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Reverence Isn't An Adiaphoron: 

Lutherans Against Liturgical Tomfoolery

 

Clowns should not carry bottled water,
according to Willow Creek liturgical standards.

1. No liturgical karaoke.
2. No coffee during Divine Service
3. No clowns.
4. No text messaging
5. No testimonials.
6. No Pietistic ditties.
7. No rock bands.
8. No "call to worship"
9. No altar calls
10. No praise chicks
11. No Dr. Phil commentary

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GJ - And people call me harsh?

From Banjo Boy - By and About Meredith Willson

"The showstopper tune from the new musical "Banjo Boy" about the youthful adventures of Meredith Willson (www.banjoboy.net). In 1928, young Meredith Willson (played by Jonathan Sill) is advised by a 20-something Louis Armstrong (played by Derrick Mitchell) about why music is so important in people's lives."

NEW MEREDITH WILLSON BIOGRAPHY

Bill Oates has just published the definitive biography of Meredith Willson, "Meredith Willson: America's Music Man". Released in November of 2005, it is chock full of new stories and insights about Meredith Willson. It's a comprehensive look at Meredith's life as a musician, in radio and in scoring motion pictures, his appearances on TV quiz shows, as well as covering his creation of "The Music Man", "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", "Here's Love" and "1491".

It is available from www.amazon.com, www.bn.com, from www.authorhouse.com and from www.iowabook.com.

Another Meredith Willson Song

The Music Man (Meredith Willson) Wrote This Song

"Meredith Willson (Musical Director for "The Big Show") wrote "May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You" for Tallulah Bankhead to use at the close of her popular Radio Show. She later likened the song to a Hymn, and was always indebted to Meredith Willson for dedicating this song to her. What a charming and loving song for Tallulah Bankhead's radio program, "The Big Show". A shame this song could not be sung today, but how lucky for Tallulah Bankhead to have this personal dedication!"

WELS/ELS-ELCA Differences

Cardinal Walter Kasper, right, was guest preacher at a "Solemn Evening Vespers" service Oct. 1 at St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Park Ridge. Seated, from left, is the Rev. Michael L. Burk, ELCA director for worship, and the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop, both of Chicago. ELCA bishops from throughout the United States and Caribbean, ELCA vice presidents and ELCA seminary presidents attended the special event, held in recognition of the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Joint Declaration on Doctrine of Justification in Augsburg, Germany. The Joint Declaration is a significant international theological agreement between Lutherans and Catholics. (Photo by Mike Watson, The Lutheran magazine) 

Archbishop Rembert Weakland: 'I am Gay' - Is he making the Catholic Church look bad?


The 82-year-old retired Catholic Archbishop Rembert Weakland has come out of the closet and announced to the world that he is gay. The former Archbishop was the head of the Milwaukee archdiocese seven years ago and stepped down after an scandal involving another man. In his upcoming memoir, he will express that he is gay. Source

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ELCA-WELS-ELS Fellowship Differences Explained

GJ - The ELCA has made ecumenism with the Church of Rome a priority, holding joint religious exercises with Roman Catholic leaders and bragging about it.

Wisconsin Lutheran College featured Archbishop Weakland, pictured above, as a speaker at their college, along with some of his priests, and bragged about it, and then provided a cover story to deny it.

The Bethany Lutheran Seminary faculty marched in procession with a former Roman Catholic bishop, holding a religious dedication service where this Roman Catholic was the featured speaker. They bragged about it in the Mankato Free Press and later denied it. [Denouncing was not omitted. ELS Pastor Rolf Preus denounced me for discussing the well publicized facts.]

The Wisconsin Synod and the Little Sect on the Prairie have something called "fellowship principles." That means they posture about fellowship, preen themselves as they look down on ELCA's unionism, and lie about doing the same things as ELCA.

Nota bene: Paul Calvin Kelm will glide into his new job at Wisconsin Lutheran College, protected and promoted as before, even though he has repeatedly demonstrated a heartfelt pleasure and love for false doctrine. Doctrine divides the sheep from the goats. Kelm is sincerely inclined and anxious to advance, that disunity according to his utmost power.

Will the Doctrinal Pussycats of Wisconsin do anything? No. Will Pope John the Malefactor, whose hobnailed boot is ever poised to strike a blow against doctrinal turpitude? No. Will the WELS/ELS boards of doctrine, who could only issue a milquetoast moratorium concerning women consecrating the elements of Holy Communion? No. Will the circuit pastors wield the Sword of the Spirit, the Word? No. Will the pastors and laity, unfettered by the unspoken rules of synod politics? No.

WELS is still determined to scatter and slaughter the flock. But your dollars will make all the difference in reaching the lost with the pure Word of God.

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Norman Teigen has left a new comment on your post "WELS/ELS-ELCA Differences":

Welll, GJ, you've fired a salvo of artillery pieces and I am not entirely sure that I know what the target is. In the military it's called time-on-target. That means that a whole bunch of artillery pieces in various locations are fired sequentially so that all of the shells will arrive at the same time on the same target. The effect is devastating.

I feel like someone who has just experienced such a time-on-target demonstration. I think that the post had something to do with Fellowship but my ears and ringing and my head is spinning and I cant figure out what you had in mind when you wrote.

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brett-meyer (http://brett-meyer.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "WELS/ELS-ELCA Differences":

Pastor Jackson wrote, "Will the Doctrinal Pussycats of Wisconsin do anything? No. Will Pope John the Malefactor, whose hobnailed boot is ever poised to strike a blow against doctrinal turpitude? No. Will the WELS/ELS boards of doctrine, who could only issue a milquetoast moratorium concerning women consecrating the elements of Holy Communion? No. Will the circuit pastors wield the Sword of the Spirit, the Word? No. Will the pastors and laity, unfettered by the unspoken rules of synod politics? No."

A fine piece of tragic poetry. But I can hear the wailing and crying now...wait...what are they saying?...Ah, yes. They are upset because you left out an important, in fact the most important, line: In the end they all had a heart for Christ. And lived happily ever after.

Revelations 18:2-3, "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies."

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GJ - I will translate for Norman. He mentioned Time on Target, which is tool America used to defeat the Germans in WWII. The Germans would get a counter-attack ready and we would lob so many artillery shells on them that they could not even start.

Many people in leadership positions do not appreciate the increasing level of disgust in their own synods.

The old Synodical Conference partners (LCMS, WELS, ELS) still emphasize their opposition to unionism. That was the start of the LCMS, the awakening of the Wisconsin Synod, and the birth of the ELS.

Put very simply, one does not engage in religious exercises with those of another confession, especially the extreme apostates, represented today by the Roman Catholics and ELCA.

In fact, the Left Foot of Fellowship is reserved only for those who question the infallibility of Holy Mother Synod. The old Synodical Conference partners are bedfellows with Rome, Fuller Creek, and a business called Thrivent. They are not even secretive about it. They brag about it, promote those who share their doctrinal perversions, and knock only those who peak from their rabbit-warrens and say, "Izat right, what we're doing here?"

I could add the micro-mini sects to this list, who are no different.