Tuesday, December 6, 2011

The Green Bay Packers Gospel

"The G looked fine in the mirror when I put it on."


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The gospel according to Packers player Greg Jennings at St. Marcus Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, WI:

http://bcove.me/aqtnd02w 

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AC V has left a new comment on your post "Prayed with a Priest and a Rabbi?But What Is the P...":

Summary of Greg Jennings message "preached" in a Lutheran church in the same place Rev. Mark Jeske preaches on "Time of Grace" TV:

"I truly believe that if you put forth the time and the effort and the passion, you can become and do whatever you want."

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/135108688.html

Jesus had a lot of passion. It got him crucified. (Thank God.)

"Ski, you are not too old to play for the Packers.
There is another reason."
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AC V has left a new comment on your post "The Green Bay Packers Gospel":

St. Marcus pupils listen intently as Jennings explains his favorite phrase he uses daily: It’s a great day to be great.:

http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/photos/135109353.html#id_60295463

Exploring options for the administration building | Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS).
Sell P. U. Towers or Hochmuth Hall?
Sell Both and Lease Two Rooms at NPH.

This may be too modest for the WELS synod headquarters.


Exploring options for the administration building | Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS):


A Synodical Council task force is exploring all options in addressing the recent setback in plans to relocate the synod's administration building.

Here is a brief review of the situation. Earlier this year, the synod reached an agreement with a developer to sell the current administration building on Mayfair Road in Milwaukee, Wis., for $2.82 million. The sale was to be finalized in January of 2012, but the developer had until Nov. 4 to perform “due diligence” in making arrangements for rezoning and financing. When the offer was accepted, the Synodical Council authorized the purchase of a newer building in Pewaukee, Wis., for $2.85 million. The building was a perfect fit for our office needs, and we received an exceptional price on the property. That purchase was finalized last summer and tentative plans were made to move to the new building in December.

At the end of the due diligence period, the developer who had agreed to purchase the current building withdrew from the purchase agreement after concluding his planned project for the site was not financially feasible. This resulted in the synod now owning two buildings.

A task force was appointed by the Synodical Council to explore all options available to remedy this situation. Those options include renewed efforts to work with the city and interested developers to sell the Mayfair Road building. In addition, the task force will also be considering the possible sale of the Pewaukee property.

Obviously, it is not desirable for the synod to be holding two properties. However, we do have reserves that allow us to hold the two properties for a time without using any mission offerings to pay for this. The task force will consider all options carefully in an effort to arrive at a recommended course of action that will best serve the needs of the synod in the long term. The full Synodical Council will make any final decision.

Vacant positions
Two important administrative positions are currently vacant. The process to fill the positions of Director of Human Resources and Director of Communications has begun. Updated position descriptions for both positions will be made available after a review by the Conference of Presidents in December.

The duties of both of these positions have been temporarily reassigned to other staff members. We are working to ensure that the services provided in both areas will continue without interruption. Please note that the WELS Connection segments for January through April 2012 are being completed this month and will soon be distributed to congregations.

Advent preparation
As we prepare our hearts and homes for the Advent of our King, we direct our thoughts and worship to the One who came as one of us to redeem fallen mankind, and to the One who will come again in the clouds with all power and glory as the King of kings and Lord of lords. God’s richest Advent blessings to you all!

Serving in Christ,


Mark Schroeder


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GJ - Some remember when the synod staff consisted of Carl Mischke and his wife Gladys, working in a room or two at Northwestern Publishing House, at the bottom of the stairs.

That reduced the risk of a staffer being arrested by the police and the offices searched by the FBI - the most excitement at headquarters since the document shredding party for William Tabor.

Most of those staffers are useless. The magazine is waste of money. Slick Brenner called it The Ladies Home Companion, and that was before it really went downhill.

The Shrinkers love business models. Try this one - reduce the overhead by eliminating most of the staff. Reduce it even more by selling the two office buildings.

Perfect - Just enough room for needed staff.
Everyone else - get a job.
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AC V has left a new comment on your post "Exploring options for the administration building ...":

When the offer was accepted, the Synodical Council authorized the purchase of a newer building

Accepting an offer buy your property is not the same as closing on the sale of your property, something a seller should do before buying another property.

