It is the sentence of this court that Thesios Cyprianos be executed with the sword.

Cyprian, thanks be to God.

Lutheran Churchmas are rescinded President Pastor Matt Harrison, speaking at this year's issues

et cetera, making the case conference.

So, I would rather lay down on this spot and have my head chopped off and give up the word of God.

But with that strong,

vivically informed conscience, I shall face my day and age, you shall face this day and age,

we will confess Christ, no matter what we face, and we will bear witness to a better way.

In Jesus, come what may. Amen.

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He was raised in a Christian home, but in time he rejected the faith of his mother, Monica,

and for about a decade he lived essentially as a heretic and then later as a pagan.

But Monica never gave up and she never stopped praying and eventually got to answer those prayers

and Augustine was converted to the Christian faith and went on to become one of the greatest

most influential Christian theologians in human history. Welcome back to issueset cetera.

I'm Todd Wilkin. Well, the church remembers Monica and her son yesterday and today.

We're going to be remembering them. Dr. Carl Beckwith joins us. He's professor of historical

theology at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and author of the books,

The Holy Trinity, and Hillary Appuittier on the Trinity. Dr. Beckwith, welcome back.

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