No Wonder McCain Is Banned from Posting on Four Different Blogs. He Is Still Welcome on Ichabod, As Long As He Is Original and Does Not Plagiarize

Paul McCain posted the original painting,
a Roman saint taking a milk break,
- but it was edited to downplay the feeding.

Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Paul McCain Banned from Another Website - Three So...":

Speaks volumes concerning the LCMS when Rev. McCain is the Chief Editor of Concordia Publishing House, confidant of the LCMS President and he is banned from multiple blogs dealing with doctrine and practice.

Then again, McCain said he held the same confession of Christ as the Antichrist worshipping Father Richard Neuhaus.

McCain, "In both cases, he challenged me to think, to reflect, to grow and to strive for excellence in our common confession of Christ."

Kelmed from -
Lutheran (LCMS) Contra-Catholic Rev. Paul T. McCain Greatly Admired the Late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus (Hope for Ecumenism Springs Eternal!)

http://socrates58.blogspot.com/2009/11/lutheran-lcms-contra-catholic-rev-paul.html

Little surprise that McCain curses Christ's Gospel with the (W)ELS Council of Presidents by declaring anathema on One Justification solely By Faith Alone.  

UOJ makes for strange bedfellows,
but they never seem to get along.

WELS Loves Time of Grace, Not Means of Grace. Intrepid Lutherans: Change or Die IV

Intrepid Lutherans: Change or Die IV:

"It wouldn't be another year without another Change or Die conference, hosted by Pastor Mark Jeske and Time of Grace.

http://tentalentsforchrist.com/#/change-or-die-conference

The list of "Inspirational speakers" can be found here:

http://storage.cloversites.com/danae/documents/Change%20or%20Die%20IV%20Speakers.pdf

The agenda can be found here:

http://storage.cloversites.com/danae/documents/Change%20or%20Die%20IV%20Agenda.pdf

The irony just keeps growing."

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Paul McCain Banned from Another Website - Three So Far! - No, Make It Four - Steadfast Too

Paul McCain said...

Just one more suggestion, if I may.

I'd suggest doing all you can possibly do to put as much distance between yourself and that wacko Greg Jackson as humanly possible. [GJ - Editor McCain repeats himself.]

I urged Pastor Rydecki to do so, but he remained very silent, which I found more than a bit disturbing. [GJ - Very silent? Is that more silent than silent?]

It's one thing to stand up for what you think is truth, but quite another sort of total foolishness to allow your church body to be trashed in such reckless, and frankly, psychotic fashion, by Jackson, a man who is championing "your cause" as he sees it.  [GJ - Whose mental health was challenged by a moderate, irenic discussion blog? McCain's.]

FWIW.

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JANUARY 17, 2013 AT 3:03 PM

Intrepid Lutherans said...

Dear Rev. McCain,

Your ad hominem attack and personal insult against Greg Jackson is irrelevant, unchristian and out of place, especially here where we have made it clear that such personal attacks are unwelcome.

You may consider yourself banned from making further comments on Intrepid Lutherans.

JANUARY 17, 2013 AT 3:59 PM

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GJ - From a man who said he did not "have a spoon in that soup," McCain seems to be double-dipping. Shocking too is his obvious devotion to my blog. I admit that I only read Cyberplagiarist when I need something to remind me how bad things really are.

He must read Ichabod a lot, but he is not clear about what bothers him.

Paul McCain has been banned from LutherQuest, ALPB's Online Forum, and now the Intrepid Lutherans.

The strangest part of this is my obvious distance from the Intrepid Lutherans. I have no role in its management, no suggestions for anything they cover. I do not link them on my blog.

Meanwhile, McCain pops up on various forums and tells people they cannot link Ichabod, etc. I heard that happened at least once on Steadfast (sic) Lutherans (sic). I only read those if someone gives me a link to a post differing from the predictable instant mashed potatoes rah rah for Holy Mother Synod and its infallible ruler.

I would define a psychotic as someone who puts "The Word of God Remains Forever" on his pistolero collection and teaches against the Scriptures, full-time.

I teach at three institutions of higher learning, including graduate school. They frown on employing psychotics.