SYNODICAL COUNCIL NENBERS (sic) - Check the original linked below!

Rev. Mark G. Schroeder, WELS president and chairman
Mr. Kurt L. Austad, Nebraska District
Mr. Warren Ehlke, Pacific Northwest District
Mr. Charles Fiedler,  South Central District
Mr. Seth Hansen, Dakota‐Montana District
Mr. Philip Hempel, Michigan District
Rev. Philip C. Hirsch, chairman, Board for Ministerial Education
Mr. Paul Holzhueter, Minnesota District
Mr. Mark Massmann, South Atlantic District
Mr. David Metzger, North Atlantic District
Mr. James Moeller, teacher‐at‐large
Rev. Peter Naumann, Conference of Presidents
Rev. Joel Petermann, Conference of Presidents
Rev. David Rutschow, Conference of Presidents
Mr. Tom Schlittenhart, Arizona‐California District
Rev. Larry Schlomer, chairman, Board for World Mission
Rev. Jonathan Schroeder, pastor‐at=large
Mr. Timothy Snyder. Southeastern Wisconsin District
Mr. John Tappe , Western Wisconsin District
Rev. Earle Treptow , pastor‐at‐large
Rev. Charles Westra, Chairman, Board for Home Missions

Advisory:
Rev. Keith Free
Rev. Brian Gerlach
Rev. James Huebner
Rev. Daniel H. Koelpin
Rev. James D. Liggett
Mr. Todd J. Poppe
Rev. Paul Prange
Mr. Mel Schuler
Mr. Martin A. Spriggs
Rev. Joel R. Voss

http://www.wels.net/sites/wels/files/WELS%20Leadership_0.pdf

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/KeystoneKops.jpg  

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Contingency contracts, for buying before selling the original property.

Contingency purchase?
We don't need no stinking contingency contract!
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AC V has left a new comment on your post "Exploring options for the administration building ...":

"Here is a brief review of the situation...."

"the synod reached an agreement with a developer to sell the current administration building..."

Was this done at the synod convention? I missed that one.

"When the offer was accepted, the Synodical Council authorized the purchase of a newer building"

The SC "authorized." Was every member of the SC involved in the contract negotiations, did they see the paperwork, or did a representative(s) make a "trust me" recommendation?

"This resulted in the synod now owning two buildings....A task force was appointed by the Synodical Council to explore all options available to remedy this situation."

Was there not a "task force" in place to negotiate the sale of 2929 and purchase Pewaukee? If so, who were the members?

"The full Synodical Council will make any final decision."

Did not the full SC make the previous sell/buy decisions?

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GJ - They got a smokin' deal on Pewaukee Universalist Towers, so your questions are impertinent, immaterial, irrelevant, and just plain irritating.

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"Brett, I warned you.
WELS and ELCA and the Salvation Army work together.
We won't stand for that kind of questioning."


Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Exploring options for the administration building ...":

To add to the irritation: Where did the $8,000,000 go?! Where's the documentation detailing who allocated it, where, how and why?

The beatings will continue until offerings improve - or the WELS laity demand an accounting.

School official charged with soliciting sex from a minor had been investigated by DPI

School official charged with soliciting sex from a minor had been investigated by DPI:

""The fact that it gets swept into ‘health problems' makes it difficult for another employer," Robarts said. "Ideally, with things that serious ... they ought not to disappear and pop up in a different district."

Rainwater said the case "was handled appropriately.""

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McLoud School Board to discuss arrest of now-former teacher on child porn complaint | NewsOK.com.
Another Nobody Knows Nothing Story

McLoud School Board to discuss arrest of now-former teacher on child porn complaint | NewsOK.com:

 — School administrators said Monday they had no knowledge of inappropriate conduct or technology use by a teacher before she was arrested on child pornography and lewd conduct complaints.


These topics will be discussed during the McLoud School Board meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, according to a news release.

The school principal had never received information about inappropriate conduct by Kimberly Ann Crain, 48, a teacher at McLoud Elementary School, before the incident at the teacher's home, according to a news release on behalf of McLoud Superintendent Doran Smith.


