This passage comes from the end of the formula of Concord.

By God's grace, with intrepid hearts, we are willing to appear before the judgment seat of Christ with this confession and give an account of it.

We will not speak or write anything contrary to this confession, either publicly or privately.

By the strength of God, we intend to abide by it.

Dr. John Bruss, president of Concordia

Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, talking about his presentation at the 2025 issues,

et cetera, making the case conference. That's the confessional attitude. Utter confidence before the

judgment seat of God, confidence in Christ, who has bought us from sin, death, and devil,

and confidence that our faith is properly rooted in God's inerrant word.

You can meet and hear Dr. John Bruss, making the case for the Lutheran Confessions

at this year's Making the Case Conference.

The premier conference for Christian Laity is Friday, July 18th and Saturday, July 19th at Concordia University, Chicago.

Learn more at issuezc.org.

The following is an encore presentation of issues, etc.

Thank you. Many Sundays at a Lutheran Divine Service, you will hear a prayer that anticipates the marriage feast of the lamb in his kingdom,

which has no end. So there is a feast awaiting us, a marriage feast. Why the lamb, the lamb in his kingdom?

Greetings, Anne, and welcome to issues, et cetera, on this Easter Monday, April 1st. I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in.

We're going to be studying the hymn at the Lamb's High Feast we sing with Dr. Arthur Just of Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

In the next hour, we'll hear in Issues et cetera encore with Dr. Jeff Gibbs on the resurrection of the body. Dr. Arthur Just is Professor of New Testament at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana.

He's author of the two-volume Concordia commentary on Luke and the book Heaven on Earth,

the Gifts of Christ and the Divine Service.

Dr. Just, welcome back.

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