Luther Rocks: Laity Rocks. Some Faith and Justification Gems

Luther Rocks: Laity Rocks. Some Faith and Justification Gems

DRUDGE REPORT 2011�

DRUDGE REPORT 2011�

I added Blog This (from Google) to Chrome (from Google). I went to the Drudge Report (in Chrome) and used the B to "Blog This." That put the post on Ichabod.

The link above appeared without any additional effort.

Now the Chicaneries can kelm my posts with mad abandon.

Some Technology Tips I Just Learned

Seemed like a good idea at the time.

I did an upgrade to the template, which worked well. Then I began messing with it for social media, adding code to the template. Things kept getting worse today. One friend gave me good advice for the old template system, which does not work on the new template. But he gave me courage to keep trying.

To widen the new template, follow the simple instructions here.

I found I could add the social media buttons by checking that off on the basic design part, editing the post area. That will make it easier for people to email, Tweet, blog and Google buzz the posts. Tweet, blog, and buzz sound like medical symptoms.

What is Google Buzz?

Twitter explained here.

What is blog this?

How To Tweet

I just got started with Twitter, even though I had the account for an undetermined time.

My Twitter account.

It is a service that creates its own practical applications. I joined and began getting followers. I use it now by sending a Tweet to the list, every time I post here, every time I post on the MCP page on Facebook, every time I post on the Moline Memories page on FB. The pages generate their own Tweets each time. Moline Memories is a separate Twitter account.

People can email a post, but it is much easier to Tweet the post. A Tweet is a short URL. People can pick it up on their mobile devices and read it. Someone is traveling abroad right now. This way he can pick up every post easily from following me.

Each technology leads to more readers. I am happy with the numbers. Perhaps astonished is a better term.

There are many more social networking tools being used. I am still working on the template to get them to show up the way I want, at the end of a post.

The Doctrine of Election - Electing Doctrinal Pussycats

"Thanks for your votes.
I have more laws in the works for you...
and your little dog Toto."


Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "No Thanks from a Thankless Clergy":

This is a timely post. God's Word, Christ, is efficacious. It either works contrition and faith, by the gracious work of the Holy Spirit in those God has predestined, called, justified, glorified and saved, or it hardens the heart against God's Word, Christ, and prohibits understanding.

It is the hardening of the heart which we see so often. There is no understanding of God's Word in those who are perishing, in those who have rejected Christ and His doctrine of Justification by Faith Alone. After years of focused discussion on the intricate falicies of the false gospel of Universal Objective Justification this point hits home often. I spoke to one (W)ELS teacher about UOJ and gave him the Scripture, Confessional quotations and the statements of his Synod. He said he would get around to it later, right now he was focused on getting his masters degree - it would add another $130.00 a month to his salary.

Pastor Jackson's point hit me yesterday while waiting for someone to publicly express a concern about UOJ or the Scripture and Confessional statements posted as clear rejections of UOJ. Waited to see if anyone would comment in disgust over the (W)ELS ecumenical effort of establishing worship services for a multidenominational congregation led by a (W)ELS staff minister - nothing. Will (W)ELS deal with the issue of their Thrivent money financing murder worldwide? Haven't yet. Will (W)ELS deal with the New Age Emergent Church Growth teachers on their payrolls? Haven't yet. Will (W)ELS allow anyone to openly discuss false doctrine and practice in Holy Mother Synod? No. Will anyone retract the label of "Conservative" or "Confessional" from the spineless (W)ELS Synod President, District Presidents, circuit pastors, clergy, church elder's? No. Few even know what the Book of Concord is.

God's wrath and judgement don't always come in one moment with pillars of fire. Sometimes it happens over time, as it has been happening with the Lutheran churches.

Matthew 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Mark 4:12 That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

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GJ - People are probably expecting the current leadership to deal with their doctrine issues, whether LCMS, ELS, or WELS. That would be like asking their ministry partner--ELCA--to turn against homosexual and abortion advocacy. They will dance with the guy who brung them - and be widows in the Age To Come.

They all work with ELCA through Lutheran World Relief and Thrivent, and ELCA calls the shots - always.