Read more: http://newsok.com/mcloud-school-board-to-discuss-arrest-of-now-former-teacher-on-child-porn-complaint/article/3629579#ixzz1flUJjTIA


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Monday, December 5, 2011

LCMS Synod President Matt Harrison Unfriended Me


We were Facebook friends when he was running for president. We still have 800 mutual friends.


Harrison might not have liked the way I reported on his kissing up to Paul McCain. Not long ago someone wrote to Waldo Werning, "Are you training a replacement?" The answer must be, "Yes!"


Werning was close to the Preus brothers and Herman Otten.


Werning is being reborn as Paul McCain. The difference - Werning kept most of his hissy fits private, instead of posting them all over the Net.

Recent Charges Of Sexual Abuse Of Children In Hollywood Just Tip Of Iceberg, Experts Say | Fox News.
World Child Pornography Ring

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NBC / Warner Bros.
Allison Arngrim (left) starred on 'Little House on the Prairie." She said stories about Corey Feldman and Corey Haim (right) being abused as child stars were common in the 1980s and 90s.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/12/05/recent-charges-sexual-abuse-children-in-hollywood-just-tip-iceberg-experts-say/#ixzz1fihnPcBV

Recent Charges Of Sexual Abuse Of Children In Hollywood Just Tip Of Iceberg, Experts Say | Fox News:



"Even though Feldman spoke candidly about the abuse, he hasn’t named the predator. “People don’t want to talk about this because they’re afraid for their careers,” says Peterson. “From my perspective, what Corey did was pretty brave. It would be really wonderful if his allegations reached through all of the protective layers and identified the real people who are a part of a worldwide child pornography ring, because it’s huge and it respects no borders, just as it does not respect the age of the children involved.”"

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Recent Charges Of Sexual Abuse Of Children In Holl...":

CDC (Center for Disease Control) Paedophile caught.

Quote, "It should be clear by now to any doubters after the recent uncovering of paedophilia horrors surrounding Penn State University’s football program and Syracuse University’s Basketball program - that indeed, America has a national epidemic on its hands.

One major feature of this particular heinous crime is that it is mostly hidden from public view because incidents occur under the shadow of well-established institutions who help to shield perpetrators from publicity by handling reports through internal affairs, or by simply turning a blind eye to known abuses, always in ‘the best interests of the institution’. In this way, a government or educational institution allows abusers to escape full reciprocity for their crimes.

The largest known institution to suffer such an epidemic is undoubtedly the Catholic Church, able to cover its own internal affairs for generations. Taxpayer-funded institutions are even more diabolical though, as crimes and the covering of crimes are inadvertently funded and maintained by a society collectively. For this reason, it is right to suspect that there are hundreds, if not thousands of Jerry Sanduskys and Bernie Fines carrying out deviant acts on innocent children every day across the United States - and under the protection of their respective institutions."

http://www.infowars.com/new-paedophilia-and-bestiality-scandal-compromises-the-cdc 

Man facing child porn related charges out on bail | CTV Edmonton.
FBI Closing the Net

Man facing child porn related charges out on bail | CTV Edmonton:

"Last week, after an extensive investigation and a tip-off from the FBI in Connecticut, members from the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team's Internet Child Exploitation unit (ALERT, ICE) arrested and charged Stoesz, with possessing child pornography, and making it available."

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Child porn seizure may be largest in U.S. history

Child porn seizure may be largest in U.S. history:

"On July 8, officials with Homeland Security and ICE executed a search warrant at Peterson's home. The agents seized several hard drives and a laptop computer and one of the computers was in the process of downloading material when the agents arrived. A forensic analysis revealed Peterson had more than 500,000 images and 7,500 videos believed to constitute child pornography."

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SPECIAL REPORT - Who knew what, when in Kansas City priest child porn case | Reuters

SPECIAL REPORT - Who knew what, when in Kansas City priest child porn case | Reuters:

"That discovery last December yielded hundreds of such photos on the laptop of Father Shawn Ratigan, ultimately landing the 46-year-old priest in jail on multiple child pornography charges. He is awaiting trial next summer after pleading not guilty and remains jailed.

