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Read more about the article President’s message: Thoughts about the new hymnal

President’s message: Thoughts about the new hymnal

  • Post author:Mark Schroeder
  • Post published:2021/07/27
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

After years of careful development, our synod now has a new hymnal. Someone may well ask the question, “Why a new hymnal? What is wrong with the one that we’re…

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Read more about the article President’s message: Cooperating in externals

President’s message: Cooperating in externals

  • Post author:Mark Schroeder
  • Post published:2021/06/29
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

WELS confesses and teaches that for church bodies to express unity and fellowship there needs to be full agreement in doctrine. Such fellowship is practiced when members of each church…

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Read more about the article President’s message: Canceling the cancel culture

President’s message: Canceling the cancel culture

  • Post author:Mark Schroeder
  • Post published:2021/05/25
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

“Cancel culture” has arrived. Cancel culture is a modern form of ostracism in which someone is thrust out of social or professional circles because of something they have said or…

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Read more about the article President’s message: Making normal a reality

President’s message: Making normal a reality

  • Post author:Mark Schroeder
  • Post published:2021/04/28
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

You’re reading this in May, but it’s February as I’m writing. We’re at a time when we are all asking the questions, “When will this COVID thing finally be over?…

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Read more about the article President’s message: The fields are ripe for harvest

President’s message: The fields are ripe for harvest

  • Post author:Mark Schroeder
  • Post published:2021/03/27
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

It was the summer of 1961. The Wisconsin Synod, meeting in convention, had just made the very difficult decision to suspend fellowship with the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod for doctrinal reasons.…

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Read more about the article President’s message: The end of the story

President’s message: The end of the story

  • Post author:Mark Schroeder
  • Post published:2021/02/25
  • Post category:FIC Features/FIC Series/Forward in Christ

The apostle John was nearing the end of his life. He had been a pastor in Asia Minor—modern-day Turkey—but was now living in exile on the Greek island of Patmos.…

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Read more about the article President’s message: Blessings small and large

President’s message: Blessings small and large

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

It’s easy to be thankful for the big blessings that come our way. But when you stop and think about it, we’re also thankful for the little blessings, even though…

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Read more about the article President’s message: Standing on the truth

President’s message: Standing on the truth

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

Pontius Pilate asked the famous question, “What is truth?” (John 18:38). Pilate wasn’t looking for an answer; he was stating his view that there really is no such thing as…

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Read more about the article President’s message: Peace on earth—but what kind?

President’s message: Peace on earth—but what kind?

  • Post author:Mark Schroeder
  • Post published:2020/11/29
  • Post category:FIC Features/Forward in Christ

The year was 1914. World War I had thrown the continent of Europe into a conflict that would last for four years and kill or wound more than 25 million…

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