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.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
The Lutheran Hymnal, #518.
If Thou But Suffer God To Guide Thee
Luther said it is good when men disappoint and betray us, because that teaches us to trust in God's Word alone.
The PR specialists who have been teaching people to worship Holy Mother Sect have only succeeded in driving members away while lining their own pockets. They have no qualms about scattering and slaughtering the sheep.
Nevertheless, it is good when nominal Lutherans shock us with their greed, malice, and apostasy. We are easily lulled into somnolence, so these shocks awake us to Luther, the Confessions, and faithful translations of the Scriptures.