We kick off season 3 of Faith in Practice by discussing the Heidelberg Catechism questions 24 and 25. What is the Trinity and why have Christians, from the earliest days, vigorously defended the way we speak about one God and yet also 3 persons? Tune in to see how our intro helps answer these questions.

Plus, for our “word” of the day, Connor walks us through why Volkswagen Beetles are not evil cars…

Resources: The Heidelberg Catechism

In today’s episode, we discuss questions 20, 21, 22, and 23 from the Heidelberg Catechism.

And for our word of the day, Josiah takes us through the meaning of a very old Christian term…

In today’s episode, we discuss questions 16, 17, 18, and 19 of the Heidelberg Catechism.

And for our word of the day, we ponder a great mystery of the faith, which makes salvation possible…

16. Q. Why must he be a true and righteous man?

A. He must be a true man

because the justice of God requires

that the same human nature which has sinned

should pay for sin.

He must be a righteous man

because one who himself is a sinner

cannot pay for others.

17. Q. Why must he at the same time be true God?

A. He must be true God

so that by the power of his divine nature

he might bear in his human nature

the burden of God’s wrath,

and might obtain for us

and restore to us

righteousness and life.

18. Q. But who is that Mediator

who at the same time is true God

and a true and righteous man?

A. Our Lord Jesus Christ,

who has become for us wisdom from God – that is,

our righteousness, holiness

and redemption (1 Cor 1:30).

19. Q. From where do you know this?

A. From the holy gospel,

which God himself first revealed in Paradise.

Later, he had it proclaimed

by the patriarchs and prophets,

and foreshadowed

by the sacrifices and other ceremonies

of the law.

Finally, he had it fulfilled

through his only Son.

In today's episode, we continue our series about the family by examining what the Scriptures say about raising a family and the unique way it reflects God's glory on earth, and why it is so important to fight for its integrity.

And for our word of the day, Josiah gives us the weirdest term ever given for a common household item...

In today's episode, we discuss questions 12, 13, 14, and 15 of the Heidelberg Catechism.

And for our word of the day, Josiah talks us through one of the most beautiful truths of Christianity...

12. Q. Since, according to God’s righteous judgment

we deserve temporal and eternal punishment,

how can we escape this punishment

and be again received into favour?

A. God demands that his justice be satisfied.

Therefore we must make full payment,

either by ourselves or through another.

13. Q. Can we by ourselves make this payment?

A. Certainly not.

On the contrary, we daily increase our debt.

14. Q. Can any mere creature pay for us?

A. No. In the first place,

God will not punish another creature

for the sin which man has committed.

Furthermore, no mere creature can sustain

the burden of God’s eternal wrath against sin

and deliver others from it.

15. Q. What kind of mediator and deliverer

must we seek?

A. One who is a true and righteous man,

and yet more powerful than all creatures;

that is, one who is at the same time true God.

Resources: Heidelberg Catechism

In today's episode, we want to speak with humility on what God's Word says about divorce. This is by no means an exhaustive discussion, but it is important to know what the Bible says on such an important issue.

And for our word of the day, Josiah takes us through a word that might cause some confusion...

We've talked about how to disagree several times on this podcast. We have discussed it in terms of theology and we have talked about when we disagree personally with Scripture. In today's episode, we are going to talk about how to preserve unity in the body of Christ when we disagree on social issues. This is not a podcast providing answers to those social issues, but rather one that looks at what the Bible has to say about unity, what undermines that unity and what are some principles we can employ to preserve it.

And for our word of the day, our brother Josiah is taking about a break and Connor explains to us to why a large mouse is not in fact a large animal...

In today's episode we discuss questions 9, 10 and 11 of the Heidelberg Catechism.

9. Q. But does not God do man an injustice

by requiring in his law what man cannot do?

A. No, for God so created man

that he was able to do it.

But man, at the instigation of the devil,

in deliberate disobedience,

robbed himself and all his descendants

of these gifts.

10. Q. Will God allow such disobedience and apostasy to go unpunished?

A. Certainly not.

He is terribly displeased with our original sin

as well as our actual sins.

Therefore he will punish them

by a just judgment

both now and eternally, as he has declared:

Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law (Gal 3:10).

11. Q. But is God not also merciful?

A. God is indeed merciful,

but he is also just.

His justice requires that sin committed

against the most high majesty of God

also be punished with the most severe,

that is, with everlasting, punishment of body and soul.

And for our word of the day, we look at what it means to abandon the faith...

Resources: Heidelberg Catechism

In today’s episode we discuss questions 6, 7 and 8 of the Heidelberg Catechism.

6. Q. Did God, then, create man so wicked and perverse?

A. No, on the contrary, God created man good1 and in his image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love him, and live with him in eternal blessedness to praise and glorify him.

7. Q. From where, then, did man’s depraved nature come?

A. From the fall and disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve, in Paradise, for there, our nature became so corrupt that we are all conceived and born in sin.

8. Q. But are we so corrupt that we are totally unable to do any good and inclined to all evil?

A. Yes,1 unless we are regenerated by the Spirit of God.

And for our word of the day, Josiah, though absent in the body, takes us through a word that simply can’t be replicated…

Resources: The Heidelberg Catechism

In today's episode, we want to talk through what we should do when we read a passage of Scripture with which we disagree. Are we left to ourselves to figure it out or can we rely on people from the past who have wrestled through these issues themselves? We want argue that God has given the Church gifted theologians who can help us wrestle with those passages we are tempted to ignore or reinterpret because we don't like what they say. We are not on our own. We stand on the shoulders of giants.

And for our word of the day, we look at a word that can describe quite accurately what we are tempted to do with a difficult passage of Scripture....

And for our word of the day, we look at a word that can describe quite accurately what we are tempted to do with a difficult passage of Scripture....