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Read more about the article Repent and be baptized

Repent and be baptized

  • Post author:Andrew Schroer
  • Post published:2024/11/27
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

God’s clear message in his Word directs us as we prepare for Jesus’ second coming. My hometown of Edna is full of sidewalks. Thanks to a grant from the great…

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Read more about the article Please explain: Was John’s baptism the same as the baptism commanded by Jesus?

Please explain: Was John’s baptism the same as the baptism commanded by Jesus?

  • Post author:Michael J. Berg
  • Post published:2024/11/27
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

A few years before Jesus’ Great Commission directed his followers to baptize and teach his Word (Matthew 28:19,20), John the Baptist baptized people (see Luke 3:3; 20:4; Acts 18:25). Was…

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Read more about the article Planting seeds to bear eternal fruit

Planting seeds to bear eternal fruit

  • Post author:FIC
  • Post published:2024/10/01
  • Post category:Forward in Christ/FIC News

When Tammy Thorson was having her granddaughter, Aurora, baptized, she wanted a godly godparent for her. Since Thorson’s family had just joined St. Paul, Tomah, Wis., and was new to…

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Read more about the article Parent conversations: Why should children obey their parents?

Parent conversations: Why should children obey their parents?

  • Post author:John Juern
  • Post published:2024/03/29
  • Post category:Parent Conversations/FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

Parenting techniques come and go, but the answer to this month’s question is based on more than new research or a passing fad. It’s based on the solid rock of…

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Read more about the article Confessions of faith: Quinton Jones

Confessions of faith: Quinton Jones

  • Post author:James F. Pope
  • Post published:2024/01/31
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

A Mormon’s faith journey leads him to South America and back home to Utah, where he finds the biblical truth he had been seeking. On some Sunday mornings, you can…

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Back to the basics: Baptism

  • Post author:FIC
  • Post published:2023/12/05
  • Post category:Forward in Christ

December 3-9: The institution A very special day Can you remember the day of your baptism? Those who were baptized as infants may remember seeing pictures and hearing stories about…

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Read more about the article Catechism truths from Matthew: Baptism

Catechism truths from Matthew: Baptism

  • Post author:James F. Borgwardt
  • Post published:2023/11/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

“The Bible never says we should baptize babies.” So goes the stale argument against infant baptism. I like to respond, “And the Bible never says we should commune women, either.”…

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Read more about the article Parent conversations: What is our goal as parents?

Parent conversations: What is our goal as parents?

  • Post author:Timothy Bourman, Jenni Schubring, Ann M. Ponath
  • Post published:2023/10/30
  • Post category:Parent Conversations/FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing," wrote Stephen Covey in his best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Yet that's easier said than done,…

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Read more about the article Confessions of faith: Ken Blaine

Confessions of faith: Ken Blaine

  • Post author:Marilyn Sievert
  • Post published:2023/10/30
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

After years of praying, a wife sees God’s perfect timing in the baptism of her husband. Although it took over 30 years of praying, at just the right time Ken…

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