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Read more about the article Please explain: Are we living in the last days?

Please explain: Are we living in the last days?

  • Post author:Jeffrey Bovee
  • Post published:2025/05/30
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

Are we living in the last days? When will the end of the world take place? The answer to this question is easy because Jesus told us in Matthew 24:36:…

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Read more about the article Please explain: What is the millennium all about?

Please explain: What is the millennium all about?

  • Post author:Kenneth L. Brokmeier
  • Post published:2024/05/23
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

What is the millennium all about? Remember the circumstances surrounding Christ’s return to heaven? Jesus takes his disciples outside Jerusalem near the Mount of Olives. “He was taken up before…

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Read more about the article The forever end of all wars

The forever end of all wars

  • Post author:Paul Ziemer
  • Post published:2023/10/30
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

We will always have to endure war on earth, but Jesus is coming to take us to a place of perfect peace. They thought it would be the war to…

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Don’t miss the point

  • Post author:Mark Schroeder
  • Post published:2023/10/29
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

Sometimes it’s easy to miss the point. Jesus was talking to people who asked him about some Galileans whom Pontius Pilate had killed while they were worshiping. Jesus asked them,…

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Read more about the article The last hour

The last hour

  • Post author:Daniel N. Balge
  • Post published:2023/10/29
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

We are living in the end times and need to stay ready for Jesus’ glorious return. We live in the last days of the world. Our Savior Jesus will return…

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Read more about the article Looking forward

Looking forward

  • Post author:Eric D. Schroeder
  • Post published:2019/11/01
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

The Scripture readings for the last Sundays of our church year help us look to the end of time. It’s the one appointment we all share—same place, same time—but it…

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