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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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The Best way to celebrate Christmass – A Higher Things® Video Short

Christ’s Mass — that’s what we celebrate today! Family and friends and all of that is secondary to Christ coming into your flesh. Today is Day 1! God the Son has taken on your human flesh and blood and He delivers Himself to you on the altar today! Receive that gift first on Christmas morning. It’s the most important one!

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Merry Christmas! – A Higher Things® Video Short

Merry Christmas from Higher Things!

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We all should love Mary (that means love Jesus) – A Higher Things® Video Short

Everyone’s a big Mary fan in December. Lutherans love Mary, too! But the big deal about Mary isn’t…Mary. The big deal is Who’s in her womb. Mary is blessed because of Jesus, because she has God in her belly. The One who is born of Mary will grow up to die for your sins and the sins of the whole world. So don’t focus on Mary, go right to her Baby.

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The Largely Catechized Life

The last one

“Therefore let every father of a family know that it is his duty, by the injunction and command of God, to teach these things to his children, or have them learn what they ought to know. For since they are baptized and received into the Christian Church, they should also enjoy this communion of the Sacrament, in order that they may serve us and be useful to us; for they must all indeed help us to believe, love, pray, and fight against the devil.Therefore let every father of a family know that it is his duty, by the injunction and command of God, to teach these things to his children, or have them learn what they ought to know. For since they are baptized and received into the Christian Church, they should also enjoy this communion of the Sacrament, in order that they may serve us and be useful to us; for they must all indeed help us to believe, love, pray, and fight against the devil.”