Be strong and courageous. Those are the words that the Lord spoke to Joshua as he was sending

him across the Jordan to take possession of the promised land. Pastor Brian Wolf Miller talking

about his presentation at the 26 issues, etc. making the case conference. Where does that courage

come from? From Joshua's strength? From the number of soldiers? No, from the promise,

I will not leave you or forsake you. The Christian is courageous to face all of the troubles of

this world, not because we're strong, not because we can resist the world and the flesh and the devil

on our own, but because the

Lord is with us. The Lord fights for us. The Lord keeps us through all the troubles of life into

the joy and hope of the life to come. You can meet and hear Pastor Brian Wolf-Miller making

the case for Christian Courage at this year's Making the Case Conference June 12th and 13th

at Concordia University Chicago. Learn more at Issuezc.org.

Dr.org.

Parents are the primary educators of their children, and we work in collaboration and partnership with schools,

with social service agencies, with the government, but they never take the role of the parent.

Israel in the New Testament has nothing to do with the modern, secular state of Israel that was

established in 1948. There is nothing prophetically significant in the scriptures related to that nation.

People would say to me this nonsense, they would say, well, we believe in a risen Christ.

We don't believe Christ is on the cross.

My standard answer to this is to ask, do you have a baby Jesus in your manger?

And if so, why?

In the scriptures, blindness versus sight is equated to the contrast between unbelief versus

faith, which is repentant and which is humble and which turns away from self.

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