart people shy away from publicly acknowledging that a woman is an adult human female. But . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast Q&A: What Do We Know About Early Christian Worship?

Heidelcast

on November 5, 2024 | 6 Comments

In this episode Dr Clark answers the listener question “Heidelminicast Q&A: What Do We Know About Early Christian Worship?” Continue reading →

“Wretched Man That I Am”—Or Was? Part 1

Tony Phelps

on November 5, 2024 | 5 Comments

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man can come to the Father except through Me.” I remember reading these words in John 14 as an unbelieving but religion-curious college student. My conscience was convicted—though I was . . . Continue reading →

Kuiper: Christ Met The Condition Of The Covenant Of Works

Charles Vaughn

on November 5, 2024

Both at Babel and at Jerusalem God supernaturally caused men to speak in various tongues. But the consequences differed radically. At Babel there was confusion and division. Men were scattered abroad on all the face of the earth. That was the beginning . . . Continue reading →

Colquhoun: The Gospel Promise Has Always Been Free And Absolute

Tony Phelps

on November 4, 2024

The gospel after the fall was revealed in the form of a free and absolute promise of a Savior with salvation in Him to lost sinners of mankind. It was then promised that the seed of the woman would bruise the head . . . Continue reading →

A Case For Confessional Membership

R. Scott Clark

on November 4, 2024 | 10 Comments

Who can join Christ’s church and under what conditions? This is a question that has sometimes roiled the church. In the modern period most churches, including confessional Presbyterian and Reformed (P&R) churches, have tended to take a rather different position than churches . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast For November 3, 2024: The Comfort of the Covenant (11)—What is the Gospel?

Heidelcast

on November 3, 2024 | 1 Comment

In this episode Dr Clark continues the series, “The Comfort of the Covenant.” Continue reading →

Video: WSC 2024 Reformation Day Lecture “Let God Be God!”

Heidelblog

on November 2, 2024

Dr. Michael Horton gives the annual Reformation Lecture at Westminster Seminary California, entitled “Let God Be God!” Continue reading →

The Canons Of Dork #34 For November 2, 2024

on November 2, 2024 | 4 Comments

Trick or treat! Continue reading →

Psalm 42: Desiring God (Part 4)

Sean Morris

on November 2, 2024 | 1 Comment

Having given this wonderful text of Psalm 42 an expositional and pastoral survey in our previous three articles, we return one last time for a fourth installment wherein we consider some further implications and applications: 1. The great Matthew Henry writes in . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: How to Read the Bible (8): How Did Jesus Read the Bible?

Heidelcast

on November 2, 2024

Dr Clark continues the series “How To Read The Bible” Continue reading →

John Owen And The Organ (Among Other Things)

Inwoo Lee

on November 1, 2024

In worship, their paintings, crossings, crucifixes, bowings, cringings, altars, tapers, wafers, organs, anthems, litany, rails, images, copes, vestments,—what were they but Roman varnish, an Italian dress for our devotion, to draw on conformity with that enemy of the Lord Jesus? In doctrine, . . . Continue reading →

The Heidelblog

Video: Did the Reformation Cause Secularization?

Vos Against An Earthly Glory Age Before Christ Returns

The Mystery Of Children’s Church

Heidelminicast Q&A: What About The Anabaptists On Justification?

The Church Turned To Social Issues When It Should Have Turned To Doctrinal Issues

Political Sermons From The Past: The Church’s Flight Into The Wilderness By Samuel Sherwood

Heidelminicast Q&A: What About Eternal Justification?

On The Cowardice Of Philosophers

Heidelminicast Q&A: What Do We Know About Early Christian Worship?

“Wretched Man That I Am”—Or Was? Part 1

Kuiper: Christ Met The Condition Of The Covenant Of Works

Colquhoun: The Gospel Promise Has Always Been Free And Absolute

Top Five Posts For The Week Of October 28–November 3, 2024

A Case For Confessional Membership

Heidelcast For November 3, 2024: The Comfort of the Covenant (11)—What is the Gospel?

Video: WSC 2024 Reformation Day Lecture “Let God Be God!”

The Canons Of Dork #34 For November 2, 2024

Psalm 42: Desiring God (Part 4)

Heidelminicast: How to Read the Bible (8): How Did Jesus Read the Bible?

John Owen And The Organ (Among Other Things)