Saturday, February 25, 2012

Thrivent Insurance Business:
Their Support of ELCA, WELS, LCMS in 2002.
Thrivent Is No Longer Lutheran, By Design

Mark Jeske is not just LCMS-WELS,
but also a financial supporter and co-worker with ELCA,
the Salvation Army, and Habitat for Humanity.
He now serves on the Board of Directors of Thrivent,
for great justice.


2002 Thrivent three-synod support:


Thrivent regularly donates large sums of money directly to Lutheran synods, as well as to their colleges, seminaries, and elementary schools. It often provides "matching funds" for local congregational fundraising efforts. In 2002,  


  • WELS received $7.8 million in grants and matching funds from Thrivent. 
  • The LCMS received $41.9 million that year, 
  • and the ELCA received $46.4 million. 
  • Another $2.1 million went to "Inter-Lutheran and Independent Causes."




Willow Creek Pastor, Andy Stanley Follower John Parlow was in this issue of the Thrivent magazine.



The CLC (sic) does not admit this, but they have congregations involved in Thrivent, too. They play the same game as their big sisters - denouncing what they do themselves. And that tiny fragment of legalism and corruption punishes people who point out that fact, such as Pastor Wehrwein being removed (on the spot) during a meeting about this particular issue, because Immanual in Mankato was loud and proud about their Thrivent participation.



I estimate that WELS, LCMS, ELS, and CLC (sic) members contribute heavily toward the $100 million a year that ELCA receives currently from Thrivent. That figure could be higher or lower. Exact numbers can be obtained from Thrivent in Appleton, where the Fox Valley WELS congregations embarrass all Christians.


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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Thrivent Insurance Business: Their Support of ELC...":

New World Order’s United Religions Initiative is supported by Thrivent and all Lutheran Synods.

Bishop William Swing wants a U.N. for religions

At 74, William Swing, born and reared in Huntington, W.Va., is hardly letting up. His latest endeavor is nothing less than uniting the religions of the world.

"I said, 'Sure,' and went to bed that night thinking the nations of the world have met every day for 50 years, yet the religions of the world have not spoken. So I figured if there is a United Nations, there has to be a United Religions."

Charles Gibbs, an Episcopal priest who serves as the initiative's executive director, said, "Even though I was born and raised in the Episcopal Church, I never believed Christianity was the only answer. Religions do a lot of good, and evoke the absolute best in people. But extremism happens when religions claim to have the unique path to the Ultimate."

http://www.uri.org/files/static_page_files/SF%20Chron%20Swing%20profile%2012.26.2010.pdf

The Lutheran Malaria Initiative is a partnership of Lutheran World Relief and The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod to mobilize U.S. Lutherans in the global effort to eliminate malaria deaths in Africa by 2015. LMI is made possible through support from the United Nations Foundation.
http://www.lcms.org/page.aspx?pid=760

The United Nations worships Satan as their god – the god of this world. Those who work with the UN worship the same god.
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/12/green-bay-packers-gospel.html?showComment=1323235551306#c7196335469872944652

Comments from Brett Meyer.
And Also from Joe Krohn



Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Another UOJ Fan and Daily Ichabod Communicant":

Too funny. Mr. Pierce - Wayne Mueller outed the UOJists just as Hochmuth did with the (W)ELS and Christian News and others have done with the LCMS.

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/02/missing-pixelation-message-on-steadfast.html

http://waukesha.patch.com/articles/police-arrest-wels-communications-director-for-child-porn

http://christiannewsmo.blogspot.com/2010/10/lcms-professors-allowed-to-defend.html

http://meansofgrace.0catch.com/metrolutheran.htm


http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=2023

"A big part of the pansexual agenda within the LCMS is that the homosexual agenda is promoted by LCMS NID and Wheatridge."

http://www.roguelutheran.com/RL/Home/Entries/2011/4/13_LGBTQueer_Affair_at_Concordia_Chicago-Wheat_Ridge_(RSO)_and_the_LCMS_NID_Sowed_Tares___No_Big_Mystery_Here.html 

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "A Right Stroh-y (Strawy) Epistle":

2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

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LutherRocks has left a new comment on your post "Another UOJ Fan and Daily Ichabod Communicant":

The problem with Jim's analogy (not Jim, mind you) is a person doesn't go to the grocery store to stand in line to read those rags. The magazines happen to be there while you wait to check out because you came for something else. In fact, you don't even have to pick them up and read them.

