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Concordia University Chicago, with Christ at the center, we stand tall for the church.

James Madison famously says, if men were angels, they wouldn't need government.

And, of course, the inference behind those, men aren't angels, that men actually are very far from angels.

And so they need to be governed for that very reason.

Sometimes up to 25% or even more of the, particularly like in the New England Journal of Medicine,

of the space for these magazines is taken up with this kind of ideological advocacy.

Sometimes I think these editors are more interested in politics than they are in science.

So when God says he loves us, he's not saying that he has warm fuzzies for us. He's saying that he has taken action for us to save us in Jesus.

Love is not what God feels, it's what God does.

What is the manifestation of the reality of God?

The sacraments, the pure preaching the gospel, ensure that God is the one who is making

himself manifest and we're looking outward to where he is giving himself and how he is giving

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