The Daily Heidelberg

Question 116: Why is prayer necessary? Question 117: What are the requisites of acceptable prayer? Question 118: What has God commanded us to ask? Question 119: What are the words of that prayer?

Question 113: What does the tenth commandment require? Question 114: Can those converted perfectly keep these commandments? Question 115: Why preach them if none can keep them?

Question 112: What is required in the ninth commandment?

Question 110: What does God forbid in the eighth commandment? Question 111: What does God require in this commandment?

Question 108: What does the seventh commandment teach? Question 109: Does God forbid only adultery?

Question 105: What does God require in the sixth commandment? Question 106: Does this speak only of murder? Question 107: Is it enough not to kill?

Question 104: What does God require in the fifth commandment?

Question 103: What does God require in the fourth commandment?

Question 101: May we swear by God's name? Question 102: May we swear by saints?

Question 99: What is required in the third commandment? Question 100: Is profaning God's name a heinous sin?

Question 94: What does God enjoin in the first commandment? Question 95: What is idolatry? Question 96: What does God require in the second commandment? Question 97: Are images not to be made? Question 98: May images be tolerated in churches?

Question 92: What is the law of God? Question 93: How are these commandments divided?

Question 88: Of how many parts does conversion consist? Question 89: What is the mortification of the old man? Question 90: What is the quickening of the new man? Question 91: What are good works?

Question 86: Why must we still do good works? Question 87: Cannot they be saved who continue in wickedness?

Question 83: What are the keys of the kingdom? Question 84: How is the kingdom opened and shut by preaching? Question 85: How is it opened and shut by discipline?

Question 80: What difference between the Lord's supper and the popish mass? Question 81: For whom is the Lord's supper instituted? Question 82: Are unbelievers also to be admitted?

Question 78: Do the bread and wine become Christ's body and blood? Question 79: Why does Christ call the bread his body?

Question 75: How art thou assured in the Lord's Supper? Question 76: What is it to eat Christ's body and drink his blood? Question 77: Where has Christ promised this?

Question 72: Is baptism the washing away of sin? Question 73: Why does the Holy Ghost call baptism the washing of regeneration? Question 74: Are infants also to be baptized?

Question 69: How art thou assured by baptism? Question 70: What is it to be washed with Christ's blood and Spirit? Question 71: Where has Christ promised this?

Question 65: Whence does faith proceed? Question 66: What are the sacraments? Question 67: Are word and sacraments ordained to direct our faith to the cross? Question 68: How many sacraments has Christ instituted?

Question 62: Why cannot our good works be our righteousness? Question 63: Do not our good works merit reward? Question 64: Does not this doctrine make men careless?

Question 59: What does it profit thee that thou believest all this? Question 60: How art thou righteous before God? Question 61: Why sayest thou that thou art righteous by faith only?

Question 57: What comfort does the resurrection of the body afford? Question 58: What comfort from life everlasting?

Question 54: What believest thou concerning the holy catholic church? Question 55: What is the communion of saints? Question 56: What believest thou concerning the forgiveness of sins?

Question 53: What dost thou believe concerning the Holy Ghost?

Question 50: Why is it added, "and sitteth at the right hand of God"? Question 51: What profit is this glory of Christ unto us? Question 52: What comfort that Christ shall come to judge?

Question 46: How dost thou understand "he ascended into heaven"? Question 47: Is not Christ with us even to the end? Question 48: Are these two natures separated? Question 49: Of what advantage is Christ's ascension?

Question 45: What does the resurrection of Christ profit us?

Question 40: Why was it necessary for Christ to humble himself unto death? Question 41: Why was he also buried? Question 42: Why must we also die? Question 43: What further benefit from Christ's sacrifice? Question 44: Why is there added, "he descended into hades"?

Question 37: What dost thou understand by "He suffered"? Question 38: Why did he suffer under Pontius Pilate? Question 39: Is there anything more in his being crucified?

Question 35: What is the meaning of "He was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary"? Question 36: What profit dost thou receive by Christ's holy conception and nativity?

Question 33: Why is Christ called the "only begotten Son" of God? Question 34: Wherefore callest thou him "our Lord"?

Question 31: Why is he called "Christ"? Question 32: But why art thou called a Christian?

Question 29: Why is the Son of God called "Jesus"? Question 30: Do such believe in Jesus who seek salvation elsewhere?

Question 27: What dost thou mean by the providence of God? Question 28: What advantage is it to know that God upholds all things?

Question 26: What believest thou when thou sayest, "I believe in God the Father, Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth"?

Question 24: How are these articles divided? Question 25: Why speakest thou of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?

Question 20: Are all men saved by Christ? Question 21: What is true faith? Question 22: What is necessary for a Christian to believe? Question 23: What are these articles?

Question 16: Why must he be very man and perfectly righteous? Question 17: Why must he be also very God? Question 18: Who then is that Mediator? Question 19: Whence knowest thou this?

Question 12: Is there no way by which we may escape that punishment? Question 13: Can we ourselves make this satisfaction? Question 14: Can any creature satisfy for us? Question 15: What sort of mediator must we seek?

Question 9: Does not God then do injustice to man? Question 10: Will God suffer such disobedience to go unpunished? Question 11: Is not God then also merciful?

Question 6: Did God then create man so wicked and perverse? Question 7: Whence then proceeds this depravity of human nature? Question 8: Are we then so corrupt that we are wholly incapable of doing any good?

Question 3: Whence knowest thou thy misery? Question 4: What does the law of God require of us? Question 5: Canst thou keep all these things perfectly?

Question 1: What is thy only comfort in life and death? Question 2: How many things are necessary for thee to know, that thou, enjoying this comfort, mayest live and die happily?

Question 127: Which is the sixth petition? Question 128: How dost thou conclude thy prayer? Question 129: What does "Amen" signify?

Question 126: Which is the fifth petition?

Question 125: Which is the fourth petition?

Question 124: Which is the third petition?

Question 123: Which is the second petition?