Hi, I'm Pastor Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.

We have thousands of churches and schools all across the U.S., large, small, and in between.

We are the pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-family Lutherans.

During the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, his widow, Erica, stated, If you aren't a member of a church, I beg you to join one, a Bible-believing church.

I agree.

The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod is the ultimate Bible-believing Church.

We confess the truth of every word of the Bible.

The basic message of the Bible is easy to understand.

It's all about Jesus, our Savior.

As St. John wrote,

The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all our sin.

Jesus comes for sinners.

Jesus comes for you.

To find a Lutheran Church, Missouri Synodd Cong congregation near you, visit L-CMS.org.

L-C-MS.org.

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It seems that modern preaching has become, well, if not mostly illustrations and stories, very dependent on illustrations and stories. Some of these are canned illustrations that the pastor may just

get from an app or from a book. Some of them are stories that are kind of apocryphal, what shall we say,

ecclesiastical myths that have been floating around various pulpits for years and years. Some of them are

not true at all. Does that harm the credibility

of the message? Welcome back to Issues Cedar. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about

fact-checked sermons. Dr. John Bumbarrow, senior pastor of St. James Lutheran Church in Lafayette,

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