Hitler Loses the UOJ War

Tim Glende:


He has even gone so far as posting a comedic video clip of Hitler discussing UOJ. Jackson’s buddies seem to revel in it all.
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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Hitler Loses the UOJ War":

I heard Hitler's secret bunker is under the Walther mausoleum. There's an access point in the tunnels of Concordia Seminary, and under the Purple Palace.

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Hitler Loses the UOJ War":

Priceless. My Ichawidow and I are crying we're laughing so hard. The best part is that it's spot on.



Posted by Brett Meyer to Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed at March 31, 2012 9:11 AM


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LPC has left a new comment on your post "Hitler Loses the UOJ War":

I hope you guys can hear me from here. This is the best laugh for this week.

Very much ROFL.

LPC


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Adolph Hoenecke has left a new comment on your post "Hitler Loses the UOJ War":

Well, we know the WELS pastors won't know what's really being said. I believe German is now an elective. Who wants to read that Luther guy anyway?

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Someone:

I think I’ve watched it ten times now.  The Hitler saint in hell, Sodom and the ladies making the irony comment lines were brilliant.

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Someone else:

I like the video!  It's funny because it's true.

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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Hitler Loses the UOJ War":

I heard Hitler's secret bunker is under the Walther mausoleum. There's an access point in the tunnels of Concordia Seminary, and under the Purple Palace. 

Zion on the MississippiExplains the Sickness of the Synodical Conference

Forster's Zion on the Mississippi is more than 50 years old, but most facts have not emerged in the mytho-poetic retelling of the Missouri Synod's history.

Close reading explains many characteristics of the LCMS, past and present.

The theology students were influenced by rationalism (university and state church) and by Pietism. There was not a third alternative. However, Stephan did insist on the Confessions, so that distinguished him from other Pietists. Doubtless it provided a foundation for positive influences once Walther took over.

Pietism and Unionistic Protestantism amalgamated to some extent. Zion, p. 15. The main opponent was rationalism, so they had a common cause together. Zion, p. 21.

CFW's connection with Stephan began with his brother, who was first connected with the harsh Pietist, Kuehn.

For the theology students, the Pietistic circle was their alternative to the rationalism of their studies and their future careers. However, the harsh Pietist  Kuehn was not a healthy alternative. Kuehn led the Bible study (philobiblicum) that Lindner started in imitation of Halle methods. Kuehn remained the leader of the Leipzig Pietists until he took a parish in 1831 and died in 1832. Zion, p. 37.

Favorite authors of the Kuehn group included Rambach (Webber's favorite), A. H. Franke, Spener, and Fresenius. Zion, p. 38.

Walther and Buenger became deeply afflicted in trying to atone for their sins through works of the Law. When Kuehn died, that opened the way for Stephan to influence the group. CFW's big brother led them to Stephan's circle, and Stephan alleviated their neurotic obsessions about paying for their sins.

Martin Stephan had not been much of a student, but he became a pastor after studying at Halle University and Leipzig. As I wrote before, he was a Bohemian (Czech) Pietist who accepted a call to a Bohemian Pietist congregation, St. John's in Dresden, after one year in another congregation.

Although the government was against Pietistic cell groups, St. John had permission to hold those meetings at the church because of its charter as a Moravian Pietistic congregation. Therefore, Stephan was a Pietist among Pietists, serving a congregation with direct connections with Zinzendorf.

Stephan was involved in the unionistic Bible Society in Dresden, quite prominent in it. Zion, p. 30. The Dresden Mission Society was another unionistic endeavor where Stephan participated. Zion, p. 30. Lutherans are used to everyone except Missouri being unionistic, but Stephan was too. That was common in Europe where rationalism was the enemy.

Stephan was quite prominent in Dresden and also controversial. Delitsch (Old Testament scholar) admired his work (Zion, p. 51), and Benjamin Kurtz (p. 57) from America came to see him. The Saxon migration was Stephan's mission, his plan - front page news in Europe, when it happened and when it blew up in scandal a few months later.

The leaders of the migration were the pastors, although a few laymen were used as leaders for their skills, too. The lawyers Marbach and Vehse were useful for all of Stephan's troubles, and the tax collector Fred Barthel (p. 57) became the first treasurer (an office that continued in the Missouri Synod).

