This week we look at question 29 in the New City Catechism: How can we be saved? The memory answer is: Only by faith in Jesus Christ and in his substitutionary atoning death on the cross; so even though we are guilty of having disobeyed God and...

This week we look at question 28 in the New City Catechism: What happens after death to those not united to Christ by faith? The memory answer is: At the day of judgment they will receive the fearful but just sentence of condemnation pronounced...

This week we look at question 27 in the New City Catechism: Are all people, just as they were lost through Adam, saved through Christ? The memory answer is: No, only those who are elected by God and united to Christ by faith. Nevertheless God in...

This week we look at question 26 in the New City Catechism: What else does Christ's death redeem? The memory answer is: Christ's death is the beginning of the redemption and renewal of every part of fallen creation, as he powerfully directs all...

This week we look at question 25 in the New City Catechism: Does Christ's death mean all our sins can be forgiven? The memory answer is: Yes, because Christ's death on the cross fully paid the penalty for our sin, God graciously imputes...

This week we look at question 24 in the New City Catechism: Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die? The memory answer is: Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and...

This week we look at question 23 in the New City Catechism: Why must the Redeemer be truly God? The memory answer is: That because of his divine nature his obedience and suffering would be perfect and effective; and also that he would be able to bear the righteous anger of God against sin and yet overcome death.

This week we look at Question 22 in the New City Catechism: What must the Redeemer be truly human? The memory answer is: That in human nature he might on our behalf perfectly obey the whole law and suffer the punishment for human sin.

This week we look at question 21 in the New City Catechism: What sort of Redeemer is needed to bring us back to God? The memory answer is: One who is truly human and also truly God.

This week we look at question 20 in the New City Catechism: Who is the Redeemer? The memory answer is: The only Redeemer is the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, in whom God became man and bore the penalty for sin himself.