Hi, I'm Pastor Matthew Harrison, president of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.

We have thousands of churches and schools all across the U.S., large, small, and in between.

We are the pro-life, pro-marriage, pro-family Lutherans.

During the memorial service for Charlie Kirk, his widow, Erica, stated, If you aren't a member of a church, I beg you to join one, a Bible-believing church.

I agree.

The Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod is the ultimate Bible-believing Church.

We confess the truth of every word of the Bible.

The basic message of the Bible is easy to understand.

It's all about Jesus, our Savior.

As St. John wrote,

The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all our sin.

Jesus comes for sinners.

Jesus comes for you.

To find a Lutheran Church, Missouri Synodd Cong congregation near you, visit L-CMS.org.

L-C-MS.org.

Music One of the most distinctive features of the season of Lent is its hymnody.

They have a certain sound to them, don't they?

And a good example of that is the Lenton hymn that often begins the Lenton celebration on the first Sunday in Lent.

Oh, Lord, throughout these 40 days.

Welcome back to Issues, Etc, on this Ash Wednesday, February the 18th. I'm Todd Wilkin. Thanks for tuning us in. We're going to be studying that hymn, O Lord, throughout these 40 days. Pastor Paul Wooden joins us. He's assistant pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hemel, Illinois, formerly served as director of worship for the Lutheran Church, Missouri Senate. He's author of the books, Celebrating the Saints, Thank, Praise, Serve, and Obey. See My Savior's Hands, and I Remember a Life of Mary, and he hosts the daily

15-minute verse-by-verse Bible study produced by Lutheran Public Radio called The Word of the Lord

Endures Forever. We'll welcome back. Thank you, Todd. This is actually the text that we're going to be dealing with today, a paraphrase

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