In 1550, Imperial forces besieged the German town of Magdeburg, seeking to re-establish 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.

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

They have Selma envy.

The left wants to claim the immoral authority of the civil rights movement,

so 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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