Sadly, McCain cannot teach at a college or university. He is not qualified. His writing and editing skills are on display every time he posts something original, such as the incoherent rant above.

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rlschultz has left a new comment on your post "Paul McCain Banned from Another Website - Three So...":

Some folks feel the need to be the resident smart aleck. They always have to get the last word in and enjoy lording themselves over others. It reminds me of the phrase "seagull manager". It refers to one who swoops in, makes a lot of noise and leaves behind a big mess for others to clean up. 

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Adolph Hoenecke has left a new comment on your post "Paul McCain Banned from Another Website - Three So...":

Does anyone know the record for number of blogs from which one individual has been banned? 

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GJ - Doubtless being banned from four (4) is an enviable record - if someone wants to envy No Call Paul.

Intrepids Facing the Purge

http://www.intrepidlutherans.com/2013/01/the-witch-hunt-has-officially-begun.html#comment-form

Daniel Baker said...

Whether or not certain pastors and teachers in the WELS and abroad have expressed theology pertaining to "objective" and "subjective" justification in an orthodox or semi-orthodox way really misses the point. What matters is that the synod's semi-official pronouncements clearly say:

"We believe that God has justified all sinners, that is, he has declared them righteous for the sake of Christ. This is the central message of Scripture upon which the very existence of the church depends" (This We BelieveIV:1).

There is no sense in which this excerpt can be "properly understood." Either God has fallaciously and ineffectually declared the whole world righteous, or He only declares righteous those who are made one with His Son in Holy Baptism. There's really no wiggle room here. Either Pr. Rydecki is promulgating false doctrine, or the This We Believe statement is heretical and blasphemous.

There is no room for "both/and." This is not a confusion of terms. The devil is out to play, and once again he's attacking the Chief Doctrine on which the Church stands or falls. He's playing the same old "Did God really say?" card. Did God really say that we are only declared righteous in faith, or did he say that the whole world is declared righteous whether it believes it or not? I stand with Pr. Rydecki in confessing that the unbelieving person "is condemned already" in God's eyes, not righteous, and with the Solid Declaration in saying that "the unbelieving and unconverted...person is not reconciled with God." To stand anywhere else, in my opinion, would be to stand on sinking sand.

JANUARY 17, 2013 AT 11:49 AM

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GJ - I would clarify the third paragraph with conversion through the Word. That might happen through infant baptism, but it also might happen through adult conversion followed by baptism.

Holy Baptism makes no sense when someone declares the entire world is already righteous, forgiven, and saved, period, end of story.

Justification by faith takes place through the Word and the Sacraments.

9 baffling questions in the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax - U.S. News

9 baffling questions in the Manti Te'o girlfriend hoax - U.S. News:

Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images

Manti Te'o warms up before Notre Dame's game against the Crimson Tide on Jan. 7.

By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News

College football star Manti Te'o says he was the victim of a cruel hoax, an elaborate scheme in which he fell for an imaginary girlfriend named Lennay Kekua and mourned her when she died of leukemia.

But he still has a lot of explaining to do.

The narrative crafted before and after the expose is full of conflicting information and holes bigger than those in Notre Dame's defensive line during its loss to Alabama.

If Te'o wants the public to believe that he was nothing more than a dupe, here are some of the questions and inconsistencies he'll need to clear up.

1. Notre Dame says that Te'o never met Kekua, that their relationship was strictly online and by phone. But the player's father gave the South Bend Tribune a detailed account of how the couple first met at a Stanford game in Palo Alto in 2009 and rendez-voused in Hawaii after becoming a couple in early 2012. And Te'o himself told ESPN that she was the "most beautiful girl I ever met."

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2. Te'o called Kekua "the love of my life." His parents said they believed they would get married. Yet if Notre Dame's account is to be believed, they never met even once, or even Skyped. It beggars belief.

3. Before her leukemia "diagnosis," Kekua supposedly was nearly killed in a car accident. But published profiles of Te'o have conflicting dates -- late 2011, last January, or as recently as April. Why the discrepancies?

4. When did Kekua's fictitious death happen? Various interviews with Te'o have her succumbing to leukemia hours before his grandmother died on Sept. 12, soon after, or even days after. Assuming Te'o truly believed Kekua had passed away, wouldn't he remember the date? Or did all the reporters get the details wrong?

