Superfriends Saturday

Meet The Superfriends
Scott McDermand II is pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Bad Axe, Michigan. He graduated from San Diego State University (BA, History) and earned masters degrees at Westminster Seminary California (MA, Historical Theology; MDiv). He serves on the board of directors of the Heidelberg Reformation Association as secretary. He has a passion for preaching and teaching the Word of God, Biblical theology, Church History, and enjoys fellowshipping with the saints. In his free time, he also enjoys baseball, reading, classical music, eating whatever his wife cooks for him, and walking their two dogs. Scott is a regular contributor to the Heideblog and a member of the board of directors of the HRA.
Harrison Perkins (PhD, Queen’s University Belfast; MDiv, Westminster Seminary California) is pastor of Oakland Hills Community Church (OPC), a member of the of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, a Senior Research Fellow at the Craig Center for the Study of the Westminster Standards, associate online instructor in church history at Westminster Theological Seminary, a visiting lecturer in systematic theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, and author of Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction. He’s a regular contributor to the Heidelblog and a member of the board of directors of the HRA.
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books, the most recent of which is The Heidelberg Catechism: A Historical, Theological, Pastoral Commentary (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press 2025) and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007 and the Heidelcast since 2009. Read Scott’s articles»
All Episodes
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Introductions
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Bible Translations
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—”Pure” or “Less Pure” Churches?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—The Angel of the LORD | Gospel Preaching
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Who Can Serve The Lord’s Supper? | Paedobaptism Conviction
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Former Baptist | The Elements of the Lord’s Supper | Christian Education
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Is a Husband the Prophet, Priest, and King of His Family | The Gospel as Sacramental
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Understanding for Singing the Psalms | Monogenes (μονογενής) | Westminster Shorter Catechism #85
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Signing the Cross | The Purpose of the Book of Job
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Luke 24:31 | Why Reformed Theology?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Participation in the Liturgy | Christian Liberty and the Conditions for Church Membership | Jesus Fulfilling All Righteousness
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Take Up Your Cross | Understanding Paedo Baptism Before Calvin | 1689 Federalist Covenant Theology
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Common Grace | Regulative Principle of Worship | Why are the Hosts in the Denominations They Are?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—The Person and Natures of Jesus Christ | Electronic Devices During The Worship Service
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—The Role of A Prophet in the New Covenant | Are There Inherently Sinful Forms of Music? | The Perpetual Virginity of Mary?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Should We Pray for our Pets? | Lord’s Day Evening Services?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Gambling and the Mercies of God | Does the Westminster Larger Catechism Teach That Baptism Saves?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Did Christ Die for All the Children of Believers? | Limbus Patrum
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Who are the False Teachers in 2 Peter 2? | How to Think About Retirement
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: The Regulative Principle of Worship and the Liturgical Church Calendar | The Incarnation and Jesus’ Body
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: John Piper and Final Justification
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: What Is Preaching And What Is The Purpose Of A Sermon?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Did Adam Have Any Knowledge of the Ten Commandments? | The Eucharist: Where Does the Changing of the Elements Come From?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Created For Communion With God: The Promise of Genesis 1 And 2
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Was the Covenant of Grace Made with Christ or the Elect? | Should I Change Churches?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: When Have We Gone Too Far When Changing Our Doctrinal Understanding? | Romans 2:13, Two Stages of Justification, and Future Justification Through Works
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Will the Elect Find Their Way to a Reformed Church? | Besetting Sin: Godly Sorrow vs. Worldly Sorrow
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Sacramental Union | Augustine’s Adult Baptism | Acts 15:29 and Blood Sausage
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Protestant Christianity And Spiritual Legitimacy With the Church Fathers | Second Commandment Violations and Church Discipline
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Is It OK To Call Pastors “Priest” And ” Father” | Do We Freely Choose To Sin?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Adult Children Who Have Fallen Away From the Faith | When a Pastor’s Convictions Change
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Addressing Church Councils that Disagree with the Reformed Confessions | Will God Forgive Me for Adultery?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: John Calvin On Autotheos | Questions On Baptism
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Does Baptism Save You? | Women Preaching
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Were The Representatives Of The Dutch Second Reformation Unduly Introspective?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: What Makes the Confessions Different From Biblicism? | Questions About Assurance
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Non-ordained Service in the Church