And, in what Catholic experts say is a first-ever event, authorities have filed criminal charges against Bishop Robert Finn, the leader of the 133,000-member Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, because despite knowing about the pictures, Finn did not alert authorities."

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Washington Township volunteer coach arrested on child porn charges - NorthJersey.com

Washington Township volunteer coach arrested on child porn charges - NorthJersey.com:


Nelson, 39, a coach for the town’s recreational wrestling program, was arrested Dec. 2 and released Saturday on $100,000 bail, Hudson County Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor Debra Simon said.

Nelson declined to comment when reached by telephone Monday.

He was charged with both possession and distribution of child pornography, officials said.


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Enid man arrested for child porn - KFOR.
Familiar Details

Enid man arrested for child porn - KFOR:


Police say Bowen had hundreds of images and videos of child pornography on a laptop, desktop computer, hard drives and dozens of DVDs.

They confronted Bowen at his workplace and say they got a confession.

"They went and talked to him and he was very open about everything that he did," Det. Tim Doyle said. "He admitted to downloading lots of images and videos. He also admitted that not only did he have the child pornography on the laptop that we found at his house, but he also had a storage unit that contained different types of media and another computer with child pornography on it."


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Murder? They Asked.
WELS Cover Ups of the Past

Roger Zehms was the circuit pastor
who baptized Tabor's illegitimate child in Cape Girardeau.
He said, "The spitting image of Tabor."



Fox Valley Jimmy said...
"Please fill us in about what has not been proven, linked, quoted, etc. In fact, your deceit is unproven, unsupported. A WELS pastor said, "Everything I have checked, whenever the information was available, has proven to be true."

Yeah, like, how about the claim about some guys committing murder and the WELS covering it up? Is it me or is it somewhat ironic that Jackson writing in a tone of psychotic rage denies having psychotic rage- as he tells us that we should take his word for it that everything is verifiable? Your telling me that you heard some WELS pastor say "something, something" isn't really proof. This is just too easy!


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GJ - WELS Pastor Roger Zehms (now at Jeske's congregation) said they all knew William Tabor was an adulterer when they took him into the Wisconsin Synod. Zehms told me about the day he baptized a baby in Tabor's congregation - "The spitting image of Tabor."

Pastor William Bischoff (Trinity, Bridgeton) had been LCR at one time, as Tabor had been. He knew about many people who wrote letters to WELS, telling them not to accept Tabor as a pastor. WELS did so anyway.

I had lunch with the editor of  The Northwestern Lutheran (Schaeffer). He told me and Mrs. I, "When the police asked for Tabor's file, it was empty!" That means, of course, that someone threw away all the incriminating evidence sent to the synod.

WELS claims that Tabor already had a call to Escanaba, Michigan when he and his Milwaukee mistress murdered Mrs. Tabor. So Tabor was able to pick up and move to a new congregation with a murder accusation over his head. When the chief of police in Milwaukee retired, he said his one big regret was not nailing Tabor for the crime. Tabor's mistress went to prison, but the WELS pastor did not. In fact, he served in the UP for one or two years. That shows what WELS thinks of its congregations. Need a murdering adulterer - take this guy.

WELS and Tabor did more damage. I will leave it at that.

DP Mueller said he did not tell congregations they were calling an adulterer because, "They won't take him!" The layman with me was appalled.

Al Just was convicted and sent to prison for murdering his wife, even though First VP Huebner's father took the stand to defend good ol' Al. Just married his children's baby-sitter while in the pokey, but she got wise and divorced him. One on my contacts saw Al helping with a WELS youth group.

WELS pastors in Phoenix still insist that Al Just did not murder his wife. I got an email from a Michigan Lutheran Seminary staffer saying, "My uncle is innocent!" The murderer was convicted, and he also confessed.

I was warned never to bring up the Just murder again, because "it is a sensitive topic."

I was also told to lay off of SP Schroeder for being such a poor leader. He has already proven that beyond a shadow of a doubt.