The clergy followers of Stephan are extremely important, because they were close to one another for years before they knew Stephan, then joined Stephan and organized the migration under his leadership. They were loyal to one cult leader, then transferred loyalty to a new cult leader, Stephan, when Kuehn took a call and died soon after. These clergy (who did not all have parishes) are:

• O. H. Walther, the older brother of CFW Walther. He died in 1841, so CFW accepted the call to Trinity, his late brother's congregation.
• CFW Walther, aka the Great Walther, came into the fold via his brother Otto, first as a disciple of Kuehn.
• Ottomar Fuerbringer, who did not receive a call in Europe, but was trained as a pastor.
• Johann F. Buenger, the younger pastor in the kidnapping family. His two sisters were wives to CFW, O. H., and Ottomar Fuerbringer, who married the widow of O. H.Walther. Ottomar fathered Ludwig Fuerbringer, pastor in Frankenmuth and president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. Johann's mother helped with the kidnapping of the Walther niece and nephew and went to prison for a short time.
• Ernst Keyl battled with Stephan but had to submit to his authority. Zion, p. 39.
• Gotthold Loeber (Zion, p. 53) also had to submit to the authority of Stephan. Loeber was very close to CFW, since Ferdinand was a tutor at the Loeber estate for two years. That may explain the Walther-Loeber story of the adultery confession (shock!) and everyone knew about it (then why the mob, the threats, the robbery, and kidnapping?). 

When the Society landed in New Orleans, Stephan had the clergy sign a statement making him bishop and pledging their obedience to him. Given the nature of their relationship over the years, it is not surprising that he formalized his relationship to them. Nor is it remarkable that they were willing to sign.

In spite of the ferocity of the mob action organized by CFW Walther, the clergy still refused to confront the bishop directly. They even had a real estate agent take over as prosecutor, with the lawyers helping.

Walther cleverly rescued the cult from their bind and resumed the episcopacy without the title. Just as everyone had to submit to Stephan in the past, everyone had to submit to Walther - not to Scripture. He became the American Pope, not the American Luther. What do the shrines, statues, and outrageous lies about the Great Walther suggest? A cult.

Febreze Has Spoken:People Are Catching onto the Scam of UOJ

Refreshing thoughts.

Febreze has left a new comment on your post "Dark Thoughts from Black Sheep":

Thanks for that comment. It's VERY simple yet very relevant. They'll spew their Objective Justification (God has forgiven everyone, regardless of faith, at the cross and/or the Resurrection) but then say that there is a subjective part -- faith.

Where I'm coming from, there's no reason to state a "subjective justification" if there is an already declared, divine forgiveness given to all at Christ's death and/or Resurrection.

At this point they'll say I'm misrepresenting how UOJ is to be understood. The fact of the matter is that no matter how anyone describes *their* definition of it, it always incorporates a declaration of forgiveness and Salvation prior to faith.

My advice: don't be fooled by the multiple definitions...stick to Justification by Faith alone as Scripture and the Confessions retain ad nauseum.

Note to those who adhere to this false doctrine of forgiveness given prior to faith: the numbers are rising who realize the heresy of UOJ. It's very refreshing :)

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Febreze Has Spoken:People Are Catching onto the Sc...":

The excommunications will continue until acceptance of UOJ improves.

A Wonderful Unanimity among the Apostates. All Celebrate Their Guilt-Free Zones, Until They Extend the Left Foot of Fellowship

bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Children of the Heavenly Father":

UOJ leads to people with over-assured consciences, and that often leads to libertine behavior. Here LCMS Rev. Clint Poppe declares the Lutheran church is a "guilt-free zone," something I don't think Luther would have said, but a UOJer would say it. Luther taught the law and gospel, but in reality UOJers don't preach the law, but only the gospel, since what power does the law have to convict people of sin if people are forgiven before they are even born?

Saying the church is guilt-free is like saying that the laundry room is free of dirty clothes when that's the very place where most dirty clothes is found. The sinful world feels guilt-free, and now the UOJers want people in the church to feel just like the worldly do every day. Why have the church at all since the worldly feel guilt-free without the church?:

The Evangelical Lutheran Church — A No Guilt Zone.
March 30th, 2012Post by Pastor Clint Poppe

http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=17989

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Rolf Preus on SpenerQuest:

As a matter of fact, this particular thread has shown that there is a wonderful unanimity in teaching on the central doctrine of the Christian religion on the part of the synods that used to comprise the Synodical Conference (tm). Conversations such as these serve to solidify that precious agreement on the truth and to put into perspective our disagreements. I am not one to appeal to synods as authorities in divine teaching, but it is remarkable to me how these conservative / confessional Lutheran synods have remained in fundamental agreement on what is most important.

