Category: Westminster Larger Catechism

Dear Church Family, Continuing in our Sunday school lessons in the Westminster Larger Catechism (WLC), this past Sunday we covered questions 19-20. Here is a brief review. WLC 19  What is God’s providence towards the angels?A. God by his providence permitted some of the angels, wilfully and irrecoverably, to fall into sin and damnation, limiting…

Dear Church Family, Continuing in our Sunday school lessons in the Westminster Larger Catechism (WLC), this past Sunday, we covered question 18. Here is a brief overview. WLC 18  What are the works of providence?A. God’s works of providence are his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures; ordering them, and…

Dear Church Family, Continuing in our Sunday school lessons in the Westminster Larger Catechism (WLC), this past Sunday, we covered questions 14-17. Here is a brief overview. WLC 14  How doth God execute his decrees?A. God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence, according to his infallible foreknowledge, and the free and…

Dear Church Family, Continuing in our Sunday school lessons in the Westminster Larger Catechism (WLC), this past Sunday, we covered questions 11-13. Here is a brief overview. WLC 11  How doth it appear that the Son and the Holy Ghost are God equal with the Father?A. The scriptures manifest that the Son and the Holy…

Dear Church Family, Continuing in our Sunday school lessons in the Westminster Larger Catechism (WLC), this past Sunday, we covered questions 8-10. Here is a brief overview. WLC 8  Are there more Gods than one?A. There is but one only, the living and true God. The fact that the Christian faith is monotheistic (the belief…

Dear Church Family, Continuing in our Sunday school lessons in the Westminster Larger Catechism, this past Sunday, we covered questions 4-7. Here is a brief overview. WLC 4  How doth it appear that the Scriptures are the word of God? A. The Scriptures manifest themselves to be the word of God, by their majesty and…

Dear Church Family, After a brief overview of the Westminster Larger Catechism, in our Sunday school lesson this past Sunday we began our study of the actual questions and answers. In the present context, it would be too much to give a detailed account of the class, but here are some of the highlights as…

Dear Church Family, As I wrote last week, this past Sunday we began a new Sunday school lesson series in the Westminster Larger Catechism. In our first introductory lesson, we talked about the historical context in which the Westminster Standards were written in England in the 1640s. We also talked about some of the American…

Dear Church Family, This coming Sunday, September 18th (9:15-10:15 am), we will begin a new study of the Westminster Larger Catechism (WLC). If you have your own copy, you’re welcome to bring it; however, copies of the WLC will be distributed in the class. In our first class this Sunday, we’ll talk about the historical…