Monday, January 23, 2012

Notes from All Over Lutherdom


At MLC for "evangelism day" there will be drums and guitars and stuff. This is the future of WELS education, teaching that evangelism is a rock band.


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2138 has left a new comment on your post "Coffee Is For Closers":

"Update on Time of Grace: The praesidium of the Southeastern Wisconsin District provided a report to the Conference of Presidents describing its efforts to resolve questions involving the status of Time of Grace as a 'Recognized Service Organization' of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. While considerable progress has been made, the matter has not yet been fully resolved, and the Southeastern Wisconsin District Praesidium will continue its efforts to bring about a resolution." (MI District President’s Report p. 4, January 16, 2012, emphasis mine)

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"We love Jesus, yes we do,
We will excommunicate you."


Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Coffee Is For Closers":

Impotent or complicit - one or the other.

Compare how they deal with Tim Glende and 'Change or Die' Jeske to how they dealt with the Krohns who faithfully upheld Christ's doctrine of Justification. Glende and Jeske - we're working on it. Krohns - excommunicated!

GJ - Or Rick Techlin. Rick, laity, and pastors tried to deal with doctrinal issues in the Anything Goes District. The result was that Tim Glende (who has a passion for Jesus) and Ski and Depitty Doug (who skipped the meeting) kiked Rick out, with no appeal.

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bruce-church (http://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Seminarian Pursues Heavy Metal and Heavenly Messag...":

This may signal the Mega-Death of the SMP program--maybe. Either that, or one seminary will get the chop. I can't imagine this will go down good in many quarters in the LCMS. Then again.

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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Coffee Is For Closers":

Bruce,

That is an informative piece.


Note that Buddhism does have an answer to suffering, it is called selfishness of man, but Buddha advocated that in order to rid of one's selfishness, he needs to be nothing, and he can do that by meditating. He advocated self salvation.

So I can buy into the piece's arguments, it is plausible the reason why Jobs became Buddhist.

I can see how LCMS can wiggle itself out of this, because all they have to do is pooh pooh Jobs and say he was an evil self serving man, that is, if Issues Etc broadcast is to be taken as a guide. They talked about him in one of their broadcasts and that seemed to be the theme.

LPC

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AC V has left a new comment on your post "Let Us Prey - WELS Prayer Warriors Sound Just Like...":

"...have at least one specific prayer ministry in his/her congregation."

That would be the Divine Service, would it not? We all qualify!

What? The Divine Service isn't good enough? It's not good enough to pray for Synod in the Prayer of the Church? We've got to do more...more...more before prayer is effective?

What's that buzzing sound I hear? Enthusiasm!

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WELS church lady has left a new comment on your post "Let Us Prey - WELS Prayer Warriors Sound Just Like...":

Retitle this post as "The Hall of Shame." It is the "usual" suspects every time! No, it cannot be understood correctly and I will not put the best construction on it. Remember CHARIS? It was part of Church and Change. Bruce Eberle started CHARIS. Mr. Eberle is big-time buddies with Mark Jeske and was a part of the group that started Time Of Grace. Eberle raises money for all those neo-cons in Washington. He is the owner of the Paula Jones, Stacy Koon(Rodney King officer), and other Defense Funds. Another Time Of Grace partner is Tom Baxter. Baxter was(still is?) the Pentagon's Television Division Chief.

The same "usual suspects" are also the ones trying to push for the NNIV 2011.(Though you could add and subtract a few names.) This so-called translation is a fraud. This is a money changing scam in its ugliest form. Neo-con friend Rupert Murdoch will reap the rewards from all the sales. Murdoch is not who he claimes to be...but I will provide Pastor Jackson with personal updates.

Look, Kelm, Parlow, and Doebbler have been proven long ago to be copy-cats. Enough-is-Enough! It is time to throw the money-changers out of the temple. Furthermore, I want the government to stay out of my church. Take a stand, do not except that apostate NNIV 2011. I thank Pastor GJ for all the tremendeous work that he does on this blog. I thank the many pastors in the synod that preach the Word in its purity. These same pastors also promote the Lutheran Confessions. These "suspects" are the same ones on the anti-Time Of Grace Memorial and the opposition to the pasages of the NNIV 2011.(*with a very small margin of error among the names)

In Christ,
Rebecca

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Let Us Prey - WELS Prayer Warriors Sound Just Like...":

Enthusiasm?...

