Versions of Beautiful Savior - Thanks to FB Friend Iggy Antiochus

Beautiful Savior, King of Creation,
Son of God and Son of Man!
Truly I'd love Thee, truly I'd serve Thee,
Light of my soul, my joy, my crown.

Fair are the meadows,
Fair are the woodlands,
Robed in flowers of blooming spring;
Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer;
He makes our sorrowing spirit sing.

Fair is the sunshine,
Fair is the moonlight,
Bright the sparkling stars on high;
Jesus shines brighter, Jesus shines purer,
Than all the angels in the sky.

Beautiful Savior, Lord of the nations,
Son of God and Son of Man!
Glory and honor, praise, adoration,
Now and forevermore be Thine!

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IggyAntiochus has left a new comment on your post "Versions of Beautiful Savior - Thanks to FB Friend...":

You're very welcome, Gregory! :)

Trinity Broadcasting Network - Expose

Jan Crouch

One of my Facebook friends has written about Paul and Jan Crouch, so I asked him for information about the book.

http://www.newdiscernment.org/

Rev. Bob Liichow Hi brother Gregory. If you'd like to tell folks about my book "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About TBN* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) --- they can order a copy for a mere $25.00 in full color, 8.5 X 11 book, professionally done. You can direct them to send me an email at Bliichow@juno.com or simply send a donation to us via PayPal through our website ---www.newdiscernment.org. Thanks and God bless!

http://discernmentministriesinternational.wordpress.com/

West Hollywood coyboy Paul Crouch.

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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Trinity Broadcasting Network - Expose":

There are many independent ministries with a strong Internet presence that have opposed the Church Growth Movement. Many of them are more knowledgeable and vocal in their opposition than most of today's alleged conservative Lutherans. A few years back, when I was looking for help in finding out about Rick Warren, I ended up printing out a stack of articles about two feet high. It gave me good insight into the flighty nature of the book of the month trend that is prevalent in today's navel gazing American evangelicalism. Conditions have only deteriorated since that time. So much of the laity has been hoodwinked. A member who desires study from the Book of Concord certainly must seem to be an anomaly.


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GJ - The ELCA pastors, led by Tietjen, rebelled against a CG parish being set up in their territory. The insurance project moved to Yorba Linda, flopped, and closed. That was the only Lutheran opposition I saw, except for Richard Neuhaus' speech against it at Ad Fontes. Neuhaus was one of many people I knew whose disgust with Church Growthism translated into Romanism.

I have always been startled by the Evangelicals' slashing, pointed attacks against the Fuller mentality. The so-called conservative Lutherans simply compromise, defend, and promote it.

Buchholz was supposed to be a critic of Church Growth, but he has been a defender of it, a bulwark for Mark Jeske too.

The truly conservative Protestants, who actually believe in the authority of the Word of God, have no use for Fuller Seminary antics, including those spikey-haired goofballs who called themselves Emergent.

That is one thing lacking in the Synodical Conference (tm). Lutherans should be teaching the Means of Grace faithfully and upholding worship and sermon standards. Their lack of faith in the efficacy of the Word shows the world that they are no more than Fuller wannabees, without the spine to admit the truth about their cowardly retreat.

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Trinity Broadcasting Network - Expose":

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/televangelists-accused-of-defrauding-50-million-from-trinity-broadcasting-network/
Their granddaughter, Brittany Koper, recently filed court papers that include allegations of $50 million in financial shenanigans at the world’s largest Christian broadcasting network. Her suit was followed by another from a Koper in-law, who detailed opulent spending at the network on items such as private jets, mansions in California, Tennessee and Florida and a $100,000 mobile home for Jan Crouch’s dogs.

(W)ELS never found the $8,000,000. Who is in a position to explain what happened to eight million dollars of the laity's offerings? I think that qualifies Synod money to be henceforth referred to as Burnt Offerings.

Beautiful Savior, King of Creation

"Beautiful Savior"

by Author Unknown, 1677

Translated by Joseph A. Seiss, 1823-1904

1. Beautiful Savior,

King of Creation,

Son of God and Son of Man!

Truly I'd love Thee,

Truly I'd serve Thee,

Light of my soul, my Joy, my Crown.

