This week, on the Word of the Lord Indoor's Forever, we continue our adventures in acts with Peter

welcomes Cornelius' delegation. Peter arrives in Caesarea, Gentiles here the Gospel,

the Gentiles' Pentecost, and Peter's Report to the Church. Join me, Pastor Will Whedon,

for the Word of the Lord Indoor's Forever, your daily 15-minute, verse 5, verse 5,

Bible Study on Demand. Listen at the Word Indoor's.org, or your favorite podcast provider.

That's the himsing praise to God, the highest good. We'll be singing it in some of our

churches this coming Sunday, and it draws together the themes of this coming Sunday, according to

the one-year election area, especially Jesus feeding of the 4,000, and how Jesus proves Himself to

be the bread of life and the source of all good. Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Willken.

Thanks for tuning us in live on this Tuesday afternoon, the 18th of July,

joining us to look forward to Sunday morning, according to the one-year election area.

Pastor Peter Bender, he's pastor of Peace, Lutheran Church, and Sussex, Wisconsin,

and director of the Concordia Catechetical Academy. Peter, welcome back.

Good to be with you, Todd. You wanted to begin with the him of the day,

sing praise to God the highest good. Why is that? Well, throughout Trinity, there are so many great

choices in the hymns of the day, and this sing praise to God the highest good, Johann Schutz

text, is one of these fantastic texts, which seems to simply draw on all of the

propers for the day. So it draws together themes, the singing to which we're called on our earthly

pilgrimage, highlighted in the intro, and in the Psalm of the day, Psalm 33, the confession of

faith that the Lord is both our Creator and our Savior, the Old Testament, Genesis 2, that he is

our refuge, and the one who provides every temporal and spiritual blessing for us in love,

the promise that he is our shepherd who feeds us in the wilderness of this world and the gospel

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