The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism is perfect for daily devotions, personal study, and prayer with others.
The catechism— the Ten Commandments, the Apostles’ Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer—has sustained and nurtured every generation of believers, directing their faith, hope, and love. It helps Christians read, pray, and live God’s word. By giving Christians God’s word to give back to him, it plants seeds of his word and cultivates them to full growth. The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism brings the church’s ancient catechism to a new generation.
The twenty-four catechism prayers were written by the Right Reverend Joey Royal, Suffragan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Arctic.
Myers shows as much as he tells, introducing us to the audacious wisdom of ancient voices whose insights prove timely and perennial. This is the catechesis we need for a secular age, overcoming the forgetting we parade as enlightenment.
—James K. A. Smith, Calvin College, author of You Are What You Love and Awaiting the King
Hill opens up the prayer with great freshness for the ordinary reader, so that we seem to hear Jesus himself speaking to us, showing us how to pray to his Father in the same spirit that he himself does. This little volume will enrich a reader’s life immeasurably.
—Fleming Rutledge, author of The Crucifixion and Help My Unbelief
This little gem of a book is the best introduction to the Ten Commandments I have yet come across. I learned something new on almost every page.
—Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, author of Biblical Authority after Babel
The Christian Essentials series passes down tradition that matters. The ancient church was founded on basic biblical teachings and practices like the Ten Commandments, baptism, the Apostles’ Creed, the Lord’s Supper, the Lord’s Prayer, and corporate worship. These basics of the Christian life have sustained and nurtured every generation of the faithful—from the apostles to today. The books in the Christian Essentials series open up the meaning of the foundations of our faith.
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Peter J. Leithart is president of the Theopolis Institute.
Ben Myers is director of the Millis institute at Christian Heritage College, and a research fellow of the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University in Australia.
Wesley Hill is associate professor of New Testament at Western Theological Seminary, Michigan
Todd R. Hains is author of The King of Easter: Jesus Searches for All God’s Children and The King of Christmas: All God’s Children Search for Jesus. He is the editor of Lexham Press’s Christian Essentials series, Lexham Ministry Guides, and FatCat Books.