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Weekly Devotional
Welcome to Weaver Baptist Church's Weekly Devotional page, your go-to source for spiritual nourishment and encouragement straight from the heart of our faith community in Saltillo, Texas. Each week, Pastor Daniel Kurtz delivers a fresh, biblically grounded message designed to deepen your walk with Christ, foster family connections, and inspire practical application in everyday life. Whether you're seeking a quick mid-week boost or a reflective start to your Sunday, these devotionals blend timeless Scripture with relatable insights to help you grow closer to God amid life's joys and challenges.
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Eight Rules for the Right Understanding of the Ten Commandments: WLC Question 99
The Ten Commandments are simple enough for a child to memorize, yet deep enough to examine every part of our lives. Because we are sinners, however, we are often tempted either to weaken God’s commandments or to limit them to outward behavior. The Westminster Larger Catechism helps us avoid these errors by giving us eight rules for the right understanding of the Ten Commandments. Question 99 asks, “What rules are to be observed for the right understanding of the Ten Commandme
Daniel Kurtz
4 days ago5 min read
The Moral Law in Summary Form: WLC Question 98
In the previous section of the catechism, the Westminster divines sought to reinforce the continuing importance of the moral law. The law is not a means of salvation. No sinner can earn a right standing before God through obedience. Nevertheless, the moral law remains essential because it reveals the holy character of God and teaches us what He requires of us as His creatures. The usefulness of the moral law is not limited to those who are in Christ but extends to all mankind
Daniel Kurtz
Jul 166 min read
The Moral Law and the Believer: Gratitude and Obedience in Westminster Larger Catechism Question 97
In our last devotional, we considered the sobering use of the moral law for the unregenerate. For those outside of Christ, the moral law awakens the conscience, exposes sin, and drives sinners to flee to the Savior — or else leaves them without excuse under God's judgment. But what about those who have already fled to Christ? If believers are saved by grace and not by law-keeping, does the moral law still have anything to say to them? That is the question the Westminster divi
Daniel Kurtz
Jul 95 min read
The Moral Law and Unregenerate People: Westminster Larger Catechism Q96
The Westminster Larger Catechism asks, “What particular use is there of the moral law to unregenerate people?” The answer is, “The moral law is of use to unregenerate people to awaken their consciences to flee from wrath to come and to drive them to Christ. Alternatively, if they continue in their state and way of sin, it leaves them inexcusable and under the curse of the law.” This is a sobering question, but also a merciful one. The moral law does not save sinners. It canno
Daniel Kurtz
Jun 256 min read
The Moral Law for All People, Seeing Our Need for Christ: WLC Question 95
In the previous question, the Westminster Larger Catechism taught that the moral law is still important, even though no one can attain righteousness and life by keeping it. The distinction is essential. The moral law cannot save us, but that does not make it useless. It cannot justify sinners before God, but it still reveals God’s holiness, exposes our sin, restrains evil, points us to Christ, and teaches believers how to walk in thankful obedience. Where question 94 gave us
Daniel Kurtz
Jun 45 min read
The Use of the Moral Law After the Fall: WLC Question 94
The Westminster Larger Catechism asks, “Is there any use of the moral law to mankind since the fall?” The answer is, “Although no person, since the fall, can attain to righteousness and life by the moral law, yet there is great use of it, in a way common to all people, and also as it particularly applies either to the unregenerate or the regenerate.” This question helps us hold two truths together. The moral law cannot save sinners, but that does not make it useless. Since th
Daniel Kurtz
May 285 min read
The Moral Law as God’s Holy Will for All Mankind: WLC Question 93
Question 92 of the Westminster Larger Catechism talked about the importance of the moral law that was given to Adam. But this brings up an important follow-up question: “What is the moral law?” This is what question 93 asks. It answers by saying: “The moral law is the declaration of the will of God to mankind, directing and binding every person to personal, perfect, and perpetual conformity and obedience to it, in the orientation and disposition of the whole person, soul and
Daniel Kurtz
May 215 min read
The Rule of Obedience Revealed to Adam: Westminster Larger Catechism Q92
In the previous question, the Westminster Larger Catechism taught us that “the duty that God requires of mankind is obedience to his revealed will.” That answer naturally leads to the next question: What did God first reveal as the rule by which mankind was to obey him? Question 92 asks, “What did God reveal to the first man as the rule of his obedience?” The answer is, “The rule of obedience revealed to Adam in his state of innocence, and to all mankind in him, was the moral
Daniel Kurtz
May 145 min read
The Duty God Requires: Obedience to His Revealed Will (WLC 91)
God has revealed himself. God has spoken. And because God has spoken, mankind has a duty before him: obedience to his revealed will.
