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Every Lutheran Church Missouri Synod congregation has received nomination forms for president and vice presidents of the Synod.

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

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Pastor Brian Wolf-Miller, author of the Issues etc. 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.

So identity politics is a framework that turns our morals around and says that our moral authority or decision-making or discernment flows not from character or the nature of the act itself, but from the identity of the actuar.

It's what they call the horseshoe, you know, where the far left and the far right get so far away from the center that they sort of bend back towards each other. You can't help

but notice a correlation between Christian evangelization, Christian conversion, and a decline,

and even eventually abolition of the practice of slavery.

At Christmas, God gave the world a gift, the greatest gift. During the Epiphany season,

we see that gift unwrapped.

Michigan snowbirds enjoy listening to issues, etc.

While surf fishing in Florida.

Oh, got to go.

Fish on.

Well, we've got listener questions and comments.

Two topics stand out.

One is the question about euthanasia for pets.

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