The People's Republic of Minnesota Pays the Price

Stadler was a pioneer in divorce and remarriage, with many WELS clergy to follow.
The late and unlamented Iver Johnson edited the WELS hymnal
and crossed out his 50 year marriage to marry his mistress.
From such wild oats has come the crop of crimes today.

bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "WELS Watergate? Waterloo? Or Another Tabor, Just,...":

I know that Minnesota requires all clergy to have a background check ever since the RCC priest-boy scandals. The LCMS doesn't send any unmarried vicars to Minnesota as a precaution--to minimize potential conflicts with the state. Otherwise, the state might become even more stringent.This means, especially if every denomination does the same, that many women from Minnesota who would have been pastors' wives won't be from now on. The Hochmuth scandal surely doesn't help church-state matters any.

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GJ - Maybe the women of Minnesota are better off.

Elton Stroh At a Crossroads.

Elton Stroh was invited to mislead the kiddies at Martin Luther College, WELS.
DP Buchholz did not believe me when I told him how the synodical schools
invited the Church and Changers, lauding them as heroes.


AC V has left a new comment on your post "Divinely Called by Whom":

I'm sure they're lining up:

Dear brother in Christ:

I’m anxious to announce that, beginning in 2012, Crossroads Consulting will offer another ministry planning option and begin using an all-inclusive planning tool which (sic) I recently designed.

Ministry Planning Options: Congregations now have the opportunity to consider which ministry planning approach (i.e. Comprehensive, Modified, or Basic) would be most helpful.

New Planning Tool: This unique instrument will be utilized with all three ministry planning approaches and will help congregations accomplish both long- and short-range planning at the same time, and a lot more.

I welcome you to browse the Crossroads web site where you’ll have access to recently posted materials.

As the New Year begins, you and your leaders may be discussing your congregation’s gospel ministry challenges and opportunities. If you would like to add a consultant’s perspective to your discussions, please let me know.

Assisting God’s people with pursuing his (GJ - whose? - Elton's or God's?) mission,

Elton

Pastor Elton C. Stroh

Executive Director | Crossroads Consulting Ministry

608-837-3819 | elton.stroh@timeforcrossroads.com | timeforcrossroads.com

Remember the Faces of WELS UOJ.
They Cover Up Their Synodical Crimes.






Anonymous said...
It's a bit creepy. Jackson now has 41 official posts on Hochmuth. He claims that the WELS must have known. But why? My boss doesn't have any idea about my political or religious belief, much less what I look at on the internet. Why should the WELS hierarchy have known anything about Hochmuth?
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GJ - Joel Hochmuth was previously counseled for his man-boy addiction. WELS has clammed up about who knew what and when. 
However, the local area network administrator at WELS Headquarters, The Love Shack, where 300+ man-boy pictures and videos were found, definitely had access to computers used by Hochmuth for viewing. Use of the computers for viewing would have a record. There are various ways to supervise and protect a computer network against compromise, abuse, and spamming. Why has no one been fired?

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Samuel Thrace said...
The think (sic) that has really bothered me about his reporting of this story on his blog is the glee he has in telling the tale. To him, apparently, this is is not a tragic story involving real people and real sins; this is something to celebrate because it "confirms" his point about the WELS. There is no Christian concern for those involved. There is not even any human concern. There is only joy and revelry that happened so that he can have some vehicle to make his point about UOJ. In the words of Buzz Lightyear, he is a sad, strange, little man and he has my pity.
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GJ - Buzz Lightyear is your muse? That is alarming. As before, the UOJ law-mongers have nothing to offer but condemnation. They read minds and judge motives. The graphic below was designed by an active WELS member disgusted with this scandal.

Anonymous said...
Jackson just did another weird diatribe about the make-believe crimes of the WELS. Let's say that half to stuff he says isn't just made up (I've searched for confirmation of a lot of his claims, and it never seems to check out). Isn't human nature always the same across the ages? Isn't the Church always infected with sin?

The title of the blog is telling "the glory has departed." What glory? The "good old days" were never around. People in the old days just covered things up better! Jackson endlessly complains about human nature being human nature. How can anyone who believes in the doctrine of original sin be surprised by human wickedness. All you can do is try to restrain the effects of sin- something it seems to me the WELS has done in this case.

Lastly, what's this about?:

"WELS still denies the fact that two men murdered their wives."

