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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction: On Raising Children to Know and Love God through Raising Them to Know and Love Theology | |
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| God's Word and God's Own Life as God | |
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| God Has Made Himself Known | |
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| God Talks-The Bible Is God's True and Lasting Word | |
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| God Is God Apart from Us | |
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| God Is God with Us | |
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| Some Truths about God's Richness That Make Him God | |
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| Some Truths about God's Kindness That Make Him God | |
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| God as Three in One | |
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| There Is Only One God | |
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| One God in Three Persons | |
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| The Father Is God | |
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| The Son Is God | |
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| The Holy Spirit Is God | |
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| How the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Relate | |
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| Creator and Ruler of All | |
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| Who Made the World? God (the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) Did | |
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| God Rules the World He Has Made | |
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| God Provides All Good Things in the World | |
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| God Controls All Bad Things in the World | |
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| Our Responsibility in the World God Controls | |
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| Pain and Suffering in the World God Controls | |
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| Our Human Nature and Our Sin | |
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| Men and Women, Boys and Girls-God's Masterpieces | |
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| What It Means to Be Made in God's Image | |
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| Other Features of Being Human | |
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| How Sin Came into Our World and What Sin Is | |
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| How Sin Has Spread to All People | |
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| The Punishment for Our Sin | |
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| Who Jesus Is | |
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| A Person Who Was Alive Long Before He Was Born | |
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| The Incarnation-God and Man Together | |
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| How Jesus Emptied Himself in Becoming Also a Man | |
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| Jesus Lived in the Power of the Spirit | |
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| Jesus Resisted Temptation, Living a Sinless Life | |
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| What Christians of the Early Church Came to Believe about Christ | |
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| The Work That Jesus Has Done | |
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| Jesus' Death Shows God's Justice and His Mercy toward Our Sin | |
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| Jesus Paid the Full Penalty for Sin | |
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| Jesus' Victory over Satan by His Payment for Sin | |
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| Jesus' Resurrection: The Proof That Christ's Death for Sin Worked | |
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| Jesus Is King over All | |
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| But Is Jesus Really the Only Savior? | |
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| The Holy Spirit | |
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| The Work of the Holy Spirit in Old Testament Times | |
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| Old Testament Promises of Future Spirit Transformation | |
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| The Spirit on Jesus and on Jesus' Followers | |
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| The Holy Spirit Gives New Life in Christ | |
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| The Holy Spirit Unities Believers Together in Christ | |
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| The Holy Spirit Fills Believers to Live for Christ | |
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| Our Great Salvation | |
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| God's Kindness and Wisdom in Choosing Some to Save | |
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| "Sirs, What Must I Do to Be Saved?" | |
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| Declared Right in God's Eyes When We Believe | |
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| Made More Like Christ through All of Our Lives | |
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| Saved by Good Works? No-Saved for Good Works? Yes | |
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| But Must People Know about and Believe in Christ to Be Saved? | |
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| The Church of Jesus Christ | |
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| Jesus Is the Lord of the Church | |
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| A People of the New Covenant | |
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| Communities of Christians Who Worship and Serve Together | |
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| Baptism: Picturing Jesus' Death and Resurrection | |
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| The Lord's Supper: Remembering Jesus' Death and Resurrection | |
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| Growing the Church through Making Disciples | |
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| What Will Take Place in the End | |
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| Knowing the Future Helps in the Present | |
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| What Happens to Grandma When She Dies? | |
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| The Promise-Keeping God and the Salvation of Israel | |
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| Jesus Will Come Again | |
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| The Suffering of Hell and the Joys of Heaven | |
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| God's Greatness and Glory Shown Forever and Ever | |