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Higher Things is pleased to offer the next set of Daily Reflections the Trinity Season, covering September 6, through October 17. During the Trinity Season we continue to hear the work of Christ in His Church, calling sinners to repentance, and delivering His cross-won forgiveness in the means of grace. Reflections were written by both Pastors Mark Buetow and Joel Frtische. To download the Reflections in a printable booklet format, click here.

As always, thanks for your support of Higher Things!

 A Higher Things Day Retreat for Youth and Adults!

If you have never been to a Higher Things conference, but would like to see for yourself what they're like, mark your calendar for this one-day retreat in southeast Texas.

This unique “Higher Things for a Day” will feature great catechesis from local pastors - teaching on the subjects they have taught at past Higher Things conferences. And you’ll worship using services from the Lutheran Service Book, just like would at a Higher Things conference.

Bring your youth, parents, elders, youth leaders and pastors and find out what Higher Things is all about!

Where: Living Word Lutheran Church
The Woodlands, Texas
Approximately 1 hour north of Houston.

When: Saturday, September 26, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Lunch provided.

Cost: Free-will offering.

RSVP: Lynea Sander - (832) 722-3170 or lynealeia@higherthings.org

 Higher Things is extremely excited to share with you a selection of copyrighted hymnody from the Sola conferences this summer.  Thanks to Concordia Publishing House we've obtained permission to release several copyrighted hymns for limited downloads.  These new hymns include the versification of Te Deum sung during Thursday Matins, "We Praise You and Acknowledge You, O God" (LSB 941) written by Stephen Starke, as well as the settings of "A Mighty Fortress" (LSB 656), "Dear Christians, One and All Rejoice" (LSB 556) and "O Love, How Deep" (LSB 544).

These hymns can be downloaded through the Sola 2009 Media page.  A FREE Higher Things Account is required to download these hymns in order to aide us in tracking the total number of downloads for permissions purposes.  If you do not have a Higher Things Account head on over to the register page and sign up now, it's FREE and easy!  Each user is entitled to a single download of each hymn through our website.

Enjoy!

Greetings in Christ!  Once again we are very happy to share you more live recordings of hymnody from our Sola 2009 conferences.  In this week's installation we've added "God's Own Child I Gladly Say It" (Lutheran Service Book 594) and "I Bind unto Myself Today" (Lutheran Service Book 604) to our new Sola 2009 Media page.  These hymns, their tunes and the settings used are all public domain and can be freely downloaded.  They will be made available until Monday, August 17 at which point we will archive them for HT-Online subscribers.  If you mised last week's installment, be sure to sign up for HT-Online today!

Greetings in Christ!  Once again we are very happy to share you more live recordings of hymnody from our Sola 2009 conferences.  We've added "Christ, the Life of All the Living" (Lutheran Service Book 566) and "From the Depths of Woe I Cry to Thee" (Lutheran Service Book 607) to our new Sola 2009 Media page.  These hymns, their tunes and the settings used are all public domain and can be freely downloaded.  They will be made available until Monday, August 10 at which point we will archive them for HT-Online subscribers.  We will try then each Monday for the remainder of the month and partially into September to release two public domain hymns each Monday.  So stay tuned and surf back frequently!

Higher Things is very pleased to offer more audio from our Sola 2009 conferences!  HT-Online members can now listen to Pastor Weedon's plenaries recorded live at the Grand Rapids conference as well as another hymn, "Christ is the World's Redeemer" (Lutheran Service Book 539) from the HT-Online user page.  Head on over to HT-Online and click on the Sola 2009 resources page to start listening to your audio, or click here to go there right away.

Just as a reminder, if you were a group leader to either of the Sola 2009 conferences this year we've given you complimentary access to HT-Online through the end of August.  If for some reason you were a group leader and don't seem to have access, drop the webmaster a line over at the contact page.

If you're not an HT-Online subscriber, subscribing is EASY and it opens up a wealth of great premium content to you, including the magazine online (past and current issues), exclusive bible studies, early access to HT-Radio and great audio from our summer conferences.  You can sign up for an annual subscription rate of $25 by clicking here.