Be strong and courageous. Those are the words that the Lord spoke to Joshua as he was sending

him across the Jordan to take possession of the promised land. Pastor Brian Wolf Miller talking

about his presentation at the 26 issues, etc. making the case conference. Where does that courage

come from? From Joshua's strength? From the number of soldiers? No, from the promise,

I will not leave you or forsake you. The Christian is courageous to face all of the troubles of

this world, not because we're strong, not because we can resist the world and the flesh and the devil

on our own, but because the

Lord is with us. The Lord fights for us. The Lord keeps us through all the troubles of life

into the joy and hope of the life to come. You can meet and hear Pastor Brian Wolf-Miller

making the case for Christian Courage at this year's Making the Case Conference June 12th and 13th

at Concordia University Chicago.

Learn more at Issuezc.org.

There was first Rod Dreher, who wrote his famous book, The Benedict Option, a strategy for Christians in a post-Christian nation.

That was shortly followed by strangers in a strange land living the Catholic faith in a post-Christian world, a book by Charles Shippoo. And then

Andrew Isker offered something as well, the Boniface option, a strategy for Christian

counteroffensive in a post-Christian nation. What about a Lutheran option? Welcome back to

Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd Wilkin. For the remainder of today's show, we'll listen to Pastor Matt Harrison's presentation from the 2023 Issues, Et cetera, Making the Case Conference.

Pastor Harrison is president of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Senate. He's author of several books, including Take Courage, encouraging words for discouraging times, and he was a speaker at the 2023 issues, et cetera, making the case conference?

Let's listen to his teaching, making the case for the Lutheran option.

It was at Augsburg, 1530.

Luther was held up in the Coburg, worried about melanchthon, vacillating, giving up too much, which he tried to do repeatedly, even after the Augsburg confession had been accepted.

Luther's worrying about that, but he says, hey, Melanchthon's the guy there writing it, but the confession is mine.

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