Thy strong word. God's word is our great heritage. Almighty Father, bless the word. Hi, this is Pastor Will Whedon inviting

you to join us for our hym sing at the 2025 Issues, etc., Making the Case Conference. This year's theme,

the Word of God. Making the case is Friday, July 18th, and Saturday, July 19th at Concordia University, Chicago.

Find out more and register at Issuesetc.org or by calling 618-223-83-85.

Come follow me the Savior speakour speak all in my way abiding deny yourselves the world forsakebey my call and guiding. Obear the cross what air me died. Take my example for your guide.

Soloist David Berger with the first stanza of the hymn,

Come follow me, the Savior spake.

Jesus chose 12 men to be not just followers and disciples,

but eventually to be his apostles,

those sent by him to continue his

ministry. But how did it all begin? Greetings and welcome to issues, et cetera, live on this Monday

afternoon, June the 24th. I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. Pastor Will Whedon will help

us look forward to Sunday morning, according to the one-year lectionary, the fifth Sunday after

Trinity. Then Pastor Sean Denzer joins us to walk us through the proppers for the three-year series

of the next Sunday. Pastor Will Whedon is assistant pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church in

Hamill, Illinois, formerly served as director of worship for the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.

He's author of the books celebrating the saints, thank, praise, serve, and obey. See my Savior's hands and his latest

publication. We praise you, O God. He hosts the daily 15-minute verse-by-verse Bible study. The

Word of the Lord endures forever. Well, welcome back. Hey, thank you, Todd. You say that this Sunday's

proper set us up for a bit of a

conflict. What is that? Yeah, it's the conflict between human reason and divine promise. And I think

nobody said this better that's aged Christ's system and it's one of his homilies on Second Timothy.

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