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Anointing With Oil | Is the Word “Psalms” Inclusive Of Non-Inspired Songs?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Is The Church A Household Of Households?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: “The Heidelberg Catechism A Historical, Theological, and Pastoral Commentary” An Interview With Dr. R. Scott Clark
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Are Youth Groups Beneficial?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Raising Boys to Bear the Fruit of the Spirit | Are There Differences in Substance Between the Levitical and Melchizedekian Priesthoods?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Demonic Possession
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Term Limits for Elders and Deacons | What Should the Balance be Between Preaching Law and Gospel?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Double Predestination
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Do We Pray to Jesus or to the Father in the Name of Jesus Through the Power of the Holy Spirit?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: The “Divine Council” Interpretation of Psalm 82:1
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Does the Scottish Confession Teach Baptismal Regeneration?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: A Practical Approach to Natural Law—How Do We Know When Scripture is Speaking to Only Nature or Only to Grace or to Both?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: The Theological Significance of Pets
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Do Humans Have Intrinsic Value Before God?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: How Do We Reconcile the Republication of the Covenant of Works at Sinai with the Westminster Confession of Faith 7.5?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Paul’s Response to the Judaizers in Galatians: Circumcision, the Law, and Our Justification
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Are the Length of Creation Days and the Age of the Earth in Genesis 1 Markers of Orthodoxy?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: The Relationship of “Historical Theologian” to the Offices of the Church
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Which is More Important, Pure Worship or Political Theology?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—”Be Fruitful and Multiply”—How Does this Command Apply to Families Who Cannot Naturally Have Children?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Preparing for Seminary and Pastoral Ministry | The Relationship Between Repentance and Faith
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: The Error of Sandemanianism
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Praying to Dead Saints and Necromancy | Are Our Heavenly Rewards Proportional to Our Works?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: I Can’t find a Reformed Church Near Me With an Evening Service. What Should I Do?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Women Teaching the Gospel: Does Scripture Forbid Women from Telling Others What the Gospel is in Public?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: How Do We Prepare a Sermon? | Every Member Ministry in Light of Ephesians 4:11-13
- Superfriends Saturday: Ministry, Evangelism, and the Second Commandment
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Advice for Couples Who are From Different Christian Traditions
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: What is the Ideal Method for Confessional Subscription For Office Bearers?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Are Theaters, Movies, Card Playing, and General Entertainment Sinful? Or, Have We Become Lax as Christians?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Is the “Home Church” Movement Biblical?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: A Follow-Up on Advice for Couples Who are From Different Christian Traditions | Are Elder and Deacon Meetings on the Lord’s Day a Violation of the Fourth Commandment?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: What Exactly Was Adam and Eve’s Sin?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Canons of Dort 3&4.17: How do Admonitions Function Under the Covenant of Grace?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Disciplining Children
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Besides Baptism, What are the Differences Between Presbyterian and Baptist Theologies?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: The Vices and Virtues of Churches Investing Resources in Social Media Marketing
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Acts 15 & The Jerusalem Council | Genesis 6:1-4, Sons of God, and the Nephilim
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Exodus 20:4 and Statues, Family Photos, and Art
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Helps to Prepare for Seminary | The Roman Catholic View of Matthew 16:13-20
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Should Joining a Small Group be Required for Church Membership?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Bible Translations—Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: On Schism & Fidelity: A Reply To Redeemed Zoomer
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Psalms Set to Modern Musical Interpretation and the Boundaries of the Regulative Principle of Worship
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Meeting God in His Means of Grace: How Word, Sacrament, and Prayer Help Us Encounter Christ
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Where Does the Roman Catholic Rite of Exorcism Come From?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: What is the Ground for Special Offices in the Church?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Churches and Homeschooling “Ministries”
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: Matthew Henry, James 2, and Neonomianism
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: The Nature of Christ’s Humanity—Could Jesus Make Mistakes?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Did the Holy Spirit Indwell Believers Before Pentecost?
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Republication of the Covenant of Works
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Help Us Find a Pastor
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday—Yom Kippur
- Heidelcast: Superfriends Saturday: How is the Rule of Worship to be Understood and Worked Out in Diverse Global Cultures?
