Jeske's Name - 14 Times, Jesus' Name - Once:Jeske's Face - Thrice, Jesus' Face - Zero!

Counted by a WELS layman.

John has left a new comment on your post "Jeske's Name - 14 Times, Jesus' Name - Once:Jeske'...":

Jeske makes an effort to do what?

His TV program is nothing more than a few couple of minute snippet teasers from a DVD or series of DVD's that one must purchase from Time of Grace in order to get the complete class/series.

If this man was truly interested in bringing folks into the fold, he would encourage his watchers to seek out the closest WELS pastor/congregation for more information. He does not do this.

I haven't watched his program for some time. He never acknowledged on his program that he was a Lutheran pastor in all the times that I did watch. Does he continue to deny that he is a Lutheran pastor?

Ah, De Oprah - Bishop Katie Teaches Ex Cathedra

Katie, doing the work Ski won't do - and she is not an illegal immigrant!


From The CORE, Bishop Katie's Blog

“Well, that's a bit of a gray area.”

I was catching up on some blog reading this weekend and came across that phrase a lot. Almost too much. And it got me thinking.

Now, I get that there are things in the Bible that are adiophra (sic) - not really addressed - a.k.a. gray areas. However, I think oftentimes we abuse this phrase. Instead of using it to say it’s an area we can’t really say with certainty is right or wrong and therefore have absolutely no right to tell others whether it’s right or wrong, I wonder if we use it as an excuse. I wonder if we use it as an excuse to allow ourselves to satisfy our desires without guilt. You know like if we are 100% honest with ourselves we probably shouldn’t be doing it but the Bible doesn’t explicitly say it’s forbidden so we call it a gray area and all is well?

I’m not saying everything is black and white, but I’m not sure saying so much is a gray area is the right way to go either. What do you think? Are we using our gray crayons just a little too much?

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GJ - I have not read such illiterate mush since Dorothy Sonntag vexed readers of The Northwestern Lutheran. Then she joined ELCA.

Here is another example of women (who think they are) teaching men in WELS. The term is adiaphora. The appropriate section of the Formula of Concord should be studied, because graduates of The Sausage Factory (examples - Ski, Glende, Ash) always get it wrong. Pretending to be Babtist is not longer an adiaphoron (singular of adiaphora) when there is a confessional crisis.

One might expect Ski to edit Bishop Katie's theological discourses, when he is done framing his latest celeb photo op. Ski does not exhaust himself writing. His blog is DOA and his alleged Twitter account is lifeless.

I cannot blame Ski for copying and pasting his sermons from the Schwaermer super-stars he admires so much. Kelm has done that for decades and always has calls and defenders in the WELS clergy. Why defy the formula for success in WELS?

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Ah, De Oprah - Bishop Katie Teaches Ex Cathedra":

I am aware of a WELS lady who teaches in a local WELS grade school and practices the New Age satanic healing technique called Reiki.

Ask Mrs. Wendland what WELS women should be doing.

March 2008 - Coming Soon - “Heirs Together of God’s Gracious Gift of Life” - This study was written by Prof. Richard Gurgel and Mrs. Kathy Wendland after years of study together with a larger committee. It takes a close look at the equal status and purpose that Men and Women share in God’s church as well as the unique calling that they each have as Men and Women.Page 4
http://www.stpaul-amherst.org/Newsletter/0803newsletter.pdf

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GJ - Richard's (or Kathy Wendland's) "Heirs Together" needed considerable cleaning up before NPH would publish it.

"Apt to teach" does not count with Sausage Factory professors.

Kooba - The Socialist Dream Come True

Travelers must go to Detroit
to see socialist squalor equal to Cuba's.

From The American Thinker:

Cuba is an antique car-collector's dream...except that Cubans aren't collecting 1940s and 1950s vehicles -- they're driving them. New cars? A few. But generally, oldies must do. Licenses? Interesting. Socialists say everyone's the same. So why link someone's status to license color? Brown plates, for example, signal a government VIP, blue an inspector-controlled vehicle.

Here's something on Obama's wish list: the civilian security system. In Cuba, it's called the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, or the CDR. Billed initially as an extra security force, "a collective system of revolutionary vigilance," it puts at least one government spy in the neighborhood. And those spies monitor everything. Even an extra bag of groceries is suspect.

Obama's mandatory national service? Alive and well in Cuba. Eighteen-year-olds complete military or social service. (Many believe that this is additional indoctrination.) Those not attending higher education serve two years, while the rest serve only one. In this communal "utopia," there's plenty of discrimination.

Of course, there's free health care, which Cubans (and Michael Moore) are programmed to hype to Americans. They tell you that Fidel brought universal health care. Sounds terrific, right? All services free? Docs earning 250 pesos a month, yet working nonstop? What could be better?

Well...remember that Tylenol? It's a donation to Cuba. Cuba's health care has "minor" glitches like no medicines. There aren't over-the-counter or prescription drugs, vitamins, or supplies like diabetic strips. There's inferior training, doctor shortages, rationed care, and a lack of equipment. (A few years ago, Havana -- a city of 2 ½ million -- had only one MRI machine.) The hospitals are in terrible shape, and the system is economically draining. Actually, some with money might get better care, but they pay under the table.

Cuba boasts the ultimate jobs bill: Everyone's guaranteed work. Of course, it's government employment -- there is almost nothing else. Jobs pay about $250 a month, which won't cover basics. (Many Cubans rely on remittances from U.S. relations to survive.) There's no incentive, nothing really works -- try the toilets -- and innovation is squashed. The government dictates hours...they're long. A taxi driver I met works from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. most days but still can't make ends meet.