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12/05/2025

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For a Year-End Gift of $240 or more, we'll send you our latest book, "Objections Overruled, IV" and a new recording of 15 hymns featuring the Lutheran Public Radio Choir. Year-End Gift Option 1 $240.00 USD Option 2 $480.00 USD Option 3 $720.00 USD Option 4 $960.00 USD Format Download CD Thumbdrive W...

12/04/2025

Our Issues, Etc. Question of the Week: In what ways does music enrich your personal and congregational worship during Advent?

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What Is Your Favorite Advent Hymn, and Why? 12/1/25 (3353) 0 By todd on December 1, 2025 Podcast http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/podcast.issuesetc.org/45461201253.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 58:03 — 53.2MB)Subscribe: RSS Tags: AdventAdvent HymnsHymnsWhat Is Your Favorite Advent Hymn

12/02/2025

Our Issues, Etc. Book of the Month is "Everyday Word: A Two-Year Bible Journal" by Todd A. Biermann

This Bible journal guides you through the entire Bible in just over two years, allowing you to add your own notes and reflections as you go. Make a personal Bible-reading journey a reality with help from Everyday Word: A Two-Year Bible Journal. By reading a short segment of Scripture every day, excluding Sundays, you’ll be able to read the entire Bible in just over two years, while adding your own notes and reflections as you go.

Everyday Word is a personal record of Christ’s wisdom and grace for real life in relationship to others that will be treasured for a lifetime and passed to the next generations as a priceless inheritance. The weekly guides, with fillable boxes, correspond to the two-year reading plan in The Lutheran Study Bible and provide guidance to understand the readings, apply them to life in the Christian congregation or family, and provide a place to record discoveries for return usage and passing on to family.

Purchase it at the CPH website

This Bible journal guides you through the entire Bible in just over two years, allowing you to add your own notes and reflections as you go.

12/01/2025

For a year-end gift of $240 or more to Issues, Etc., we will send you our latest book, "Objections Overruled IV: Answering Arguments Against Christianity" and a new recording of 15 hymns featuring the Lutheran Public Radio Choir. Click the link in the Comment section below to make a secure online donation.

Thank you for supporting the worldwide outreach of Issues, Etc. at the end of 2025!

11/28/2025

Have you seen our “Find a Church” Page? Would you like for your congregation to join this list and show your support for Issues, Etc.?

Congregational sponsorship has allowed us to proclaim God’s Word around the
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By making Issues, Etc. part of its mission or advertising budget at $1,000, your congregation is supporting a worldwide outreach. We will also advertise your church on the podcast, on our website, and in the quarterly Issues, Etc. Journal. The
contribution can be made annually, semi-annually, quarterly, or monthly.

For more information, contact Deaconess Lynn Fredericksen at (618) 223-8385 or [email protected].

11/27/2025

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ADVENT HYMN, AND WHY?

Listeners with the best votes will receive a recording of 15 Advent and Christmas hymns featuring the Lutheran Public Radio Choir.

You can leave your answer here. You can also submit your answer via email: [email protected], X: , or by calling 1-877-623-MYIE (6943) between 4-5 pm Central on Monday, December 1.

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Issues, Etc.!

We're grateful for your support and wish you a wonderful holiday filled with joy and gratitude.

11/26/2025

Our Issues, Etc. Question of the Week: Is eating together with family an important ritual in your life? If so, why?

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https://issuesetc.org/2025/11/25/the-importance-of-family-meals-tim-goeglein-sr-and-tim-goeglein-jr-11-25-25-3294/

Tim Goeglein, Sr. of Focus on the Family Tim Goeglein, Jr. of Off Hill Strategies Why Family Dinners are Important Stumbling Toward Utopia Toward a More Perfect Union

11/25/2025

Our Issues, Etc. Book of the Month is "Looking Forward to Sunday Morning: Reflections on the Church Year" by Carl C. Fickenscher

How often do you think about the contents of upcoming weekly worship services and how they interconnect thematically? However rare or frequent this is, there is something to be learned, and certainly something to look forward to. This resource, based on Carl Fickenscher II’s fan-favorite radio show, walks you through the propers of each week of the three-year-lectionary (the Introit, Gradual, Collect, and so on), helping you prepare for worship and better understand its interconnected pieces. Doubling as a devotional and a study resource, Looking Forward to Sunday Morning is best enjoyed beside family, your Bible, and your hymnal, church year after church year.

You can purchase this book at the CPH website:

Looking Forward to Sunday Morning presents devotional and study content on the propers for the coming week of worship according to the three-year lectionary.

11/25/2025

Advent is coming! We are ready to help your church keep singing with the Substitute Organist Service. Please call us or visit our website. 🎵✨

11/24/2025

Our Issues, Etc. Sponsoring Congregation is Evangelical Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer, Peekskill, NY. We are a small congregation that worships in an intimate and well-appointed sanctuary. We are conservative and confessional: believing, teaching, and confessing the faith in accordance with Holy Scripture and the Lutheran confessions. We are historic and traditional: making use of the historic church year and lectionaries, and the classic liturgy and hymns of the Lutheran church found in The Lutheran Hymnal of 1941. Holy Communion is celebrated on the first, third, and fifth Sundays of each month, and on major festivals.

Rev. William P. Terjesen invites you to Sunday Services at 10:30 am. We have a Sunday School for the children of the congregation at 9:00 a.m. on Sundays, and Adult Bible Studies on Sundays at 9:15 a.m., and Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m.

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11/21/2025

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