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Read more about the article Parent conversations: How can parents maintain a healthy marriage?

Parent conversations: How can parents maintain a healthy marriage?

  • Post author:Clark Schultz and Jenni Schubring
  • Post published:2021/10/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ/Parent Conversations

Maintaining a healthy marriage requires work for any couple, but when you add kids into the mix, it can get more challenging because your time is divided into even more…

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Read more about the article My Christian life: Holding up the prophets’ hands

My Christian life: Holding up the prophets’ hands

  • Post author:Janet Klann
  • Post published:2021/10/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

How one woman turned her mission zeal into a lifetime of service "holding up the prophet's hands". For almost 60 years Delores Griepentrog has been writing letters of encouragement and…

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Read more about the article Digital resources: Hymnal tools for the modern world

Digital resources: Hymnal tools for the modern world

  • Post author:Caleb Bassett
  • Post published:2021/10/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

In a digital age, Lutherans can embrace new tools for worship. Much of the work of making a hymnal has remained the same over the years. You need a team…

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Read more about the article Please explain: What does it mean to have your name written in God’s book?

Please explain: What does it mean to have your name written in God’s book?

  • Post author:Paul Wendland
  • Post published:2021/10/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

Imagine the world of long ago. A world with no letters, nor words to read. There were no books, no libraries, no records, no databases. Only memories that changed and…

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Read more about the article Bible study: Precious grace

Bible study: Precious grace

  • Post author:David Scharf
  • Post published:2021/10/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

The German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote about “cheap grace.” By cheap grace, he meant that too many preach forgiveness without repentance and grace without the cross. In other words, people…

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Read more about the article A heart captured by the gospel: Article 1

A heart captured by the gospel: Article 1

  • Post author:Earle D. Treptow
  • Post published:2021/10/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

Luther stood confident not in his intellect or courage but in the righteousness of Christ. Five hundred years ago, on April 18, 1521, Martin Luther took a stand. At the emperor’s…

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Read more about the article Confessions of faith: Anthony and Tyler

Confessions of faith: Anthony and Tyler

  • Post author:John Braun
  • Post published:2021/10/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

Troubled teens find the gospel in an unexpected place. “Talk Time.” That’s what Anthony and Tyler call it. Tim Mueller, pastor at St. John, Watertown, Wis., gently helps them remember…

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Read more about the article Jesus fills us up

Jesus fills us up

  • Post author:Jeremy Cares
  • Post published:2021/10/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

The only way to make empty hearts full is to fill them with Jesus. Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that…

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Read more about the article Power over death

Power over death

  • Post author:Peter Prange
  • Post published:2021/10/26
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

“Just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it” (John 5:21). The United States…

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