Friday, August 31, 2012

Keep Banning Ichabod, Loyal Opponents

Compared to August of 2011, page-reads are up by 25%.
700,000 page-reads per year is the current rate.

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Keep Banning Ichabod, Loyal Opponents":

Absolutely love this photo and caption.

Matt. 24:35, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away."

Mark 13:13, "And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."

2 Thess. 1:4-5, "So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure: Which is the manifest token of the righteous judgement of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

2 Thess. 1:12, "That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ."

God's grace, mercy and peace be upon you Pastor Jackson and your precious family.

2 Tim. 2:3, "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."

McCain Makes Waldo Werning Look Tame


Paul McCain is entertaining the troops over at Steadfast Deletion, Inc.

Waldo Werning is still my Facebook friend.

McCain and his high-priced boss, Bruce Kintz, both unfriended me. So did SP Matthew Harrison.

I only have 1435 FB friends left, about 800 of them are LCMS.

Werning last wrote me, "Are you staying out of trouble?" I said, "Never."

McCain has severe problems telling the truth, which is a common problem with plagiarists. I have had them in college classes. Except for one young lady, they rant and rave to the administration when caught. The leaders laugh about this, because it only calls attention to their dishonesty. After all, I already provided the evidence. "Here is the essay and here it the verbatim copy from the Internet."

One student failed a computer class. I said, "You can take it again." He shouted as he left, "I will take it from someone who can teach." I said, "How do you know? You never came to class."

Plagiarists are stuck at an early teen-age level of maturity. One girl stormed out of class when I took five seconds to help her with her work. Next she stormed into my boss's office and reported me. He asked, "Have you attended each class?" She said, "No." He said, "That would be a good start in passing the class."

The "work" of plagiarists is a lie and their cover-ups are a lie, too. I had one entire class involved. They said they had no idea! But when I left for the supper break, all the evidence disappeared from the table up front. No idea, indeed. The unrepentant say, "Everyone does it." and "I provided the citation."

It is exceptionally strange to have an aging, high-priced editor at CPH engaging in high school level plagiarism, in teen-aged temper tantrums when caught.

McCain's reputation for telling the truth precedes him everywhere.

Example One - He denied working with Herman Otten to get Al Barry elected. That was during McCain's two-year parish experience. But McCain bragged to me that he was doing sending Al Barry's material early to Christian News so it would be in Christian News as if by magic. Otten and McCain denied engaging in subterfuge, but both of them bragged to me about it. McCain told me that Barry hired him, but said, "Don't tell Otten."

Later, Otten was telling me about this great adventure and said, "Barry hired McCain." I said, "I knew. He told me not to tell you." I should have said, "How marvelous! What a shock!" Otten was not happy about the  secrecy. But I figured, "Lie down with dawgs, git up with fleas."

Otten has all the evidence of their work together, in his files.

Example Two - McCain makes up whatever suits him at the moment. Norman Teigen is just one example of a person he deeply offended. Larry Darby started legal action against McCain, which I know from Darby describing the exact circumstances.

McCain told his gullible readers that Bethany Lutheran Church was named after my dead daughter. And added, "How sick is that?"

This is our little Bethany.
McCain and Glende both attacked me through this little baptized saint.
They wonder why people are jumping out the exit doors of Missouri and WELS.

McCain had no idea how Bethany Lutheran Church was named. The members picked the name from a list they compiled themselves. They liked having a Biblical name. Bethany is in the Bible, but I doubt McCain processed that fact. He invented a fact - he lied and asked - "How sick is that?" I have to ask, "How sick is a fake pastor who uses the death of a helpless infant to score meaningless points?"

Tim Glende engaged in the same behavior, even using my sainted daughters against me. No wonder McCain and Glende became blogging pals.

McCain is a nasty, little Romanizing plagiarist. I told Pastor Scheer they should not be enabling this vile beast, but Missouri seems to enjoy having its own pet Tazmanian Devil each generation.

This beautiful altar was designed by Norm Boeckler.
Do we need gold and marble to impress the Purple Palace crowd?
The Word and Sacraments are God-pleasing and do not require a Thrivent grant
or working with ELCA.


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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "McCain Makes Waldo Werning Look Tame":

Ichabod -

I can't imagine the sorrow you and your wife went through losing to this life your two little baptized angels. What was said about them and in reference to them, is almost bordering on [humanly] unforgivable.

However, be that as it may: I hope that you can (from the heart) forgive this LCMS "Tazmanian Devil." But, then, again, I don't read in Scripture that one is called upon to forgive devils. Perhaps, you could [then] forgive (from the heart) all the other myriad personalities of this particular human jackal......

