Historic St. John Lutheran Church - Organ Concert. Milwaukee, July 8

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Famous Moravians: Andy Griffith, America’s favourite dad … and sheriff « Churchmouse Campanologist

Andy Griffith and Ron Howard.
Ron became successful as a teen actor, as a young adult actor, and as a director.
Ron was also the boy in "Music Man."

Famous Moravians: Andy Griffith, America’s favourite dad … and sheriff « Churchmouse Campanologist:


Reading about Andy Griffith’s demise at the age at the age of 86, millions of Americans must have felt as if part of them had died, too. I know I did.

Although many television fans around the world connect Griffith with his later incarnation as Matlock, for Baby Boomers and their parents, Sheriff Andy Taylor represented the best father and wisest sheriff in America!

Surprisingly, Griffith never won an Emmy for his role as Andy Taylor. However, he was such a great actor that many Americans were shocked to see his promotional advertisements for Barack Obama co-starring television son Opie, director Ron Howard.

GJ - More at the link.


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Heinrich Schmid and the Intuitu Fidei Smokescreen

http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schmid/theology.pdf

I recall Tim Glende exploding with the Intuitu Fidei charge against Schmid's Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. But Tim spelled it as Inuitu Fidei, the faith of the Inuit Indian tribe. He! Studied! Greek! Does Mequon offer an class in English as a first language?

I ordered a printed copy of Schmid from Alibris, even though I have the entire contents on this blog.

You can order Knapp, the Halle University professor who trained Bishop Martin Stephan, STD, in UOJ. My copy dates back to a few years before the syphilitic bishop landed his troops on the shores of New Orleans.

Walther learned his UOJ from Bishop Stephan, his second cell group leader. Walther, who kidnapped more people than Bruno Richard Hauptmann, taught that every single person in the world was forgiven when Christ rose from the dead. The Easter absolution is pure Rambach Pietism, as Jay Webber has conceded.

Melanchthon and the Concordists rejected the notion of faith as a virtue. They never taught that. Who did?

Arminians and Calvinists
The Arminians argued faith as a decision, as a virtue - which the Calvinists denied. The UOJ fanatics, in arguing against justification by faith, use a Calvinist argument. UOJ Enthusiasts have no concept of faith created by the Holy Spirit at work in the Word, because they have never comprehended the Means of Grace, the efficacy of the Word.

Missourians and WELSians call justification by faith Calvinism or Intuitu Fidei (in view of faith, faith as a virtue - Arminianism). Their doctrinal knowledge and discernment is few fries short of a Happy Meal.

Like Hobos on a Hotdog
Why do the Stormtroopers jump on Heinrich Schmid like hobos on a hotdog? The ignorant like to poison the well in advance. "Oh no - you are not going to quote Schmid. He is totally Intuitu Fidei. My dog notes say so."

Schmid was one of those best sellers among the old WELS pastors and also the old ALC pastors. I often saw copies at Trinity Seminary sales in Columbus, when the geezers left their orthodox libraries to the new mode ELCA seminarians. How Lenski and Leupold would have cringed to see their school defiled.

The Content of Schmid
I hate to admit that Schmid created the first Megatron (my database of  3,000 quotations). He gathered orthodox Luther quotations and organized them by category.

But Schmid took his volumes of Lutheran orthodoxy and manually copied and organized them. The original Oxford English Dictionary was created the same laborious way. No wonder the OED has grown like kudzu vine ever since.

The Great Unknown
Schmid does this for the pastor, professor, and layman - he opens up those lost volumes of orthodox Lutheran thought, with each quotation naming the author. Not until James Heiser got Repristination Press going did anyone publish so much of those lost volumes.

Like the Large Catechism of Luther, Schmid opens up the consistent Biblical teaching of the efficacy of the Word, the Means of Grace, justification by faith, and the doctrine of the Holy Spirit.

Here is a text version of the entire book.

