In 1550, Imperial forces besieged the German town of Magdeburg, seeking to reestablish the Roman Catholic faith.

In response, Magdeburg's Lutheran pastors and theologians wrote a treatise on justifying resistance to tyrannical power called the Magdeburg Confession.

The issues it said are a book of the month for April is a translation of the Magdeburg Confession.

Learn about this new resource at Issue ZTC.org or by calling Concordia Publishing House

1-800-3253040, The Magdeburg Confession.

They have Selma envy. The left wants to claim the immoral authority of the civil rights movements. They keep inventing new civil rights movements. They keep getting watered down and

increasingly absurd so that moral superiority has been remaining. Public officials certainly have the

right to protect the health and public safety.

But the First Amendment, including the free exercise of religion, it's never suspended.

The best place to look for this is Ephesians 526.

He cleansed her by the washing of water with the word.

And we can say, who cleanses who? And the answer is, we don't cleanse

ourselves. Baptism is Christ washing us. It's his work. If Christ is risen, nothing else matters.

And if Christ is not risen, nothing matters.

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Love listening to issues, etc.

We are accustomed in 21st century America to our government,

mostly keeping its hands out of the religious affairs of the church.

But that has not always been true. And it was especially untrue at the time of the Reformation.

The government had its hands all over the religious affairs of the church.

Greetings and welcome to issues, etc. coming to you from the studios of Lutheran Public Radio in Collinsville, Illinois.

I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. We'll be talking about a 16th century treatise

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