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We are excited to announce the release of the Fall 2014 issue of Higher Things Magazine!

This issue is a retrospective issue of the 2014 Crucified Conferences. Much of the art work includes photographs taken at the conferences including a full 2 page photo retrospective.

The Fall 2014 issue also includes these great articles:

• Dare to Be Lutheran: What Does This Mean? – Rev. George Borghardt
• Legacy Hardware – Stan Lemon
• Kaitlin Jandereski has a whole list of reasons that you should be a CCV.
• More articles from conference attendees.
• And 2015 Te Deum Conference Information.

Check it out with and HT-Online Subscription at http://higherthings.org/magazine. With your HT-Online Account, you also gain access to every issues of Higher Things Magazine ever printed along with Bible Studies and Leaders’ Guides for many of the articles.

Print copies of the magazine should be arriving in your mailbox soon. You can subscribe to the magazine at http://higherthings.org/magazine/subscriptions.

Higher Things is pleased to announce the next set of Daily Reflections for the remainder of the Church Year. Covering October 12 through November 29, 2014, these daily devotions deliver Jesus and the hope of eternal life in Him as the Church Year winds down from the 17th Week after Trinity to the Last Week in the Church Year. You can get these reflections as a printable booklet or in a wide variety of other file formats by clicking here.

In Christ,
Pastor Mark Buetow
HT Media Services

The Higher Things staff is excited to announce that audio and video recordings of breakaway sessions from the Crucified 2014 Conference, at Concordia – Wisconsin, will be released over the next several weeks!

Over the next eight weeks we will release video from these breakaways:

• Dating, Relationships, Loneliness and THAT – Rev. George Borghardt
• Baptized, Not Gay – Rev. Mark Buetow
• Why Are Some Lutherans So Backwards About Women? – Sandra Ostapowich
• What the Hell? – Rev. David Kind
• Christians: Leading a Double Life – Rev. Donavon Riley
• Repentance: I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means – Rev. John Drosendahl

We will also include video of:

• Rev. Matthew Harrison’s Plenary Sessions
• Rev. Jonathan Fisk’s Plenary Sessions

In those weeks we will also be releasing audio from:

• Crazy Chronicles about the Crucified: Understanding Parables with Rev. Bruce Keseman
• The Augsburg Confession in 60 Minutes (or, How to Make Your Pastor Cry) with Rev. Michael Schuermann
• Taking the Crazy Creepy Theological Monkey to Church with Sem. René Castillero
• The Works of God Appear Evil: The Heidelberg Disputation for Dummies with Rev. Jonathan Fisk
• The Hunger Games: Dystopia to Utopia with Rev. Gaven Mize
• The Danger of Non-Lutheran Bible Studies with Rev. Anthony Voltattorni
• How to Read the Bible Like a Lutheran (and Not a Protestant) with Rev. Dean Kavouras
• At the Lamb’s High Feast with Rev. David Fleming

A new video will be released each Sunday and a new audio breakaway will be released each Thursday. The releases began last week with Pr. Borghardt’s breakaway which can be found here: http://youtu.be/11MyoaV9RSE.

Higher Things is pleased to be able to offer these resources at no cost to you!

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Have you been wanting to see what a Higher Things Conference is all about, but aren’t able to get away for a whole week? Higher Things For A Day is now available for all three Crucified conferences* this summer! Your $50/day/person registration fee includes conference materials, a T-shirt, meals for the day and admission to all conference programming and events scheduled for the day, including evening entertainment options. You must be registered with your group online. If your group does not have an online registration, you must register your congregation and register any HTFAD users appropriately. Alert Registrar (registrar@higherthings.org) once you’re done registering. Details regarding check-in, registration, and parking will be provided close to the conference. Additional charges may apply for parking on campus.

Download the Registration form here or register online.

*Because the conference at Concordia-Mequon has reached capacity, we will only be able to accept 20 HTFAD registrations each day.

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Questions? Email general questions to conferences@higherthings.org, registration questions to registrar@higherthings.org or call us toll-free at 888-482-6630!

Higher Things announces the 2014 Easter Reflections. These daily devotions are for the Easter Season, April 20 through June 7, 2014. Each day celebrates Christ’s resurrection from the dead and the good gifts by which He delivers His life and salvation to His church. Download them now in one of many available formats.

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