I'm not sure that we have always rightly applied Romans 16, 17, but I am quite sure that the Apostle does not wish to forbid arguing against false doctrine on a website -- or anywhere else, for that matter.


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GJ - The SpenerQuest denizens seldom resist an opportunity to start praising one another and thanking God for their purity.

I will get into more detail in a new post, but the UOJ Stormtroopers are exactly in the mold of 19th century liberal theology. All is grace. All are forgiven. The atonement made the entire world free from sin. The Saxon
group was a Pietist cult, following one man, Stephan, who was a serial adulterer and syphlitic. Like all the Stormtroopers he demanded absolute obedience.

Children of the Heavenly Father

Children of the heav’nly Father
Safely in His bosom gather;
Nestling bird nor star in Heaven
Such a refuge e’er was given.

God His own doth tend and nourish;
In His holy courts they flourish;
From all evil things He spares them;
In His mighty arms He bears them.

Neither life nor death shall ever
From the Lord His children sever;
Unto them His grace He showeth,
And their sorrows all He knoweth.

Though He giveth or He taketh,
God His children ne’er forsaketh;
His the loving purpose solely
To preserve them pure and holy.

Lina was the daugh­ter of Jo­nas San­dell, pas­tor of the Lu­ther­an church in Fröd­eryd. At age 26, she ac­com­pa­nied her fa­ther on a boat trip across Lake Vättern to Gö­te­borg, dur­ing which he fell over­board and drowned be­fore her eyes. The tra­ge­dy pro­found­ly af­fect­ed Lina and re­port­ed­ly in­spired her to write hymns. Known as the Fan­ny Cros­by of Swe­den, she wrote 650 hymns. She mar­ried Stock­holm mer­chant C. O. Berg in 1867, but con­tin­ued to in­i­tial her hymns “L. S.”
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/a/n/sandell-berg_kw.htm




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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Children of the Heavenly Father":

Thank you for this special posting! And, also, the background about the author! This song is especially dear to me, as Mom picked it for my father's funeral. I never did know, until that time, that it was one of Dad's personal favorites. Some things, husbands only share with their spouses.

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GJ - You are welcome, Pastor Bickel. This hymn is loved by many people, and it means a lot to our family, too.

Student Loans on Rise -- for Kindergarten - SmartMoney.com

Student Loans on Rise -- for Kindergarten - SmartMoney.com:


Instead of saving up for their sons' college education, Bill Dunham and his wife are taking out loans for high school. Their eldest son will begin ninth grade at a school in Boston where annual tuition runs around $10,000 -- and they already pay $5,000 a year for their younger child. A project manager for a mechanical construction company, Dunham says the schools referred him to lenders who specialize in pre-college education loans. He's taking a loan to cover his son's full high school tuition, which he plans to repay over two years. "If we had the money, we'd pay it now," he says.

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It used to be that families first signed up for education loans when their child enrolled in college, but a growing number of parents are seeking tuition assistance as soon as kindergarten. Though data is scarce, private school experts and the small number of lenders who provide loans for kindergarten through 12th grade say pre-college loans are becoming more popular. Your Tuition Solution, one of the largest lenders in this space, says demand for the upcoming year is already up: This month, the total dollar amount of loans families requested rose 10% compared to a year ago; at that pace, the company expects its total funding to rise to $20 million for 2012-13. Separately, First Marblehead, which exited the market in 2008, reentered last year as demand for loans began to rise.

Much of this demand is coming from high-income families. Roughly 20% of families that applied for aid to pay for their children's kindergarten through 12th grade private school education had incomes of $150,000 or more, according to 2010-11 data, the latest from the National Association of Independent Schools. That's up from just 6% in 2002-03. Those who don't get approved for free aid, like grants, increasingly turn to loans, experts say.

