This presentation is part of the Confirmation Curriculum of Christ the King Lutheran Church in Lodi, Ohio.

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This presentation is part of the Confirmation Curriculum of Christ the King Lutheran Church in Lodi, Ohio.

On the tool bar at the bottom of the slide you can click on the arrow at the left end to play this presentation as a slide show, or pause it on a particular slide. You can also hover your mouse near the center of the right or left edges of each slide to uncover a circled arrow to advance or go back one slide at a time. You can even download the presentation to your computer as a .pdf file and print it or read it as an eBook.

In the Bible, it seems that every time God or an angel show up unexpectedly people are always responding in fear - when Peter realizes Jesus is truly God he says "depart from me, for I am sinful!" (Luke 5); and every time angels show up - to Zechariah or to Mary (Luke 1) or to the shepherds (Luke 2), they have to say "don't be afraid,"

Whenever we see God in Revelation He is always awesome and worthy of worship by all the angels in heaven. It's this kind of fear the First Commandment commands - not fear for our lives, but utmost honor and respect for Him who made and rules over the entire universe.

And despite His holiness, He invites us to love Him as dear children love their dear Father.

Dear, not fear, is the better word to describe how He wants us to feel about Him, because that's how He feels about us.

We sing this hymn by Martin Luther, based on several Psalms.

Martin Luther also said that a god is
- something that we trust in to provide anything we need, and
- something that we run to for help whenever we're in trouble

So, what do you trust to provide what you need? Your own talents, skills, abilities, wits, training? Your money, family, friends? Things you can sell? Your ability to talk your way out of things? Or God the Father and His Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit?

And what do you run to for help when you're in trouble? Mom? Dad? Friends? Money? The government? Your gun? Or God the Father and His Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit?

Who is it that you fear, love and trust above all things? This Commandment commands us that it ought to be the God we confess in the Apostles' Creed, who invites us to call Him Our Father.

"In vain" means for any kind of foolish, dumb, or thoughtless reason.

"Cursing" is when we say we want God to punish someone with something nasty, like sending them to hell.
"Swearing" is when we say we want God to be our witness that we our telling the truth (Jesus said that we should be trustworthy enough on our own),
"Deceiving" is when try to trick someone to get something we want.
"Satanic arts" includes every kind of witchcraft, astrology, tarot, and occult activity.
"Frivolously" means "without thinking." This girl seems to be in the habit of thinking that if she says "OMG!" it's OK because it's not "Oh, My God!" or that "OMG!" is the same as "Oh, Snap!"

We don't actually "make holy" a day that God has already called holy.
What we do when we "sanctify the Holy Day" is agree with Him that this day will be holy for us, too.
That day for Christians is Sunday, the day Jesus rose from the dead.

The main way we sanctify the Holy Day is by going to church to worship God, to hear His Word and receive His forgiveness in the Sacraments.

Our parents are the closest reminders we have to the fact that God wants us to call Him Father. Even when they do sinful things, our parents are still pictures of God for us. If we want to honor Him completely, we honor them too.
Luther said that it's also right for us to honor everyone in authority over us, whether teachers, pastors, police officers, congressmen, the governor or president or judges.

"To despise" means to think that they're the same as garbage. We wouldn't do that to God, or make Him angry, either. We shouldn't do those things to our parents, either. Instead, we should try to live at peace and love with them as we would with all people.

These are ways we can do that.

Okay, these guys have killed this bird for food. But the commandment is talking about people killing other people: don't do that! But it's about more than just killing!

It's also about hurting and harming others - not only hurting someone enough to draw blood or break a bone, but this commandment even talks about slapping or poking or punching another person in the arm. In fact, this commandment means we should really stop and think about it any time we are about to use any kind of violence against someone else - even if they started it, even if they hurt me first!

This commandment (as all of them) isn't just about "not killing," it's also about "the opposite of killing" which is - whenever you see another person you should think "what kinds of physical needs do they have that I might help with?" Pushing a wheelchair? Carrying a grocery bag? Opening a door? Turning on a light? What else might you do?

"Adultery" technically means "a person who is married to another person and having sex with a third person they're not married to." This commandment covers much more than that, though - it covers all kinds of sexual sins. I could list a lot of them, but you probably have parental controls on your search engine that would block this whole presentation if I did.

Here's what it boils down to, in three positive ways.
The first is about sexual purity in all of life.
The second is not only about purity in the things we do, but in the things we say, too (like the jokes we tell or the words we use).
The third is about way we treat the person we are married to. It's even about the person we might be married to someday, and causes us to think about how the way we treat the people we date along the way to marriage show honor and love to the person we will be married to someday.

OK in baseball; not OK anywhere else!

As in the other commandments, this is about loving your neighbor and doing what is best for him, even if that means you don't get something from him that you might want.

"To bear false witness" means to tell lies about another person. Often that results in a ruined reputation for them. Gossip and bullying are included in this commandment.

Sometimes the last one comes out as "Explain everything in the kindest way." That's certainly true, too!

I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.