"One prayer at a time, the WELS Prayer Institute is working to “turn up the volume on the voice of prayer in the body of Christ”—motivated purely by the gospel of Christ."
http://www.wels.net/news-events/forward-in-christ/november-2007/encouraging-prayer

"We encourage you to spend about 30 minutes per week in praying through this list (or some type of systematic praying)."
http://pray24-7.org/?page_id=25

"The WELS PRAYER NETWORK (WPN) is not an official organization of the WELS . WPN was introduced in November 2004 as another ministry “spun off” from Church and Change, an informal gathering of WELS pastors, teachers, staff ministers and lay leaders"
http://pray24-7.org/?page_id=51

“…True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.” C. H. Spurgeon
http://pray24-7.org/?page_id=27

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What?!


AC V has left a new comment on your post "Let Us Prey - WELS Prayer Warriors Sound Just Like...":

Resources

Here is a list of solid Biblical resources on the subject of prayer. Why not learn more about this powerful gift?

Books on Prayer

Due to the high volume of materials published by a variety of people and denominations, some of the teachings in some of these books may not reflect the doctrinal teaching of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

But we're not going to point out what these false teachings are or where they are located.

Wonderful pastoral care for the WELS masses!

http://pray24-7.org/?page_id=27

Headliners - Lutherans Concerned, North America

Headliners:
hanson60
"Brett, this is my straight outfit."



The Rev. Mark S. Hanson


Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Mark S. Hanson will deliver the keynote address to the assembly, following the opening worship on Saturday, July 7, 2012.  This is the first time a presiding bishop of any denomination has delivered the keynote address at our assembly.

Mark S. Hanson has served as presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America since 2001. He was elected to a second six-year term in 2007. From 2003 until 2010, he was president of The Lutheran World Federation. He has traveled widely throughout the world, sharing a confident hope in God's promises and a vision of the joyful freedom in Christian community and mission.


Bible Study Leader
The Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber


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"Nadia Bolz-Weber has probably done more than any other pastor in recent times to poke therapeutic fun at the misdemeanors and flaws of overly-churched Christianity and Christians. The passion behind her words, however, is as deeply pastoral as it is God-drenched and liberating....thus the affection as well as the respect that attend her and her work wherever she goes."

- Phylis Tickle author of "The Great Emergence"

Nadia Bolz-Weber is the founding pastor of House for All Sinners and Saints, an ELCA mission church in Denver, Colorado. She's a leading voice in the emerging church movement and her writing can be found in The Christian Century and Jim Wallis' God's Politics blog. She is author of "Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television"  (Seabury 2008) and the Sarcastic Lutheran blog.



'via Blog this'

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Aug. 21, 2009

Contact: Joel Hochmuth
Director of Communications
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
joel.hochmuth@wels.net


WELS president expresses regret at ELCA decision on gay clergy
Milwaukee, Wis.—Rev. Mark Schroeder, president of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), is expressing regret at the vote of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) convention regarding homosexual clergy. Friday, delegates approved a resolution committing the church to find a way for “people in such publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships”  to serve as professional leaders of the church.

“To view same-sex relationships as acceptable to God is to place cultural viewpoint and human opinions above the clear Word of God,” says Schroeder. “The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, along with The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod, and other smaller Lutheran synods, maintains and upholds the clear teaching of the Bible that homosexuality is not in keeping with God’s design and is sinful in God’s eyes.”

At the same time, Schroeder says WELS congregations stand ready to support those struggling with same-sex attractions. “As with any sin, it is the church’s responsibility to show love and compassion to sinners, not by condoning or justifying the sin, but by calling the sinner to repent and by assuring the sinner that there is full forgiveness in Jesus Christ,” Schroeder says.

WELS, with about 390,000 members and nearly 1,300 congregations nationwide, is the third largest Lutheran church body in the United States. In Wisconsin alone, there are more than 201,000 members and 417 congregations. “It’s unfortunate that many headlines have referred to the recent decisions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as something ‘Lutherans’ have decided,”  Schroeder says. “In fact, the ELCA is only one of many Lutheran denominations. We are saddened that a group with the name Lutheran would take another decisive step away from the clear teaching of the Bible, which was the foundation of the Lutheran Reformation.”

Schroeder says that WELS is firmly committed to upholding God’s design for marriage as outlined in Scripture—a design intended for one man and one woman. “We believe, and the Bible teaches, that God designed this relationship to be a blessing for men and women and for society. Any departure from what God himself has designed does two things: it denies the clear teachings of Scriptures and it undermines God’s desire that the man/woman relationship in marriage be a blessing.”

Bring Back the Martin Luther College version of Party in the USA

UOJ Nastiness Continues Unabated After Faux-Apology


Not long ago Paul McCain, Harrison's campaign manager, apologized to Norman Teigen.

The Missouri Synod and CPH did not seem to like the alternative to the public apology.

