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Don’t turn away

Don’t turn away

  • Post author:Rachel Olson
  • Post published:2021/02/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

Journeying with Jesus to the cross is not a pretty sight. It’s uncomfortable. It’s necessary. It’s heartbreaking. It’s beautiful. As a school-aged girl, I attended a passion play with family…

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A thought: The Ides of March

A thought: The Ides of March

  • Post author:John Braun
  • Post published:2021/02/25
  • Post category:00unavailable/FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

Perhaps Shakespeare’s tragedy, Julius Caesar, brought the idea of the Ides of March to English speakers. Without his play, it seems that March 15 might not be remembered as the…

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Faith and the thinking Christian: Science as servant

Faith and the thinking Christian: Science as servant

  • Post author:James F. Borgwardt
  • Post published:2020/12/28
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

Early one morning, the team gathered on the open plain. Staring at the tower in the distance, they waited. All of their intense, combined efforts over the past many months…

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Now I lay me down to sleep

Now I lay me down to sleep

  • Post author:Harold Hoeppner
  • Post published:2020/08/31
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

One veteran Christian adds the certainty of heaven to a familiar prayer. Many of us have tucked our children to bed with the words of a familiar prayer: Now I…

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Devotion: Clarity in life from closeness to death

Devotion: Clarity in life from closeness to death

  • Post author:Joel Seifert
  • Post published:2020/07/28
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

“Show me, Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is” (Psalm 39:4). “This just doesn’t seem real.” Have you heard people…

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Bible study: A loving God saved people from hell

Bible study: A loving God saved people from hell

  • Post author:David Scharf
  • Post published:2020/06/29
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Universalism says that the biblical teaching of eternal damnation is incompatible with the concept of a loving God. Universalists believe that God will eventually destroy all sin and save all…

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To die is gain

To die is gain

  • Post author:Twila Fickel
  • Post published:2020/05/31
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

Although her time on earth was short, Jodi lived as an example of God’s love. Jodi got the diagnosis the summer after her first year in college—it was cancer. She…

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Q&A: Is death natural?

Q&A: Is death natural?

  • Post author:David Scharf
  • Post published:2020/05/31
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

All of my life, I have heard the phrase “Death is natural.” I never questioned its truth until I watched my grandma pass away. Even though she believed in Jesus,…

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Bible study: God provides victory over death!

Bible study: God provides victory over death!

  • Post author:David Scharf
  • Post published:2020/05/31
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

First, it is important to answer the question, “What is death?” Very simply, death is separation. The Bible speaks of three types of separation: physical, spiritual, and eternal. Physical death…

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A thought: In God’s hands

A thought: In God’s hands

  • Post author:John Braun
  • Post published:2020/04/30
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

As I write this thought, we are all concerned about the spread of a virus that has already killed thousands. Events and responses change day to day and sometimes even…

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Easter is life

Easter is life

  • Post author:Joshua Stahmann   
  • Post published:2020/03/31
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

Easter brings us victory over death and gives us new life. Joshua E. Stahmann The young man across the table from me was in tears. There was no doubting the…

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A thought: Outing death

A thought: Outing death

  • Post author:John Braun
  • Post published:2020/03/31
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

“Don’t forget, you’re going to die,” the message on the screen read. It was from an app that sends five e-mails each day with the sober reminder that death is…

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We look for the resurrection of the dead

We look for the resurrection of the dead

  • Post author:Jonathan Quinn
  • Post published:2020/03/31
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

Though we die—really die—we really will live again, all because of Jesus Christ . . . all because of Easter. Jonathan D. Quinn Do you want your Savior to fix…

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Dust you are

Dust you are

  • Post author:Peter Panitzke
  • Post published:2020/02/25
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

The smudged ashes announce that our story does not end in the dust of death. Peter A. Panitzke Look hundreds of people in the eye and tell them that they…

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On grief and grieving: A Christian perspective

On grief and grieving: A Christian perspective

  • Post author:Glenn L. Schwanke
  • Post published:2019/06/01
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

Glenn L. Schwanke In 1969 Elisabeth Kübler Ross published her groundbreaking book On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families. The…

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