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.

Right, shy, new people, Christ the Lord has entered.

Are you in storeby God in this center?

He comes to us my death and sins surrounded. The hymn, sins, surrounded with race the abounder.

The hymn Rise, Shine, You People.

It talks there about the unbounded grace that Jesus brings from heaven to sinners like us.

Well, part of that unbounded grace expressed itself in the miracles he did and in healing

those who had demon possession.

We find that in the gospel reading for this coming Sunday, Luke chapter 8 beginning

at verse 26, Jesus heals a man with a demon, a rather

amazing healing when you look at it. Greetings and welcome to issues, et cetera, 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 the three-year lectionary with Pastor Sean Denzer. Then in our two, we'll talk

with Dr. Alfonso Espinoza about contending for Christ through the creed.

Pastor Sean Denzer is Director of Worship for the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. Sean, welcome back.

Great to be back. We're coming off a lot of festivals. We had

Easter. We had Pentecost. We had Holy Trinity. And now we're kind of, some might say,

into the doldrums of the Pentecost season. Is that the way we should be looking at it?

No, I suppose all the festivals are there. and in some ways that's exciting. Some people,

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