I can't find any press release denying this (hence they never officially have denied this, it appears)- neither can I find any news stories on the internet that talks about this.

Whenever he's challenged, he says he has his "sources"- sorry if I'm a little skeptical! Am I supposed to just take his word for it?

Ok, so you're obviously filled with psychotic rage on a daily basis, you have a grudge against the WELS, and none of the charges you make against the leadership can be verified. But I'll just take your word for it! Right....
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GJ - Please fill us in about what has not been proven, linked, quoted, etc. In fact, your deceit is unproven, unsupported. A WELS pastor said, "Everything I have checked, whenever the information was available, has proven to be true."
Your ignorance of the Bible and Lutheran doctrine is appalling. The glory is the peculiar glory of the Means of Grace. Ichabod is a Biblical term, not one based on nostalgia about one particular sect.
Psychotic rage is a good description of Tim Glende and Company. He posted captioned photos of WELS members eating cat feces from a toilet, and he named those people. Several of us saved those photos for evidence. That blog disappeared, but nothing really vanishes from the Net.
Books created through Bethany Lutheran Church have gone all over the world, hundreds of them given away. NPH has a friendly relationship with me. I review NPH books and the official WELS publishing house sells Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant.
We are all waiting to see what Glende and Ski have contributed, not including hundreds of sermons they have stolen--without credit--from Craig Groeschel.
Covering up and trivializing this heinous crime is the clearest possible proof of the cruelty, self-centeredness, and blindness of WELS.


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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Does Tim Glende Really Want To Lead the Defense of...":

Once again, it is time to put the flak jackets back on, fellow Ichabodians. We are right above the target and drawing fire from the enemy. The head out of the gutter comment is a cheap shot. The synod minders will always carry water for the crowd that they run with.

WELS Watergate? Waterloo?
Or Another Tabor, Just, Werner, Zerbe Cover-Up?



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It sort of makes one wonder if this will become the Watergate of the WELS. It was not the break-in that was the big crime in the Watergate Scandal. It was the cover-up which followed that was the bigger crime. In a play of words, maybe this will become the Waterloo of the WELS, but I doubt it.

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GJ - The financial cost will be great. Shortly after some of the scandals, the insurance companies insisted on clearing employees of sexual crime records before they would cover the congregations in abuse cases. I heard that DP Robert Mueller, who considered himself above the law and immune to the Ten Commandments, was resentful about the burden imposed on him.

Why should an insurance company charge a low premium in good faith when the District President, in bad faith, moves around a sex offender? The sex offenders often re-offend, as Hochmuth did, and UOJ makes matters worse.

Does Tim Glende Really Want
To Lead the Defense of WELS
In the Joel Hochmuth Man-Boy Love Scandal?

Glende's assistant and perp school buddy, Ski,
posed with this Playboy model and posted it in his Facebook albums.
As everyone knows, Hefner is an advocate for pan-sexuality.
Glende and Ski also posted well known snaps with Katy Perry.

Tim Glende's Fake Ichabod blog:

Jackson and his ilk will try all they want to discredit the WELS in connection with Joel Hochmuth's arrest. But WELS has handled the situation well. We pray for all the child victims of such pornography. We also pray for Mr. Hochmuth, that he specifically come to repentance over his sins. 


And one other thing. Greg Jackson, get your head out of the gutter.

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A $20,000 bond has been ordered for a Lutheran church leader charged with possessing hundreds of images of child pornography. 52-year-old Joel Hochmuth is due back in Waukesha County Circuit Court December 16th. A judge will decide whether there’s enough evidence to put him on trial for three felony count of child porn possession. Hochmuth is the communications director for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. According to prosecutors, he admitted being addicted to watching porn videos of young males – and after his wife caught him doing it, the couple went to get counseling. Authorities said they seized several hundred images from his home computer, plus 310 photos and 38 videos from his office computer. Synod president Mark Schroeder says the church is “shocked and devastated” by Hochmuth’s arrest. He’s being suspended, and the church is reviewing his employment status.

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GJ - "But WELS handled the situation well." The crime itself is so appalling that I have resisted putting verbatim quotations from the Criminal Complaint on the blog. Grown men are depicted raping little boys.

