b.r. has left a new comment on your post "The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity":
Fake Ichabod comments that your sermons contain only law. Apparently they have read them with their eyes closed.
Many are ashamed of the pastors/leaders in the WELS for their mean-spirited attacks.
You, on the other hand, with your spirited writing are pretty much right on, and many WELS members agree.
As for your sermon this week, it was one of the best explanations of the Good Samaritan I have heard and seen. I plan on Kelming it and using it in my classroom. The Lord is truly using you to begin our reform. Thank you!
A WELS teacher.
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GJ - I appreciate the kind comments about the sermon. If you look up Luther's on the same text, you will see that I kelmed his exegesis. I did not have the sermon open at the time, but I remembered Luther's treatment as being so compelling that I had to follow his basics. As someone else has said, if the Shrinkers are so keen on copying - why not copy Luther? The old Lenker series is in the public domain.
Fake Ichabod is from Appleton and is most likely Tim Glende. He manufactures a few comments from a small collection of friends. Pastor Lillo knows who it is because the fraud said he would apologize to Lillo when I suggested the blogger could be Lillo.
The fake is always furious when I deal with Glende/Ski false doctrine. He defends UOJ ineptly and claims the unionist Valleskey is a confessional Lutheran.
The fake blogger has never posted a sermon or anything edifying. As "Anonymouse," his favorite name for posting comments to this blog, he posted photos that reveal a warped and twisted mind. Not content to attack me anonymously, he added the names of active WELS and ex-WELS members. He ordered those same people he insulted by name to stop listening to him.
What do we know about the fake blogger? Let's do a psychological profile.
1. He is from Appleton. He lit up the Appleton light on Feedjit when sending a comment. Once I had fun with that fact, he stopped sending comments to this blog. The same thing happened with the person from Garland, Texas, the hometown of Patterson. The comments stopped when I identified their origin.
2. The faker is a coward, because he continues to post anonymously, just as he commented anonymously. The more he says, the more he gives himself away.
3. He is a bully. He and his little band of knot-heads clearly need to gang up together and boss people around. I saw the same behavior in Columbus, Ohio, where Glende failed to grow up. Like many WELS pastors, he continues to act like a freshman football player, posing with celebrity
4. He is a copycat, like all the Church and Money Changers. He has copied the name of this blog to trick people into reading his disturbed posts, yet he calls himself "The Real Ichabod." But he advocates using a blocking software to keep my posts from registering on Google searches.
5. My study at Yale and Notre Dame before I joined WELS seems to drive the fake blogger wild, but his Uncle Brug studied at Yale.
6. I actually joined WELS, but Tim Glende was a non-member of WELS most of his way through school. His home congregation of St. Paul in German Village sponsored Floyd Luther Stolzenburg to spread Church Growth all over Columbus and the Michigan District. Tim's congregation practiced open communion, women's suffrage, Masonic Lodge membership, and even had their own Scout troop. Nitz and Schumann had a woman leading a Bible study, etc. The fake blogger seems to have a tender conscience due to his checkered past.
7. There is no mistaking the ugliness of the fake blog. It is all too familiar as the WELS management system, a style of abuse people will no longer accept. Thank you, Tim, for making public what most people would not believe about a small, closely related sect. Let us see your magnificent sermons, Tim. Let us see one edifying essay about the Book of Concord, the Confessions, sound Lutheran doctrine.
