Dr. Clark With NoCo Radio On The Federal Vision (Part 2)

Heidelblog

on October 17, 2022 | 4 Comments

Fun, frivolity, and even serious discussions about important issues ensue when our own Dr. Clark sits down to talk with HB contributor Mike Abendroth, on his radio show, No Compromise Radio. You can subscribe to NoCo Radio and listen to the episode in . . . Continue reading →

Second Council Of Orange On Those Whom God Loves

Heidelblog

on November 2, 2022

CANON 12. Of what sort we are whom God loves. God loves us for what we shall be by his gift, and not by our own deserving. Read More» —Canons And Decrees Of The Second Council Of Orange, (AD 529) Resources . . . Continue reading →

Calvin On Justification Without The Aid Of Love Or Works

Heidelblog

on November 5, 2022

John Calvinsists on the importance of adhering to the exclusive particle. Continue reading →

Rome Believes In A Two-Part Justification

Heidelblog

on November 8, 2022 | 3 Comments

Before justification the sinner enters into a state of preparation whereby he, by his own free-will and in co-operation with the Holy Spirit, is prepared for future justification. During this preparation the sinner comes to accept a general knowledge of God and . . . Continue reading →

Faith: The Cause Of Love

Heidelcast

on November 10, 2022

The third conclusion is that true faith works by love. Hence the papists gather that love is the form and life of faith, not because it makes faith to be faith but because it makes it to be a true faith., a . . . Continue reading →

Second Council Of Orange On Adam And Christ

Heidelblog

on November 16, 2022

CANON 15. Adam was changed, but for the worse, through his own iniquity from what God made him. Through the grace of God the believer is changed, but for the better, from what his iniquity has done for him. The one, therefore, . . . Continue reading →

Berkhof On Legal And Spiritual Unity With Christ

Heidelblog

on November 19, 2022 | 2 Comments

The mystical union in the sense in which we are now speaking of it is not the judicial ground, on the basis of which we become partakers of the riches that are in Christ. It is sometimes said that the merits of . . . Continue reading →

Evangelicals And Catholics Together: A Post-Mortem

R. Scott Clark

on December 2, 2022 | 3 Comments

When the essay first appeared, the controversy over Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) was still relatively fresh. Reformed leaders (e.g., Mike Horton, R. C. Sproul, James M. Boice, and W. Robert Godfrey, et al.) had responded to ECT by forming the Alliance . . . Continue reading →

Second Council Of Orange On Nature And Grace In Justification

Heidelblog

on December 7, 2022

CANON 21. Concerning nature and grace. As the Apostle most truly says to those who would be justified by the law and have fallen from grace, “If justification were through the law, then Christ died to no purpose” (Gal. 2:21), so it . . . Continue reading →

Why Do Believers Still Sin?

Heidelblog

on December 8, 2022 | 11 Comments

Sin is greatly confusing for believers. The apostle captures this in Romans 7 when he says “the things that I will not, these I do.” How could the apostle seem to speak in such a defeated manner with regard to sin a . . . Continue reading →

Lordship Salvation, The Federal Vision, And The Covenant Theology That The Reformation Rejected

Or Why History Is Useful

R. Scott Clark

on January 9, 2023 | 14 Comments

More than twenty years ago, in the summer of 2001, Mike Horton and I were sitting beside a hotel swimming pool one evening during Synod Escondido, along with several ministers from our federation (denomination) of churches (the United Reformed Churches in North . . . Continue reading →

Where Is Faith In Justification?

Heidelblog

on February 1, 2023 | 2 Comments

In Romans and other Pauline epistles, repentance is a fruit of God’s grace rather than its cause. For example, we find in Romans 2:4: Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s . . . Continue reading →

Luther: Christ The Physician

Tony Phelps

on August 5, 2023 | 1 Comment

We, on the other hand, teach and comfort an afflicted sinner this way: “Brother, it is impossible for you to become so righteous in this life that your body is as clear and spotless as the sun. You still have spots and . . . Continue reading →

Beza: Justification Through Faith Alone Is Shared By All The Lutherans And All The Reformed

Heidelblog

on August 7, 2023

If there is any head of Christian doctrine about which it is absolutely necessary to agree to obtain eternal life, it is that in which it is taught not only concerning the righteousness which is required of us before the judgment-seat of . . . Continue reading →

Beza: Sanctification Flows From Christ Whom We Apprehend By Faith

Heidelblog

on August 8, 2023

But although sanctification flows forth from the same Christ seized by faith, and leads us to the same place, namely the attainment of eternal life, it would nevertheless be mere madness to add something to the most perfect righteousness of Christ to . . . Continue reading →

Should We Allow Wesleyans To Narrate The Reformed Tradition For Us? (Or Why We Are Not Finally Saved Through Good Works) Part 1

R. Scott Clark

on September 25, 2023 | 11 Comments

Perhaps the most important paragraphs in Rhyne Putman’s recent review of a new volume attempting to relate good works to salvation appear near the end (16 paragraphs in): One theological topic closely related to good works and salvation is conspicuously absent in . . . Continue reading →

Should We Allow Wesleyans To Narrate The Reformed Tradition For Us (Or Why We Are Not Finally Saved Through Good Works) Part 2

R. Scott Clark

on September 28, 2023 | 1 Comment

Further, salvation includes three aspects: justification (i.e., God’s judicial declaration that believers are righteous), sanctification (i.e., God’s progressive and gracious work in conforming believers to the likeness of Christ), and glorification. If any aspect of salvation is said to be through good . . . Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: Beza Defended Justification Through Faith Alone

Heidelcast

on November 22, 2023

Beza was a staunch defender of justification through faith alone. Continue reading →

Heidelminicast: For Turretin Justification Was Not A Cold, Academic Matter

Heidelcast

on November 23, 2023

For Turretin, justification was not a matter of cold, academic speculation. Continue reading →

Can I Have Assurance?

R. Scott Clark

on December 8, 2023 | 6 Comments

Joel asks, “Is it possible for a person to want/desire to know Christ as his/her Savior and not be among the elect?” HC 21. What is true faith? True faith is not only a certain knowledge whereby I hold for truth all . . . Continue reading →