5. After he supposedly received the shock of his life -- a call from someone using Kekua's voice and phone number while he was at the ESPN Awards on Dec. 6 -- Teo stayed quiet for three weeks. It wasn't until Dec. 26 that he told Notre Dame officials, who then hired private investigators to look into it.

6. If Te'o was in on the deception, though, why wouldn't he just let Kekua rest in peace? Was he or someone else worried the hoax was about to come to light, prompting a fourth-quarter end-run to get ahead of the revelations?

7. Hours after Deadspin's bombshell report and Notre Dame's press conference, when it seemed that everyone could agree on one thing -- there is no Lennay Kekua -- an NFL player claimed to have actually seen her in the flesh. Arizona Cardinals fullback Regan Mauia said he met her in American Samoa in 2011, before she started romancing Te'o, and is "close" to her family.

8. Carrying out the hoax would have been a full-time job involving more than one person. Te'o claims he would spend all night on the phone with Kekua while she was in the hospital. There were purported communications from family members. Who would have had the time to orchestrate it? By the same token, how would Te'o have been able to create and maintain a social-media profile for Kekua on his own?

9. Where's the motive? A central figure in the hoax is reported to be musician Ronaiah Tuiasosopo.Deadspin reported that he had contact with the woman, a former high-school classmate, whose photos were used to create Kekua's profile -- even obtaining one of the pictures from her directly. But the site also describes Tuiasosopo as a friend of Te'o, raising the question of why he would humiliate his buddy.

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SP Harrison - Tear Down That Walther Idol

This idol is at the Purple Palace.
A second one is in the shrine at the cemetery.
The third one is in Perryville.

Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "Walther Myths Examined and Exposed":

Ichabod -

When (if ever) will Missouri Synod tear down the Walther images? When will they follow suite after the secular Penn State tore down Joe Paterno's statue?

While the Missouri Synod allows its graven images of Walther to stand, it is showing the world its arrogant high and mighty version of religious political correctness. How shameful!

Nathan M. Bickel

www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatter.org 

Intrepids - Accentuate the Positive - Don't Mess with Mr. Inbetween

Anonymous said...

This is starting to put things, around me, in a certain perspective.
What does this mean, to laity, who signed, those deemed non members?

What exactly, is being done & what are those who stand fast & firm, in for?
Heidi Stoeberl

JANUARY 17, 2013 AT 7:37 AM

Pastor Spencer said...

Heidi,

I'm not sure, frankly, what this means. I have spoken to the synod President about this. It is my understanding that each District President will handle this in his own way.

I can say this much: I have had dozens of contacts from Pastors around the synod who have said they are not going to change the way they preach and teach, namely, that we justified freely by grace and saved by faith in Jesus given by the Means of Grace. To a man, they have deemed this debate "an argument over words." Ovbiously, Pastor Rydecki does not see it that way, and neither does the CoP. So, exactly how this will play out in the end - God alone knows. Again, I say, let Pastor Rydecki explain his position thoroughly and completely, and let the Pastors and people "test the spirits." (First John 4:1)

Thank you.

Pastor Spencer

JANUARY 17, 2013 AT 8:54 AM

Rev. Paul A. Rydecki said...

Just to remind everyone, I was perfectly willing and even eager to continue studying the doctrinal issues with my brothers in the WELS in order to determine if it was all just "an argument over words." I wasn't the one condemning people as false teachers or calling on them to repent for their teaching on justification. Not once. It was the WELS leadership that determined I was the false teacher and called on me to repent for teaching that sinners are only justified through faith in Christ. So at this point, if one believes that it was all "an argument over words," then what will he do with the WELS COP that has condemned a man (and divided a congregation) over a simple matter of words? It seems to me that one cannot sit on this fence for too long.

JANUARY 17, 2013 AT 9:11 AM

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GJ - Note the quibbling nature of the words used in Pastor Spencer's response. Error loves ambiguities.

Justified freely by grace  - this is the phrase used to market UOJ. "Freely by grace" is redundant. 

Why not justified by grace? Buchholz and the UOJ leaders have declared war on the Biblical doctrine of justification by faith.

