Family New Year's Resolution

What better time than now to start going through the Heidelberg Catechism with our offspring?

It's divided by weeks (Lord's Days) -- so this week we got to start with the best Q&A ever, #1:

LORD'S DAY 1

1   Q.  What is your only comfort
in life and in death?

A.  That I am not my own,^1
but belong,
  body and soul,
  in life and in death—^2
to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ.^3

  He has fully paid for all my sins with his
precious blood,^4
  and has set me free from the tyranny
of the devil.^5
  He also watches over me in such a way^6
  that not a hair can fall from my head
  without the will of my Father in heaven:^7
  in fact, all things must work together
for my salvation.^8

Because I belong to him,
Christ, by his Holy Spirit,
assures me of eternal life^9
and makes me wholeheartedly willing
and ready
from now on to live for him.^10

^1  1 Cor. 6:19-20
^2  Rom. 14:7-9
^3  1 Cor. 3:23; Titus 2:14
^4  1 Pet. 1:18-19; 1 John 1:7-9; 2:2
^5  John 8:34-36; Heb. 2:14-15; 1 John 3:1-11
^6  John 6:39-40; 10:27-30; 2 Thess. 3:3; 1 Pet. 1:5
^7  Matt. 10:29-31; Luke 21:16-18
^8  Rom. 8:28
^9  Rom. 8:15-16; 2 Cor. 1:21-22; 5:5; Eph. 1:13-14
^10   Rom. 8:1-17

The 9 year old has abbreviated this answer to "GOD!!!" (which is always a safe answer) but i hope she'll someday remember the whole thing. It's the one I remember best from my own childhood... and the one that shows up framed on people's wall, laminated on wallet cards, printed in funeral programs, etc.

Q&A #2 is less exciting, but shorter (condenses down to "sin, salvation and service"):

2   Q.  What must you know
    to live and die in the joy of this comfort?

A.  Three things:
   first, how great my sin and misery are;^1
   second, how I am set free from all my
sins and misery;^2
   third, how I am to thank God for such
deliverance.^3

^1  Rom. 3:9-10; 1 John 1:10
^2  John 17:3; Acts 4:12; 10:43
^3  Matt. 5:16; Rom. 6:13; Eph. 5:8-10; 2 Tim. 2:15;
1 Pet. 2:9-10

The challenge is going to be keeping them engaged - so far this comprises reading the references. ( I want them to be able to find them in the actual Bible; dh is advocating for online lookup.)

Happy New Year!!