Editor’s Introduction: Thanks to Haleigh Morgan, administrator of the Facebook group, Catechumens for Life, for this Guest Post. By request, she shares with us this wonderful way of learning the Catechism, using lapbooks. After explaining lapbooks and how they can be used to teach the Small Catechism, we are treated to a photo gallery of … Read more
Member of our Facebook group, Roni Grad, recommended A Small Catechism on Human Life, by John Pless, LCMS Ministries, St. Louis, 2006, also available from Concordia Publishing House. Examine topics such as abortion, bioethics, end-of-life, and sexuality — all through the biblical eyeglasses of Luther’s Small Catechism. Each chapter concludes with thoughtful discussion questions and … Read more
The Small Catechism is not just information. It is not a systematic theology. The Catechism does not just say something. The Catechism does something. It does something to us. The subtitles of a book sum it up. John Nicholas Lenker gave his book, Luther’s Catechetical Writings, a first subtitle: GOD’S CALL TO REPENTANCE, FAITH, AND … Read more