In 2009, Hochmuth and SP Schroeder put their names on a statement, still being posted, about how terrible ELCA was to endorse homosexuality.


Classic NIV Romans 1:27-32 
In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

SP Schroeder's latest venture in protecting the WELS brand was to claim the MLC gay video was done deliberately to mock homosexuality. He demanded and got an apology from Herman Otten, ever anxious to please all synod officials. Previously, the MLC boys claimed they did not know they were plagiarizing--frame by frame--a popular video filmed at Fire Island. They withdrew the video from YouTube, then had it reposted again twice - on YouTube and Facebook.

WELS has spent decades normalizing perverse behavior, such as having the freshmen at NWC pretend to have anal intercourse with the Sprinter statue (now at MLC). That was part of their hazing ritual. Scandals with church workers and children have been covered up, time after time.

This crime happened on synod property. The ovine members and pastors will let it go away, like all the other crimes of the past. WELS still denies the fact that two men murdered their wives. But the more they praise themselves for "how they handled it," the worse it will get. Massive resignations or firings normally follow this kind of debacle. Covering up leads to worse crimes, as recent history has shown.

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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Does Tim Glende Really Want To Lead the Defense of...":

That's the typical WELS attitude the Fake Ichabod is displaying--that to talk about any news that puts the WELS in bad light is evil, and those who discuss it have their head in the gutter. This Pietist "head buried in the sand" attitude is how Stephan could get away with his public sins for years.

So the victims of child pornography get one WELS press release, and that's supposed to be the end of the discussion in the minds of many WELS members, especially those on the WELS payroll. Ha! I hope the discussion goes on a lot longer.

Fake Ichabod: "And one other thing. Greg Jackson, get your head out of the gutter."

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GJ - Tim Glende and Ski like to pose with pornography stars while ordering me not to cover their pornographic synod activities.

The last stage of Pietism is hedonistic atheism.

Pope Paul the Unlearned Grieves for Father Neuhaus.
The Apostate Moment


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McCain is acting as a gatekeeper for the LCMS. Make that, for Harrison. He let his Romish sympathies show when he fawned all over Father Richard John Neuhaus postmortem. The fact that in rejecting Justification by Faith Alone Neuhaus cursed Christ didn't keep McCain from saying, "I felt Richard John brought to the Romanism he embraced a hearty and full measure of the joyful Gospel rediscovery of Martin Luther, for which I am grateful."

Really?! A full measure of the Gospel? RCC's official doctrine states that if anyone thinks they are justified by faith in Christ alone they are damned to Hell. If anyone doesn't accept the Pope as Christ on earth they are damned to Hell. That's the RCC gospel.

McCain continues, "He [Neuhaus] opened several doors for me while I served The LCMS President, making it possible for LCMS leadership to make direct contact with the Vatican, when ELCA leaders were intent on cutting us out of formal conversation with Rome. Father Neuhaus was able to make direct personal appeal to Pope John Paul which led to direct contacts with Cardinal Ratzinger, with the result that the The LCMS was again given a place at the table of discussion and dialog with Rome, and most importantly, a point sadly lost on some,..."

http://cyberbrethren.com/2009/01/08/a-grief-observed-richard-john-neuhaus-1936-2009/  

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More Neuhaus hagiography


Father Richard John Neuhaus,
LCMS, AELC, LCA, Church of Rome.

Homily, Neuhaus funeral
"Tonight the risen Christ is offered in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the soul of Richard John Neuhaus, and many gathered here discern Christ more clearly because of how we discerned him in Richard. Christ’s Eucharist is death and resurrection together."

Neuhaus gushed:
"The Catholic Moment
In 1987, while I was still a Lutheran, I published a book titled The Catholic Moment: The Paradox of the Church in the Postmodern World. There I argued that the Catholic Church is the leading and indispensable community in advancing the Christian movement in world history. In evangelization, in furthering the Christian intellectual tradition, in the quest for Christian unity, in advocating the culture of life, and in every other aspect of the Christian mission, this was, I contended, the Catholic Moment. I am frequently asked whether I still believe that, or whether the Moment has been missed, or derailed, or simply delayed. The short answer is: If the Catholic Church is what she claims to be — and about that I have no doubt — then every moment from Pentecost to Our Lord’s return in glory is the Catholic Moment. But the degree to which that Moment is realized in the little span of time that is ours depends on whether contemporary Catholicism has the nerve to be fully and distinctively Catholic."