Nathan M. Bickel

www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org

P.S. My comment presupposes that there is a difference of forgiving (from the heart) and reconciliation.

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GJ - It is not good practice to offer absolution for the unrepentant.

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A. Berean has left a new comment on your post "McCain Makes Waldo Werning Look Tame":

“At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea…Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray. Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish”
(Matthew 18:1-6, 10-14 - KJV)

Dr. Jackson, I’m very sorry for your loss. I take comfort in knowing that your dear daughters were baptized, little lambs of the Lord Jesus and are resting in Abraham’s bosom. It appalls me to read that comment from Rev. McCain. It astonishes me that a comment like that can come from someone who calls himself a Lutheran Pastor, let alone a Christian! I hope that he sincerely repents of this horrible offense to God who says that he ought to have a millstone hanged about his neck and drowned in the depths of the sea!

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GJ - A WELS member phoned to say how disgraceful it was, too. I pointed out to that person that WELS District VP Paul Kuske started that kind of thing, using Erin Joy's death against me. He told everyone that I went crazy after Erin died, which is why I was against clergy adultery and Church Growth. Of course, that is the very definition of insanity in WELS - to be against adulterous clergy and adulterous doctrine.

WELS and Missouri lead the way in vicious behavior, yet always ready to howl "Eighth Commandment!" when someone brings up false doctrine.

The Miraculous Lactation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Has Not Healed Paul McCain's Sour Disposition

Paul McCain published an edited version of this blasphemy,
so one reader edited the photo and inserted Pope Paul the Unlearned.


2138 has left a new comment on your post "WELS DP Buchholz Fights Against Biblical Truths an...":

Well, Brett's comments made it through. Pastor Scheer even defended Brett against unknown persons (I'll give you 1 guess) who wanted his comments silenced.

Brett, thanks for your patience in your posts. The "simple" Word of God showed the errors of Mr. Pierce's verbose statements. Anyone with the Holy Spirit's faith can clearly discern God's Word.

Alas, a response to the substance of your comment will not be forthcoming:

http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=22406#comment-418167

or

http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=22406#comment-418182

Continue to fight the good fight, Brett.

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GJ - I have gracious consented to kelming McCain's latest gem, which shows he has never studied Luther's Galatians Commentary.




August 31st, 2012 at 10:43 | #16
Well put, Jim. There is only one answer to Jackson and his followers like Meyer: Romans 16:17-18.
They desire to stir up contention and strife and teach contrary to the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus.
As the Apostle St. Paul said about such false teachers, in Galatians 1:
6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.
And Galatians 5:12:
I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!




The graphic below illustrates what Luther taught - not teaching himself, but God's Word.


Someone wrote: "And when one pulls out the Galatians commentary and reads that quote in context, it’s even more striking, because it’s not Luther himself saying this about his (i.e., Luther’s) doctrine. It’s Luther summarizing the doctrine of the Apostle Paul himself."


Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "The Miraculous Lactation of the Blessed Virgin Mar...":

LCMS Reverend and CPH Executive editor Paul McCain would like for us to emasculate ourselves.

e·mas·cu·late/iˈmaskyəˌlāt/Verb:
1.Make (a person, idea, or piece of legislation) weaker or less effective.
2.Deprive (a man) of his male role or identity: "he feels emasculated because he cannot control his sons' behavior".

I don't believe he knows what the word means. It's a funny show he puts on while never personally defending his teachings. 

LMCS Pietism Explains LCMS UOJ Pietism


Walther was not a Lutheran slightly tainted by Stephan's Pietism (see below). Walther was a Pietist with a four-year degree in rationalism.

The state church and the educational system were both controlled by Rationalists. Those who still believed in the Scriptures were called Pietists and Mystics, despised by the state church leaders.

The theological students gravitated toward Pietism as a remedy for the rationalism being taught in their four-year degrees. Many believers did not get parish calls because they were Pietists. Like Paul McCain, Walther served a parish only two years before becoming a bigshot as a bishop's enforcer.



Walther and his circle of close friends formed around one Pietistic leader (Johann Gottlieb Kuehn) and attended cell group meetings led by another Pietist. Halle was the center of Pietism in Europe, and Martin Stephan studied there. The author of Zion on the Mississippi called that leader Candidate Kuehn because the man was still waiting for a call.

When Kuehn, the first Pietistic leader of the Walther circle, received a call, moved away and died, the group attached themselves to Martin Stephan, a Pietist known for his cell group ministry. 