If they agree with Paul - the original Pau, the Apostle - they would say, to a man, "We reject forgiveness without faith. We reject universal absolution without the Word of God."

Let's look at the entire brief confession:

We justified freely by grace and saved by faith in Jesus given by the Means of Grace.

Justification by faith is forgiveness. Justification by faith is salvation.  Therefore, this brief confession is rather addled, even for WELS. Jon-Boy Buchholz has written that the entire world is saved, period, finished, completed. This is constantly reiterated by the UOJ chorus, with pastors saying, "I was saved 2000 years ago." By that they mean - the entire world was pronounced forgiven and saved when Jesus died (or when He rose). They have not figured out the Moment of Absolution, but they are working on it. (Watch Notre Shame pressers for tips on how to finesse the truth.)

The fact remains, there is no grace apart from the Means of Grace. This WELSian brief confession lets everyone see it both ways, and the quibblers are intending to leave that false impression. The UOJ crowd says, "Ah. Everyone is forgiven. If we believe in UOJ, we are saved." 

The normal, un-brainwashed believer says, "There is justification by faith, and grace, and the Means of Grace. Everything is fine."

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Intrepids - Accentuate the Positive - Don't Mess ...":

Pastor Spencer states, “we justified freely by grace and saved by faith in Jesus given by the Means of Grace.”

This is classic UOJ speak. UOJ teaches the whole unbelieving world has been forgiven all sin and justified before and without faith in Christ – before and without receiving Christ as Mediator through faith alone – before and without obtaining Christ as their Propitiation through faith alone. Therefore the false gospel of UOJ teaches that the whole unbelieving world has been received into God’s grace, redeemed and reconciled to God without faith in Christ alone. UOJ teaches that Grace forgives – without the Means of Grace and faith therefore isn’t the righteousness of Christ by which men are forgiven – it only saves. UOJ teaches the forgiveness of sins is not eternal salvation for the unbelieving world which has already been declared forgiven, guiltless and righteous.

Faithful Wittenberg Confessor Hunnis rejects this teaching:

THESES CONCERNING THE HUBERIAN UNIVERSAL JUSTIFICATION OF BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS

Thesis 1
Huber professes such a justification, for the sake of which Christ has properly, actually and practically conferred redemption on the entire human race in such a way that sins have been equally remitted to all men, including the Turks101, and that all men (including unbelievers) have received remission of sins, and that the whole human race has, in actual fact, been received into the grace and bosom of God.

Thesis 2
Hence he says that all those to whom the Gospel is proclaimed are to be called "elect, justified by God, sanctified, redeemed," and some of these are said to be "believing and converted."

Thesis 3
This universal justification of the entire human race he considers (even without respect to faith in Christ) to be fully completed 102, sins having been remitted on account of the satisfaction made by the Son of God and swallowed up in His own blood and wounds. These things he says concerning his justification.

Thesis 4
He was pleased to correct this foul and disgusting error in the first legal proceeding before the commissaries. But what he was at that time thought to have vomited out, he swallowed up again in his later writings, which his own reply to the Heidelberg Articles as well as a response to the censure of the Tiibingen theologians shows in the page markings in the upper margin.
Hunnius
Thesis Opposed to Huberianism
Translated by Rev. Paul Rydecki
Available from Amazon.com

Lance Armstrong, Manti Te'o, Walther, and the Synodical Confidence Men Today

Lance Armstrong has admitted to doping as a bike racer.

Manti Te'o and Notre Dame have been lying about the invisible girlfriend, one that he met after a game (but never met), his future bride (according to his father), and the love of his life (whose funeral and grave he never visited). She was hurt in a car accident and died of leukemia the same day his real grandmother died.

Many are assuming the invented girl was a beard, to explain Manti's lack of interest in the female groupies surrounding athletes. The trouble with faked emails and tweets is our ability to track them to the source. 



"We spoke on the phone every night." At 2.40

"Hey, hon. Skip my funeral if you have a game.But get the game ball. Thanks."

Notre Shame is the new moniker being attached to the PR-driven university. Watch the lies unravel in the next week. A guy was generating these contacts, and there are family/Mormon connections.

