For the last several weeks leading up to tomorrow's solar eclipse, I have repeatedly seen a post on social media that gives evidence for why the eclipse is a warning of God's judgment upon the United States. To be honest, I haven't read the whole post (nor do I care to), and knowing the Internet, …
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With the person and work of the Holy Spirit addressed in the previous two question, we move now into the topic of prayer. This is fitting since it is only through power of the Holy Spirit that we can pray to God as our Father, as our Lord has taught us to pray. Indeed, as …
There is some question about whether the text before us properly belongs to the section of Exodus that we have been studying called the Book of the Covenant. After all, it is notably different from list of rules, judgments, and commandments that we have seen so far. However, I believe that this very much is …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ukIS5bYpx1VLyZLqKbTjc?si=xaVScHWSQPCb7zGuvsRYYw Let us begin again by reminding ourselves of the purpose of this catechism, which is expressed in question 1, to point us toward the great comfort that is to be found in our new identity in Jesus Christ. Question 2 gives us the roadmap for walking in that comfort by telling us the four …
Chapters 20-23 of Exodus form a section called in 24:7 the Book of the Covenant. In 21:1-22:15, Yahweh gave Israel laws relating to how they were to treat their slaves and how they were to make restitution for physical harm done to others or the damage of someone else's property. 22:16-23:9 then provided a number …
The following is a guest post written by my wife as she reflects upon her grandmother's battle with Alzheimer's. Scripture memorization is a highly important discipline that often gets overlooked. Especially since nowadays with access to information at our fingertips every second of every day, we have unconsciously outsourced some parts of our memory to …
Last week, we covered a large number of laws from within the Book of the Covenant, yet they all boiled down to the three big categories: regulations concerning slaves, statutes limiting retaliation in events of personal injury, and laws of restitution for the damage of property. As we noted, the principle at the center of …
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/2JPkDOzgTHsVWIfi0xgHmc?si=xU-pHpQ2RXey3dIF7bk6PQ Moving through the first section of the catechism, we have focused upon God's good design for human sexuality and some of the challenges that our sin-scarred world brings against them. In questions 3-5, we studied the goodness of being made male and female to image God, while questions 6-8 addressed the present-day challenge that …
As we continue to make our way through the section of Exodus called the Book of the Covenant, we would do well to make a few notes for going forward. First, let us remember that while these laws are distinguished from the Ten Commandments, they cannot be detached from them. As we said, the Ten …
Now that we’ve established that the Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the triune God, we must turn our consideration toward His work. Since the Holy Spirit is our Helper, the question rightly asks How does the Holy Spirit help us? We could summarize the catechism's answer into the following statement: The Holy Spirit …
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