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PREPARING FUTURE PASTORS, CHURCH PLANTERS, AND MISSIONARIES TO SHEPHERD GOD'S FLOCK TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND FOR THE GOOD OF HIS PEOPLE
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Aaron O'Kelley
May 18, 20223 min read
New City Catechism 51.2
Question 51: Of what advantage to us is Christ's ascension? Answer: Christ physically ascended on our behalf, just as he came down to...
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Aaron O'Kelley
Feb 18, 20222 min read
Copy of New City Catechism 38.3
Question 38: What is prayer? Answer: Prayer is pouring out our hearts to God in praise, petition, confession of sin, and thanksgiving....
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Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 12, 20222 min read
New City Catechism 33.2
Question 33: Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else? Answer: No, they...
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Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 7, 20222 min read
New City Catechism 32.3
Question 32: What do justification and sanctification mean? Answer: Justification means our declared righteousness before God, made...
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Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 5, 20222 min read
New City Catechism 32.2
Question 32: What do justification and sanctification mean? Answer: Justification means our declared righteousness before God, made...
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Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 3, 20222 min read
New City Catechism 32.1
This week we begin with Question 32 of the New City Catechism, found in Part 2 (questions 21-35), which focuses on Christ, redemption,...
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Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 17, 20211 min read
New City Catechism 29.3
Question 29: How can we be saved? Answer: Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross; so even...
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Aaron O'Kelley
Nov 24, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 26.2
Question 26: What else does Christ’s death redeem? Answer: Christ’s death is the beginning of the redemption and renewal of every part of...
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Aaron O'Kelley
Nov 19, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 25.3
Question 25: Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven? Answer: Yes, because Christ’s death on the cross fully paid the...
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Aaron O'Kelley
Nov 17, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 25.2
Question 25: Does Christ’s death mean all our sins can be forgiven? Answer: Yes, because Christ’s death on the cross fully paid the...
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Aaron O'Kelley
Sep 3, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 14.3
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,...
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Aaron O'Kelley
May 19, 20213 min read
New City Catechism 51.2
The ascension of Christ is the linchpin of our assurance before God.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Feb 19, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 38.3
If we are already forgiven of all sins in Christ, why should we confess our sins on a regular basis?
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Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 13, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 33.2
Christ alone is our hope for salvation, and thus we must beware of adding anything to the gospel.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 8, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 32.3
Sanctification is essential to our salvation. Without holiness, we would not be fit for Heaven.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 6, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 32.2
Our justification is a sharing in Christ's death and resurrection as the final judgment brought forward into history.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Jan 4, 20212 min read
New City Catechism 32.1
Salvation affects both our standing with God and our personal condition. Both elements are necessary.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Dec 18, 20201 min read
New City Catechism 29.3
God demands absolute perfection, and in Christ, that is exactly what we have.
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Aaron O'Kelley
Nov 25, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 26.2
Christ died to redeem humanity. But how does the redemption of humanity affect the earth itself?
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Aaron O'Kelley
Nov 20, 20202 min read
New City Catechism 25.3
The forgiveness of our sins is one half of justification, but the other half is the counting of Christ's righteousness to us.
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