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- 00:46, 22 November 2014 What is the Third Commandment? (Q281) (hist) [167 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Third Commandment is: “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.”")
- 00:36, 22 November 2014 How can you love God in worship? (Q280) (hist) [318 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Holy Scriptures teach me how to worship God, and the Church’s liturgy guides my worship in keeping with the Scriptures. I can show love to God by worshiping him in this...")
- 00:35, 22 November 2014 How will idolatry affect you? (Q279) (hist) [245 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "If I worship idols I will become like them, empty and worthless, and alienated from God, the only One who can make me whole. (Psalm 115:4-8; Jeremiah 2:11-19; Romans...")
- 00:35, 22 November 2014 How was Jesus tempted to break the first two commandments? (Q278) (hist) [392 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Satan tempted Jesus to bow down and worship him, promising him a world kingdom without the pain of the cross. Instead, Jesus loved and worshiped God faithfully and perfectly a...")
- 00:35, 22 November 2014 Are idols always carved images? (Q277) (hist) [328 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "No. Relationships, habits, aspirations, and ideologies can become idols in my mind if I look to them for salvation from misery, guilt, poverty, loneliness, or despair. (Ezek...")
- 00:34, 22 November 2014 Are all carved images wrong? (Q276) (hist) [336 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "No. God, who forbids the making of idols and worship of images, commanded carvings and pictures for the Tabernacle. These represented neither God nor false gods, but rather an...")
- 00:34, 22 November 2014 Why did the nations make such images? (Q275) (hist) [240 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Israel’s neighbors worshiped false gods by means of images, or idols, believing they could manipulate these imaginary gods to gain favor with them. (Isaiah 40:18-26; ...")
- 00:33, 22 November 2014 How did Israel break the first two commandments? (Q274) (hist) [293 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Israel worshiped the gods of the nations around them, neglected God’s Law, and corrupted the worship of the Temple, thus earning God’s punishment. (Exodus 32; Judges...")
- 00:32, 22 November 2014 What does the Second Commandment mean? (Q273) (hist) [236 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "God’s people are neither to worship man-made images of God or of other gods, nor make such images for the purpose of worshiping them. (Deuteronomy 4:15-24)")
- 00:32, 22 November 2014 What is the Second Commandment? (Q272) (hist) [318 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Second Commandment is: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is...")
- 00:32, 22 November 2014 How are you tempted to worship other gods? (Q271) (hist) [359 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I am tempted to trust in my self, possessions, relationships, and success, believing that they will give me happiness, security, and meaning. I am also tempted to believe supe...")
- 00:31, 22 November 2014 Why are you tempted to worship other gods? (Q270) (hist) [243 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I am tempted because my sinful heart is still drawn to false gods and their appeal for my allegiance. (Ephesians 5:1-21; James 4:1-10; 1 John 1:8-10; 5:20-21)")
- 00:31, 22 November 2014 Can you worship God perfectly? (Q269) (hist) [229 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "No. Only our Lord Jesus Christ worshiped God perfectly. He leads the Church today to seek to do the same. (Matthew 4:1-11; 26:36-46; Revelation 4-5)")
- 00:30, 22 November 2014 What does it mean to have no other gods? (Q268) (hist) [322 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "It means that there should be nothing in my life more important than God and obeying his will. I should love, revere, trust, and worship him only. (Exodus 34:14; Deutero...")
- 00:29, 22 November 2014 What is the First Commandment? (Q267) (hist) [162 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The First Commandment is: “I am the Lord your God, You shall have no other gods before me.”")
- 00:28, 22 November 2014 Part IV: Behaving Christianly: The Ten Commandments and Obedience to Christ (hist) [2,452 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In Jesus Christ, God calls us to respond to him in three basic ways: by grasping God’s revealed truth about Jesus with our minds; by prayerful communion with God in and thro...")