For parents who sign up for pre-college loans the risks can be significant. To begin with, they could be repaying the loans for a long time. Sallie Mae's and Your Tuition Solution's pre-college loans have repayment periods of up to three and seven years, respectively. Loans at the Hawken School in Chesterland, Ohio, don't have to be repaid until after the child graduates college. That means parents could be on the hook to repay K-12 and college loans simultaneously. Already, about one in six parents of college graduates have loans, and they're projected to owe nearly $34,000 on average this year, according to FinAid.org. Taking on loans before college leaves parents at risk of owing larger sums of debt, experts say.

Schools are offering their own financing options as well. The Blake School in Hopkins, Minn. says 132 of its families signed up for its 10-month payment plan this year -- which charges an 8.5% fixed rate -- and that's up 19% from the previous academic year. The Hawken School says it provides a small number of loans with a 6% rate. "These loans aren't as taboo as they once were -- there are a lot more schools that are much more willing now to present a loan program as an affordability option," says Kristen Power, northeast regional director for the NAIS' School and Student Services, which processes families' financial aid applications to private schools.

The rise in private school loans coincides with a rise in tuition. The average cost of private school is nearly $22,000 a year, up 4% from a year ago and up 26% from 2006-07, according to the NAIS. While schools increased their financial aid budgets, the gap between free aid and tuition costs is getting bigger for many parents. As a result, enrollment is dropping as fewer families can afford to pay. Total private school enrollment is projected at around 5.3 million this year, down 11% from 2007, according to the Department of Education.


'via Blog this'


Good morning Pastor Jackson,
This sounds a bit like the direction that I have seen the Lutheran Elementary and Area High Schools go. Many have encouraged parents to take on more debt.


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GJ - "Sorry kid. You cannot go to high school. You have used up your student loan limit."

Lord, Thee I Love

Art by Norma Boeckler.

"Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart" by Martin Schalling, 1532-1608
Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1829-1878

1. Lord, Thee I love with all my heart;
I pray Thee ne'er from me depart,
With tender mercies cheer me.
Earth has no pleasure I would share,
Yea, heaven itself were void and bare
If Thou, Lord, wert not near me.
And should my heart for sorrow break,
My trust in Thee no one could shake.
Thou art the Portion I have sought;
Thy precious blood my soul has bought.
Lord Jesus Christ,
My God and Lord, my God and Lord,
Forsake me not! I trust Thy Word.

2. Yea, Lord, 'twas Thy rich bounty gave
My body, soul, and all I have
In this poor life of labor.
Lord, grant that I in every place
May glorify Thy lavish grace
And serve and help my neighbor.
Let no false doctrine me beguile
And Satan not my soul defile.
Give strength and patience unto me
To bear my cross and follow Thee.
Lord Jesus Christ,
My God and Lord, my God and Lord,
In death Thy comfort still afford.

3. Lord, let at last Thine angels come,
To Abram's bosom bear me home,
That I may die unfearing;
And in its narrow chamber keep
My body safe in peaceful sleep
Until Thy reappearing.
And then from death awaken me
That these mine eyes with joy may see,
O Son of God, Thy glorious face,
My Savior and my Fount of grace,
Lord Jesus Christ,
My prayer attend, my prayer attend,
And I will praise Thee without end.

Hymn #429 from The Lutheran Hymnal
Text: Psalm 18
Author: Martin Schalling, c. 1567
Translated by: Catherine Winkworth, 1863, alt.
Titled: "Herzlich lieb hab' ich dich, o Herr"
Tune: "Herzlich lieb hab' ich dir, o Herr"
1st Published in: Berhnard Schmid's Orgelbuch
Town: Strassburg, 1577

Spelling Counts

Anonymous spells better when he copies and pastes.
His counting skills are stunted, too.

From the Fake-o-Blog, after his Twelve Step Meeting:


Anonymous said...
If Jackson's blog was (sic) as popular as he claims it is, and I frankly think he is lying even about that, he would have more than two people commenting on his blog posts. The LPCruz guy and a "member" of his "congregation" the Brett Meaier (sic) guy.

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GJ - Only two obvious errors in two sentences! You are improving. Since the Appleton Plagiarist uses Google Blogger, the graphics should be familiar, but not the large numbers.

Copy and paste the graphics from the statistics page and show us the results for the day, week, and all-time.

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Spelling Counts":

I may have heavily skewed the "all-time" stats since I visited the anti-Ichabod site six times this week to check on their response to my request for discussion.

Sorry, about that.

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GJ - You are entitled to a few laughs, Brett.

Everyone is impressed with the fake blogger's production.
Copy and paste is not the easiest task.

