Friday, July 1, 2011

Visit Historic St. John's Lutheran Church in Milwaukee.
The Organ Recital Is July 24th



The organ is a Barckhoff-Wangerin, meaning Barckhoff built it in 1890 and W expanded it somewhat in 1919 at the 50th anniversary of the mixed choir. In 1996 members did extensive work with the valves and leathering. It has 39 ranks.
"It really shakes St. John's church. Which takes a lot considering how big the building is. 
From the highest pitches to the low rumbles of the pedal; 
every note on the organ sings through the glorious space like a wonderul human voice."








Time
Sunday, July 24 · 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location
Historic St. John's Lutheran Church
804 W. Vliet St.
Milwaukee, WI
Created By
David Porth
More Info
David Porth will be giving a recital on the mighty 2/39 Barckhoff/Wangerin pipe organ of Historic St. John's Lutheran Church.

Before the recital why not consider attending a Divine Service at 10:00am in the church. Hear the wonderful message of Jesus Christ and what He has done for YOU!

All are invited to attend! Come and visit this beautiful landmark in Milwaukee! This church is considered to be one of the finest examples of German Lutheran church architecture in the United States.


A Festive Intrada -- Walter Pelz

Prelude in G Major -- J.S. Bach

Aria -- Paul Manz

Toccata in F Major -- Dietrich Buxtehude

Selections from Eight -- Charles Ore
I. Entrance
III. Diversion
IV. Procession
VI. Procession II

***INTERMISSION***
(10 minutes)

A Patriotic Suite -- Charles Callahan

Andante Tranquillo from Sonata 3 -- Felix Mendelssohn
Allegro Movement from Sonata 2

Improvisation on In Thee is Gladness -- Michael Burkhardt

Organ Recital at History St. John's Lutheran Church,
July 24th.
Attend the Worship Service at 10 AM


Time
Sunday, July 24 · 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location
Historic St. John's Lutheran Church
804 W. Vliet St.
Milwaukee, WI
Created By
David Porth
More Info
David Porth will be giving a recital on the mighty 2/39 Barckhoff/Wangerin pipe organ of Historic St. John's Lutheran Church.

Before the recital why not consider attending a Divine Service at 10:00am in the church. Hear the wonderful message of Jesus Christ and what He has done for YOU!

All are invited to attend! Come and visit this beautiful landmark in Milwaukee! This church is considered to be one of the finest examples of German Lutheran church architecture in the United States.


A Festive Intrada -- Walter Pelz

Prelude in G Major -- J.S. Bach

Aria -- Paul Manz

Toccata in F Major -- Dietrich Buxtehude

Selections from Eight -- Charles Ore
I. Entrance
III. Diversion
IV. Procession
VI. Procession II

***INTERMISSION***
(10 minutes)

A Patriotic Suite -- Charles Callahan

Andante Tranquillo from Sonata 3 -- Felix Mendelssohn
Allegro Movement from Sonata 2

Improvisation on In Thee is Gladness -- Michael Burkhardt

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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Organ Recital at History St. John's Lutheran Churc...":

I'm there! Before the Lord calls me home, I would like to ring the bells of old St John's. Our family attended a worship service there many years ago. The rope for the bell extends through a hole in the ceiling in an area that we now call the narthex. On another occasion, I was given a tour of St John's by one of the members. It is heart warming to know that the organ is still functional. Working on pipe organs is an extremely specialized skill.

Important PS for the WELS - ELCA Article



The link is to this article:

ELCA WELS Parallel

California wrote:
A sentence in the posting:" ELCA-WELS Parallel",  leaped out at me mentioning the year of 1977.  "The agenda was announced in 1977 in TELL to promote Church Growth Movement from Fuller Seminary." 

 It may have been announced, in 1977, but the groundwork had been systematically laid and tilled officially but quietly for ten years after significant resolutions were passed in convention in 1967.   It was in 1977 that my membership was terminated from a WELS congregation after some years of attempting to get both congregation leaders and synod leaders to understand what had been done and what was beginning to manifest itself in the mid 70's.   Congregations didn't understand the management by objectives process adopted in 1967, but some synod level officials did, whether they admitted it or not.  Systems management doesn't just appear and be skillfully implemented without guidance and nurturing.    I recognized at the time, that damage had been done, due to having discovered and been involved in exposing the same process of governance which was hijacking the governing institutions in civic government at all levels and especially education (school) governance.