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A Right Stroh-y (Strawy) Epistle



AC V has left a new comment on your post "Bruce Becker Replaced Randy Hunter at Mark Jeske's...":

What pastor in his right mind would hire Crossroads Consulting Ministry (sic) to "help" his church grow when Sir Elton Stroh says this is the #1 "unanimous theme" of a "turnaround" church:

A new pastor (whose leadership, gifts, personality, energy, philosophy, and style set the pace)

Stroh asks, "Is it time for Crossroads at your church?"

The tag ought to read:

"Crossroads Consulting Ministry (sic) - setting the bar so high for pastors that they'll never meet up to parish and synod expectations."

http://www.timeforcrossroads.com/home/2361/3623/docs/Turnaround%20Churches.pdf

Dr. Lito Cruz Is Correct:
We Want the UOJ Enthusiasts
To Crawl Out of Their Thrivent Bunkers

An editor of the Book of Concord can teach the wayward UOJ crowd
about justification by faith.


LPC has left a new comment on your post "Bruce Becker Replaced Randy Hunter at Mark Jeske's...":

Let us face it despite the pleadings of McCain and Kilcrease for their fellow UOJers to stay away from solafideists such as Ichabod, UOJers can not help but read it.

This is the difference between Jackson and the McCain-Kilcrease style of operating: whereas the latter blatantly cajole their cult members to stay away from solafideists, Jackson never enjoined solafideists to stop reading UOJ blogs.

It looks like UOJ leaders are afraid their people one day might get hit by the truth.

Here is another thing, Team JBFA have no need to disallow or ban any commentator. I certainly do not moderate my blog, except for comments containing profanity. Team JBFA do not need a moderator to step in and save one of their "holy" men from challenging questions. Firstly because JBFAers have no "holy" men that need saving. Secondly they have been honed by their own study of the issues themselves, their position is not something they arrived at without much examination and deliberation. Lastly they were former UOJers themselves,* they've been there done that and spat the dummy and returned the T-shirt.

LPC



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GJ - *Many Lutherans are like me in never knowing what the actual UOJ message was, so we did not believe in the UOJ dogma. There is not a speck of UOJ in the Gausewitz catechism, which was almost universally used in WELS and also used in Missouri and the ELS. I thought they meant OJ was the atonement, not the absolution of the world.

The UOJ Stormtroopers are upset that their Death Star is being attacked by little JFBA tie-fighters. The battle has brought out the hidden exegesis, pass-words, and secret signs of the UOJ lobby. Their stealth mode has been foiled.


Another UOJ Fan and Daily Ichabod Communicant


Jim Pierce has left a new comment on your post "Bruce Becker Replaced Randy Hunter at Mark Jeske's...":

Dr. Jackson,

One thing I sort of like about reading your blog is that it is very much like reading the National Enquirer in a check-out line when purchasing items. It's the sort of reading one is happy to glance at, but one is even more happy not to buy and take home. Thank you for showing Lutherans what a internet gossip rag looks like.


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GJ - Jim, I appreciate the chance to show what UOJ Enthusiasts think and say. It reminded me of something I laughed about with the Shraders' sons. We thought it was funny to say, "I covet your prayers." One of the brothers said, "Why combine a sin with something pious?"

Your thankfulness, Jim, has the same ring. Yes, your thankfulness has a certain ring, as Gandalf would say.