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Read more about the article Out from the shadows

Out from the shadows

  • Post author:Nathan Nass
  • Post published:2023/03/31
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

I recently read a cute children’s book about a bear to my kids. The bear had a problem. This dark thing kept following him everywhere he went. Know what it…

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Read more about the article Please explain: What is the point of praying?

Please explain: What is the point of praying?

  • Post author:Benjamin Tomczak
  • Post published:2022/06/30
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ/FIC Series

If God already knows what he is going to do for us and for others, what is the point of praying? Katie was worried about her husband’s business trip. She…

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Read more about the article Please explain: Why did God cruelly command Abraham to sacrifice his son?

Please explain: Why did God cruelly command Abraham to sacrifice his son?

  • Post author:Robert Raasch
  • Post published:2021/01/30
  • Post category:Forward in Christ/FIC Series/FIC Features

For many people, it’s an Old Testament Bible story that is confusing, even alarming. For every Sunday school student who has colored the picture of Abraham lifting his knife over…

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Read more about the article The story of us

The story of us

  • Post author:Mark Paustian
  • Post published:2020/12/28
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

The Christian church year is the story of what God has done for us. It is our story to repeat and remember. At the Passover table when generations of Jewish…

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Read more about the article But you promised!

But you promised!

  • Post author:Daniel Habben
  • Post published:2020/10/28
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

“Where are your former mercies, O Lord, which you swore to David in your faithfulness? . . . Remember the scorn with which . . . they have scorned the steps…

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