Heidelcast 45: What’s New About The New Covenant? (Pt 2)

by Heidelcast on October 19, 2013

In this episode, part 2 of 2, we look specifically at what is new in the new covenant. Here’s part 1. Jeremiah 31:31–34 looks forward to four future blessings in the new covenant. The New Testament takes up those categories and elaborates . . . Continue reading →

Calvin: Diligently To Inquire What Worship God Approves

by R. Scott Clark on September 27, 2014 | 2 Comments

We should learn also from this passage, not to be induced by the will of any man to embrace any kind of religion, but diligently to inquire what worship God approves, and so to use our judgment as not rashly to involve . . . Continue reading →

Of Levites, Sacrificial Blood, Burnt Offerings, And Musical Instruments In Worship

by R. Scott Clark on August 29, 2016 | 4 Comments

Then Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the officials of the city and went up to the house of Yahweh. And they brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom and . . . Continue reading →

Niceta Of Serbia Contra Instruments In Worship Circa 370 AD

by R. Scott Clark on September 27, 2017 | 3 Comments

it would be tedious, dearly beloved, were I to recount every episode from the history of the Psalms, especially since it is necessary now to offer something from the New Testament and confirmation of the Old, lest one think the ministry of . . . Continue reading →

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

by R. Scott Clark on April 30, 2018 | 60 Comments

In response to the video of LCMS Pastor Chris Jackson reading the lyrics of a popular praise song one HB reader wrote to object to the implied criticism of the song. The argument is this: Scripture uses the expression “new song” nine . . . Continue reading →

Making Melody With Instruments Versus Making Melody In The Heart

by R. Scott Clark on August 12, 2019 | 14 Comments

The Ancient Christian church did not use musical instruments in public worship. They did not enter public worship in the West until the middle of the 8th century, i.e., well into the early medieval period. Further, that was one isolated instance, in . . . Continue reading →

One Important Difference Between The Reformed And Some Particular Baptists: God The Son Was In, With, And Under The Types And Shadows

by R. Scott Clark on March 28, 2020 | 30 Comments

In reading Particular Baptist sources from the classical period of Particular Baptist theology, piety, and practice and from modern proponents of that tradition I have become more deeply impressed with how superficial my understanding was and how great the differences are in . . . Continue reading →

Witsius: One Covenant Of Grace, Multiple Administrations

by R. Scott Clark on April 4, 2020

I. It is a matter of the greatest moment, that we learn distinctly to consider the covenant of grace, either as it is in its substance or essence, as they call it, or as it is in diverse ways proposed by God, . . . Continue reading →

What The Reformed Can Learn From A 1532 Synod: Preach Christ

by R. Scott Clark on June 25, 2020 | 2 Comments

God at all times has tied, as it were, the knowledge of Himself to certain suitable actions and signs, and these figures, shadows and types all point to Christ Jesus. Appearing in these last days, He has finished His course in the . . . Continue reading →

In, With, And Under

by R. Scott Clark on November 14, 2020 5 Comments

God the Son, the substance of the covenant of grace, was Continue reading →

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