Dark Thoughts from Black Sheep

Der Schwarz Schaf has left a new comment on your post "Condescending LaughQuest Denizens Hep Out Joe Kroh...":

Hi,

Would someone please answer this question:

(Maybe Dr. Weber would be so kind.)


If I am declared completely forgiven, holy, and righteous in God's eyes, by God Himself, already before I was born or came to faith, then what, please, is the point of believing or having faith in the first place?

If you say - well, God commands us to have faith, then it seems to me that you have turned faith into a law that must be kept in order to be saved. Isn't that work-righteousness?! I don't get it.

Are we saved by faith in Jesus as our Savior, or are we saved regardless of whether we believe in Jesus or not? Help!!!

Lost!

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Febreze has left a new comment on your post "Dark Thoughts from Black Sheep":

Thanks for that comment. It's VERY simple yet very relevant. They'll spew their Objective Justification (God has forgiven everyone, regardless of faith, at the cross and/or the Resurrection) but then say that there is a subjective part -- faith.

Where I'm coming from, there's no reason to state a "subjective justification" if there is an already declared, divine forgiveness given to all at Christ's death and/or Resurrection.

At this point they'll say I'm misrepresenting how UOJ is to be understood. The fact of the matter is that no matter how anyone describes *their* definition of it, it always incorporates a declaration of forgiveness and Salvation prior to faith.

My advice: don't be fooled by the multiple definitions...stick to Justification by Faith alone as Scripture and the Confessions retain ad nauseum.

Note to those who adhere to this false doctrine of forgiveness given prior to faith: the numbers are rising who realize the heresy of UOJ. It's very refreshing :)

Who Predicted ELCA Seminary Mergers? Ichabod!

"It's not what you think, Brett."

ELCA NEWS SERVICE
March 27, 2012
Lenoir-Rhyne University, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary to merge

CHICAGO (ELCA) - At a March 26 signing ceremony, representatives of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, N.C., and Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, S.C., celebrated the decision to merge the two institutions, effective July 1. The merger is the first such combination of an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) seminary and university since the founding of this church in 1987. The ceremony took place at the Martin Luther Statue on Shaw Plaza in Hickory.

With the merger, Lenoir-Rhyne University is establishing a school of theology which will include an ELCA seminary -- Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. The seminary will retain its own name and identity while integrating with the larger university system.

The ELCA has eight seminaries and 26 colleges and universities.

The merger illustrates "the kind of trust that developed among the leaders of each institution," said the Rev. Marcus J. Miller in a Lenoir-Rhyne news release. "Before, we had compatible missions. Going forward we have the promise of a vibrant, singular mission. That's powerful," said Miller, who will retire as president of the seminary this summer.

Dr. Wayne B. Powell, president of Lenoir-Rhyne, called the merger a "win-win" for both institutions. "As one university, we will be both broader and deeper, and that makes it a win for students, faculty and alumni."

"Both institutions will be enriched with a greater diversity and an increased capacity to serve both church and society," said ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson.

In 2011 the boards of Lenoir-Rhyne and Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary recommended that the institutions enter into a formal collaborative partnership leading to a merger. The recommendation came as a result of a feasibility study initiated when it became clear between the boards and institutions that each had similar goals and strong reputations.

"There was a time and place decades ago when seminaries were integral units of colleges and universities," according to the Rev. Mark N. Wilhelm, who oversees the mission leadership of ELCA schools, colleges and universities.

Wilhelm said the merger "is the first for the ELCA. It's somewhat a 'back to the future' movement."

Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary was founded in 1830 and has been located at its current campus in Columbia since 1911. Lenoir-Rhyne was founded in 1891 by four Lutheran pastors.

The Odd Couple, Hanson and Schori.

ELCA Says, "Write Your Own Sermons." WELS Says, "Plagiarize Ur Idols. LOL."

My source:

This article proves that even the ELCA can be correct at times as Pastor Schmalenberger slams people giving sermons written by others as they "lack integrity and border on fraud and deceitfulness."  Can't get much clearer than that.  It kind of reminds me of when I was at Sem in St Louis and one of the profs said that the biggest complaint CPH received was that Concordia Pulpit had a blue cover instead of a red one; with a blue cover, pastors couldn't take it into the pulpit and pretend it was a "Bible."  The cover color was eventually changed to red.