Clearly Reformed Podcast

Sep 23 2024 13 ep. 13 mins 69

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Clearly Reformed Podcast is a collection of original articles produced and read by pastor Kevin DeYoung for the ministry of Clearly Reformed. These articles are aimed at benefiting Christians with Bible truths and good theology presented clearly and applied carefully—to their lives and to the problems of our day.

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Holiness in an Age of Worldliness

Sep 23 2024 6 mins

If you want a place with singing, celebration, joy and feasting, then live for the place where you get all those things forever. Christ welcomes you to that eternal home. He goes ahead of you to prepare a place for His disciples. He will take you by the hand and lead you into the promised land. But you have to leave Babylon to get there.“Come out of her, my people,” says the Lo

The Limits of Civil Government: Robert Dabney’s Opposition to Church Establishments

Sep 20 2024 21 mins

Dabney warns that governments are often eager to lean on the church to do its bidding and that if we are not careful the energies of the church will be subsumed under the aims of the state. The establishment of the church by the state almost always turns out better for the state than the church.

Who Was St. Boniface?

Jun 10 2024 14 mins

Boniface lived a remarkable life (accomplishing much for the gospel) and died a triumphant martyr’s death. It would fall to later generations to convert the heathen peoples of Germany, but the memory of Boniface inspired those efforts. We might say his principal work was reformation and revitalization. He was constantly enmeshed in organizational questions and issues of power-pol

4 Reasons Why the Bible Does Not Support Transgenderism

Apr 10 2024 22 mins

Until the last few decades of human history, it was understood by virtually everyone everywhere that each of us is born wholly and irrevocably as a “he” or as a “she.” Maleness and femaleness are identities that we do not choose and cannot change.

The Case Against Christians Attending a Gay Wedding

Feb 08 2024 13 mins

I know that the impulse to attend a gay wedding, or to allow that others may do so, is often borne out of a good and sincere desire to love our family and friends. There are few things more painful than making a decision that we know our child or grandchild will interpret as rejection. But we simply cannot bless, even by our mere presence, what we know to be a lie—a lie that Scri

In Praise of Prudence: What the Cardinal Virtues Can Teach Us About the Splintering of Evangelicalism

Jan 19 2024 14 mins

“Man can have no other standard and signpost than things as they are and the truth which makes manifest things as they are; and there can be no higher standard than the God who is and His truth” (40). If Jesus is right, and surely he is, that we are sanctified by the truth (John 17:19), then there is no path to faithful Christian obedience and faithful cultural witness that doe

Who Was St. Nicholas?

Dec 06 2023 9 mins

The unsatisfying answer to the title of this post is that we don’t know as much as we would like. We know that a bishop named Nicholas existed, that he had a great influence on his homeland, and that he probably died on December 6. While we should be careful to separate fact from fiction, there are elements of the Nicholas story we can know—and what can be known is worth retell

Giving Thanks for the Goodness of God

Nov 15 2023 15 mins

One of the first things we learn about God is that he is good. “God is great, God is good, let us thank him for our food.” Many of us grew up hearing this prayer at the dinner table. It’s good theology—simple and true.It also highlights an attribute of God that is surprisingly hard to define. We think we know what it means for God to be good, until we try to explain it. The

3 Indispensable Requirements for Good Preaching

Sep 20 2023 17 mins

Good preaching should be trinitarian in content and in character. I’ve tried to reflect that emphasis in these three points—the word of the Father, the gospel of the Son, and the power of the Holy Spirit. Good preaching is not one thing, but many things. It instructs and it heralds; it comforts and corrects. This is the preaching God has always used, and it is still the preachi

Politics, the Church, and Getting Our Story Straight

Aug 09 2023 10 mins

The Kingdom story we are telling is not the story of Christ saving His people so they can transform a culture or reclaim a nation. Instead the story is of Christ so ruling over the nations of the world that the church might be built up.In this first episode of the Clearly Reformed Podcast, Kevin reads from his recent article written for Clearly Reformed about the nature of politics