2. Fair are the meadows,

Fair are the woodlands,

Robed in flowers of blooming spring;

Jesus is fairer,

Jesus is purer;

He makes our sorrowing spirit sing.

3. Fair is the sunshine,

Fair is the moonlight,

Bright the sparkling stars on high;

Jesus shines brighter,

Jesus shines purer,

Than all the angels in the sky.

4. Beautiful Savior,

Lord of the nations,

Son of God and Son of Man!

Glory and honor,

Praise, adoration,

Now and forevermore be Thine!

The Lutheran Hymnal

Hymn #657 

Text: Ps. 45: 2

Author: unknown, 1677

Translated by: Joseph A. Seiss, 1873

Titled: "Schoenster Herr Jesu"

Tune: "Schoenster Herr Jesu"

1st Published in: "Schlesische Volkslieder"

Town: Leipzig, 1842

Sandusky labeled 'likely pedophile' in 1998 report - TODAY People - TODAY.com

Where is his counselor's report?

Sandusky labeled 'likely pedophile' in 1998 report - TODAY People - TODAY.com:


More than a decade before former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with more than 50 counts of child sex abuse, a psychologist warned university police that his actions fit that of a “likely pedophile’s pattern.”

The finding by State College, Pa., psychologist Dr. Alycia A. Chambers, the therapist for one of Sandusky’s alleged victims, was contained in the internal Penn State files of a 1998 police investigation of the former coach for showering and bear hugging her client and another young boy in the school’s athletic locker room.

The Sandusky Files: Read the 1998 police report
NBC News has obtained the complete file on the investigation – the police report and assessments by two psychologists who interviewed the boys -- which provides new details about Sandusky’s behavior. It also could raise fresh questions about how school and local authorities handled his case.

“There was very little doubt in my mind (Sandusky) … was a male predator, someone that was in the process of grooming a young man for abuse ,” said Chambers, speaking publicly for the first time, with the permission of her client’s family, in an interview with NBC News. “I thought…my report was strong enough to suggest that this was somebody who should be watched.”

The Sandusky Files: Child psychologist's report
Chambers’ detailed report is potentially significant because it was the first clear warning about the former Penn State coach’s actions – nearly four years before a then-graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, reported to the late Coach Joe Paterno and other top school officials that he had found Sandusky in the Penn State showers one evening with another young boy, engaged in what he viewed as sexual contact. (Paterno testified last year he was unaware of the 1998 investigation and Gary Schultz, the former Penn State vice president who oversaw the school police, testified that he never reviewed the details of the case. A Penn State spokesman declined comment, citing pending investigations.)
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In her interview with NBC News, Chambers described her anguish when she was contacted by police last year and learned that authorities were again investigating Sandusky for allegedly molesting multiple other boys, 13 years after she first raised her concerns.
“I was horrified to know that there were so many other innocent boys who had their hearts and minds confused, their bodies violated,” said Chambers. “It’s unspeakable.”


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Robert Fleischmann, Church and Change, WELS.Self-Perpetuating Money Machines

Non-profit organizations are profitable for staff and secretaries.
How many WELS pastors make $80,000 a year, own a huge home, and raise money for the babies?

bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Support Your CEO":

Norm Teigen on Christian Life Resources, Oct 14th, 2007:

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2007/10/norm-teigen-on-christian-life-resources.html

I see the Christian Life Resources as a self-perpetuating organization without any control from a responsible church body. Christian Life Resources endorses an organization called Church and Change.

A pastor in my synod was accused of false doctrine for his stated intention of attending the Church and Chanage conference. The objectee also, apparently, said that the Wisconsin Synod has a false doctrine in its synod in Church and Change.

My suggestion is for the ELS to put Christian Life Resources and Church and Change under the microscope and advise the membership of its results.

Overhead view of Fleischmann home.

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GJ - Accord to John Brug's book, WELS pastors do not have doctrinal problems, so that ELS charge must be false, slanderous, and a violation of Matthew 18.