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GJ - I corresponded with Neuhaus for a number of years and met him at the Ad Fontes conference, just before he became a priest. LCA President Crumley was at the conference, too, and seemed to be trying to argue Neuhaus out of the decision (my interpretation - I didn't eavesdrop).

After Neuhaus made his change public, I wrote him a letter suggesting he work his way into the papacy, study the issues, and announce to the world, infallibly, that Luther had been right all along. He demurred.

He sinuflected to Rome, preparing many of his friends to follow after him - and they did.

I see the same process going on today in the LCMS. Robert Preus wrote Justification and Rome to halt the spread of Romanism at Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne.

The Neuhaus funeral is noteworth. They offered a Mass for his soul, which means they were doing a good work to reduce his time (and theirs!) in Purgatory. I doubt whether an apostate could have a more significant symbol of his betrayal of the Gospel - a conservative Lutheran pastor buried as a Catholic priest, with a Mass offered for his soul suffering in Purgatory.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Christian News: GOD'S GIFT TO MANKIND -- MARRIAGE

Christian News: GOD'S GIFT TO MANKIND -- MARRIAGE:


"GOD’S GIFT TO MANKIND—MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A CHRISTIAN WOMAN
Preserving the Christian Home
By Mrs. Dorthy Preus
"

bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "UOJ Law Salesmen Work over Rolf Preus. Paul McCain...":

Otten has a new book on marriage with a foreword by Rolf Preus's wife:

GOD’S GIFT TO MANKIND—MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF A CHRISTIAN WOMAN
Preserving the Christian Home
By Mrs. Dorthy Preus

Christian News, December 5, 2011, Vol. 49, No. 46

http://christiannewsmo.blogspot.com/2011/12/gods-gift-to-mankind-marriage.html  

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Luther Rocks - Advent Medley

Posting hymns will give the Appleton Dumpling Gang
nothing to complain about.


Advent Medley 12-3-11 by TrumpetJoe



Luther Rocks:



Advent Medley 12-3-11 by TrumpetJoe

"On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry"
by Charles Coffin, 1676-1749
Translated by John Chandler, 1806-1876 (Stanzas 1-3)
Translated by unknown author, (Stanzas 4-5)

1. On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Announces that the Lord is nigh;
Come, then, and hearken, for he brings
Glad tidings from the King of kings.

2. Then cleansed by every Christian breast
And furnished for so great a Guest.
Yea, let us each our hearts prepare
For Christ to come and enter there.

3. For Thou art our Salvation, Lord,
Our Refuge, and our great Reward.
Without Thy grace our souls must fade
And wither like a flower decayed.

4. Lay on the sick Thy healing hand
And make the fallen strong to stand;
Show us the glory of Thy face
Till beauty springs in every place.

5. All praise, eternal Son, to Thee
Who advent sets Thy people free,
Whom, with the Father, we adore
And Holy Ghost forevermore.

"Hark the Glad Sound! The Savior Comes"
by Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751

1. Hark the glad sound! The Savior comes,
The Savior promised long;
Let every heart prepare a throne
And every voice a song.

2. He comes the prisoners to release,
In Satan's bondage held.
The gates of brass before Him burst,
The iron fetters yield.

3. He comes from thickest films of vice
To clear the mental ray
And on the eyeballs of the blind
To pour celestial day.

4. He comes the broken heart to bind,
The bleeding soul to cure,
And with the treasures of His grace
To enrich the humble poor.

5. Our glad hosannas, Prince of Peace,
Thy welcome shall proclaim
And heaven's eternal arches ring
With Thy beloved name.
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GJ - Look for these in the hymn list on the left, alphabetized as Krohn Trumpet, so you find them together. Yes,  I know he did not compose the melodies. I did that for my convenience, not for the musicologists and hymnal fundamentalists.

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