Category: HT Video Shorts

Pr. Borghardt and Pr. Buetow address questions and topics from youth on video in under 5 minutes. They have tackled topics on crazy parents, High School cliques, prophecy, giving things up for lent, daring to be Lutheran and knowing that you’re a Christian. Look for a new addition to HT-V each week!

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Bible Study Thursday: You are not under the Law in Jesus – A Higher Things® Video Short

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date January 14, 2020

You shouldn’t just “do the right thing”. You have been set free to love others. Not to sin, but to be a force for good in your world. Not to justify yourself, not to save yourself, not to rattle off a list of things you’ve done to earn God’s favor. You have God’s favor already! You are forgiven! He now loves through you. You’re free in Christ to love and serve your neighbors.

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Wise Men Myths (When did they arrive?) – A Higher Things® Video Short

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date January 7, 2020

Today we sort out the myths from facts about the Wise Men. How many of them were there? Were they alone? What were they? When did they arrive? Should they be in the nativity scenes? Let’s sort out what we actually can know from pious stories that have developed over history.

When was Christmas? – HT Video Short – https://youtu.be/YOTPn4rG-G4

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Wise Men, a Star, and the One born king of the Jews – A Higher Things® Video Short

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date January 6, 2020

Happy Epiphany! Today we remember the arrival of the Magi to visit baby Jesus. They bring with them gifts that are foreshadow Christ and His life. Gold for a king, frankincense (incense) for a priest, and myrrh for His burial. He’s going to rule, He’s going to serve, and He’s going to die…for you.

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Fun Word Friday: Nunc dimittis – A Higher Things® Video Short

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date January 3, 2020

Everything in the liturgy is there for a reason. It’s not just laid out willy nilly or to emotionally manipulate the audience. The placement of the Nunc Dimittis after communion signals to you that, like Simeon, you’re ready for whatever comes your way, you’re even ready to die. Forgiveness is yours, eternal life is yours, salvation is yours.

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The Spirit fights us to keep us from doing what we want – A Higher Things® Video Short

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date January 2, 2020

Paul is clear. The sinful nature and the Spirit in you are constantly at war, fighting over what we want to do vs. what we don’t want to do. And we convince ourselves that we want to do all the right things, but that’s not what we want to do at all. What we really want to do is sin! That’s our fallen nature. The Spirit fights us to keep us from following those sinful desires.

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Jesus’ Circumcision – CUTTING EDGE THEOLOGY! – A Higher Things® Video Short

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date January 1, 2020

Jesus first shed His blood for us as a little baby. He had no need to be circumcised. Yet He keeps the Law, like every other male child of Israel. At just 8 days old, He sheds His precious blood for you. As you go into your new year, remember God has shed His blood for you, and that means anything is possible in the new year. This is going to be a great year!

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Jesus means “The Lord saves His people” – A Higher Things® Video Short

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date December 31, 2019

Jesus’s name means “the Lord saves.” He is going to do His name for you! We’re on the receiving end of His saving us. That’s the way to start the new year. Repent of all the stuff that you do to try to save yourself and trust that Jesus is going to do His name for you. And then nothing in all of creation can separate you from the God who does His Name for you.

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Lectionary Monday: Jesus comes, and you are ready for anything – A Higher Things® Video Short

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date December 30, 2019

Like Simeon, you’ve received Jesus. You’ve received His Body and Blood for the remission of all your sins, so you’re ready for anything. Ready for life, death, school, work…You’re ready to take on the world, ready to be abandoned by your friends, ready for good…and ready for bad. Because you have Jesus, and so you have everything you need.

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Holy Innocents and the cost of being a Christian – A Higher Things® Video Short

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date December 27, 2019

How utterly awful is today’s remembrance? Herod finds out about the birth of Jesus from the Wise Men and, to eliminate any chance of a rival king taking the throne from him, commands his soldiers to kill all the baby boys 2 years and younger. Not a happy day, but a happy day in Jesus because He died to save us all from an eternity of suffering.

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St. Stephen’s Day – A Higher Things® Video Short

Post author By Rev. George Borghardt
Post date December 26, 2019

St. Stephen teaches us that the Christian faith has suffering in it. It’s just the day after probably the biggest Christian celebration, and we’re already remembering the first martyr for believing and preaching that Christian faith. This is what you can expect by being a Christian. When you confess Jesus, you will suffer for it. May we be so faithful as well.