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Norman Teigen has left a new comment on your post "Robert Fleischmann, Church and Change, WELS.Self-P...":

Well, I had nearly forgotten about CLR. The ELS promotes this organization and I don't. I think that CLR must be hurting financially because its income is based on the discretionary spending capabilities of its adherents. With discretionary income reduced for individuals by the current economic condition, CLR will probably be experiencing a dip in income. The arguments based by CLR for its own existence are thin and poorly reasoned. The issues presented by CLR and its adherents would bind the consciences of the faithful to a secular and political agenda.

Another Eructation from Dork-o-Blog

Doctrinal DNA reveals that UOJ is indeed the father of Church Growth.

Anonymous said...
A little off topic.

Barf alert: original photo of Katy Perry,
Tim Glende's and Ski's trophy FB girl.

These are humiliating scenarios: two middle-aged, married pastors, posing with a barely dressed tart.
The photos are original, except for a little background font work.
You will see it in a minute.

I find his obsession with finding out who is running this site fascinating. Of course, he's thrown out his theories from time to time and seems to be sticking by his guess that it is Tim Glende right now. He acts as if it were a high crime that he's being criticized anonymously. Of course, the criticism of him and his teaching that is done here is mild in comparison to the daily, vicious rants that he posts against anyone who disagrees with him. I, for one, don't find it amazing that this site is run anonymously. I mean, who wants to have their face photoshopped into humiliating scenarios everyday on a a poorly written blog?

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Original photo posted in Facebook - Holy Word staff:
humiliating - for Holy Word.

GJ - Paul McCain and Jack Kilcrease--his Catholic theology expert--asked for Photoshops. McCain said he enjoyed them, and Kilcrease made suggestions for some.

Tim's specialty is scatology, which his buddies never decried because it is their style too.

Many readers enjoy the graphics, and four have contributed their own.

I notice that the party-boys of Appleton cannot produce anything positive on their blog. They simply repeat the same things, which only makes it easier to create more satire.

It is so appropriate that The CORE bought a bar, an ugly one at that. They did not belong in a former Lutheran church building. The movie theater was appropriate, especially since they initiated it by showing The Wizard of Oz.

"You dare offend the great and terrible Oz!?"

A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth

"A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth"
by Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676

1. A Lamb goes uncomplaining forth,
The guilt of all men bearing;
And laden with the sins of earth,
None else the burden sharing!
Goes patient on, grow weak and faint,
To slaughter led without complaint,
That spotless life to offer;
Bears shame and stripes, and wounds and death,
Anguish and mockery, and saith,
"Willing all this I suffer."

2. This Lamb is Christ, the soul's great Friend,
The Lamb of God, our Savior;
Him God the Father chose to send
To gain for us His favor.
"Go forth, My Son," the Father saith,
"And free men from the fear of death,
From guilt and condemnation.
The wrath and stripes are hard to bear,
But by Thy Passion men shall share
The fruit of Thy salvation."

3. "Yea, Father, yea, most willingly
I'll bear what Thou commandest;
My will conforms to Thy decree,
I do what Thou demandest."
O wondrous Love, what hast Thou done!
The Father offers up His Son!
The Son, content, descendeth!
O Love, how strong Thou art to save!
Thou beddest Him within the grave
Whose word the mountains rendeth.

4. From morn till eve my theme shall be
Thy mercy's wondrous measure;
To sacrifice myself for Thee
Shall be my aim and pleasure.
My stream of life shall ever be
A current flowing ceaselessly,
Thy constant praise outpouring.
I'll treasure in my memory,
O Lord, all Thou hast done for me,
Thy gracious love adoring.

5. Of death I am no more afraid,
New life from Thee is flowing;
Thy cross affords me cooling shade
When noonday's sun is glowing.
When by my grief I am opprest,
On Thee my weary soul shall rest
Serenely as on pillows.
Thou art my Anchor when by woe
My bark is driven to and fro
On trouble's surging billows.

6. And when Thy glory I shall see
And taste Thy kingdom's pleasure,
Thy blood my royal robe shall be,
My joy beyond all measure.
When I appear before Thy throne,
Thy righteousness shall be my crown,-
With these I need not hide me.
And there, in garments richly wrought
As Thine own bride, I shall be brought
To stand in joy beside Thee.