Below is a quotation from Schmid:

AUTHORITY OF THE SCRIPTURES. 55 

[5] GRH. (I, 9): "Those who are within the Church do not in 
quire about the authority of Scripture, for this is their starting- 
point. How can they be true disciples of Christ if they pretend 
to call in question the doctrine of Christ ? How can they be true 
members of the Church if they are in doubt concerning the founda 
tion of the Church ? How can they wish to prove that to them 
selves which they always employ to prove other things? How 
can they doubt concerning that whose efficacy they have experi 
enced in their own hearts? The Holy Spirit testifies in their 
hearts that the Spirit is truth, i. e., that the doctrine derived from 
the Holy Spirit is absolute truth. 

[6] GRH. therefore very properly observes, that the doctrine of 
the authority of Scripture is no article of faith, but rather the 
fountain-head of the articles of faith. (I, 11): "The doctrine 
concerning the Canon is, properly speaking, not an article of faith, 
since Moses, the prophets, evangelists, and apostles did not fabri 
cate in their writings a new article of faith superadded to the 
former, which they taught orally." 

[7] GRH. (II, 37): "The first (testimony) is the internal wit 
ness of the Holy Spirit, who, as He bears witness to the spirit 
of believers that they are the sons of God, Rom. 8 : 16, so, 
also, efficaciously convinces them, that in the Scriptures the 
voice of their Heavenly Father is contained; and is the only 
fit and authentic witness. To this testimony belongs the lively 
sense of the godly in daily prayer and in the exercises of penitence 
and faith, the grace of consoling and strengthening the mind 
against all kinds of adversities, temptations, persecutions, etc., 
etc., which the godly daily experience in reading and meditating 
upon Scripture." 

QUEN. (I, 97): "The ultimate reason by and through which 
we are led to believe with a divine and unshaken faith that God s 
Word is God s Word, is the intrinsic power and efficacy of that 
Word itself, and the testimony and seal of the Holy Spirit, speak 
ing in and through Scripture. Because the bestowment of faith, 
not only that by which we believe in the articles, but even that by 
which we believe in the Scriptures, that exhibit and propose the 
articles, is a work that emanates from the Holy Spirit, or the 
Supreme Cause." 

HOLL. (116): " By the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit, is 
here understood the supernatural act of the Holy Spirit through 
the Word of God, attentively read or heard (His own divine power 
being communicated to the Holy Scriptures), moving, opening, 
illuminating the heart of man, and inciting it to obedience...

Giant Volumes Condensed

MDivs like to toss around terms while showing no knowledge of Biblical or doctrinal study. Introductory courses--where the professors have to pass the sons of synod politicians--are not enough to justify claims of being an expert.

Many would say that a PhD is just the beginning of a lifetime of theological study. How much more study is needed for an MDiv offered by political hacks, selected for their loyalty to UOJ and Fuller Seminary?

Not Schmid, But Fuller Students Like Olson, Valleskey, Bivens
Worst of all, Lutherans are expected to pay homage to functionaries, who utterly reject Lutheran doctrine, based on the recently printed essays of pastors chosen to repeat the same recent palaver.

WELSians should find it fascinating that the sect has used its abusive nature to replace everything from the past with Left-wing Fuller propaganda (while lying about it).

All it takes with totalitarians is to change a few dictators and the sheep will follow them. A discussion with WELS leaders is no different from the Protest'ant days, when it meant "Shut up and listen to me telling you off." I have seen it in person many times, and I have witnessed the experts run away like little girls.

Intuitu Fidei Smokescreen
I am borrowing this concept from a researcher. Walther seems to have abused the article on election to create a nifty smokescreen for his absurd dogma. He could not tackle the Book of Concord directly on justification by faith, where his position was obliterated long before he was born.

Instead, Walther tried to make a case for election for no reason (since he was God's counselor). That was how Walther took the Holy Spirit, the efficacy of the Word, and faith out of the order of salvation.