Daniel Kurtz
May 75 min read
The Righteous on the Day of Judgment: Our Full Communion with Christ in Glory
The previous question of the catechism considered the fearful destination of the wicked on the day of judgment. It reminded us of the justice of God, the seriousness of sin, and the eternal misery of being found outside of Christ. But now the catechism turns our eyes to the hope of those who belong to Christ. Westminster Larger Catechism 90 question asks, “What will be done to the righteous at the day of judgment?” It answers: “At the day of judgment, the righteous, being cau
Daniel Kurtz
Apr 305 min read
What Will Be Done to the Wicked at the Day of Judgment?: Westminster Larger Catechism 89
The question of what happens after the resurrection leaves us with two directions. What follows goes a little bit deeper in both directions, starting with the destination of the wicked. Question 89 asks, “What will be done to the wicked at the day of judgment?” The answer is straight to the point: “At the day of judgment, the wicked will be set on Christ’s left hand, and, upon clear evidence and the full conviction of their own consciences, they will have the fearful but just
Daniel Kurtz
Apr 235 min read
What Shall Immediately Follow After the Resurrection? The General and Final Judgment - WLC Question 88
In the previous catechism question, we considered the resurrection of the dead and the hope believers have in Christ. But that raises another question: what comes next? The 88th question of the Westminster Larger Catechism asks the question this way: “What will immediately follow after the resurrection?” The answer is simple and clear: “The general and final judgment of angels and men will follow immediately after the resurrection, the day and hour of which no one knows, so t
Daniel Kurtz
Apr 164 min read
The Resurrection of the Dead We Must Believe: WLC Question 87
One of my favorite things about catechisms is the way their questions build on one another. In the previous questions, the catechism focused on death, even the death of believers. Now it turns from what happens immediately after death to the great hope of the last day. It asks, “What are we to believe concerning the resurrection?” The answer says, “We are to believe, that, at the last day, there shall be a general resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust: when th
Daniel Kurtz
Apr 94 min read
Communion in Glory with Christ After Death: WLC Question 86
In our previous devotional on the Westminster Larger Catechism, we considered the painful reality of death and why even Christians must still pass through it in this fallen world. Question 86 takes us one step further. It teaches us what becomes of those who belong to Christ when they die. It asks, “What is the communion in glory with Christ, which the members of the invisible Church enjoy immediately after death?” The catechism answers: “The communion in glory with Christ, w
Daniel Kurtz
Apr 26 min read
Death in Christ: Why the Righteous Still Die (WLC 85)
In the previous questions of the Westminster Larger Catechism, we are reminded that believers already enjoy the first fruits of glory in this life, yet still live in a world marked by sin, and suffering. We are also reminded that the wages, that is, the just reward, for sin is death. That leaves Christians with an important question, one the catechism asks in Question 85: “Death, being the wages of sin, why are not the righteous delivered from death, seeing all their sins are
Daniel Kurtz
Mar 265 min read
Shall All Men Die? A Devotional on Westminster Larger Catechism 84, Death as the Wages of Sin
We plan our weeks as if tomorrow is guaranteed. We make lists, set goals, and talk about “someday” as if the time were already ours. Most of the time, death stays at the edge of our thoughts. Just far enough away to ignore. But we are inevitably forced to confront it. Sometimes it is a funeral. Sometimes it is a close call. Sometimes it is nothing dramatic at all. It’s just the quiet weight that comes when you realize you are not young anymore, and life is moving faster than
Daniel Kurtz
Mar 55 min read
Communion in Glory with Christ in This Life: Reflections on WLC 83
The Westminster Larger Catechism has been tracing the believer’s communion with Christ. In the previous question (WLC 82), we considered our communion in grace with Christ—the real fellowship believers have with Jesus now through union with Him. WLC 83 takes the next step: if we are united to Christ, what do we experience already of the glory that will be perfected later? As the Catechism states: “What is the communion in glory with Christ which the members of the invisible C
Daniel Kurtz
Feb 265 min read
Communion in Glory with Christ: A Devotional on WLC q82
In the previous question (WLC 81), the catechism wrestles with how we feel assurance. Does being saved mean that I will always feel saved? It lifts our eyes to the communion in glory believers have with Christ and one another —a real, joyful fellowship that begins now and is completed in the age to come. Question 82 takes things a step further and focuses on the heart of that fellowship: our communion in glory with Christ Himself . It answers with a hope that steadies Christi
Daniel Kurtz
Feb 195 min read
When Assurance Wavers: Faith, Desertion, and the Spirit’s Preserving Support (WLC 81)
The Westminster Larger Catechism is pastorally honest about a common Christian experience: real faith does not always come packaged with the feeling of assurance. Some of the Lord’s truest saints walk through long seasons where salvation feels distant, prayers feel unanswered, and their own hearts feel unreliable. The catechism asks, “Are all true believers at all times assured of their present being in the estate of grace, and that they shall be saved?” And it answers: “Ass
Daniel Kurtz
Feb 125 min read
From Perseverance to Assurance - A Devotional on Question 80 of the WLC
In the previous question, the catechism considered God’s promise that true believers cannot totally or finally fall away, because God keeps them to the end. That immediately raises a personal follow-up: can I know that I am truly in that estate of grace, that I am genuinely saved? Question 80 addresses not only the security God provides but also the assurance believers may enjoy. It asks, “Can true believers be infallibly assured that they are and will remain in a state of gr
Daniel Kurtz
Feb 54 min read
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