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And all to gather praise I God before his joyous true.

Today he opens the power. the Lord is God of stone. To take he open and stand by him, to give us his own son. To give us his own son.

The Lutheran Public Radio Choir with the Christmas hymn let all together praise our God.

This coming Sunday, the first Sunday after Christmas, we will be again, as we were in the last Sunday of Advent,

in Matthew's Gospel, picking up the story where the infant Jesus now is in danger, danger of

the threat of murder from the King Herod, and he and his family flee to Egypt and then

return with the famous words out of Egypt I have called my son. Welcome back 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 looking forward to Sunday morning, according to Luther's catechisms in the three-year lecternary, the first Sunday after Christmas on this Friday, December the 26th, Pastor Peter Bender joins us. He's pastor of Peace, Lutheran Church in Sussex, Wisconsin,

and director of the Concordia Catechetical Academy. Peter, welcome back.

Good to be with you, Todd, and a very merry Christmas to you.

So start us out, if you would, with an overview of the catechism as it pertains to this

first Sunday after Christmas?

Yes, as I study the proppers for the given Sunday or festival, there are so many parts of the

catechism that swirl around in my mind. Knowing that the gospel for today was the flight into Egypt and the slaughter of the

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