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Attempts at Honesty

Reflections on the interplay of the Bible and Culture

  • Westminster Shorter Catechism Series
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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?


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Moral reform is the most difficult and delicate branch of statesmanship; few rulers have dared to attempt it; most rulers have left it to hypocrites and saints.

Additional thoughts on corporate prayer

So while there are pitfalls in praying in a corporate setting, it is something that still should be done. The rewards are much greater than the risks.

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Humble and Contrite?

I don’t think that we can place too much stress on Jesus’ statement about the responsibility for building the church. It is his; he claimed the responsibility and the resurrection proved that he has the power to do it. Maybe we should spending more time in prayer asking him how he wants us to participate in that building than we do in building our own strategies.

Clarification

Offering some clarification

I want to offer some clarification about my previous post. My intent was not to criticize my friends for being upset about what was said in the sermon. There was nothing inherently wrong with feeling uncomfortable about a choice of words used in the pulpit.

Walking worthy

It is not wrong to encourage someone to “walk worthy of the Lord” as long as we understand that the “worthy” is determined by God and is gauged by the internal and not the external reality. This verse is not a club to be used to bash people into conformity to a list of do’s and don’ts. It is not to be wielded in this way to squelch behaviors that make us feel uncomfortable.

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