One of Walther's friends married the Kuehn widow. When Walther's brother died in America, Ottomar Fuerbringer married the widow and sired Ludwig Fuerbringer, later at St. Lorenz in Frankenmuth and Concordia in St. Louis.

I wonder what Ludwig would have thought about a CPH blogger featuring the Miraculous Lactation of the Blessed Virgin Mother into the mouth of St. Bernard?



Bishop Martin Stephan organized the large-scale escape to America that led to his sect becoming the Missouri Synod, even though Loehe started the synod and invited the Perryville cult to join. They did, but Walther hated Loehe out of the organization, because Loehe was unqualified to be a leader - he had never kidnapped anyone.

Stephan's key leaders were the clergy. They were all part of his Pietistic cell group ministry, and they submitted to his authority in all matters. No one was allowed to dissent from Stephan.

Stephan's female groupies were well known to everyone, including the police. He took walks with young single women late at night, installed one in his home (twice), and lived with his main mistress at the spa when he was being treated for syphilis.

Stephan left his dying family in Dresden when he shipped over to America, taking only his oldest son and his main mistress, Louis Guenther. Once in St. Louis he attracted unwanted attention for his swarm of ladies at the episcopal residence. That included Walther's kidnapped niece.

The outbreak of syphilis among the young single women was the motivating factor in the mob that Walther organized to threaten Stephan's life (a felony), rob the bishop of his money and books (another felony), and kidnap him (another felony). Walther's followers used a weapon (another felony) to force Stephan's passage across the flood-swollen Mississippi, probably on a steamer (not a rowboat). 

Adultery was no more a scandal for Stephan at that time than it is among the SynConference clergy today. Zion on the Mississipi makes that clear. The new Stephan book only clarifies some details.

Imagining that all sins were erased 2000 years ago would explain (but not excuse) Walther's actions. He did NOT want the early history of the Missouri sect told, and it has been kept a secret by the guardians of the cult.


It is now popular in WELS to say, "I was saved 2000 years ago."

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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "LMCS Pietism Explains LCMS UOJ Pietism":

Ichabod -

I believe that a primary reason for modern day Lutherans retaining the "universal objective justification" (erroneous anti-Biblical) teaching, is that this teaching is (conveniently) utilized as a "cover" for them.

Walther's American Lutheranism (as you point out in your mini commentary) grew out of Pietism. Waltherians and present day Lutheran McCaininites, not wanting to be looked upon as Antinominan, (thus) lovingly embrace their version of the perversion of Christ's Atonement, making it out as a be all and an end all, thereby insulting the Holy Spirit and His work of personal faith in the believer. Hence, their obvious exclusion of Scripture's and Luther's conglomerate teaching of grace through faith - that a human soul is justified by faith alone as the Great Reformer would, again and again explain it!

Nathan M. Bickel

www.thechristianmessage.org

www.moralmatters.org

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GJ - That is a good point. Faith is not the enemy of grace - it is the product of grace conveyed to us exclusively in the Means of Grace. Exclusively. That cannot be said enough - exclusively in the Means of Grace.

Why do clown shows and coffee bars predominate in the SynConference today? They do not trust in the exclusive work of the Holy Spirit in the Means of Grace, Word and Sacraments, so they resort to tricks, gimmicks, and sugar-coating the message.




Luther Answered the Faith Question in 1535.
Willl the UOJ Experts Respond?



KJV Galatians 1:11 But I certify you, brethren, that the Gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.

The UOJ Hive of Enthusiasts always starts to buzz when someone mentions faith. That is why the Enthusiasts want a justification without faith. They have all kinds of pious excuses for hating faith, but that only covers up their divorce of the Holy Spirit, Word, and justification.

Walther, called a fox by Bishop Stephan, was too wily to take on the Reformation by himself. Like Karl Barth, he used the language of theology to overthrow the Christian Faith. After copying the Pietism of Halle and its perversion of justification, Walther added election to the mix. Mentioning that despised word faith, he claimed that faith must be excluded to keep everything in order and God-glorifying (i.e. - Walther-glorifying). But that really went against the Formula of Concord's brilliant article on election, which can be summarized easily - Those who have faith were elected by God.


UOJ lives on if clauses, just as weevils live on flour. Let me demonstrate: "If we allow any talk about faith when speaking of election, that robs God of His glory, the Gospel of its glory, and makes man the cause of his own salvation." Anything can go into that if clause, making the result seem to be proof of the claim. But is it proof? A false beginning yields a bad argument. "If blondes have more fun, I will never have fun, since I am not a blonde." This is also accomplished with questions - "Is it true blondes have more fun?" That was an effective ad, that led to millions bleaching their hair to have more fun.

