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Read more about the article Moving the needle

Moving the needle

  • Post author:Adam Mueller
  • Post published:2023/02/27
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

In God’s kingdom, nothing happens without the Word. Automobile purists insist that the only way to drive a car is by manual transmission. There’s nothing like the exhilaration of driving…

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Read more about the article Confessions of faith: Four generations

Confessions of faith: Four generations

  • Post author:Julie Wietzke
  • Post published:2022/11/27
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

Four generations discover the love and forgiveness of Jesus. Every night, Christopher Correri lifts up his six-year-old daughter, Anayah, because she wants to touch the cross hanging on the wall…

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Read more about the article Congregation celebrates 200 years

Congregation celebrates 200 years

  • Post author:FIC
  • Post published:2022/10/29
  • Post category:FIC News/Forward in Christ

This past fall, St. Paul’s, a WELS congregation in Columbus, Ohio, celebrated its 200th anniversary. While St. Paul’s is not a founding congregation for the Wisconsin Synod (which is 172…

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Read more about the article Sharing the same faith

Sharing the same faith

  • Post author:John Braun
  • Post published:2022/09/30
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

Four leaders comment on faith and fellowship as we celebrate the unity that has endured for 150 years between the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. “You…

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Read more about the article Confessions of faith: Alicia Heintz

Confessions of faith: Alicia Heintz

  • Post author:Amanda Klemp
  • Post published:2022/09/30
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

A woman seeks God in all the wrong places before finding him in the Word. Alicia Heintz, 58, wanted to find God. She looked everywhere, turning over every stone on…

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Read more about the article What does this mean for me? Article 4

What does this mean for me? Article 4

  • Post author:Greg Lyon
  • Post published:2022/09/30
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

Does Jesus really understand me? “We do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every…

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Read more about the article Fall in love with God’s Word

Fall in love with God’s Word

  • Post author:Nathan Nass
  • Post published:2022/09/30
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

As Lutherans we value Scripture, but how much time do we really spend reading it? The phone rang in my office. The voice said, “I’m looking for a Lutheran church.”…

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Read more about the article Too many words

Too many words

  • Post author:Peter Prange
  • Post published:2022/07/16
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

“The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence. Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs” (Proverbs 10:11,12).…

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To the other ten

  • Post author:Steven Staude
  • Post published:2022/06/30
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

A letter to the future spouses of our grandchildren. If you are reading this, it means a couple of things have happened. First, my wife and I are in heaven.…

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