- 00:25, 22 November 2014 How does the Lord’s Supper enable you to continue learning and living God’s Law? (Q266) (hist) [311 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In the Lord’s Supper or Holy Eucharist, I hear the Law read, hear God’s good news of forgiveness, recall my baptismal promises, have my faith renewed, and receive grace to...")
- 00:25, 22 November 2014 How does the Church help you to live out God’s law? (Q265) (hist) [311 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Church exercises godly authority and discipline over me through the ministry of baptismal sponsors, clergy, and other teachers. (Romans 15:1-7; 2 Timothy 3:14-15;...")
- 00:24, 22 November 2014 How does God prepare you to begin living his Law? (Q264) (hist) [298 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Through faith, repentance and Baptism, God in grace washes away my sin, gives me his Holy Spirit, and makes me a member of Christ, a child of God, and an heir of the Kingdom o...")
- 00:24, 22 November 2014 Why then do you learn God’s Law now? (Q263) (hist) [365 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I learn God’s Law now so that, having died to sin in Christ, I might love him as I ought, delight in his will as he heals my nature, and live for his glory. (Deuteronomy 1...")
- 00:23, 22 November 2014 When will you love God perfectly? (Q262) (hist) [200 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I will only love God perfectly when he completes his work of grace in me at the end of the age. (Philippians 1:6; 1 John 3:2-3)")
- 00:23, 22 November 2014 Why can you not do this perfectly? (Q261) (hist) [305 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "While God made mankind to love him perfectly, sin has corrupted our nature, leading me to resist him, to ignore his will, and to care more for myself than for my neighbors. ([...")
- 00:22, 22 November 2014 What is our Lord Jesus Christ’s understanding of these Commandments? (Q260) (hist) [457 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Jesus summed them up positively by saying: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first c...")
- 00:22, 22 November 2014 How should you understand the Commandments? (Q259) (hist) [353 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "There are four guiding principles: though stated negatively, each commandment calls for positive action, forbids whatever hinders its keeping, calls for loving, God-glorifying...")
- 00:21, 22 November 2014 How did God give the Ten Commandments? (Q258) (hist) [248 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "God gave them to Moses audibly and awesomely, from the midst of the cloud, thus revealing his holiness, and afterward writing them on stone tablets. (Exodus 19; 32:15-16)")
- 00:12, 22 November 2014 When did God give the Ten Commandments? (Q257) (hist) [360 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "After saving his people Israel from slavery in Egypt through the Ten Plagues, the Passover sacrifice, and crossing of the Red Sea, God gave them the Ten Commandments at Mount...")
- 00:11, 22 November 2014 Why did God give the Ten Commandments? (Q256) (hist) [376 bytes] Tobias (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "God’s holy Law is a light to show me his character, a mirror to show me myself, a tutor to lead me to Christ, and a guide to help me love God and others as I should. (Deut...")
- 22:24, 21 November 2014 How should you pray in times of suffering? (Q240) (hist) [404 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I should join my sufferings to those of Jesus Christ, trusting in the sufficiency of his grace, and joyfully assured that “suffering produces endurance, and endurance produc...")
- 22:23, 21 November 2014 What should you remember when prayers seem to be unanswered? (Q239) (hist) [258 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "God always hears my prayers, and answers them in his wisdom and in his own time, sometimes withholding blessings for my discipline, and sometimes giving better than I ask. (...")
- 22:22, 21 November 2014 Of what should you be certain in prayer? (Q238) (hist) [348 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I should be certain that God hears my prayers. I should also be certain that in response he will grant me all that I actually need, by his wisdom, in his time, and for his glo...")
- 22:21, 21 November 2014 How should you pray? (Q237) (hist) [275 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I should pray with humility, love, and a ready openness to God’s will, in my heart hearing God say, “be still and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10-11; 2 Chronicle...")
- 22:20, 21 November 2014 What is contemplation? (Q236) (hist) [144 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In contemplation I lift my heart in love to God without any deliberate flow of thoughts or words.")
