Stars and Stripes Forever

I never thought this would be tried on an organ. Wait for the piccolo solo to be played. That is the biggest surprise.

Take that, Norman Teigen.

I usually do not like piano transcriptions of music. They sound like Cliff Notes, if you get my metaphor. I like this Horowitz transcription. The piccolo solo is played beautifully. On another YouTube, a tuba player tried to play the piccolo part. Readers will have to look that one up on their own.

News from The CORE

There is no news.

The CORE continues to burn through $20,000 a month, but they cannot update their sorry excuse for a website.

One event still listed on the calendar is dated December 7th - Koine Rock N Roll.

The ecumenical Living Last Supper was five days ago.

By now people have noticed how lazy and lethargic the Emerging Church people are. They are so spent from all their conferences and planning that they never get any real work done.

Most of their real work is done in secret. I have to admit that. They never cease their attempts to undermine Lutheran doctrine and worship. And they are just as shameless as they are restless. Paul Calvin Kelm cannot get any traction with a copied Bible study called "Fuel," so that qualifies him for a full-time job doing the same at Wisconsin's Little College - WLC.

WELSians who just fell off the beet wagon should pay attention to the Changers at work. The Changers howl about a sprinkle of light discipline and call it "unbrotherly." Their chorus of outrage is always pitiful, even though they are untouched, as Kelm and Stroh have proven.

But the Church Growth Shrinkers are nasty, dishonest, ruthless, and unscrupulous. They never stop driving people out for being Lutheran. They never stop grabbing money for themselves so they do not have to do any real work.

The crypto-Calvinists were just the same, but why bring up a topic WELS never studies? The crypto-Calvinists had the real Lutherans exiled and in prison while they promoted anti-Lutheran doctrine. It was only by accident that the ruler found out about their designs.

Everyone knows what Church and Change is like. Their favorite leaders have been quoted ad infinitum and ad nauseam on this blog.

A more conservative Pietism will not save the Synodical Conference from its Pietism and Enthusiasm. The DPs and board of doctrine types who parade around as the saviors will not make any difference. If the old Synodical Conference cannot get past institution-worship and ancestor worship, they will simply follow ELCA down the drain, a little later, a little poorer.

The era of Pietism, the fetid womb of the Synodical Conference, has to be renounced as another dark age of the Lutheran Church, as as the Age of Rationalism was. Lutherans must study, for the first time, the Book of Concord, and examine current topics in the light of the Confessions.

The Book of Concord has enough in it for people to study the rest of their lives. Most pastors have not even begun, so how will they lead the flock if they have hobbled themselves with ignorance?

WLC - Wisconsin's Little College - News

Mark Braun is infamous for promoting the Fuller Seminary (Reformed) concept of "soil testing."
Not every Lutheran is convinced.
Some actually read Matthew 13.

Paul Calvin Kelm

1. Kelm will be responsible for and take over the Sunday night praise services at the college. Strobel has been leading the contemptuous worship services. Kelm, who has worked with Ski, will take it much farther into Schwaermerland.

2. Kelm will hold small-group Bible studies, focusing on "Christian Leadership" or "servant leadership," with the goal of eventually helping student leaders to hold their own Bible studies. Will women teach men? They already do in WELS.

3. Kelm will start being Number Two in mid-March. He turned 65 in December. His house is up for sale in Green Bay, so he plans to stay in Milwaukee.

WLC is the synod's center for apostasy. They used to be ahead of the Sausage Factory, but Mequon has gone over completely to Fullerism. Ditto MLC. If the synodical higher education system cannot teach Lutheran doctrine, they ought to sell the campuses to some of the for-profit online schools.

The two most famous lecturers at WLC have been Martin Marty of ELCA, long ago denounced by WELS, and Archbishop R. Weakland, the Roman leader known for his homosexual affair covered over with hush money stolen from church funds. Actually, Weakland followed the WELS playbook quite well, so that is probably why they sought him out and paid him to be a featured speaker.

WELS Shrinkers are featured in FIC. WELS felons are never named.


Archbishop Weakland is grateful.

ELCA Leaders Play Rough - No Wonder the "Conservative" Leaders Admire Them - They Love Rough Sects

ELCA to the Scriptures: "You fracture me."

Read this link about ELCA taken over and property and not returning phone calls.

Keep Up with Lutheran News Links

Admit it. You like the LOLcats, too.