The Lutheran Hymnal
Hymn #142
Text: Is. 53: 7
Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1648, cento
Translated by: composite
Titled: Ein Laemmlein geht
Tune: An Wasserfluessen Babylon
1st Published in: "Deutsch Kirchenamt"
Town: Strassburg, 1525

Historic St. John Lutheran Church, Milwaukee

rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "All Glory Laud and Honor":

Thanks for including photos of historic old St. John's in the last two hymn postings. However, the photos do not do justice to a walk around the exterior and a careful study of the interior. Last summer, a sightless friend of mine came along with me to the organ recital at St. John's. He was so impressed by every aspect of this beautiful old church. He climbed the staircase into the pulpit and went up into the wrap around balcony just to get an idea of the layout inside. So much of the architecture is a symbolic proclamation of the Gospel. The solid construction of these Gothic style churches is not just eye candy. My friend was also impressed with the solid brass eagle lectern and the marble baptismal font and the whole layout of the altar. What does a blind, agnostic, recovering Roman Catholic know that the promoters of stadium type mega churches do not know?

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GJ - The Wisconsin Sect pours money into a bar-church in Appleton, a short walk from another downtown WELS congregation, while ignoring the the Mother Church of its own history.

The Enthusiasts at the Love Shack hasten to announce absolution for heinous acts against defenseless children but nurses grudges against anyone who has questioned their precious Church Growth fad.

How Great Thou Art

O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder
Consider all the works Thy hand hath made,
I see the stars, I hear the mighty thunder,
Thy pow'r throughout the universe displayed;

Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee,
How great Thou art, how great Thou art!

When through the woods and forest glades I wander
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees;
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,
And hear the brook, and feel the gentle breeze;

And when I think that God His Son not sparing,
Sent Him to die, I scarce can take it in--
That on the cross my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin;

When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!
Then I shall bow in humble adoration
And there proclaim, "My God, how great Thou art!

All Glory Laud and Honor

"All Glory, Laud, and Honor"
by St. Theodulph of Orleans, c. 821
Translated by John M. Neale, 1818-1866

1. All glory, laud, and honor
To Thee, Redeemer, King,
To whom the lips of children
Made sweet hosannas ring.
Thou art the King of Israel,
Thou David's royal Son,
Who in the Lord's name comest,
The King and Blessed One.

2. All glory, laud, and honor
To Thee, Redeemer, King,
To whom the lips of children
Made sweet hosannas ring.
The company of angels
Are praising Thee on high,
And mortal men and all things
Created make reply.

3. All glory, Iaud, and honor
To Thee, Redeemer, King,
To whom the lips of children
Made sweet hosannas ring.
The people of the Hebrews
With psalms before Thee went;
Our praise and prayer and anthems
Before Thee we present.

4. All glory, laud, and honor
To Thee, Redeemer, King,
To whom the lips of children
Made sweet hosannas ring.
To Thee, before Thy Passion,
They sang their hymns of praise;
To Thee, now high exalted,
Our melody we raise.

5. All glory, laud, and honor
To Thee, Redeemer, King,
To whom the lips of children
Made sweet hosannas ring.
Thou didst accept their praises;
Accept the prayers we bring,
Who in all good delightest,
Thou good and gracious King.

The Lutheran Hymnal
Hymn #160
Text: Matt 21:16
Author: St. Theodulph of Orleans, c. 821
Translated by: John M. Neale, 1854, alt.
Titled: Gloria, laus et honor
Composer: Melchior Teschner, 1613
Tune: Valet will ich dir geben

The Majority Rules on LaughQuest, The Truth Rules Elsewhere

Rolf Preus imagines otherwise.

LPC has left a new comment on your post "Rolf Preus Ex Cathedra Trashes Sainted Pastor Vern...":

Rev. Preus makes the majority the determiner of truth but who else believes in UOJ except the Synodical Lutherans? The rest of Protestantism does not believe in this. So by his own judgement, UOJ is condemned.

Also he seems to have disregarded that when Luther broke from Rome, Luther and his Reformers were the minority. By that comment, he then acquits Rome of its false view of Justification.

LPC

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Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,-
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
James Russell Lowell