Following are some observations from the open letter I sent to the congregation after the termination 1977.   My conscience is clear, for they couldn't say they had never heard.

From the Open Letter to Peace Lutheran Church, Santa Clara, CA    2/7/1977.

"Students of history always identify turning points resulting in long range changes in institutions.  Rarely recognized as pivotal at the time, it generally takes a period of time before the fruits of such events begin to manifest themselves to the general body of an institution.  If such a "turning point" were to be identified for the current "facilitation of change" in Synod, it would be the year of 1967.  Two resolutions adopted at the 1967 Synod Convention set the stage for fundamental, far reaching changes only recently coming apparent.

1)The resolution was adopted which provided the technical loophole which was used to justify the government grants to WELS church schools. 
It set the stage for the idea that government educators had something constructive to offer Christian education, for in addition to monetary considerations, programs and philosophies of these educators have been assimilated into Christian schools until the distinction between church and government schools is becoming less distinct by the year.

2)  The second action of that 1967 convention was the authorization of the restructuring of Synod organization from  a truly representative form of governance to one of Systems Analysis (Planning, Programming, Budgeting System).   The name itself defines the management system.   More than a budgeting system, PPBS also restructures the WAY DECISIONS ARE MADE.  Plans ARE PREDETERMINED BY AN ELITE PLANNING BODY.   All factors  involved are known only by that planning body.  Programming for acceptance of the pre-determined plans are implemented to create the need for the planned goal, or to obtain the necessary feedback to identify strong opposition, and if necessary adjust the plan so it  will be accepted by members at large who can be persuaded through various means to be receptive to the plan.  They in turn ultimately legitimatize the predetermined plans with a vote in congregation,district or synod.  This process is in motion now to discredit King James Version and condition for acceptance NIV.

The nature of PPBS is manipulative from the top.  There is no escaping the essence of the process.........
........................

As in every other church body including those calling themselves Lutheran, WELS will experience continued controversy.  There can be no true peace or unity once a church body is divided on what the very Word of God is!   If history repeats itself,and the pattern follows that which every other church embarking on similar paths has gone, WELS will become more and more subjective, larger and larger promotional synod-wide programs will multipy.........expect increased encouragement of emotional responses at all levels  of church life.  With more and more methodologically contrived situations designed to elicit subjective responses, will come less and less doctrinal emphasis........There are repeated expressions of concern by synod that fewer young men are expressing the intention to enter the ministry.  Only the Holy spirit generates the true desire to become a full time servant of the Word.   Could it be that God is "saying something to WELS"? ....................................  

2/7/1977 

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LutherRocks has left a new comment on your post "Important PS for the WELS - ELCA Article":

1967 seems to be a pivotal year...it is the same year that the first printing of "This We Believe" came out. Its confession regarding redemption and justification are audacious when compared to the Brief Statement of 1932. UOJ is all a part of this PPBS initiative. WELS hangs their hat on J.P. Meyer concerning justification...the only book he wrote. Compare that to the volumes the reformers wrote and what resides in the BoC.

ELCA - WELS Parallel:
Goodsoil versus Church and Change.
Missouri and the Little Sect Have Factions Too

This is a group photo of GoodSoil supporters, wearing their rainbows.
I understand various bishops and leaders wore them at the 2009 convention.


The American Lutheran Publicity Bureau discussion group is talking about the upcoming ELCA convention and previous ones. In 2007, Brad Schmeling, a pastor kicked out of ELCA, for violating their rules, was the preacher at the alternative worship service at their convention. In 2009, the rules were reversed, and the same minister was welcomed back shortly afterward. Various pastors and congregations under fake-discipline were also welcomed back with special ceremonies designed by ELCA.

Nevertheless, GoodSoil is organized to have parallel services at the upcoming convention and engage the conventioneers in furthering GoodSoil goals. That will probably lead to openly gay bishops of both genders.

The result of their political achievements, enforced ruthlessly by ELCA bishops, is an unprecedented flight from ELCA. The two leading protest denominations are the LCMC and the NALC, both products of the traditional group within ELCA, named CORE. Those two groups alone have 1,000 congregations, many of them the largest ones in ELCA. The exits continue and the ELCA seminaries are in deep financial trouble.