But I have noted before that UOJ Enthusiasts are known for their nastiness, and McCain is no slacker in that area.

On LutherQuest he is attacking people the way he did on the ALPB Forum (which kicked him out after a time-out or two). Here is McCain with one gratuitious comment:

"Jojakim, it appears that you intend your postings to elicit an emotional reaction. You need to stop. It is unhealthy to bait people to emotionally react."

Here is how McCain pretends to be pro-life:

"Richard Strickert, please post here documentation of your personal involvement in the pro-life movement, the articles you've written, the groups you have supported, the crisis pregnancy centers you have financially supported, your history of action and activity in defense of life. I'd be curious to know if you actually have done anything, as opposed to writing blustery messages on Internet forums.

I'll look forward to receiving the documentation of your activities, posted here for us to evaluate whether you do more than talk the talk."


Again, from McCain:

"Sharlene, well said. But, I again I ask Strckert to provide proof that he has done more than postulate. Rick, please share. I will be more than happy to be corrected."

But McCain/Barry had no trouble working with ELCA, a sect that lobbies for abortion on demand, pays for abortion through its own health insurance. McCain still works closely with the pan-religious, pro-abortion Thrivent Insurance company.


Let Us Prey - WELS Prayer Warriors Sound Just Like
WELS Church and Change!




WELS Prayer Network Board of Directors

Aderman is a founder of WELS Church and Change,
but Church and Change went away.
Right? Right?
Jim Aderman (Sharon)
121 N. 66th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53213-4041
(414) 475-5096
Office (414)771-2530
Cell: 414-403-6224

When Bruce Becker's job was eliminated at The Love Shack,
Mark and Avoid Jeske hired him the next day.

Bruce Becker (Linda)
4172 Hidden Creek Road
Jackson, WI 53037-9114
(262) 677-0058
Office (414)  562-8463
bbecker@timeofgrace.org
Matt plagiarizes sermons, promotes awful rock music in church,
and advertises Easter worship with live bunnies.
Easter is all about bunnies and gimmicks.

Matt Doebler (Chris)
1316 Quicksilver Street
Round Rock TX 78664-1118
(512) 470-4078
Office (512) 470-2133

Reg Draheim (Jan)
1096 Reed Street
Green Bay, WI 54303-3064
(920) 499-8551
Office (920) 497-1000

Robert Gurgel (Judith)
2611 S. Kinnickinnic
Milwaukee, WI 53207-2101
(414) 281- 4649
Office (414) 483-9122
 
Paul Kelm (Lynne)
4412 Magna Vista Drive
Jackson, WI 53037
(262) 674-1232
 
Dan Witte
664 Jefferson Street
Crete, Il  60417
(708) 672-0633
The torch of Enthusiasm passes
from John Lawrenz to Steve Witte,
new president of the WELS porta-sem.

Steve Witte (Mary)
Unit A 3/F   6 Nassau St.
Mei Foo Sun CHUEN Lai Chi Kok
Kowloon, Hong Kong
slw@als.org.hk

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Prayer Warrior Churches

“And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.” (Ephesians 6:18)
Criteria:  These churches have at least one Church and Change person designated as their Prayer Leader who along with the Pastor is willing to receive information from WPN and will pray at least once a week for Synod ministries or have at least one specific prayer ministry in his/her congregation. 
St. Mark’s, Green Bay , WI 
Beautiful Savior, Green Bay , WI 
Good Shepherd’s, West Allis , WI 
St. John’s , Lannon , WI
St. Marcus, Milwaukee , WI 
Grace (Downtown), Milwaukee , WI 
St. Andrew, Milwaukee , WI
Centennial, Milwaukee , WI
St. John’s (Howell), Oak Creek , WI 
St. Andrew, Middleton , WI 
Trinity, Crete , IL 
Bethlehem , Oshkosh , WI
Fairview , Milwaukee , WI 
Immanuel, Medford , WI
St. Paul ‘s, Onalaska , WI 
Sola Fide, Lawrenceville , GA 
St. Johns , New Ulm, MN
Risen Savior, Orlando , FL 
St. John ’s , Burlington , WI  
St. John ’s , Jefferson , WI
Grace, St. Joseph ’s, MI
St. Peters , Mishicot , WI
St. John , Maribel , WI 
Immanuel, Black Creek , WI 
St. Paul , Fort Atkinson , WI 
St. John ’s , Wauwatosa , WI 
St. John ’s (68th), Milwaukee , WI
Prilgrim, Minneapolis , MN
Grace, Portland . OR
Martin Luther, St. Louis , MO
Lamb of God – Madison , AL
St. Paul ’s. Muskego , WI 
Bethany, Port Orchard, WA