The 10 Commandments
This commandment forbids worshipping other gods or idols. Identify the specific number for an extra point.
What is "You shall have no other gods before me" / "You shall not make for yourself an idol"? What is the first commandment.
This creed begins, "I believe in God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth."
What is the Apostles' Creed?
The opening address of the Lord's Prayer that acknowledges God as Father and our relationship to Him.
What is "Our Father" (the First Petition)?
This book begins with "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
What is Genesis?
These are the gospel-centered ways God creates and strengthens faith — the Word, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper.
What are the means of grace?
This commandment prohibits unlawfully taking a human life. Identify the commandment number for an extra point.
What is "You shall not murder"? What is the sixth commandment?
This ecumenical creed, formulated at councils in 325 and 381, affirms that the Son is "of one being with the Father."
What is the Nicene Creed?
"one in being" - homoousious in the original Greek
This petition asks that God's name be kept holy in our words and lives, and Luther explains it means we pray that God’s name may be kept pure among us.
What is "Hallowed be Thy name" (the Second Petition)?
This prophet was swallowed by a great fish after trying to flee God's command to go to Nineveh.
Who is Jonah?
A sacrament that uses water combined with God's Word and promises, through which Old Adam is drowned and the new person rises to live before God.
What is Baptism (according to Luther's Small Catechism)?
This commandment commands setting aside one day each week to rest and keep it holy. Identify the specific number for an extra point.
What is "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy"? What is the fourth commandment?
This creed carefully defines the Trinity and the double procession of the Holy Spirit as "from the Father and the Son"
Identify what this phrase is called in Latin and win an extra point.
What is the Nicene Creed (Western formulation with the Filioque)?
This petition asks for God's reign and will to come and be done so that we live under His rule; Luther teaches it includes both the spread of the Gospel and our submission to God’s will.
What is "Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done" (the Third and Fourth Petitions)?
This king authored many of the Psalms and united Israel, famously defeating Goliath as a youth.
Who is David.
The practice where Christians confess their sins, receive the Gospel, and are assured of God's pardon by the pastor using the Office of the Keys and the comfortable words.
What is Confession and Absolution?
The only commandment that includes a specific promise—"that your days may be long"—this one concerns family respect. Identify the commandment number for an extra point.
What is "Honor your father and your mother"? What is the fifth commandment?
This lengthy creed insists on precise formulations about the persons of the Trinity and the incarnation, and historically was used in the medieval West to guard orthodoxy.
What is the Athanasian Creed?
In Luther’s explanation this petition requests daily provision and trusts God to give what we need bodily and spiritually, not riches or wants.
What is "Give us this day our daily bread" (the Fifth Petition)?
In the New Testament, this letter—arguing justification by faith and written to a major early church—contains the "fruit of the Spirit" passage in chapter 5.
What is the Epistle to the Galatians?
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
The Lord’s Supper in Lutheran teaching in which Christ’s true body and blood are truly present and received with the bread and wine, given and shed for the forgiveness of sins.
What is the Sacrament of the Altar/Holy Communion.
In many traditions the single commandment against coveting is split into two (one about a neighbor's wife, one about a neighbor's goods); collectively these are the final commandments. Identify the commandments and win two extra points!
What is, "you shall not covet your neighbor's wife"/"you shall not covet your neighbor's goods." What are the Ninth and Tenth Commandments (the coveting commandments)?
This creed lists Christ's two natures—"perfect God and perfect man"—and elaborates that these natures are united in one person without confusion, change, division, or separation.
What is the doctrine expressed in the Nicene and Chalcedonian formulations (as summarized in the Nicene Creed and affirmed by the Athanasian Creed)?
Luther combines three petitions here—asking forgiveness as we forgive others, asking to be kept from temptation, and asking deliverance from evil—emphasizing forgiveness as central and that God both guards and rescues us.
What are "Forgive us our trespasses... lead us not into temptation... deliver us from evil" (the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Petitions as explained in Luther's Small Catechism)?
This apocalyptic book uses symbolic beasts, seven bowls, and a new heaven and earth to depict the final victory; it was written by John while exiled on Patmos.
What is Revelation?
The ordered liturgy through which the means of grace are administered and the congregation is formed and sent.
What is the Lutheran Divine Service/Holy Communion, Setting II.