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Are you an anxious Christian? Your anxiety—that worry-hound chewing at your gut, that obsessive thought keeping you awake at night, that doom-spiral that makes you pick your skin or panic—is no surprise to God. The fact that the Bible addresses anxiety so . . .
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"Welcome to hell!" What? You maybe didn’t expect to read that in Forward in Christ. Admittedly, I never, ever thought about writing it. Until now. Until I heard Bernard say those words when he told his story during a mission festival presentation. A near-death . . .
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Martin Luther once said, “Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.” We hear Jesus say, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven. . . . I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ ” . . .
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In 1987, WELS called my dad straight out of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary to serve in Antigua. Looking back at my parents’ pictures from call day, I am as shocked by my dad’s mustache as I am by my mom’s pregnant belly. I grew up hearing the story of how . . .
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In the days of working full time, I often pictured myself, as I’m sure people in many walks of life have, like an octopus with each arm continuously fully employed. If I slowed or—heaven forbid—sat down, I was asleep. However, as an educator, I could look . . .
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