Video: The Compassionate King: Unpacking Matthew’s Gospel

Heidelblog

on May 9, 2025 | Comment

In this episode, Dan Borvan and Chris Gordon return to the mic to reflect on the physical and emotional toll of the devastation, analyze what may have gone wrong, and examine the belief some have that these fires are a manifestation of divine judgment. Continue reading →

A Son Remembers His Spiritual Father

Kim Riddlebarger

on May 9, 2025 | Comment

Dr. Rod Rosenbladt died in Christ today after a brief illness. There was no one else like him. J. I. Packer once told him, “Rod, you not only possess Luther’s theology, you embody the man.” No one has influenced my course in . . . Continue reading →

If We Don’t Do X, The Young People Will Leave

R. Scott Clark

on May 9, 2025 | 2 Comments

It is trite, but just in case you have not heard the story: During the Vietnam War, a Marine Corps colonel is reported to have said, “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”1 An analogy to this approach . . . Continue reading →

Review: The Lord’s Supper As The Sign and Meal of the New Covenant By Guy Prentiss Waters

Scott McDermand II

on May 8, 2025 | Comment

As a minister who has the privilege of serving the Lord’s Supper on a weekly basis, I would love for more Christians to grow in their appreciation and understanding of what it is, what it does, and why we should want it . . . Continue reading →

Must We Forgive The Impenitent?

Heidelblog

on May 8, 2025 | Comment

Forgiveness is one of the most difficult things required of us. You might almost say it goes against human nature. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.” That was Alexander Pope’s conclusion in “An Essay on Criticism.” [1] Christians generally know they . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Calvin’s Short Treatise On The Lord’s Supper (3)

Heidelcast

on May 8, 2025 | Comment

In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on Calvin’s Short Treatise on the Lord’s Supper. Continue reading →

An Ordained Method of Ministry?

Wilson Van Hooser

on May 7, 2025 | 3 Comments

I went to church to hear the gospel but that was not what I heard. What I heard was a Q&A session on tips for marriage. This was a Sunday that stood out to me as a young college student in New . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Calvin’s Short Treatise On The Lord’s Supper (2)

Heidelcast

on May 7, 2025 | Comment

In this episode Dr Clark continues a series on Calvin’s Short Treatise on the Lord’s Supper. Continue reading →

This Is What Intellectual Honesty Looks Like

Heidelblog

on May 7, 2025 | 2 Comments

It’s time to come clean. I was gullible. I took someone else’s word for it and didn’t do the research for myself. I should have searched the Scriptures “see whether these things were really so,” but instead I took the word of . . . Continue reading →

We Live Between The Now And Not Yet: Meilaender’s Critique Of Retrospective Romanticism

Heidelblog

on May 6, 2025 | Comment

In Book IV of Paradise Lost, John Milton introduces “our first father” and “our general mother,” ancestors of the human race: “Adam, the goodliest man of men since born / His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve” (Milton 2000, 86, 83). Together . . . Continue reading →

The Cradle Of Christian Truth: Apostles’ Creed (Part 14)—I Believe in the Holy Spirit

Harrison Perkins

on May 6, 2025 | Comment

I lived in New Zealand for a few months during college for a mission trip. We went to help a church start outreach efforts on the nearby university campus. One day, we attended an event where various organizations set up tables to . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Calvin’s Short Treatise On The Lord’s Supper (1)

Heidelcast

on May 6, 2025 | Comment

In this episode Dr Clark begins a series on Calvin’s Short Treatise on the Lord’s Supper. Continue reading →

The Rise Of Moralism In Seventeenth-Century Anglican Preaching: A Case Study

Julius E. Kim

on May 5, 2025 | Comment

The twenty-first century is not the first to witness English-speaking theologians in the Reformed tradition expressing dissatisfaction with the Reformation’s doctrine of justification through faith alone on the ground of Christ’s righteousness and sacrifice alone. Continue reading →

Paul Wooley And Meredith Kline On The Spiritual Mission Of The Visible Church

Heidelblog

on May 5, 2025 | 1 Comment

The undersigned dissent from the decisions of the Committee on Foreign Missions to appoint medical specialists as members of the staff of the Eritrean Mission and from its decision to establish a hospital as part of that Mission. Our dissent is necessitated by the following convictions: 1. There is no . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast For May 4, 2025: Comfort of the Covenant (35): Articles of the Last Things

Heidelcast

on May 4, 2025 | Comment

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

The Red Scarf Girl And The Natural Rights Of Parents

Heidelblog

on May 3, 2025 | Comment

In her celebrated book “Red Scarf Girl,” author Ji-li Jiang recounts growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China. She and millions of others had to choose between obeying the country’s communist government or obeying her parents. “’Now, you have to choose . . . Continue reading →

Does “Sing To Him A New Song” Justify Praise Songs?

R. Scott Clark

on May 3, 2025 | 67 Comments

We must read the injunctions to “sing a new song” in light of what the New Testament teaches us about types, (fore)shadows, and copies. Continue reading →

Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—The Person and Natures of Jesus Christ | Electronic Devices During The Worship Service

Heidelcast

on May 3, 2025 | 4 Comments

It’s a Superfriends Saturday on the Heidelcast! Continue reading →

The Canons Of Dork #39 For May 3, 2025

on May 3, 2025 | Comment

No goodies, no glory. Continue reading →

The Heidelblog

Video: The Compassionate King: Unpacking Matthew’s Gospel

A Son Remembers His Spiritual Father

If We Don’t Do X, The Young People Will Leave

Review: The Lord’s Supper As The Sign and Meal of the New Covenant By Guy Prentiss Waters

Must We Forgive The Impenitent?

Heidelminicast: Calvin’s Short Treatise On The Lord’s Supper (3)

An Ordained Method of Ministry?

Heidelminicast: Calvin’s Short Treatise On The Lord’s Supper (2)

This Is What Intellectual Honesty Looks Like

We Live Between The Now And Not Yet: Meilaender’s Critique Of Retrospective Romanticism

The Cradle Of Christian Truth: Apostles’ Creed (Part 14)—I Believe in the Holy Spirit

Heidelminicast: Calvin’s Short Treatise On The Lord’s Supper (1)

Top Five Posts For The Week Of April 28–May 4, 2025

The Rise Of Moralism In Seventeenth-Century Anglican Preaching: A Case Study

Paul Wooley And Meredith Kline On The Spiritual Mission Of The Visible Church

Heidelcast For May 4, 2025: Comfort of the Covenant (35): Articles of the Last Things

The Red Scarf Girl And The Natural Rights Of Parents

Does “Sing To Him A New Song” Justify Praise Songs?

Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—The Person and Natures of Jesus Christ | Electronic Devices During The Worship Service

The Canons Of Dork #39 For May 3, 2025