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.

We cannot raise niceness higher than truth.

It is never compassionate to speak untruths to people.

I think that we've seen Christless conservatism actually fail on a variety of different fronts.

And that's because Christless conservatism is going to be very,

very subjected and susceptible to populism and popularity. We get to the edge of our reason,

and that's when we have to stop. If we keep walking, we would tumble over the cliff, but we don't

just stop there in frustration.

We stop there in awe and wonder.

It's when we get to the edge of our reason that we kneel down and worship God.

The church militant in some sense looks like maybe it's smaller on earth than it was a few years

ago.

But the church itself is only growing, right?

We only add to the church.

Because when we bury people, we're not losing them.

They're transferring the church triumphant.

Every time we baptize someone, we're just getting bigger.

You see Berkeley alumni who still support the freedom of speech, love, issues, etc. Fiat Lux and Go Bears.

Well, we have a little criticism of a speaker choice for our upcoming Making the Case conference.

A question about knowledge and justification and another question about Lutheran dating a Roman Catholic, and the Roman Catholic

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