Higher Things

The mission of Higher Things, Inc. is to assist parents, congregations, and pastors in cultivating and promoting a Lutheran identity among youth through conferences, retreats, publications, and the internet. Learn more at: www.higherthings.org

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This is why we confess the Apostles (and Nicene and Athanasian) Creed. It's our constant reminder of just who this Jesus is. We confess what He Himself has taught us. He is God and man. And that means He's our Lord and Savior from sin.

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5888

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God promises, “I will raise up for them a Prophet...” To all those who trust this promise, regardless of when or where they lived, their faith is counted as righteousness (Romans 4:5). This faith trusts that all of God's promises are fulfilled in the coming of His Prophet, God's Word made flesh.

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5868

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Winter 2013 Issue of Higher Things Magazine Available

The Winter 2013 Issue of Higher Things magazine is now available online. This issue includes articles for Lutheran Youth about Christmas, the Scriptures and more!

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Our wisdom is Christ. Our Righteousness is Christ. Our Sanctification is Christ. Our redemption is Christ. Our life is Christ through baptism, today and forever.

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5867

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The resurrected Christ is still the crucified Christ, but as Thomas learned, the sins that were his have somehow ended up in Christ's own body. Yet when they are on Christ, instead of festering unto death, they are defeated by Christ, and can’t defeat

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5866

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When sin, which puts you wrong with God is answered for and forgiven, your guilt and dreadful fear before God is gone. You come to know Him as Father because of what Jesus does for you.

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5865

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God's Word became flesh and died once for all on the cross, never to be repeated. With this cross the promise of forgiveness is preached repeatedly, not hearing your sin because Christ has taken it, but hearing only Christ in faith who takes your sin so it cannot accuse you. Jesus, God-in-flesh, has made all things new, free, and living from God's own favor forever.

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5864

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When the Father sends Jesus to save us from our sins, the image of Jesus on the cross is forever given to us as one of comfort. Whenever you see a cross or crucifix, whenever you make the sign of the cross, whenever you see a picture or painting of Jesus on Calvary, and whenever that crucified Jesus is preached to you, then remember: Your heavenly Father delivers you from all evil.

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5863

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If Christ doesn't bear our sins then we must bear them and be killed by them. But Christ ends up with all our sins in His own body. They are Christ's own. Now, instead of the law of sin and death ruling us, the law is rendered powerless, sin is defeated, and death has lost its sting.

Higher Things daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5862

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Faith clings to Christ. It is created and sustained by the Spirit of the One who promises He will never leave us or abandon us to the law and death.

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5861

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Kept by the Spirit in sure and certain hope the Church sings, “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!”, because she knows that He is coming soon. e

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5860

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Yet, where we lay deaf, blind, dead, no free will to speak of, with no proper relation to God, He sends his preacher to speak a simple word: “Your sins are forgiven.”

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5858

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God does not want to be known outside His Word, Christ who is God-revealed by his blood. God promises to be present in Christ's cross: “There I will meet with you” (Exodus 25:22).

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5857

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Your heavenly Father can't forget you. He made you. He sent His Son to save you and the Spirit to make you His own. You are His and He can never forget His own. http://dtbl.org/5856

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5856

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Why you should be dreaming of a white Christmas too!http://youtu.be/5ZfhMIRgTNg 

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The Church is the one place on earth where Jew and Gentile belong together. But not because they are united in their dedication to obey God's commands. It is because they have the same crucified Christ.

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5855

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Before the risen Christ good, moral people are put to death then raised to live by faith alone — faith that trusts not what we have gotten for ourselves, but what Christ promises to give us.

Higher Things Daily Reflection: http://dtbl.org/5854