The Westminster Shorter Catechism with Sinclair Ferguson
For Christians, spiritual growth depends on a healthy diet that includes both the milk and meat of God’s Word. But before we can savor large portions of sound doctrine, we need to be able to digest the basics of biblical truth. Whether you are a pastor, Sunday school teacher, or parent, helping others enjoy the “solid food” of Scripture is one of the most important components of discipleship. Released each weekday, this podcast can help Christians, families, and churches enjoy the rich doctrines of Scripture and pursue our chief end to glorify and enjoy God forever.
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Question & Answer 51
09/19/2024
Question & Answer 51
Question: What is forbidden in the Second Commandment? Answer: The Second Commandment forbiddeth the worshipping of God by images, or any other way not appointed in His Word. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 50
09/18/2024
Question & Answer 50
Question: What is required in the Second Commandment? Answer: The Second Commandment requireth the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath appointed in His Word. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 49
09/17/2024
Question & Answer 49
Question: Which is the Second Commandment? Answer: The Second Commandment is, "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth, thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 48
09/16/2024
Question & Answer 48
Question: What are we specially taught by these words, "before me" in the First Commandment? Answer: These words "before me" in the First Commandment, teach us, That God who seeth all things, taketh notice of, and is much displeased with, the sin of having any other God. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 47
09/13/2024
Question & Answer 47
Question: What is forbidden in the First Commandment? Answer: The First Commandment forbiddeth the denying, or not worshipping and glorifying the true God, as God, [and our God,] and the giving of that worship and glory to any other which is due to Him alone. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 46
09/12/2024
Question & Answer 46
Question: What is required in the First Commandment? Answer: The First Commandment requireth us to know and acknowledge God to be only true God, and our God; and to worship and glorify Him accordingly. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 45
09/11/2024
Question & Answer 45
Question: Which is the First Commandment? Answer: The First Commandment is, "thou shalt have no other gods before Me.� A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 44
09/10/2024
Question & Answer 44
Question: What doth the preface to the Ten Commandments teach us? Answer: The preface to the Ten Commandments teacheth us, That because God is The Lord, and our God, and Redeemer, therefore we are bound to keep all His commandments. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 43
09/09/2024
Question & Answer 43
Question: What is the preface to the Ten Commandments? Answer: The preface to the Ten Commandments is in these words, "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house OF SLAVERY.� A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 42
09/06/2024
Question & Answer 42
Question: What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? Answer: The sum of the Ten Commandments is, "to love the Lord our God" with all our heart, all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind; and our neighbor as ourselves. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 41
09/05/2024
Question & Answer 41
Question: Where is the Moral Law summarily comprehended? Answer: The Moral Law is summarily comprehended in the Ten Commandments. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 40
09/04/2024
Question & Answer 40
Question: What did God at first reveal to man for the rule of his obedience? Answer: The rule which God at first revealed to man for his obedience, was the Moral Law. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 39
09/03/2024
Question & Answer 39
Question: What is the duty which God requireth of man? Answer: The duty which God requireth of man is obedience to His revealed will. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 38
09/02/2024
Question & Answer 38
Question: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at the resurrection? Answer: At the resurrection, believers being raised up in glory, shall be openly acknowledged and acquitted in the day of judgement, and made perfectly blessed in the full enjoying of God to all eternity. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 37
08/30/2024
Question & Answer 37
Question: What benefits do believers receive from Christ at death? Answer: The souls of believers are at their death made perfect in holiness, and do immediately pass into glory; and their bodies, being still united to Christ, do rest in their graves till the resurrection. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 36
08/29/2024
Question & Answer 36
Question: What are the benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification? Answer: The benefits which in this life do accompany or flow from justification, adoption, and sanctification, are, assurance of God's love, peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Ghost, increase of grace, and perseverance therein to the end. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 35
08/28/2024
Question & Answer 35
Question: What is sanctification? Answer: Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 34
08/27/2024
Question & Answer 34
Question: What is adoption? Answer: Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges of the Sons of God. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 33
08/26/2024
Question & Answer 33
Question: What is justification? Answer: Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein He pardoneth all our sins, and accepteth us as righteous in His sight, only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 32
08/23/2024
Question & Answer 32
Question: What benefits do they that are effectually called partake of in this life? Answer: They that are effectually called do in this life partake of justification, adoption, and sanctification, and the several benefits which, in this life, do either accompany or flow from them. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 31
08/22/2024
Question & Answer 31
Question: What is effectual calling? Answer: Effectual calling is the work of God's Spirit, whereby convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, he doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 30
08/21/2024
Question & Answer 30
Question: How doth the Spirit apply to us the redemption purchased by Christ? Answer: The Spirit applieth to us the redemption purchased by Christ, by working faith in us, and thereby uniting us to Christ in our effectual calling. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 29
08/20/2024
Question & Answer 29
Question: How are we made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ? Answer: We are made partakers of the redemption purchased by Christ, by the effectual application of it to us by his Holy Spirit. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 28
08/19/2024
Question & Answer 28
Question: Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation? Answer: Christ's exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 27
08/16/2024
Question & Answer 27
Question: Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist? Answer: Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 26
08/15/2024
Question & Answer 26
Question: How doth Christ execute the office of a king? Answer: Christ executeth the office of a king, in subduing us to himself, in ruling and defending us, and in restraining and conquering all his and our enemies. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 25
08/14/2024
Question & Answer 25
Question: How doth Christ execute the office of a priest? Answer: Christ executeth the office of a priest, in his once offering up of himself a sacrifice to satisfy divine justice, and reconcile us to God, and in making continual intercession for us. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 24
08/13/2024
Question & Answer 24
Question: How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet? Answer: Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 23
08/12/2024
Question & Answer 23
Question: What offices doth Christ execute as our Redeemer? Answer: Christ, as our Redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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Question & Answer 22
08/09/2024
Question & Answer 22
Question: How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man? Answer: Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body, and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost, in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and born of her yet without sin. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: If this podcast has been a blessing to you, try these other podcasts from Ligonier: Renewing Your Mind: 5 Minutes in Church History: Ask Ligonier: Open Book: Simply Put:
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