Lax news reporters are listed here.

Mrs. I aked, "They couldn't get a girl to play the role?"

Speaking of which.

Walther did not want anyone to write an early history of the LCMS. Later, when Ludwig Fuerbringer had a chance to regale his audience with stories he heard from his mum and his auntie, he wrote, "I wish I would have asked more." Uh-huh.

When Walther's brother died, Ludwig's father married the widow, giving birth to Ludwig (of course) and making CFW the uncle of this  pioneering boy. There are stories we hear and stories we cannot repeat. 

The early Missouri stories are typical of abusive cult behavior. Those who keep the secrets and tell the lies are rewarded. Those who tell the truth are slimed. Forster, the author of Zion on the Mississippi, who was overly sensitive about telling the whole truth, is still run down as a failed LCMS pastor. The book remains the standard early history of the sect. It is quite a detailed history, a goldmine of quotations, facts, statistics, and anecdotes.

When Phil Stephan published a collection of historical facts about Martin Stephan and his descendants, the LCMS loyalists immediately piled on him for NOT being a professional historian. By the way, every historical source has factual inconsistencies and ambiguities. The official archives of the LCA had my dissertation subject dying in the wrong city and state. The archivist was not fired and his records were not shredded or burned.

Cults shred and burn the facts, then invent stories to make every figure they like into a saint.

Breitbart - great details about the lies.

St. Te'o of Hawaii was invented as a way to grab the Heisman for a guy who was later streamrolled by Alabama. Character is one requirement for the award, so Notre Dame leveraged the dying girlfriend story. 

"What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me?" [Love Story]

Sob. Burying head in arms, wearing typical Harvard sweater.

St. Marvin of Schwan was the best, most honorable, most generous  guy who ever lived, truly a man of great character. 

St. Walther of Pietism was the man who rode in on a white charger and rid the colony of the ee-vul Martin Stephan, but he did so in a Biblical way. He either did or did not violate the seal of the confessional. No matter. Martin Stephan was ee-vul and had a lot of gold and land and books. As bad as the bishop was, not that Walther ever signed the bishop thingie, Walther gave the bishop three options. That was big of Walther, because the bishop was ee-vul. Everything the group did was wonderful, but it cannot be discussed because Walther said not to.

If you ever question a syllable from the Great Walther, you yourself are ee-vul.

If you question Holy Mother WELS, you are also ee-vul. You do not have to believe everything Walther said, because he was Missouri Synod. But you do have to follow everything WELS says, as long as it comes from the Church and Changers. 

If you are ELS, you can pretend to be better than Missouri or WELS. No matter. You are too small to matter. But if you question WELS, you are ee-vul.

Chase Bank Disciplines Their CEO
The CEO of Chase just had his salary cut in half for losing $6 billion. He has to get by on $1 million a month for the new year. 

How much does your SP make? How about the staff? You do not get to know, because you are ee-vul just for wondering.

"He was caught before and received counseling,
but we didn't know.
He had hundreds of files at headquarters,
but we didn't know.
And we assured him of his forgiveness."

WELS Party in the MLC video, copying Party in the Fire Island Pines:
"We didn't know we were plagiarizing a gay video.
We forgive that blogger for reacting against our innocent gaity."

Hitting the Nail - Right on the Thumb - And It Hurts

Pastor emeritus Nathan Bickel has left a new comment on your post "WELS District Presidents Should Be Individually In...":

Ichabod -

I think it significant the the pronouncement by the DP against Pastor Rydecki, illustrated that the WELS leadership see themselves as defenders of false doctrine. Why didn't the DP say: ".....you have made it clear that you are not in agreement with the Scriptures?" No! Instead Buchholz stated that he was more concerned with violations of the WELS doctrinal teaching. And, this is what he said:

"......you have made it clear that you are not in agreement with the doctrine of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)."

Isn't this what Christ talked about?

Matthew 15:9 - "But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."

Nathan M. Bickel

www.thechristianmessage.org
www.moralmatters.org

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GJ - You have hit the nail right on the thumb, Pastor Bickel. This condemnation from Jon-Boy is the same issued from Mathey, against the Intrepids - "I am shocked that you have departed from the clear teaching of our synod."

