Thy strong word, we praise you and acknowledge you up through endless ranks of angels.

Hi, this is Pastor Wilden, inviting you to join us for our hym sing at the 2026 issues, etc.,

making the case conference.

This year's theme, singing the ancient faith in our own days.

Making the case is Friday, June 12th, and Saturday, June 13th at Concordia University, Chicago.

Find out more and register at issues.etc.org.

Living according to a Christian sexual ethic today feels like an uphill battle,

but this battle isn't new. Love, marriage, and family,

learning from the early Christians, is the Issues et cetera book of the month for March.

This book is published by Concordia Publishing House. Their phone number 1-800-3253040.

Or learn more about love, marriage, and family at issue ZTC.org.

Find out how Christian sexual ethics still means light in the darkness

with love, marriage, and family learning from the early Christians.

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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