ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Friday, June 4, 2010
WELS Troops in Video
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
An Army battalion in Afghanistan, containing quite a few WELS members, is soon to return home to Fort Lewis after sustaining a very high rate of casualties. I am giving the YouTube video that interviews some of the troops. A number of WELS people can be seen in the video, but they are only in the background.
Our Military Contact Pastors serving Fort Lewis will, no doubt, have some very special work to do once the troops return. Civilian Chaplain Jeremy Schulz brought this video to my attention.
May the Lord bless our efforts to serve those who serve our country!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RgOcsUNjlQ
In His service,
Rev Paul C Ziemer
National Civilian Chaplain to the Military
Armed Forces Liaison of WELS
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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "WELS Troops in Video":
About five years ago Gurgle cut the WELS military chaplains off from synodical budgetary support--a trick that he learned from Kieschnick, no doubt. Then he gave everyone in the synodical HQ a raise, I bet. So the last WELS Connection video was about the military chaplains, and they were pleading for cash.
Thrivent Benefits ELCA and Habitat for Humanity
ELCA NEWS SERVICE
June 2, 2010
ELCA Ministries Benefit from Thrivent Financial Member Vote
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Three ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) will receive financial benefits thanks to members of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, a not-for-profit financial services membership organization based in Minneapolis.
Thrivent members recently voted how they wanted to distribute $1 million among 10 national charities through a new program called "Thrivent Choice," according to a June 1 Thrivent news release. Funds were distributed to the organizations based on the percentage of votes they received, the release said.
A total of 150,199 members voted in the inaugural "Thrivent Choice Voting Event," between April 19 and May 21, the release said.
Three ministries of the ELCA will receive a combined total of $323,763:
+ $147,242 to Lutheran Disaster Response, a collaborative ministry of the ELCA and The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS)
+ $145, 345 to the ELCA World Hunger Program
+ $31,176 to the Lutheran Malaria Initiative, a collaborative effort of the ELCA, the LCMS and Lutheran World Relief, in partnership with the United Nations Foundation, to mobilize Lutherans to fight malaria.
"We are deeply appreciative of Thrivent members who voted for all of these worthy causes," said the Rev. Kevin A. Massey, director, Lutheran Disaster Response and ELCA Domestic Disaster Response. "Lutheran Disaster Response will put this gift to very good use responding to the needs of individuals, families and communities affected by disaster."
The Rev. Daniel Rift, director, ELCA World Hunger Appeal, said the hunger program is grateful for the "help and hope" brought about as a result of the Thrivent initiative. "We estimate that by their selection over 48,000 members provided almost $7 each for ELCA World Hunger or the complementing work of Lutheran Disaster Response and the Lutheran Malaria Initiative. Even more meaningful than these gifts are the votes of confidence and prayerful support of these members. That commitment and prayer for the work of the church is beyond measure," he said.
"We're very appreciative to Thrivent and Thrivent Choice for these funds," said the Rev. Andrea DeGroot-Nesdahl, coordinator, Lutheran Malaria Initiative, ELCA Office of the Presiding Bishop. "We look forward to greater recognition of the Lutheran Malaria Initiative as we roll out this initiative in the coming months."
The 10 organizations and the total funds they received are:
+ LCMS World Relief and Human Care, $192,122
+ Lutheran Disaster Response, $147,242
+ ELCA World Hunger, $145,345
+ Habitat for Humanity International, $114,212
+ LCMS World Mission, $112,315
+ Feed My Starving Children, $99,465
+ American Heart Association, $67,854
+ Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) Committee on Relief - $57,281
+ WELS Humanitarian Aid Committee, $32,987
+ Lutheran Malaria Initiative, $31,176
Thrivent Financial said it will launch a second aspect of Thrivent Choice later this summer called "Choice Dollars."
"Eligible benefit members will be able to help direct funds to thousands of Lutheran nonprofit organizations, including Lutheran congregations," the release said.
Pusillanimous
when a skunk is threatened,
he stamps his feet and sprays his stink onto the target.
Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Trashing Me Will Not Help Your Cause, O Cowardly C...":
"Cowardly DPs, venomous Shrinkers, pusillanimous bureaucrats, do you imagine you can cover up your fellowship with Sweet, Stetzer, Wagner, Driscoll, Groeschel, and Stanley with personal attacks?
pu·sil·lan·i·mous /ˌpyusəˈlænəməs/ Show Spelled[pyoo-suh-lan-uh-muhs] Show IPA
–adjective
1.lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; faint-hearted; timid.
2.proceeding from or indicating a cowardly spirit.
This is a great word and as such needs to be used more. Certainly descriptive of most in the Lutheran churches, otherwise the false teachers could never have achieved so much nor harmed so many.
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GJ - WELS Church Growth:
never have so many
done so little
with so much (money).
Training the Children To Be UOJ Stormtroopers
WELS church lady has left a new comment on your post "Faith According to Luther - And the Bible":
Good morning Pastor GJ. Let's make Luther's Catechism say somethong that it doesn't say. I hve before me a worn and torn 1956 Doctor Martin Luther's Small Catechism(Revision authorized by the Ev. Lutheran Joint Synod Wis. a.o.s.) No place, and I mean NO PLACE, is there a mention of objection or universal justification. Seeing as how the passages were diligently translated, we would not expect to see the two terms.
Now let us move away from 1956. One of the students that I drive was kind enough to let me glance at her Small Catechism book. Keep in mind that I only had a minute to glance! This is the blue colored book published by NPH and revised by Kuske. Revisions abound! In the glossary, under justification, is also says objective justification.(You don't find that in the old brown book) Understand, I did not have time to look at the pages that discussed justification. Truth and purity need to be restored to these books. What are we supposed to teach our children?
In Christ,
from WELs church lady
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GJ - The LCMS is the same way. The 1905 Missouri catechism has not a word about UOJ.
KJV Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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