Chris Rohloff

Me, on Monday

In 2026 we will begin officer training and in preparation I’m revisiting the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Many of the men considering the call come from broadly evangelical backgrounds, so having a clear way of speaking about baptism is important. I find Q95 to very clear.

WLC Q90: How is the word to be read & heard, that it may become effectual to salvation? A. […], we must attend thereunto with diligence, preparation, & prayer; receive it with faith & love, lay it up in our hearts, & practice it in our lives.

Merry Christmas

#OTD December 24, 1223: Francis of Assisi creates what is widely regarded as the first living Nativity scene, using live animals in a cave near Greccio, Italy, to help worshipers contemplate the humility of Christ’s incarnation.

WSC Q89: How is the word made effectual to salvation? A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation.

WSC Q88: What are the outward and ordinary means whereby Christ communicateth to us the benefits of redemption? A. [they are…] his ordinances, especially the Word, sacraments, and prayer; all which are made effectual to the elect for salvation.

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. esv.org/verses/Prov17.9

Q63: Which is the fifth commandment? The fifth commandment is, 'Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.' —Westminster Shorter Catechism Shared through the Reformed Companion app

On wintery days when the roads are slick, temps are below zero, and travel is not advised, I'm thank for the opportunity to worship the Lord at home with my family.

From Psalm 122, James Boice reminds us, “We look for the heavenly Jerusalem still to come,[…] our eyes are fixed not even on the church, as wonderful as it can be, but on the heavenly “city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God”. byfaithonline.com/devotion-for-d…

WLC Q2: How doth it appear that there is a God? “The very light of nature in man, and the works of God, declare plainly that there is a God; but his word and Spirit only do sufficiently and effectually reveal him unto men for their salvation.” via the Reformed Companion app

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My first John Knox book. #presbyterian #pca

“Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD, our Maker! For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts,” Psalm 95:6-8

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WSC Q48: What are we specially taught by these words, 'before me,' in the first commandment? 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.

Titus 3:4-5 ‘But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, esv.org/verses/Titus3.…

WSC Q27: Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist? …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.

WSC Q11: What are God's works of providence? God’s works of providence are, his most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions. —Westminster Shorter Catechism Shared through the Reformed Companion app