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.

The following is an encore presentation of issues, etc.

Christ, that the most surrounded with counts of martyrs' might, who made their wants in triumph and fires for the fight.

Then Christ across the sanded, to save the world of love,

and suffering for the sinful Our full redemption

Stand's a two of the hymn

Christ is the world's redeemer sung by the Lutheran Public Radio Choir.

Christ has our hosts surrounded with clouds of martyrs bright who wave their poems in triumph

and fire us for the fight. In the gospel reading for the coming Sunday, according to the one-year

lectionary, Jesus promises comfort for this church in the midst of persecution.

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 Exaouty Sunday, according to the one-year

electionary with Pastor Peter Bender, the Concordia Catechetical Academy. In the first hour of the

program, we'll go through listener email and the issues that said are a comment line, and then we'll talk

with Pastor Tom Baker of Law and Gospel as he teaches a Sunday school lesson on Esau and Jacob in Genesis

chapters 25 and 27. Pastor Peter Bender is pastor of Peace Lutheran Church in Sussex, Wisconsin, and he's director

of the Concordia Catechetical Academy.

Peter, welcome back.

Good to be with you, Todd.

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