Our reason and Old Self are attracted to treasures on earth. This is a strong pull that comes from within that tears down life."
Hi, I’m Jeff Davis, one of the authors of Heart in Focus. I’m glad that you are learning more about this special program. I always believe it is good to challenge oneself and learn new things each day. Heart in Focus offers a challenge not usually found in today’s resources. It helps the reader to answer, “Who am I?” and “Why am I here on this earth?”
Answers to these questions give our lives purpose and a reason for living. By enrolling in a Heart in Focus course, I believe you will find help in responding better to these questions.
You may also know me through Cornerstone Stewardship Ministry, Inc., a firm that raises dollars for Lutheran ministries by growing God’s joyful stewards. Visit our web site at www.joyfulgiving.net.
Or, drop me a note to let me know what you think: jeff@heartinfocus.com. May your day be a blessing for Jesus!
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GJ - Jeff is vice-chairman of Church and Change. His photo is still up, but his bio is blank.
Brian Arthur Lampe is on the board, but no longer has a photo or a bio. He is the self-ordained pastor who is always giving Satan a boxing lesson, for a fee, of course.
They are all part of the Jeske, Inc. network.
Ski of The SORE was listed on the Changer board until I published that fact. He then disappeared from it.
KJV 1 Corinthians 3:5 Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Contrary to Rev. Jeff, God gives the increase through His Word. The Holy Spirit revealed, through Paul, that individuals are simply those through whom people came to believe in Christ. No one should extol one human or another--or himself--because God alone gives the increase.
Because Rev. Jeff has everything upside-down and backwards, he thinks we bless Jesus, another doctrine of the Me Generation.
Rev. Jeff's teammate at Cornerstone fund-raising is a Missouri Synod man who chairs the LEA, and the LEA is inviting Leonard Sweet, perennial sweetheart of Church and Change:
Tom Grunow (Co-Founder of CSM, MEd, CFRE)
Portland, Oregon
Tom Grunow is a 33-year veteran in Christian Education, Fund Development and Strategic Planning having served with Lutheran educational ministries in Florida, Texas and Oregon. Following in the footsteps of his father, Dr. Robert A. Grunow, known throughout the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) for his estate planning and fundraising expertise, for the past 14 years he has served as a consultant to Lutheran churches and schools throughout the U.S. Previously he served as Vice President of the Concordia University Foundation Portland and on the National Board of Directors of the Association of Lutheran Development Executives (ALDE). He currently serves Trinity Lutheran Church, as Volunteer Minister of Stewardship & Gifts, is an active member of ALDE, a member of the Christian Stewardship Association (CSA), and serves as Board Chair of the Lutheran Education Association (LEA). Tom resides in Portland, Oregon with his wife, Karin, a commissioned Lutheran schoolteacher. They have 3 children and 3 grandchildren.
Here is the LEA link about Leonard Sweet, aging hippy gasbag, serving as the keynote speaker for the Lutheran association. He wrote:
Postmodern and Wesleyan?: Exploring the Boundaries and Possibilities
Postmodern and Wesleyan? is both an exploration and an internal dialogue. Essays written by differing voices explore various dimensions of postmodernism as they relate to theology, church, practices, communities, and missions. Each section includes a critical response by a respected Wesleyan leader to the ideas expressed. Dr. Leonard Sweet concludes each section with comments to continue the conversation. This important conversation piece invites churches, pastors, and laity to explore together how the Christian faith might shape both the present and the future. By providing a forum for engaging issues, both important and difficult, Postmodern and Wesleyan? offers a voice to some of the most creative thinkers in the movement and a help to Christians deciding the direction they must go in order to share the good news of God s love. 
4 comments:
Jeske inc? Yes, Jeske should honor the King(US Government) and pay his share of taxes. 501(c)(3) gets these religious guys into too much trouble. I do not intend to make myself a slave to the government.
Heart In Focus? How about "We want your wallet in plain view."