Everything is set aside (Confessions, Scriptures, orthodox Lutheran writings) and replaced by recent synodical pronouncements, even letters written by staffers like Bruce Becker.

Moreover, the past is mocked. "I worship Jesus, not Luther." Or - "The Book of Concord is boring and irrelevant." Perhaps worse, but in the same category - the past is twisted into a malicious lie - "Luther, Gerhard, Chemnitz, Calov, and Paul all taught UOJ."

Walther did teach the Easter absolution of the world, after meeting up with Martin Stephan, the Pietist trained in Pietism at Halle University. Walther did teach UOJ all his life, and roundly condemned anyone who departed from his dogma. That does not make Walther the ultimate authority on anything. The Word of God is.

Relationships - The Holy Spirit and Faith and the Gospel

http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/05/blog-post.html
In a few months this became the most popular post since 2010.
Norma Boeckler created the art for this graphic.

Luther should be our main author, if we want to call ourselves Lutherans. That is not a brand name, to be associated with all kinds of Pietistic rules and regulations, baffling to the most obdurate Pharisees. Such as - "You can train and worship with the gay activist Andy Stanley, but we will beat your brains in if we catch you reading a blog from Arkansas."

The Scriptures were given to us from God for one purpose only - to convey Christ the Savior to us through the Word.

Jesus comes to us through the Gospel Promises, and those Promises plant and sustain faith in Him as the gracious and forgiving Messiah.

Another effect of the Gospel is to stir up opposition, since the unbelieving world, Satan, and Old Adam hate the Gospel. The Holy Spirit is always at work in the Word to convict the world of its foundational sin - not trusting in Christ for salvation. The Holy Spirit will convict the world of sin, because they believe not on Me. John 16:8f. Not UOJ stylist can get past this verse (or any other). 

Since the Word never loses its efficacy, this opposition can lead to faith, as it did with Simon Greenleaf, the Christian apologist. The Word can strengthen the wobbly (which includes all of us) - the chief example being Nicholas Selnecker. One of the greatest doctrinal hymns was written by a man who went from being a compromiser to a Concordist.


"Lord Jesus Christ, With Us Abide"
by Nikolaus Selnecker, 1532-1592
Translated by composite

1. Lord Jesus Christ, with us abide,
For round us falls the eventide;
Nor let Thy Word, that heavenly light,
For us be ever veiled in night.

2. In these last days of sore distress
Grant us, dear Lord, true steadfastness
That pure we keep, till life is spent,
Thy holy Word and Sacrament.

3. Lord Jesus, help, Thy Church uphold,
For we are sluggish, thoughtless, cold.
Oh, prosper well Thy Word of grace
And spread its truth in every place!

4. Oh, keep us in Thy Word, we pray;
The guile and rage of Satan stay!
Oh, may Thy mercy never cease!
Give concord, patience, courage, peace.

5. O God, how sin's dread works abound!
Throughout the earth no rest is found,
And falsehood's spirit wide has spread,
And error boldly rears its head.

6. The haughty spirits, Lord, restrain
Who o'er Thy Church with might would reign
And always set forth something new,
Devised to change Thy doctrine true.

7. And since the cause and glory, Lord,
Are Thine, not ours, to us afford
Thy help and strength and constancy.
With all our heart we trust in Thee.

8. A trusty weapon is Thy Word,
Thy Church's buckler, shield and sword.
Oh, let us in its power confide
That we may seek no other guide!

9. Oh, grant that in Thy holy Word
We here may live and die, dear Lord;
And when our journey endeth here,
Receive us into glory there.

The Lutheran Hymnal
Hymn #292 
Text: Luke 24:29
Author: Nikolaus Selnecker et al., 1611
Translated by: composite
Titled: "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ"
Tune: "Ach bleib bei uns"
1st Published in: Geistliche Lieder
Town: Leipzig,1589

To label faith as "synergism" shows appalling ignorance of the Word. The effect of this synodical wisdom is to condemn any reference to faith as if it were a decision, an act of the will, or a work. 

Believers are new creations, creations by the Word, creations by the Holy Spirit at work in the Word. Word and Spirit are never separated, except by Enthusiasts like Buchholz, Sig Becker, Paul McCain, Jungkuntz, and Valleskey. 