I cut out the blog list and realized how much I used it. I like Lutheran News, which is a blog of Lutheran blogs. It picks up blog posts from the entire spectrum, including your favorites, which are already linked. Linking promotes more reading and more search engines finding and more linking and reading, like Dune and that berry juice.

The final result is that active bloggers occupy the top position in Google searches, whether they are web, image, or blog searches.

The WELS emerging apostate churches yak about outreach, but they never seem to get their blogs going. If their Twitter addresses are discovered, the messages stop. One can only guess that they despise the Parable of the Sower and the efficacy of the Word.

I have had a good time searching through the open pages of Facebook, yet another web feature. Many of the best and brightest of the Church Apostate are too dumb to lock down their information. They will not let me be a friend, but they open up their lists of friends, their wall comments, and their photo albums. I will reveal more later.

All the Fuller classes in the world will not make WELS friendly to non-relatives. Love is the fruit of the Gospel, so love is lacking in UOJ sects.

More ELCA Self-Destruction

His Grace, the Presiding Bishop of ELCA, managed the lavender takeover of his denomination.

ELCA continues to ape WELS, ELS, and Missouri by rewarding the guilty and punishing the innocent.

Now there is a flurry of restorations in ELCA. Congregations and pastors under their fake discipline have been reconciled to the ELCA leadership, which shepherded a statement at the August 2009 convention allowing this to happen. The ELCA bishops showed signs of resisting so they were by-passed completely.

I could list the announcements of the new order. One woman pastor was officially out of ELCA for about 10 years, because of her lesbian partner, but now the bishop is preaching her into heaven for her humility, her witness, and her blah blah.

One shockaroo was finding an LCA pastor who left the organization at the same time I did. He was a married man. Mrs. Ichabod and I knew him as someone on the far Left of the Left Wing. He was in another denomination for a number of years and now is back with ELCA, because ELCA welcomes him.

Meanwhile, ELCA is pounding congregations - like Faith in Moline, just because the Faith members said they would have the bishop arrested if he showed up on their property.

ELCA has a dual message. One is: "Few churches are leaving ELCA, and we recognize their rights. We just want to have a conversation with them before they vote the second time."

The second message is: "We will fight you in every way possible, enlist our corporate lawyers, block, dither, obfuscate, deceive, slander, and rage in public against you, in His Name. Amen."

One article gave the projected loss at 5%, which is a new case of whistling past the graveyard. The Northern Illinois District cut their budget by 40% already, suggesting the losses may be a wee bit larger than 5%. ELCA canned 47 staff at once.

Their main problem at the moment is the withholding of funds. The larger the congregation, the more likely it is to withhold funds and vote on leaving. ELCA is facing a superfluity of small congregations with pastors in rainbow colored stoles. The good news is that Pastor Cedric and his Life Partner will not need an altar guild. They will fuss over the decorations all week long.

What can WELS learn from this debacle? First of all, very few are going to join WELS upon leaving ELCA, no matter how apostate WELS wants to be. All the baby-steps toward ELCA--including women pastors, open communion, and Church Growth--will not avail.

WELS will plummet even faster if the leaders and members continue to take a soft approach on their apostates and a hard approach on those who dare to mention the horrible legacy of Mischke and Gurgle. At the moment, with Kelm and Stroh in the catbird seats, Jeske and Becker running loose, Patterson coiled to strike, and the schools in a flat spin, the future is certain.

WELS Does Not Need Women's Ordination - They Already Have Women Pastors

WELS does not need women's ordination to have women pastors,
thanks to Larry Olson, Church Growth,
and apostate leaders.


Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "When Rockers Age, They Lead Polka Masses":

I might have read this on a bathroom stall:

For a good laugh - http://www.lutherquest.org/discus40/messages/13/86750.html?1267154435

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GJ - Notice that the LutherQuest (sic) discussion includes ELS Pastor Jay Webber, co-worker with Roger Kovaciny and Floyd Luther Stolzenburg.

Was Webber on the ELS Board of Doctrine when WELS/ELS discussed women consecrating Holy Communion, the fruit of Olson's Staff Ministry efforts?

The two denominations solemnly declared a moratorium on this practice. Doubtless a condemnation trembled on their lips, but was never spoken. The clergy on doctrinal boards are selected for their ability to condemn everything except false doctrine.

The Berg who wrote the article in question, quoting John Brug at the Sausage Factory, is the son of Norm Berg, WELS heresiarch in charge of spreading Church Growth through the national mission board.