Catechism Corner

We were created for work, but we were also made to rest. It’s interesting that even secular studies have embraced the idea that we need to take a break and relax regularly.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain. (Exodus 20:7)

What does the word "vain" mean?

t doesn’t matter too much who is in what position in our lives until we settle the matter of who is on first. In other words, we need to know who is in first place in our lives.

In recent years it has become popular amongst the Christian world out side of the Church to ask the question, “What would Jesus do?” And as often happens with catchphrases, it has been taken to extremes—everything from “What would Jesus eat?” to “What kind of SUV would Jesus drive?”

You may not know all of the Ten Commandments. It is good to know all of them. The Ten Commandments is only a small part of the Mosaic Covenant. I want to point something out to you in those Ten Commandments which you may have not noticed up until now.

Why is it that so many Christians don't respond to the call of God in their life to be what God wants them to be, to surrender their lives to him?It's because they feel that if they do their own will, and please themselves, and respond just to the desires of their own body, they can live a happier life. This is the great deception of Satan.

He's portrayed God as someone who's come to spoil our lives like a spoilsport who doesn't want us to have any fun or enjoyment. Which is not true

Man was to be special, more important than everything else that God had created because he was going to be made in the image of God, which even the angels in heaven do not have that privilege. So we read here in Genesis 1:26"And God said, Let us make man to our image and likeness:" And when man lives according to that, reflecting God's image, he has authority. "Let him have dominion". Think of that phrase. "Let him," that is man, was created by God to be kings, to rule, to rule over their passions, to rule over everything on this earth. They were to be kings. But see what happens in Genesis chapter three when man sins, he immediately becomes a slave.

God desires from us the obedience of faith. Such obedience is not based upon our understanding of why we are to act as God requires, but simply because it is God who requires it.

If you deny that the first man was created before the first woman, and if you deny that the first woman came from the man (not from an existing animal or human-like creature), you undermine the biblical doctrine of marriage and ultimately the authority of the Old and New Testaments.

If we want to understand creation, if we want to understand origins, if we want to understand how the universe came into existence and everything that is in it, we have to look at theology, not science.