Pastor Brian Wolf-Miller, author of the Issues, Etcetera, Book of the Month,

Finally Free, Three Lessons in the Parable, the Prodical Son.

One of the major points that's often missed is that Jesus with this parable of the prodigal

Son is calling those Pharisees and scribes away from their complaining, grumbling at the mercy of Christ, and to join the angels

in rejoicing over the repentance of a sinner. Learn more about finally free at issuesetc.org.

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Please encourage your pastor and congregational leaders to fill out and return these nomination forms before February 19th of 2026.

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Hours 14 ready.

Help me please. Get through to my baby. Yeah. Well, we kind of knew this would have a ad ad with Pastor Matt Harris and President of Lutheran Church, Missouri

Senate, just extolling the notion that maybe if people are looking for a Bible-believing church,

they might find the ultimate Bible-believing church in their local Lutheran Church,

Missouri-Senerese Synod congregation.

Got a lot of response from our listeners.

It's time to go through listener email and the issues that said are a comment line.

Our email address, talk back at issue ZTC.org and the comment line 618-223-83-83-82.

Well, let's get a little background on how this commercial came about. We're going to hear it

during this segment.

So we've all heard the stories,

particularly the impact that Charlie Kirk had with Gen Z, right?

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