In the mid 19th century, a similar division took place in the old General Synod, when approximately half of the congregations left and formed their own seminary in Philadelphia, where I was once interviewed for a job.

GoodSoil Clearly Runs ELCA
The GoodSoil agenda and Bishop Mark Hanson's agenda are the same. The ELCA bishops all work to enforce that agenda. Unlike the Episcopal Church, no active bishop has left ELCA, nor have any ELCA bishops taken entire districts out with them. ELCA leader Hanson is a hero among mainline denomination leaders.

Church and Change Runs WELS



  • The agenda was announced in 1977 in TELL - to promote the Church Growth Movement from Fuller Seminary. SP Naumann endorsed it. SP Miscke promoted it. SP Gurgle institutionalized it. SP Schroeder frowned at it while giving them everything they wanted.





  • TELL officially died in 1982, only to be resurrected by Valleskey pal Radlof as the Mission Counselor's Newsletter. They bragged, once again, about TELL's goal to promote Church Growth. With the mission counselor's program, WELS had Fuller-trained robots paid by offerings to promote Babtist-Pentecostal doctrine and the ruminations of "Lutheran" CG copycats.





  • In 1995, Church and Change began, using synod offering money, to promote the Church Growth Movement as outside protest group.





  • In 2011, Church and Change announced they were done, but their website and their board of directors remain in place. Their meeting last year, which Don Patterson attended, was called Regaining Momentum. Patterson has hired Church and Change's Cornerstone (Team Tetzel) to raise money for his latest dreams.




  • Various people made me aware of the facts and gave me the actual materials. Some have prospered by saying nothing while letting me do their work for them. The Changers have been howling in dismay over revelations, especially since this blog owns many Lutheran topics and images when people use Google.

    The yelling seemed to go up a notch when I began uniting sound and false doctrine with graphics.

    Church and Change owns WELS (synod staff, both colleges, seminary, FICL) and continues to bear fruit: schools closing, membership shrinking, false doctrine growing.

    "Don't gloat, Brett. We are still working with Missouri, WELS, and the ELS."

    Time of Grace Supporters Just Happen To Be
    Church and Change Leaders.
    Shop and Compare - See the Other Time of Grace Memorial Below




    AC V has left a new comment on your post "If Hottentots Are Already Justified, Why Attend Ch...":

    Pro-ToG Memorial:

    Unpublished Memorial (2011-07U)
    Subject: Time of Grace Ministry
    Floor Committee #21

    WHEREAS 1) Time of Grace was formed by a group of WELS laymen and clergy to utilize the
    medium of television to present law and gospel; and
    WHEREAS 2) Time of Grace is viewed weekly in many American markets and globally by satellite
    broadcast and over the Internet; and

    WHEREAS 3) WELS members in the armed services, including those in combats zones, together
    with WELS college students, the aged and infirmed, and other WELS members unable to attend their own church, through Time of Grace have daily or weekly access to sermons and devotions thus sustaining and strengthening their faith and trust in the living Lord; and
    WHEREAS 4) WELS parents, spouses, and loved ones of those who are physically unable to attend
    a WELS worship service are sincerely appreciative that Time of Grace devotions are available for their loved ones; and
    WHEREAS 5) In addition to the thousands of WELS members, there are tens of thousands of non-
    WELS viewers who hear pure scripture-based presentations of law and gospel; therefore be it
    Resolved, a) that the Synod in convention acknowledge, thank, and encourage Time of Grace to
    continue in its ministry for the edification of WELS members and the spreading of the pure gospel message to thousands of others; and be it finally
    Resolved, b) that the Synod in Convention encourage congregations to publicize and utilize Time
    of Grace broadcasts, internet site, and other materials as a supplement to their regular worship and study of God’s holy word, especially to their members who can’t attend their congregation’s worship services and Bible studies.

