Christian Good Works – Dr. Alfonso Espinosa, 5/21/25 (1413)

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

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Dr. Alfonso Espinosa, author, “Faith That Shines in the Culture” Faith That Shines in the Culture

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0:00.0	This week on The Word of the Lord Endors Forever, we continue in Genesis with Isaac and Abimelech,
0:06.4	Isaac's Wells, an embassy of peace, a deception planned, and a deception executed.
0:14.0	Join me, Pastor Willeden, for the Word of the Lord Endores Forever, your daily 15-minute
0:19.8	verse-by-verse Bible study on demand, listen at the wordendors.org
0:24.9	or your favorite podcast provider. Here at the Luther Witness, we love our history. That's why we're
0:30.8	celebrating the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed. It's also a good time to ask about
0:36.5	conventions. Why we have them,
0:39.0	and to offer some interesting stories of what has happened in past conventions. To learn all
0:43.7	about councils and conventions, pick up the May issue of the Lutheran witness. Visit
0:47.6	CPH.org slash witness to subscribe or witness.l.m.s.org to learn more, the Lutheran witness,
0:52.9	teaching you to interpret the world
0:54.4	from a Lutheran perspective.
1:09.2	It really is a very simple concept and it's repeated again and again and again in Scripture.
1:16.6	What follows saving faith?
1:19.2	What follows saving faith is good works.
1:22.3	Faith produces those works.
1:24.2	The Holy Spirit working through God's Word, produces works as the natural result
1:28.3	of faith in Jesus Christ. Couldn't be simpler, although many, many Christians can't get it straight.
1:36.3	Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin. Joining us to talk about Christians and Good Works, Dr.
1:42.5	Alfonso Espinoza, he's senior pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Irvine, California.
1:47.3	Author of the books, Faith that Engages the Culture and Faith that Shines in the culture.
1:51.6	He's also written a column for the June issue of the Lutheran Witness magazine titled Let Us Not Grow Weary.
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