The so-called conservatives reached their positions by cheering on Church Growth or saying/doing nothing while frowning when the topic came up. Anyone can see what a practiced frown on a do-nothing head accomplishes.

Notice how they demand proof and do nothing with it. Backdoor leaks about a closing college will develop 2,000 page reads a day, two days in a row. That is far above average. But doctrine? That interferes with having lunch with the poo-bahs of Lutherdom.

Nevertheless, deafening silence also shows an effect. The blind guides stifle themselves because they cannot answer the Scriptures, the Confessions, Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz, or Gerhard. I believe my most ignored book, Thy Strong Word, has had the most effect. I see UOJ crumbling around the edges now - thanks to the laity.

I measure interest by individual communications. A number of laity began saying, "We really need a print version of TSW." And that is being finished.

If the Syn Conference clergy are so well trained, why do they avoid publishing on Lulu.com, where they can distribute their wisdom for free? They could be sending their PDFs all over the world. I created them, download them, and send them to people who ask.

I know the answer. Day-Timer. Oct 24th. Lunch with Poo-Bah.

More Demands from a Hotmail Account. Critical Thinking Not Required for Graduation

You don't own me, I'm not just one of your many toys
You don't own me, don't say I can't go with other boys

And don't tell me what to do
And don't tell me what to say
And please, when I go out with you
Don't put me on display, 'cause

You don't own me, don't try to change me in any way
You don't own me, don't tie me down 'cause I'd never stay

Oh, I don't tell you what to say
I don't tell you what to do
So just let me be myself
That's all I ask of you

I'm young and I love to be young
I'm free and I love to be free
To live my life the way I want
To say and do whatever I please.

I know you're going to ignore me again and post this on your blog behind my back, but I don't really care. I would really like you to email me back about your beliefs. Yes, you may have it posted on your site, but I want it straight from you. And I also want to know why you hate the WELS so much. And I really don't appreciate you posting my email on your blog for all the world to see. All I did was ask simple questions. I didn't ask to be ridiculed. Not the best form for a pastor in my opinion.

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GJ - "Behind my back?" This reminds me of the college students who act up while demanding an A. I get about one per thousand like that. The blog stirs up wrath because teaching against false doctrine is Law.

If this is a college student, I wonder why they only learn logical fallacies in school. "And I also want to know why you hate the WELS so much." Double question, rather crude. This person has the makings of a DP.

I have heard from WELS people that letters and email sent to me belong to them. Where do they get those ideas?

No Thanks from a Thankless Clergy

When I let people know what the administration is planning, comments come in:
1. Where is the link?
2. Who told you?
3. Prove it.
4. This is how your fable began...
5. Tell us your source (and scare the rest away).

Here is a question from the Miller Analogies Test, where I scored in the stratosphere:

5, 4, 3, 2,

What is the next number?

The WELS answer is, "I don't know, the DP hasn't told me yet."

When enrollment goes down like that, the answer is obvious to everyone except the brain-washed.

But when I provide thousands of quotations about Reformed doctrine, Church Growth, Romanism, Enthusiasm, justification by faith, UOJ - the response is zilch.

Face it, folks. The clergy are lazy repeat-after-me synod drones. They have no interest in pursuing correct doctrine, even if someone has done years of research to pave their way with rose petals.

One pastor is typical. He was being grumpy with me about my criticisms of CG. He demanded a bunch of articles I had published, with quotations. I sent them on a floppy disk. He answered back, "I remembered. You sent them before." What was the chance he actually read them? He might have read enough to become alarmed at the danger to his job.

When I asked one supposedly anti-CG pastor for a citation from his work, he wrote a letter to various officials. He wanted them to know he had nothing to do with anything I published. I was not allowed to quote him. The problem was, I already quoted him before. The only thing that mattered was absolving himself.

The clergy are chickens - same brain power. Some have an IQ, which they use to promote themselves. But like chickens, they make a lot of noise whenever frightened. The chickens are coming home to roost, as they say. All the evasions and chicanery are piling up on their heads.

The laity can read the documents and see they are being led by girly men who cannot take a stand for anything, cannot defend the truths of the Scriptures, cannot do anything beyond their immediate self-interest.

Proof? Read the synodical publications.