    Rev. Mark J. Cares
    Mr. Thomas C. Walters
    Rev. Harold J. Hagedorn
    Mr. Robert L. Timmermann
    Mr. Paul D. Rosenow
    Mr. Daniel L. Kunz
    Rev. Matthew J. Zimpelmann
    Mr. John W. Tappe
    Mr. Warren D. Ehlke
    Mr. Dennis E. Walters
    Mr. Mark A. Wrightsman
    Dr. Scott A. Gostchock
    Mr. Merle D. Blum
    Mr. Paul L. Kunz
    Rev. Howard O. Mohlke
    Mr. James W. Freer
    Rev. John P. Huebner
    Rev. James A. Aderman
    Rev. Matthew Doebler
    Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Pagel
    Rev. John Parlow
    Rev. David C. Pagel
    Rev. Steven L. Witte
    Rev. Joel W. Schwartz
    Rev. Larry G. Zwieg
    Rev. James R. Sonnemann
    Mr. Roger J. Jeffery
    Mr. Jeffery P. Davis
    Rev. Ronald V. Ash
    Dr. and Mrs. Rick E. Klug
    Rev. Wayne I. Schulz
    Rev. Raymond Kimbrough
    Rev. and Mrs. James G. Witt III
    Rev. Keith C. Tullberg
    Rev. John M. Graf
    Mr. Thomas H. DeWitz
    Rev. Donald W. Patterson
    Dr. Donald A. Whitlock
    Mr. Gregory P. Naumann
    Rev. Mark A. Cordes
    Rev. Daniel J. Rautenberg
    Rev. Michael G. Geiger
    Rev. Robert J. Gurgel
    Rev. Frederick J. Guldberg
    Rev. Paul S. Soukup
    Rev. Bill F. Limmer
    Rev. Christian J. Winkel
    Peter Dorn
    Carl Lemke
    Rev. John Lawrenz

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    AC V has left a new comment on your post "Time of Grace Supporters Just Happen To Be Church ...":

    ToG, the face of the WELS brand of Lutheranism: A gown-less, sacrament-less, Dr. Phil-like motivational speaker. "Click here to purchase now."

    WELS readers, get ready for your future pastors to come into your congregations in the same way. They already are.

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    LutherRocks has left a new comment on your post "Time of Grace Supporters Just Happen To Be Church ...":

    "In addition to the thousands of WELS members, there are tens of thousands of non-
    WELS viewers who hear pure scripture-based presentations of law and gospel;"

    I watched recently...what verse in the Bible is pre-forgiven in again?

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    GJ - Readers can look over the list above and count how many people deny being Church and Changers - like Don Patterson - yet turn up always supporting the Church and Change agenda.

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     This is the link.

