Category: Religion/Spirituality
1. The little book we have before us is called the _Small Catechism._ The word "catechism" means _instruction._ This little book gives us instruction in a brief and simple form, such as even a child can understand. It teaches us what every Christian, as a child of God, should...
1. What has Christ done for our salvation? 2. In what manner did He gain for us the grace of God, forgiveness of sins, and life everlasting? 3. What is now the one thing necessa...
6. Part 64. Whatever God does for His children, He does _"purely_ out of fatherly, divine goodness and mercy." His fatherly goodness and mercy-- nothing else--moves Him to show us goodne...
7. Part 71. We confess that Jesus Christ is the only Son of God, begotten of the Father from eternity and therefore true God. We also confess _that He is born of the Virgin Mary and ther...
8. Part 84. For this purpose Christ has redeemed and won me, that I may be His own and live under Him in His kingdom and _serve Him,_ who has become my Lord. Before Christ became our Lor...
5. Part 53. In Bible History you have already learned _how_ God made or created heaven and earth. Before God began to create the world, nothing was there except God alone, the Creator. G...
9. Part 9_I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead._
3. Part 32. _We should lead a chaste and decent life in word._ We should refrain from _all filthy words_ that prove our heart to be unclean, from all words, songs, jests, etc., of which...
2. Part 21. _"Thou shalt sanctify the holy-day,"_ that is the Third Commandment. We Christians have a _holy-day._ We celebrate as our holy-day the first day in week, Sunday. We do not do...
1. Part 11. The little book we have before us is called the _Small Catechism._ The word "catechism" means _instruction._ This little book gives us instruction in a brief and simple form,...
13. Part 132. We pray for our daily bread. _"God gives daily bread indeed without our prayer";_ He gives it _"also to all the wicked,"_ who cannot and will not pray for it. _"He maketh His...
14. Part 141. What do we mean when we say: "We pray in this petition,_as the sum of all"?_ 2. What is meant in this petition by the word "evil"? 3. Why does God sometimes send us afflictio...
11. Part 111. Who are the members of the holy Christian Church? 2. By whom was the Church founded? 3. In what way does the Holy Ghost build up and preserve the Church? 4. What is the Churc...
12. Part 126. Our Lord teaches us to say: _"Our_ Father who art in heaven." He reminds us of the fact that _all true believers are children of God, and that all children of God pray for an...
4. Part 45. God demands that our hearts be holy. There should be no evil lust, no desire for any sin in our hearts, _but only a holy desire to serve our God and Father. "Ye shall be holy...
15. Part 155. _What is the benefit of such eating and drinking?_ Our Catechism answers: _"That is shown us by these words, 'Given and shed for you for the remission of sins.'"_ In the Sacr...