Issues et cetera, a regular guest. Pastor Brian Wolfmiller is the author of our book of the month for January.

It's titled Finally Free Three Lessons in the Parable of the Prodigal Son.

Pastor Wolf Miller digs into this popular parable to bring hope and aid to our hurting conscience.

Finally Free is published by Concordia Publishing House, their phone number, 1-800-32530-40,

or learn more at Issue ZTC.org.

Finally free by Pastor Brian Wolf-Miller, The Issues, Et cetera, Book of the Month for January.

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 Congregation near you,

visit LcMS.org.

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So identity politics is a framework that turns our morals around and says that our moral authority or decision-making or discernment flows not from character or the nature of the act itself, but from the identity of the actuar.

It's what they call the horseshoe, you know, where the far left and the far right get so far away from the center that they sort of bend back towards each other.

You can't help but notice a correlation between Christian evangelization, Christian conversion,

and a decline, and even eventually abolition of the practice of slavery.

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