The Image of God (HC 6)
/The image of God has four aspects and these help us to understand creation, the fall and the work of Christ.
Owning Our Sin (HC 4-5)
/God’s law requires absolute perfect love (for God and for neighbor), which no fallen man can give, which means each of us needs to understand our own sin.
Learning our Sin (HC 3)
/God has given us the law to expose our sins to us in order that we might own them and humbly turn from them in order to find mercy.
Trinitarian Comfort (HC 1-2)
/True eternal comfort is not found in anything we are or do, but in the Triune God who grants us redemption.
Series Introduction (HC 1)
/The Heidelberg Catechism was written to answer man’s most important question, “How can sinful man find peace and rest in the most ultimate of ways?”
Series Conclusion (WSC 1-107)
/The Westminster Shorter Catechism addresses mankind as God’s creation, explaining his created purpose and how that was jeopardized by the fall of Adam and restored in Christ.
The Conclusion to the Lord's Prayer (WSC 107; FC 112)
/We conclude our thoughts on the Lord’s Prayer with a statement of praise and confidence in the Lord alone.
The Sixth Petition (WSC 106; FC 125)
/God allows temptation, never more than we can handle and always to teach us to depend upon him more, but calls us to pray that we would be able to avoid it all together.
The Fifth Petition, Part 2 (WSC 105; FC 123)
/Sins incur a (moral) debt and when Christ pays off our debts, he also acquires the debts owed to us—requiring that we trust him to either forgive or collect on those debts.
The Fifth Petition, Part 1 (WSC 105; FC 123)
/Sins incur a (moral) debt and when Christ pays off our debts, he also acquires the debts owed to us—requiring that we trust him to either forgive or collect on those debts.
The Fourth Petition, Part 2 (WSC 104; FC 121)
/We are to pray that God would supply all our needs—both in this world and the world to come—knowing that if he cares for our eternal needs, he will most certainly care for our temporary ones.
The Fourth Petition, Part 1 (WSC 104; FC 121)
/To pray for our daily bread looks back to God’s supernatural provision of manna in the wilderness and cannot be understood without remembering the two key elements of that story—the daily provision of bread for five days and the double portion on the sixth.
The Third Petition (WSC 103; FC 119)
/To pray for God’s will to be done is to ask that God would morally transform his people into those who obey his commands.
The Second Petition, Part 2 (WSC 102; FC 117)
/To pray that God’s kingdom would come is to pray that God’s church would grow to the point of perfect fullness, at which point Satan’s kingdom will be completely destroyed.
The Second Petition, Part 1 (WSC 02; FC 117)
/To pray that God’s kingdom would come is to pray that God’s church grow to the point of perfect fullness, at which point Satan’s kingdom will be completely destroyed.
The Preface to the Lord's Prayer (WSC 100; FC 111)
/The preface to the Lord’s Prayer establishes the character of prayers and being a loving, yet respectful, interaction between the God of heaven and his children.
The Rule of Prayer (WSC 99; FC 111)
/While the whole Bible teaches us how to pray because it teaches us what is important to God, we also have specific instructions from Jesus that teach us how to pray.
What is Prayer, Part 2 (WSC 98; FC 109)
/Prayer must flow out of a humble heart which evidences itself in confession of sin and gratitude for all that God freely gives.
What is Prayer, Pt 1 (WSC 98; FC 109)
/Prayer is not about changing or controlling God—prayer is the art of learning to think God’s thoughts after him. the discipline of naming his desires back to him, and the blessing of learning to delight in what delights him.
The Worthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper, Part 2 (WSC 97; FC 140)
/By faith, when we eat the Lord’s Supper, we receive the benefits of what Christ accomplished in his life, death and resurrection.