This week we begin with Question 44 of the New City Catechism, found in Part 3 (questions 36-52), which focuses on the Spirit,...

Question 32: What do justification and sanctification mean? Answer: Justification means our declared righteousness before God, made...

Question 24: Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die? Answer: Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died willingly...

This week we begin with Question 24 of the New City Catechism, found in Part 2 (questions 21-35), which focuses on Christ, redemption,...

Question 22: Why must the Redeemer be truly human? Answer: That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and...

Question 16: What is sin? Answer: Sin is rejecting or ignoring God in the world he created, rebelling against him by living without...

Question 14: Did God create us unable to keep his law? Answer: No, but because of the disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve,...

Question 5: What else did God create? Answer: God created all things by his powerful Word, and all his creation was very good; everything...

Why do most Baptists insist that baptism be done by immersion in water? There are basically three arguments.

Our justification is a sharing in Christ's death and resurrection as the final judgment brought forward into history.

The final judgment is necessary to Christian teaching. How does Jesus' death relate to it? What does it mean for us?

Death is physical, spiritual, and eternal. The Bible's teaching on death must inform our understanding of Christ's death for us.

Through his human nature, Jesus Christ died to take the punishment for our sins. The word "substitute" matters in our atonement doctrine.

What is the connection between our sin and redemption and the creation itself? What does God have planned for the earth?

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?

What does it mean to become "partakers of the divine nature"?

What does it mean that God created the world "very good"? What has gone wrong, and how is it made right?