Luther on Faith
I am putting together a new collection of Luther quotations, with 15 graphics for chapter one alone, using the longer version of Luther's Galatians Commentary as my source.

The quotation above is obvious to any student of the Bible, but the UOJ Pharisees are just the opposite. They are opponents of the Word of God, using tidbits to attack the Scriptures with pious bows and scrapes, stained-glass evasions and subterfuges.

Faith is not bad, because faith is a gift of God, the result of the Holy Spirit at word through the Word. As Hoenecke said so concisely: "The Holy Spirit never without the Word. The Word never without the Holy Spirit. That is sound doctrine."

Mocking Faith = Mocking the Word
I have offered many examples of the WELS Shrinkers mocking Hoenecke's statement, in print, and that includes the First VP James Huebner, his side-kick Larry Olson, and elder false prophet Paul Calvin Kelm.

The only way to forgiveness of sin is faith Therefore, the preaching of the Gospel will plant this faith in those who hear the message of Christ dying for their sins. Anyone can say, "He died for the sins of the world." That is true. But to say, "He died for my sins" requires faith.

UOJ Enthusiasts have no sins. They bray that whenever they endorse their dogma and repeat the bizarre fantasies of Eduard Preuss, the Missouri professor who became a papal apologist  - starting a trend for future Missouri hacks. 

Because they abuse the Biblical word faith and use it to mean making a decision for universal absolution, the UOJ gurus are not confessing their sin at all. They are confessing their absolution and their trust in that pre-natal absolution - without faith and without the Word.

More Word Means More Faith
The  second paragraph in the graphic explains where the Lutheran sects have gone wrong. A pastor's obligation, which he should see as a privilege, is to study the Word and present an abundance of Scriptural teaching in his congregation. He should sow the Word carelessly, never "soil testing" (Fuller - endorsed by SynConference Shrinkers).

The Internet allows us to share these efforts without additional cost and without great effort. Blogging is push-button publishing, almost as easy as plagiarism. Why are so few congregations afraid to sow the Word, to follow the command and example of Christ?

That second paragraph is not exclusively about pastors but about everyone's relationship to the Word. No one has an excuse to avoid studying the Word. 

For a princely sum I can hire DP Don Patterson to be my life-coach. But for the price of a Bible, I can be taught by the Holy Spirit, a better and more honest coach.



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Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Luther Answered the Faith Question in 1535. Willl ...":

Ichabod -

Very nice commentary! I think that you best sum up the Lutheran Universalists [McCaininites], by the following 2 sentences:

>>>>>>> .......Because they abuse the Biblical word faith and use it to mean making a decision for universal absolution, the UOJ gurus are not confessing their sin at all. They are confessing their absolution and their trust in that pre-natal absolution - without faith and without the Word.......... <<<<<<<<<

It is no wonder why there is the apparent push to make common with Romanists and even to admire their lactating graven images. Like infants depend upon their mothers’ lactation; universal objective justification enthusiasts [McCaininites] continually suck on their Atonement perversion of Scripture. I realize while I state this that it is an unfair comparison [analogy] because a mother's milk is not (generally) harmful to her infant offspring. But, the milk of universal objective justification teaching is very harmful and poisonous to those to whom it is taught and preached. I've documented some of this in my one lengthy article which I submitted to this website. Here's the link:

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/07/pastor-nathan-bickel-on-uoj-in-wels.html

Nathan M. Bickel

www.thechristianmessage.org

www.moralmatters.org 

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GJ - McCain fits the old quip - "He looks like he was weaned on a pickle." 

Or more likely - "He was potty-trained at gunpoint."


BULLCITY 2.01(2): BEAT AUGIE



BULLCITY 2.01(2): BEAT AUGIE:


This is the best photo ever.

There are three reasons this is the best photo ever.  First of all, I am in it, and I am beautiful.  Secondly, check out Stanley's smile.  I know, right?  He is straight cheesin' it!

But the real point of the photo is what we're wearing.  Most people don't know this, but long before Stanley Hauerwas was a "don" of Duke University Divinity School, his first professorship was at Augustana College, a small Lutheran school in Rock Island, IL.  What even those people who do know this about Stanley probably don't know is that Augustana College and Wheaton College are rivals in football.  And during rivalry week we would sell "BEAT AUGIE" t-shirts to classmates and fans as a way of getting everyone pumped for the big game.

Incidentally, every year I played for Wheaton (2000-2003) we did "BEAT AUGIE."  In fact, three of those four victories were for the conference title, including two times where we took it to them right there in Rock Island.


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