- 22:19, 21 November 2014 What is meditation? (Q235) (hist) [204 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In meditation I prayerfully read and reflect upon Holy Scripture according to its intended meaning, with openness to personal spiritual direction from God.")
- 22:19, 21 November 2014 What is intercession? (Q234) (hist) [109 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In intercession I make requests to God on the behalf of others.")
- 22:18, 21 November 2014 What is petition? (Q233) (hist) [100 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In petition I make requests to God on my own behalf.")
- 22:18, 21 November 2014 What is thanksgiving? (Q232) (hist) [161 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In thanksgiving I express my gratitude to God for his grace, favor, providential goodness, and answers to my prayers.")
- 22:17, 21 November 2014 What is vocal prayer? (Q231) (hist) [97 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In vocal prayer I pray to God using spoken words.")
- 22:16, 21 November 2014 Are there different ways to pray? (Q230) (hist) [175 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Yes. Prayer can be private or public, liturgical or extemporaneous; personal prayer can be vocal, meditative, or contemplative.")
- 22:16, 21 November 2014 How should you “inwardly digest” Scripture? (Q229) (hist) [368 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I should ground my prayers in the Scriptures. One time-tested way of doing this is to pray the Psalms, which formed Jesus’ own prayer book. As I absorb Scripture, it becomes...")
- 22:13, 21 November 2014 How should you “learn” the Bible? (Q228) (hist) [206 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I should seek to know the whole of Scripture, and to memorize key passages for my own spiritual growth and for sharing with others.")
- 22:13, 21 November 2014 How should you “mark” passages of Scripture? (Q227) (hist) [273 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I should read the Bible attentively, noting key verses and themes. I should also note connections between passages of Scripture in the Old and New Testaments in order to grasp...")
- 22:12, 21 November 2014 How should you “read” the Bible? (Q226) (hist) [340 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I should read the Bible in daily portions as set out in “lectionaries” – Bible reading guides found in the Prayer Book and elsewhere. I should also study individual book...")
- 22:12, 21 November 2014 How should you “hear” the Bible? (Q225) (hist) [272 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I should hear the Bible through regular participation in the Church’s worship, both corporate and domestic, in which I join in reciting Scripture, hear it read and prayed, a...")
- 22:11, 21 November 2014 How should you use the Holy Scriptures in daily life? (Q224) (hist) [309 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I should “hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them” that by the sustaining power of God’s Word, I may embrace and hold fast to the hope of everlasting life give...")
- 22:10, 21 November 2014 Why do you end the Lord’s Prayer by saying “Amen”? (Q223) (hist) [302 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "By saying “Amen,” which means “so be it,” I unite with the faithful, who pray as Jesus directed, believe that their petitions please the Father, and trust that he will...")
- 22:09, 21 November 2014 Why is the doxology regularly added to the Lord’s Prayer? (Q222) (hist) [258 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Rejoicing that God is already King over this sin-sick world, the Church on earth uses this doxology to join in the praise being given to God in heaven. (Revelation 15:3-4)")
- 22:08, 21 November 2014 What does “kingdom, power, and glory” mean? (Q221) (hist) [350 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Referring back to the first half of the Lord’s Prayer, the Church rejoices that God can fulfill its requests, for he is already reigning over all creation, working out his h...")
- 22:07, 21 November 2014 What is the doxology of the Lord’s Prayer? (Q220) (hist) [222 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The doxology which the Church adds to the Lord’s Prayer is: “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.”")
- 22:07, 21 November 2014 How does God deliver you from evil? (Q219) (hist) [352 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "God’s Holy Spirit transforms my soul to see and hate evil as he does; then he further delivers me either by removing my trial or by giving me strength to endure it gracefull...")
- 22:05, 21 November 2014 From what other evil do you seek deliverance? (Q218) (hist) [292 bytes] Ed (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "I ask my heavenly Father to protect me from the world and the flesh, and to deliver me from the dangers of the day and night; from sin, sorrow, sickness, and horror; and from...")
