Rev. Borghardt is pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Bossier City, LA. He is also the President of Higher Things, Inc.
This week Pr. Borghardt answers a question from a High School student who wants more Jesus in Chapel at the Lutheran High School. Pr. Borghardt talks about some things you can do to make your chapel services Christ centered and cross focused while still being respectful.
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Pr. Borghardt was talking to a young person who doesn’t go to church anymore because historically, the church has done some pretty awful things. Why would you want to be associated with “organized religion?”
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This week Pr. Borghardt answers the question, “what happens if I’m sinning when Jesus returns?” Jesus doesn’t have to work very hard to catch you in a sin. But His coming on the Last Day is to save you.
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All means all! Jesus says go and make disciples of… you guessed it ALL nations. Pr. Borghardt uses Matthew 28 to talk about infant baptism and using scripture to support it when talking to your non-Lutheran friends.
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Pr. Borghardt “proves” The Lord’s Supper for your Baptist friend. In under 4 minutes he explains that it is Jesus’ Body and Blood because Jesus says it is.
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This week Pr. Borghardt addresses the belief that it doesn’t matter which God you believe in as long as you believe in a God. Tune in to hear about the one true God – maker of heaven and earth who sent His only Son to live, die and rise for you!
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In this HT-Video Short, Pr. Borghardt answers a question from someone who is going to Church and Bible Class more often. The more this youth goes, the worse life seems to get. What are they doing wrong? Isn’t life suppose to get better?
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Pastor Borghardt answers a question from a mother of a High School girl. She asks how her daughter can stand up for herself and keep her identity in the world of High School cliques. Pr. Borghardt answers in both the Law and the Gospel. Always pointing to your identity as a Baptized Child of God.
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As many of you know, the popular radio program “Issues Etc” was removed from the programming of KFUO yesterday without warning.
And for whatever reason they were taken off the air, you can take it back to Jesus. Jesus for you. Jesus for me. For no program more put the focus on what Christ did for you on the Cross more than Issues Etc. tried do and did.
We don’t know the reasons why the program has been canceled. Some say it was money, politics, or personalities. Or maybe it was some combination of all of “them.” No one truly knows who is at fault. We may never know. But make no mistake the reason for the shutting down of this radio program is Jesus.
That’s what we do with Christ in Holy Week. We shut Him up. He rides in on Palm Sunday, the Pharisees want to shut him up. He cleanses the temple, teaches, preaches, and they scheme to silence Him. And finally, when He tells the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, the Pharisees decide that He has to die. We have to shut Him up.
Lots of folks wanna pick up their guns and start firing. Good. Do it. I shot some emails off myself. Issues Etc. was a partner in the Gospel with Higher Things. They interviewed our writers and teachers and gave us permission to post the audio files on our website. Our kids have their podcasts on their iPods!
But don’t pick up your pen for your own sake. How often do we take up causes for someone else when what we are really doing is taking up a cause so people see us taking up a cause! How evil is that? “Finally, I have something to fight for..” No. No. No.
You see, it’s not just “them,” that shut Jesus down. It’s us too. We shut up Jesus on Good Friday. We shut Jeff and Todd up too. And the dirty secret is that we would do it again…..
So, don’t pick up your keyboard or your pen for your own glory. Please, eyes off you. Before anything else, eyes on Jesus. For Jesus only. For Him alone. For the spreading of His Gospel into the ears of every creature. For me, that’s youth too! For the sake of good preaching everywhere!
The Cross is where Pastor Wilken always directed us. Eyes on the Cross – on Jesus crucified for you and me.
