God makes promises. He gives himself on every good gift to us with a word, a pledge.

That's a promise. And faith is born of these promises.

Hope comes alive. We live in joy and peace in the confidence that God cannot lie. So his word of

promise is our life. Pastor Brian Wolfmiller talking about his presentation at the

2024 issues, etc. making the case conference.

Commenting on the faith that sustained Jacob in exile, Luther says, we are

absolved from our sins, we have the word which is founded and stands firm on the promises of God.

So we walk by faith and not by sight knowing that the God who makes promises has given those

promises to us.

You can meet and hear, Pastor Brian Wolf Miller,

making the case for trusting in the promises of God

at this year's Making the Case Conference, Friday, July 12th,

and Saturday, July 13th at Concordia University, Chicago.

Find out more and register at issues ETC.org. In the case of the president, do you get a sense that his regular attendance and adherence to the faith resonates with American Catholics.

There is a phrase, a cafeteria Catholic.

You choose that which is attractive

and dismiss that which is challenging.

We are entering a post-Christian era.

We are not going to be able to live off of the inheritance

of a Christianity that is being rejected and is being

slewed off right now. There were specific strategies that the church

used in many churches to grow the congregations that focused less on discipleship and

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