Because unbelief is the foundational sin, Enthusiasm is the foundational false doctrine, explaining the error of papalism, Islam, and UOJ. 

WELS District Presidents Should Be Individually Interviewed by the Laity. SP Mark Schroeder Needs To Answer Too

When did your hide become unchapped, so that you approved
a huge grant for more Church Growth nonsense.

Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "DP Patterson Threatens His Counseling Victims with...":

Joe Krohn, "Pr. Rydecki was not removed from the WELS ministry for false doctrine."

According to faithful Pastor Rydecki's letter to the antiChristian DP Pastor Jon Buchholz and the AZ-CA District Presidium he was excommuncated for teaching false doctrine. According to the (W)ELS - it is heresy to teach that man is justified solely by faith in Christ alone.

I've kelmed Pr. Rydecki's quotes of DP Buchholz's letter:I am deeply disappointed that you have turned away from the teaching you learned in your ministerial training and have instead denied the truth and fallen into error.

After numerous conversations with you and repeated efforts to admonish and instruct you from God’s word, you have made it clear that you are not in agreement with the doctrine of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS).

Specifically, you have refused to acknowledge and confess that God forgave the sin of the world when Jesus died on the cross (John 1:29; John 19:30; 1 John 2:2; Romans 5:18; 2 Cor. 5:19; Apology IV, 103).
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2012/10/letter-to-wels-district-president-jon.html

By the way, the anathema that Buchholz and the Lutheran Synods declare upon One Justification solely By Faith Alone is the exact same anathema that the Antichrist sitting in his Roman Catholic Church declares. 

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GJ - The America system is completely messed up. Someone pretends to be a conservative, until elected. Then he is the worst apostate so far, until another man takes over. And he is everyone's pal, until elected. Once elected, he delights in demolishing congregations, families, and divine calls. The next person is a healer, until he repeats what was just done.

Buchholz examining anyone is a hoot, for starters. He has no grasp of Biblical doctrine and has no interest in study, but considers himself a great expert on everything. Pretending to be critical of Church Growth, he always leaps to the defense of people like Wayne Mueller and Al Sorum.

Because I heard from various college students, I tried to tell him that the worst Shrinkers in WELS were paraded by the colleges and preps as the WELS superstars. "No they aren't!" he snapped.

Buchholz should be asked, "Do you agree with the Book of Concord and the Bible that the Holy Spirit brings us grace only through the Means of Grace?"

If he says, "Yes," then ask, "Then how can the entire world be saved, as you claim, apart from the Word of God? Please join the Unitarian-Universalist fellowship at your earlier convenience."

Parlow, Jeske, Kelm, and Patterson -
the WELS Jelly-Tele-Tubbies.

DP Patterson needs to be asked, "Why does your congregation host drunken spiritual retreats, where the women bet on who will puke her guts out first?"

"Why would a layman feel physically threatened by you?"

"You claimed you were never a Church and Changer, so why did you go to the final (hahaha) Church and Change meeting?"

"Did you send all those anonymous comments to Ichabod from Garland, Texas, your hometown?"

"Why did you take a group of church workers to Exponential in Orlando, Florida? If you are so opposed to false doctrine (stifling laughter) - why expose them to the worst of the worst?"



"Why do you spend thousands of dollars on African trips and demand WELS offering money to staff your well-established congregation?"

SP Schroeder, "When are you going to show some leadership and oppose the New NIV? Missouri and the ELS think it is hideous - and it barely got any votes at the stage-managed convention."

"If you are so opposed to the Church and Changers, why are they constantly rewarded and promoted while the faithful are treated like dirt?"

"Would you do a feature story in FICKLE on how Glende's stinky bar in downtown Appleton got an enormous grant from WELS to host a second campus campus near an established congregation with a real church building? And why the loan to help them clean up the dried vomit and fumigate? Are they broke with so many staffers?"

"Why can WELS clergy plagiarize Groeschel, Stanley, and Swindoll--without harm--while those who quote the Formula of Concord are expelled?"

"When will you expel those who teach contrary to the Scriptures and the Confessions?"