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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

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Westminster Shorter Catechism Series


I am working on a series of posts that look at the questions and answers in the Westminster Shorter Catechism. A list of the posts is shown below:

Introduction – 107 Days with the Westminster Divines

Question 1 – The Primary Purpose of Man

Question 2 – The authority that God has given

Question 3 – What does the Bible primarily teach?

Question 4 – What is God?

Question 5 – Is there more than one God?

Question 6 – How many persons are in the one God?

Question 7 – What are the decrees of God?

Question 8 – How does God carry out His decrees?

Question 9 – What is creation?

Question 10 – How did God create man?

Question 11 – What is God’s providence?

Question 12 – What did God’s providence do for man whom He created?

Question 13 – Did our first parents remain as they were created?

Question 14 – What is sin?

Question 15 – By what sin?

Question 16 – Did all mankind fall?

Question 17 – What happened to man in the fall?

Question 18 – What is sinful about man’s fallen condition?

Question 19 – What is the misery of man’s fallen condition?

Question 20 – Did God leave all mankind to die in sin and misery?

Question 21 – Who is the Redeemer of God’s Elect?

Question 22 – How did Christ, the Son of God, become man?

Question 23 – What offices does Christ fill as our Redeemer?

Question 24 – How does Christ fill the office of a prophet?

Question 25 – How does Christ fill the office of a priest?

Question 26 – How does Christ fill the office of a king?

Question 27 – In what did Christ’s Humiliation Consist?


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Stumbling blocks: how we live matters more than our words

Parents and church leaders, the best thing we can do for the next generation is to renounce our selfishness and come to meet Jesus at the Cross in humility and submission. We need to confess where we have compromised and seek to recover the ground that was lost. We want to hear the words of Matthew 25:21, “well done good and faithful slave.” We need to live lives that point to the reality of the Gospel.

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Eyes fixed on Jesus

But, by keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, we can look past the problems in the church and look forward to the day when Jesus will return to set everything right. We can walk in the confidence that Jesus will eventually fix the things we know to be wrong.

Mercy over Judgement

We all fail to live up to the standard we have set for ourselves. We are all inconsistent in having our actions match what we claim to believe.

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While the angry, “I guess I showed them” type of response may be gratifying in the moment, it doesn’t help in the long run. Such a response brings division which grieves the Lord who died to bring unity.

Right and Wrong

That pesky sense of oughtness

That pesky sense of oughtness seems to keep creeping in, even in those who say it doesn’t exist. This is the dilemma of the materialist. It is this sense of right and wrong that has caused many to explore the claims of Jesus Christ.

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