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I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. It's time to look forward to Sunday morning, according to the one-year electionary, and work our way toward Luke 14 and the Parable of the Great Banquet. Pastor Will Whedon joins us. He's 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, We Praise You, O God. And he hosts the daily 15-minute

verse-by-verse Bible study produced by Lutheran Public Radio called The Word of the Lord Endures Forever.

Will welcome back.

Hey, thank you, Todd. Enjoy to be with you.

It really is striking how often scripture

uses the image of a feast or a banquet to talk about what God gives and has in store for his people.

Why is that so important? You know, in our culture, we've almost sort of lost it. We still have

something of a beast of a banquet. You think about Thanksgiving

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