The kids have googled my sermon series.
Ski is a follower of Craig Groeschel - from the very liberal Methodist and Disciples of Christ denominations.
Ichabodians, tell me you did not see it coming.
Paul Kuske and LPR were doing the Rock and Roll scene (badly) 20 years ago. Now The CORE emerges as a cruder, simpler, more childish version of all previous experiments. WELS is always experimenting with safe sects. In fact, so many pastors experimented with safe sects that they have left the Lutheran Church altogether to join their Babtist and Pentecostal brethren.
But do not be alarmed. You do not have to join another denomination now. You can join one of the WELS Church and Chicanery congregations across the synod. C and C is a non-geographical district managed by Church and Change/Parish Services.
Here is the proof.
Go to The CORE website, which is easy to remember:
http://www.gotocore.com
Look up: What will the pastor talk about this week?
The dates and topics are all lined up.
Starting on February 22nd, there are four on kaleo. I am guessing that Ski was not the best Greek student, since English itself is a foreign language for him. And using Greek in a sermon title is very Junior-year.
Oh wait. I found the exact same set of sermons here:
http://open.lifechurch.tv/series/3445
Week 1 Called to Care
Week 2 Called to Generosity
Week 3 Called to Serve
Week 4 Called to Make Disciples
And another set of The CORE sermons are at the same site:
http://open.lifechurch.tv/series/19
Week 1 The Pain of Loss
Week 2 The Pain of Suffering
Week 3 The Pain of Rejection
The pain series is exactly the same as the website's, in the same order.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Thou Shalt Not StealMaybe Mequon Should Close Too":
Wow. Thanks for the research.
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GJ - I am wondering, "Why waste all that money on The Sausage Factory when the graduates are just copying sermons from the websites of false teachers - without any discipline."
Only recently Kelm gave a paper at Mequon on how to improve seminary education. He is an example of their complete failure.