Like all Enthusiasts, to paraphrase Luther, Walther did not find the Word of God efficacious, but thought his own words were. And he filled many volumes with his words. His qualifications? He graduated from a rationalistic university and he subordinated himself to two Pietistic cell group leaders. The Concordists would have laughed him out of the room. He was not qualified to be a theologian or a teacher, but he forced his views on many. It took his disciple F. Pieper to canonize UOJ in the Brief Statement of 1932. After that time, conservatives agree, the LCMS tanked.

We should not inquire about the work of God, but Walther knew better. Shoving Romans aside, as he did with justification by faith, Walther taught an election of his own invention, to get rid of faith. Even the worst ninnies of the Intuitu Fidei guardians admit that the original statement was entirely correct. Now the Latin slogan is simply tossed at anyone who teaches justification by faith - and at Schmid for quoting the orthodox Lutherans instead of the Great Walther Kidnapper.

Vatican urged to rescind threats to excommunicate Chinese bishops - Globaltimes.cn.

Cyber-Xerox

Vatican urged to rescind threats to excommunicate Chinese bishops - Globaltimes.cn:


The State Administration for Religious Affairs on Wednesday urged the Vatican to rescind its threats to excommunicate two Chinese bishops, who are to be consecrated without papal approval, and return to the "correct path of dialogue."

The threats of excommunication are "extremely unreasonable and rude," a spokesperson said in a statement.

Yue Fusheng and Ma Daqin will be consecrated on Friday and Saturday in Heilongjiang Province and Shanghai, respectively.

The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association was forced to begin to consecrate elected bishops in the 1950s after the Vatican threatened to impose excommunication.

The association has so far consecrated more than 190 elected bishops, which has helped to guarantee and promote the healthy development of Chinese Catholic churches, according to the spokesperson.

Continuing the practice of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association consecrating elected bishops is necessary to spread the word of Catholicism in China, as there have been no bishops in several of the country's dioceses for some time, the spokesperson said.

The practice is also the strong aspiration of the majority of priests and believers and a manifestation of religious freedom, according to the spokesperson.

"Any repudiation or interference with this religious practice is a restriction of freedom and an intolerant act. It is detrimental to the healthy development of Catholic churches in both China and the world," the spokesperson said.

The Chinese government is willing to discuss any issue, including the consecration of bishops, with the Vatican, but the government will continue to support the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association in independently selecting and consecrating its bishops before the two sides reach a consensus, the spokesperson said.

Pope John the Malefactor

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If You Love Pipe Organ Concerts and Historic Lutheran Churches, Save July 8th.

July 8th, St. John Lutheran Church, Milwaukee

Pipe Organ Concert at Historic St. John Lutheran Church. Sunday, July 8th, 3 PM.

A Musical Journey: An afternoon concert of sacred classics. Come and enjoy sacred classics such as Malotte’s “The Lord’s Prayer,” beloved hymns, and a selection from Handel’s Messiah performed by classical musicians David Porth (Organ), David Moseley (Piano and Tenor), and Meredith Brown (Soprano). The concert takes place on Sunday, July 8, 2012 at 3:00pm. The concert will be at the historic St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church (804 W. Vliet Street in Milwaukee). This concert is free to the public. For more information, please call or email David Moseley at 608-387-1336 or deutschjungedm@yahoo.com. “A Musical Journey” Prelude--Bach’s prelude and fugue in C minor 1. Opening Hymn: Built on the Rock OFFICIAL WELCOME 2. Ave Redemptor (Bach/Gounod) 3. On Eagle’s Wings--duet (Joncas) 4. Rejoice Greatly O Daughter of Zion (Handel) 5. The Church’s One Foundation Offertory--Amazing Grace, John Benke arrangement ***INTERMISSION*** 6. For All the Saints 7. Psalm XIX (Marcello) 8. How Great Thou Art . Lloyd Larson Arrangement 9. Lord’s Prayer (Malotte) A word of thanks from Pastor Hastings 10. Rhosymedre (Vaughn Williams)

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