Here's an excerpt from the Issues etc. Book of the Month for February,

Dying to Live, Second Edition.

We're all dying.

We can either die alone or we can die in Jesus.

But his death brings life, and it's when we die with him that we really begin to live.

Learn more about dying to live, the foundation, focus, and shape of the Christian life at Issuesetc.org

or by calling Concordia Publishing House, 1-800-325 30-40.

Dying to Live Second Edition, The Iss first and foremost in terms of a person, the person of Jesus Christ.

Before there is the Christian life of, well, sanctification,

there must be life to begin with. And that life does not come from us. It comes only from Jesus Christ.

It is his life, given for us at the cross, taken up again in the resurrection and delivered to us

in his word and in his sacraments.

Welcome back to Issues, etc. I'm Todd Wilkin.

Joining us to begin a series on sanctification, Pastor Harold St. Pyle.

He served as a parish pastor for five decades, also a professor and a spiritual care provider

for church workers. He's executive director

emeritus of doxology, the Lutheran Center for Spiritual Care and Counsel, and his author of

The Issues, Etc, Book of the Month, Dying to Live, the Foundation Focus and Shape

of the Christian Life. Pastor Shankbao, welcome back.

Great to be with you, Todd.

You say that the Christian life has its foundation in the incarnation of Jesus.

What do you mean by that?

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