Here is the fourth installment of the audio from the conference, So You You Say You Want A Reformation? hosted by Bethlehem Bible Church in West Boylston, MA. This is one of the Saturday morning talks, on the QIRE (quest for illegitimate . . . Continue reading →
We are continuing our series on the doctrine of God, I Am That I Am. This is part 14 of the series, which begins with Heidelcast episode 123. We could not be addressing a more timely topic: providence. Heidelberg Catechism 27 asks: . . . Continue reading →
Holy Scripture teaches us that God spoke “in the beginning” out of nothing (ex nihilo) to create all things that are by the power of his Word. Continue reading
My thirst for more drove me on. I began to explore the doctrine of the Spirit. Raised as a cessationist, I believed that the Holy Spirit comes to each believer at conversion, after that there is nothing more to it. I was . . . Continue reading →
Lots of evangelical Christians take it for granted that God and humans are co-equals. I know because I once thought that way. That is a profoundly Modern and Modernist way of thinking. It is not a biblical way of thinking nor is . . . Continue reading →
I am catching up Christianity Today’s podcast series, “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill. The August 30, 2021 episode, “Questioning the Origin Myth: A Rise and Fall Short Story,” centered around what, in Reformed theology, piety, and practice, we call the internal call to ministry. In our understanding of Scripture and its outworking in the life of the church there are two aspects to the call to ministry, the internal and the external. Continue reading →
Episode 8 of the Christianity Today podcast, “The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill,” illustrates the degree to which the restless, feather-swallowing (according to Luther) anti-canonical spirit has influenced modern evangelical theology, piety, and practice. The Reformation principle (if not always its practice) . . . Continue reading →
In my Baptist seminary I had a class that required me to do devotions in John Calvin’s, Institutes of the Christian Religion. What shocked me was how much Calvin’s theological arguments were inundated with Bible references from the totality of the scriptures (not just parts). When Calvin spoke of baptism, he spoke from the totality of the Bible, not merely a few references in Acts. It was in that moment that I saw the stark contrast from my reformed-ish circle. We talked a lot about the Bible and had a lot of assumptions that we brought to the Bible; but Calvin taught much from the Bible and drew his assumptions about the Bible from the Bible itself. Continue reading →
This is episode 17 in the series, What Must A Christian Believe? In our survey of the rule of faith, i.e., the Apostles’ Creed, we have reached the eighth article, “I believe in the Holy Spirit.” Before the outbreak of neo-Pentecostalism in . . . Continue reading →
Reverend Mark Stomberg of Lynden United Reformed Church in Lynden, WA joins Pastor Chris Gordon to talk all things Pentecostal. Continue reading →
Pastor Mark Stromberg talk with Chris Gordon about his move from Pentecostalism to Reformed theology, piety, and practice. Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark begins a new series exploring the history of, the biblical teaching about, theology, piety, and practice of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark begins discusses the question of the source of the modern Pentecostal movement. Did it begin in the second century? Were all the ancient Christians “charismatic”? Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark discusses the major Pentecostal movement in the second century, the Montanists. Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark discusses some more patristic texts regarding continuing charismata in the second century, medieval examples of continuing revelation and the Pentecostal wing of the early Anabaptist movements and some early Reformed responses, which complicate Pentecostal and charismatic claims. Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark discusses Calvin’s response to the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements of his day. Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark looks at what the Reformed churches confess about continuing revelation. Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark looks at what the Reformed churches confess about the doctrine of illumination. Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark interacts with a prominent Baptist Christian Nationalist and reviews a significant volume on the theology and practice of some of the Westminster Divines concerning continuing revelation. Continue reading →