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And of the world's mess, my voice is not and me. God help of Christ's My voice

My voice is my The Lord's Of God's sinned salvation which to the right

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the name when all the world was God's Savior's name of me.

The Advent hymn, when all the world was cursed, it speaks there about St. John the Baptist came with words of consolation. We hear that testimony in one of our gospel readings, John 1, for the fourth Sunday in Advent.

Greetings and welcome to issues, et cetera, coming to you

live 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 the one-year electionary with

Dr. John Bombarrow. Then, in part four of our series on answering arguments against Christianity

today, the argument that Christianity is pro-slavery, Dr. Corey Moss of Hillsdale College will be our guest.

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