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.

The following is an encore presentation of issues, etc.

Music The following is an encore presentation of issues, etc. This is one of those hymns that it stays with you, not only because it has a haunting

melody, it has unbelievably well-crafted stanzas. It's poetry in its own right, but it also has lines

that just kind of stick in your mind,

and maybe the best kind of hymns that keep teaching you even after you're done singing them.

One of my favorite lines from this hymn,

My song is Love Unknown, comes at the end of the fifth stanza,

yet cheerful he to suffering goes that he, his foes from thence might free.

Jesus had enemies.

In fact, if we're honest about it, we have to number ourselves among them.

At least that's how the Bible talks about it.

We were once his enemies, and yet for his enemies, he's to suffering goes cheerfully.

It's amazing. We're going to be studying the hymn. My song is Love Unknown on this Good Friday. I'm

Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. Dr. Arthur Jess will be our guest for the hymn study.

In the second hour, we'll talk with Dr. Norman Nagel about the

seven words of Jesus from the cross. Dr. Arthur Just is a regular guest. He's professor of

New Testament and chairman of the Department of Exegetical Theology at Concordia Theological

Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He's author of the two-volume Concordia Commentary on Luke

and the book, Heaven on

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