Heidelcast For July 24, 2022: Every Tribe, Tongue, And Nation (9): Second Head Of Doctrine (1)

Heidelcast

on July 23, 2022 | 3 Comments

In this episode Dr Clark continues his series on the the Canons of Dort where we are looking at the Second Head of Doctrine of the Canons of Dort on the atonement. Synod was responding to Remonstrant criticisms that the orthodox Reformed . . . Continue reading →

Rosaria Butterfield On AGR About Lies Of The Anti-Christian Age

Heidelblog

on August 4, 2022 | 2 Comments

Side-B gay Christianity believes that the sin of homosexuality is not in the desire but in the practice, as though sin were not an ethical and moral problem but really just a physical one. In a Roman catholic soteriology, that all makes . . . Continue reading →

The Holy Spirit’s Identity Politics

Heidelblog

on August 10, 2022

It is pretty common nowadays, especially on the political left, to hear people talking about “identifying” as or with different things. Some people “identify” with whatever ethnic, national, cultural, or gender identity they were actually born into (although doing that usually doesn’t . . . Continue reading →

Homosexuality, Christianity, And Suffering For The Gospel

Heidelblog

on August 17, 2022

Gay people, Johnson argues, have “sacrificed everything the world values to follow Jesus.” Apparently, the world values sodomy — or, perhaps, by “everything,” he means merely the satisfaction of any and all sexual urges. It doesn’t matter, because either way it’s a . . . Continue reading →

Reinventing Pronouns Aids The Deconstruction Of Language

Heidelblog

on September 6, 2022 | 9 Comments

There is far more to pronoun usage than someone’s personal preference in how he or she wishes to have others refer to him or her. The woke tyranny affects all pronoun usage because it de-constructs our entire language. A pronoun must have . . . Continue reading →

With Presbycast Discussing Side B, Concupiscence, And The Distinction Between Nature and Grace

Heidelblog

on September 9, 2022 | 7 Comments

The Presbycast is always weird—the intro music for this episode comes from Ralph Carmichael; a blast from the CCM past—wild, and fun and this episode is no exception. HB contributor Stephen Spinnenwebber and I joined HB contributor and Presbycast co-host, Brad “Chortles” Isbell, . . . Continue reading →

Religious Freedom Watch: 1994 RFRA Under Attack?

Heidelblog

on September 23, 2022 | 5 Comments

An op-ed Wednesday in The Washington Post laid out how the left is attempting to dismantle what Congress once unanimously recognized as “undergird[ing] the very origin and existence of the United States”: religious freedom. Specifically, Louise Melling, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, argues . . . Continue reading →

Engaging Greg Johnson

Heidelblog

on October 1, 2022 | 20 Comments

The church desperately needs clear, careful, biblical, and confessional interactions with these issues. Still Time to Care, however, is not these things – for that reason, this AIC cannot recommend it as a general resource for our churches. Rather, we encourage our . . . Continue reading →

“Oppressor” Narrative Plays A Role In Growing Number of Teen-Related Gender Identity Issues

Heidelblog

on November 3, 2022

Patricia (a pseudonym) is the mother of a teenage girl who in recent years has come to identify as transgender. She lives in California, considers herself progressive, votes Democrat, and leads a group for parents of children with rapid onset gender dysphoria . . . Continue reading →

Religious Liberty Watch: Senate Bill On Same-Sex Marriage Advances

Heidelblog

on November 17, 2022 | 5 Comments

The Senate on Wednesday narrowly advanced legislation to protect same-sex marriage, sending it on to near-certain passage. In a 62-37 vote, 12 Republicans voted with all Democrats to move forward on the bill, after negotiators reached a bipartisan deal to include protections . . . Continue reading →

Christopher Yuan on Holy Sexuality and the Gospel

Heidelblog

on November 22, 2022

In September of this year HRA board member Chris Gordon, host of Abounding Grace Radio, sat down to talk to Christopher Yuan about the crisis precipitated in the West by the latest phase of the sexual revolution. Here are those discussions harvested for . . . Continue reading →

Queer Culture Destabilizes, Subverts, And Excludes

Heidelblog

on December 6, 2022

In a recent New York Times opinion column, Pamela Paul makes an impassioned argument for why we should continue to use the word “gay” rather than “queer.” Not all gay people identify as queer, she correctly claims, and the Q-word’s rise to dominance thereby . . . Continue reading →

Paul Re-Forms The Body In Corinth

Simon Jooste

on December 13, 2022 | 4 Comments

Embodiment is central to salvation, so is suffering in the body. Without the incarnation, passion, and ongoing enfleshed intercession of Christ, there is no redemption. This was the heartbeat of the apostle Paul’s preaching in ancient Corinth, a city pulsing with ideas . . . Continue reading →

Drag Queen Story Hour And The Pedophilia Spectrum

Heidelblog

on January 4, 2023 | 1 Comment

Drag Queen Story Hour—in which performers in drag read books to kids in libraries, schools, and bookstores—has become a cultural flashpoint. The political Right has denounced these performances as sexual transgressions against children, while the political Left has defended them as an . . . Continue reading →

Sodom, Jude 7, Biases, And How To Interpret The Bible

R. Scott Clark

on August 9, 2023 | 5 Comments

On 20 September 2021, T. E. Bunch et al. published what became a hotly (pun intended) controverted article, which claimed to have found evidence of a “Tunguska sized airburst” over Tall el-Hammam, a Middle Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley near . . . Continue reading →

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