    Synod Convention Memorial - Time of Grace

    Memorial to the Synod in Convention Re: Time of Grace Ministry
    Whereas (1) Time of Grace Ministry has actively sought and obtained the status of a Recognized Service Organization (RSO) from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS); and
    Whereas (2) Time of Grace is listed in the Yearbook of the LCMS as a Recognized Service Organization; and
    Whereas (3) Leaders and representatives from Time of Grace regularly appear at LCMS events and congregations to promote the ministry of Time of Grace; and
    Whereas (4) The administrative board of Time of Grace includes at least one member of the LCMS; and
    Whereas (5) The LCMS, according to its official bylaws and policies, considers its RSOs to be “valued partners of the LCMS,” views the services of its RSOs as “a profound extension of the LCMS’ mission and ministry,” and expects its RSOs to “respect and not act contrary to the doctrine and practice of the Synod” and to “foster the mission and ministry of the Synod and engage in program activity that is in harmony with the programs of the boards of the Synod;” and
    Whereas (6) An organization cannot truthfully and honestly carry out joint mission and ministry with two synods that are not in fellowship with one another, pretending to “walk together” with both; and
    Whereas (7) The practices of Time of Grace are examples of the very unionism over which the bond of church fellowship between the WELS and the LCMS was formally severed in 1961; and
    Whereas (8) The speaker and chief writer for Time of Grace is Pastor Mark Jeske, who with his congregation, St. Marcus Evangelical Lutheran Church of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a member of the WELS; and
    Whereas (9) Time of Grace maintains that it is not affiliated with any denomination or part of any denominational structure; and
    Whereas (10) Such an arrangement implies that it is possible to be a member of the WELS while leading a religious organization which will confess no denominational ties; and
    Whereas (11) Time of Grace has established a presence in most (if not all) of the Twelve Districts of the WELS; and
    Whereas (12) Time of Grace has pursued the introduction of its services and ministry into the world mission fields of the WELS; and
    Whereas (13) Scripture instructs us to present a clear confession of our doctrine and practice and to affiliate ourselves only with those church bodies whose doctrine and practice conform to the entirety of God’s Word (Romans 16:17; 1 Timothy 4:16); and
    Whereas (14) The Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium is charged with oversight of doctrine and practice of the pastors, teachers, congregations and other entities of our fellowship within its district; and
    Whereas (15) Time of Grace has not provided to the Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium documentation from the LCMS regarding the non-RSO status of Time of Grace; and
    Whereas (16) The Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium, in two years of dealing with Time of Grace, has been unable to convince Time of Grace of the need to withdraw its RSO status or change its unionistic practices; therefore be it
    RESOLVED (a) That the Synod in convention recognize Time of Grace’s relationship with the LCMS as unionistic, confessionally unclear, and therefore unscriptural; and be it finally RESOLVED (b) That the Synod in convention encourage the presidium of the Southeastern Wisconsin District to take immediate measures of loving Christian discipline toward Time of Grace and its leaders, calling on them to terminate their LCMS RSO status and to return to biblical practices and a clear confession regarding their walk together with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. 
    Mr. Mark Bannan - Salem, Owosso, MI 
    Rev. Thomas J. Bernthal - Peace, Sahuarita, AZ 
    Rev. Theodore G. Bodjanac - Resurrection, Phoenix, AZ 
    Rev. John F. Boehringer - St. John's, Watertown, WI 
    Rev. Luke Boehringer - Gethsemane, Davenport, IA 
    Rev. Jon D. Buchholz - Emmanuel, Tempe, AZ 
    Rev. Johann Caauwe - Trinity, El Paso, TX 
    Rev. Michael T. Carr - St. Peter, Clovis, CA Prof. (em) 
    Daniel Deutschlander - St. Mark's, Watertown, WI
    Rev. Rodney E. Dietsche - Peace, Green Lake, WI
    Rev. Christopher S. Doerr - Grace, Waupun, WI
    Rev. Ross Else - Emmaus, Phoenix, AZ
    Rev. Paul C. Fetzer - St. John's, Clare, MI
    Rev. Thomas Fischer - Loving Shepherd, Milwaukee, WI
    Rev. Lester G. Fritz - Zion, Van Dyne, WI Michael Hefti - Faith, Radcliff, KY
    Rev. Roy W. Hefti - St. Paul's, Bangor, WI
    Rev. Stephen Hein - Christ, Prescott Valley, AZ
    Mr. Kenneth S. Jamka - Trinity, Sierra Vista, AZ
    Mr. Kurt W. Knurr - Trinity, Sierra Vista, AZ
    Rev. Ronald G. Koehler, III - Grace, Tucson, AZ
    Rev. John R. Koester - Trinity, Temple, TX
    Rev. Robert Koester - NPH, Milwaukee, WI
    Rev. Roger L. Kuerth - St. Luke, Watertown, WI
    Rev. Paul J. Lidtke - Bethlehem, Oshkosh, WI
    Mr. Harold I. Mears - Emmaus, Phoenix, AZ
    Mr. Kevin Needham - St. Paul's, Saginaw, MI
    Rev. David A. Nottling - St. John, Fox Lake, WI
    Rev. Mark D. Ochsankehl - Trinity, Winslow, AZ
    Rev. Aaron Odya - St. Peter's, Eldorado, WI
    Rev. David J. Salinas - St. John, Victorville, CA
    Rev. Paul Schaefer - St. Peter's, Plymouth, MI
    Rev. Neal Schroeder - Divine Peace, Renton, WA
    Rev. Paul Schulz - Grace, Safford, AZ
    Rev. David R. Seager - Loving Shepherd, Milwaukee, WI
    Rev. Gregory Sluke - Trinity, Redgranite, WI
    Rev. James Strand - St. Paul, Bloomer, WI
    Rev. Johnold J. Strey - St. Mark, Citrus Heights, CA
    Rev. Jeffrey W. Suhr - St. John, Appleton, WI
    Rev. Donald Swartz - Mt. Olive, Monroe, WI
    Rev. Benjamin Tomczak - St. Mark, Duncanville, TX
    Rev. Clayton G. Welch - Faith, River Falls, WI
    * Required


    If you are on Jeske's bus, you have job security.
    If you are not on his bus, you will soon be washing the tread marks from your face.