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Aaron O'Kelley
Oct 16, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 20.3
What is the central meaning of the cross of Jesus Christ? How does his death have anything to do with us?
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Aaron O'Kelley
Oct 14, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 20.2
Did God the Son lose anything when he became man? What is the proper way to understand the incarnation?
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Aaron O'Kelley
Oct 12, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 20.1
Is there salvation outside of Christ? The Bible is very clear and emphatic on this question.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Oct 9, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 19.3
Christ's saving work has delivered us from sin in two ways. What are they?
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Aaron O'Kelley
Oct 7, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 19.2
Did the Son's love for us intervene against the Father's wrath for our salvation? Scripture doesn't put it that way.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Oct 5, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 19.1
When we forgive others, we imitate God. But there is one sense in which our forgiveness of others can never be exactly like his toward us.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Oct 2, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 18.3
How does God demonstrate judgments against sin in history? What is history leading up to?
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 30, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 18.2
All sin is first and foremost about God, no matter how much it is or is not directed toward the harm of other people.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 28, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 18.1
Although modern people balk at the idea of God's wrath, the truth is that without wrath, we could not truly say God is love.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 25, 20201 min read
New City Catechism 17.3
Idolatry often demands less from us than the true worship that God requires, and this is one reason we might be attracted to it.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 23, 20201 min read
New City Catechism 17.2
Of all people, Christians should take the most joy in the blessings of this world while also holding on to them with the loosest grip.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 21, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 17.1
Why did ancient people worship carved images? What did they think they gained from idolatry, and what can that teach us today?
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 18, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 16.3
What is the connection between our sin and redemption and the creation itself? What does God have planned for the earth?
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 16, 20201 min read
New City Catechism 16.2
Is it possible to live in such a way that is outwardly morally upright but still in completely rebellion against God?
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 14, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 16.1
Sin is not merely particular acts we commit. It is the pervasive direction of our lives in Adam and a power that holds us in bondage.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 11, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 15.3
What role does the law of God have in the lives of believers? We are not under the law, but it must continue to teach us.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 9, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 15.2
God demands perfect obedience, which only Christ has ever rendered. Our hope for righteousness is in him alone.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 7, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 15.1
We may think we are doing well if we compare ourselves to others, but what happens when we look at ourselves in light of God's holiness?
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 4, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 14.3
We cannot rightly understand God's grace until we first understand the depths of our sin.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 2, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 14.2
What are the effects of Adam's fall on us? Is there some remnant of spiritual life left in us, or have we been totaled?
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