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.

This movement has been around for decades on the fringe of Christianity.

It's called word faith. It's more superstition than it is scriptural teaching,

but it uses a lot of scriptural words, and it even sometimes claims to find its teaching from scripture itself. Welcome back to Issues, Et cetera. I'm Todd

Wilkin. It's time for this week in Pop Christianity. We're going to listen to parts of a recent sermon

preached by a megachurch pastor in Australia titled Your Future Direction is in Your mouth. Pastor Chris Rosebro

joins us. He is pastor of Consfinger Lutheran Church at Oslo, Minnesota.

He's created on host of the YouTube channel Fighting for the Faith.

Chris, welcome back.

Thanks for having me back.

So Chris, before we get into the content of the sermon, how important it is, is it in Impal

Christianity to have a catchy or somewhat quirky sermon

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