In Christ,
from WELS church lady
What have the following people done to stop:
- (W)ELS from training with New Age satanist Leonard Sweet http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-ager-leonard-sweet-advises-lcms.html
- (W)ELS/LCMS Mark Jeske's Time of Grace from having dual membership http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2009/12/time-of-grace-ad-no-longer-on-lcms-home.html
- (W)ELS clergy are teaching Baptist theology and Satan's Sex Ed to the laity http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2010/04/satans-sex-ed-groeschel-program-at-wels.html
- Openly address the false gospel of Universal Objective Justification as the chief article of (W)ELS doctrine
- Direct financial support of abortions provided to ELCA called workers through Thrivent http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2009/12/religious-left-and-thrivent-love.html
- Direct financial support of whole wide murder through the financial support of the United Nations via Lutheran World Relief and Lutheran Malaria Initiative http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2010/11/brett-meyer-is-right-about-elca-lwr.html
- Ecumenical ministry with the Roman Catholic Church http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2010/12/lets-get-groupy.html
SYNODICAL COUNCIL MEMBERS
Rev. Mark Schroeder, president and chairman
Mr. Mark Massmann, South Atlantic District
Mr. David Metzger, North Atlantic
Mr. Kurt Austad, Nebraska District
Mr. Warren Ehlke, Pacific Northwest District
Rev. Douglas Engelbrecht, Conference of Presidents
Rev. Jonathan Schroeder, pastor-at-large
Mr. James Moeller, teacher-at-large
Mr. Seth Hansen, Dakota-Montana District
Mr. Philip Hempel, Michigan District
Mr. Ron Hillmann, Northern Wisconsin District
Mr. Paul Holzhueter, Minnesota District
Rev. Philip Koelpin, chairman of the Board for World Missions
Rev. Peter Naumann, Conference of Presidents
Rev. David Rutschow, Conference of Presidents
Mr. Tom Schlittenhart, Arizona-California District
Mr. Timothy Snyder, Southeastern Wisconsin District
Rev. Philip Hirsch, chairman of the Board for Ministerial Education
Mr. John Tappe, Western Wisconsin District
Mr. G. Harvey Dunn, South Central District
Rev. Earle Treptow, pastor-at-large
Rev. Charles Westra, chairman of the Board for Home Missions
Cont...
Cont...
ADVISORY
Rev. Harold Hagedorn, administrator of the Board for Home Missions
Mr. Joel Hochmuth, director of communications
Rev. James Huebner, first vice president
Rev. Joel Voss, second vice president
Rev. Bryan Gerlach, coordinator of Congregation and Ministry Support Group
Rev. Dan Koelpin, administrator of the Board for World Missions
Rev. Dave Liggett, director of Ministry of Christian Giving
Mr. Todd Poppe, chief financial officer
Rev. Paul Prange, administrator of the Board for Ministerial Education
Mr. Martin Spriggs, chief technology officer
CONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS
Rev. Mark Schroeder, president and chairman
Rev. James Huebner, first vice president
Rev. Joel Voss, second vice president
Rev. Robert Pasbrig, secretary
Rev. Jon Buchholz, Arizona-California District
Rev. Peter Naumann, Dakota-Montana District
Rev. John Seifert, Michigan District
Rev. Charles Degner, Minnesota District
Rev. Earle Treptow, Nebraska District
Rev. Joel Petermann, North Atlantic District
Rev. Douglas Engelbrecht, Northern Wisconsin District
Rev. Theodore Lambert, Pacific Northwest District
Rev. John Guse, South Atlantic District
Rev. Vilas Glaeske, South Central District
Rev. David Rutschow, Southeastern Wisconsin District
Rev. Herbert Prahl, Western Wisconsin District
http://www.wels.net/sites/wels/files/sc-cop-members082410.pdf
Leonard Sweet is but a small portion of this problem but certainly no small problem when considering his teachings and background.
The following is copied from Lighthouse blog, http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=4240
Speaking of spiritual “channels,” Sweet expresses his personal gratitude in Quantum Spirituality to channeler and veteran New Age leader, David Spangler. . . . A pioneering spokesperson for the New Age, Spangler has written numerous books over the years that include Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred, Revelation: The Birth of a New Age, and Reimagination of the World: A Critique of the New Age, Science, and Popular Culture. His book Revelation: The Birth of a New Age is a compilation of channeled transmissions he received from his disembodied spirit-guide “John.” At one point in Revelation, Spangler documents what “John” prophesied about “the energies of the Cosmic Christ” and “Oneness”:
As the energies of the Cosmic Christ become increasingly manifest within the etheric life of Earth, many individuals will begin to respond with the realization that the Christ dwells within them. They will feel his presence moving within and through them and will begin to awaken to their heritage of Christhood and Oneness with God, the Beloved.4
Unbelievably, in a modern-day consultation that bears more than a casual resemblance to King Saul’s consultation with the witch of Endor (1 Samuel 28:7), Leonard Sweet acknowledges in Quantum Spiritualitythat he was privately corresponding with channeler David Spangler.5 In Quantum Spirituality, Sweet writes about what he calls his “new cell” understanding of New Light leadership, then closes his book by thanking Spangler for “his help in formulating this ‘new cell’ understanding of New Light Leadership.” Sweet writes:
I am grateful to David Spangler for his help in formulating this “new cell” understanding of New Light leadership.6
David Spangler worked on the United Nations Planetary Initiative and wrote, "Lucifer works within each of us to bring us to wholeness, and as we move into a New Age…each of us in some way is brought to that point which I term the Luciferic Initiation, the particular doorway through which the individual must pass if he is to come fully into the presence of his light and wholenesss. Lucifer prepares man in all ways for the experience of Christhood… The light that reveals to us the presence of the Christ…comes from Lucifer. He is the light-giver, he is aptly named the Morning Star because it is his light that heralds for man the dawn of a great consciousness …He stands…as the Great Initiator, the one who hands the soul over to the Christ." (9)
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/luciferic_initiation.htm
Section above taken from Ichabod post here:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2010/09/kelm-brought-welsels-to-hear-sweet-at.html
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