ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
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| Why build such a vanilla church? |
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| Original recipe. |
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| Classic WELS interior, plus ugly screen. |
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| Nice stage. Nice computer monitors for mindless CoWo lyrics. This looks like a generic Protestant mausoleum. Is there a locked vault for the Book of Concord? |
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| Easter Sunday - 5 minute sermon. Koine crooning their timeless tosh. |
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| Gratuitious kitten photo. |
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| Tim Glende wearing liturgical red - but was it a red Sunday? |
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| No - clearly a white Sunday. Praise band. Check. Giant screen uglifying the chancel. Check. Another Groeschel sermon - Check. A perfect WELS Easter in Emergent-land. Where are the bunnies to pet? |
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| Conversion! Buchholz pretended to oppose Emergent Church Gunn. Jon-Boy now criticizes the critics of Gunn. |
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| Stetzer cannot spell disciple, so WELS loves him. |
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| Don't forget Dark Helmut. |
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| No. They are ELCA-wannabees. |
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| UOJ makes work with ELCA as easy as a DMin from Fuller. |
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| Goodsoil is the advocacy group that dominated the ELCA 2009 convention, when pastors suddenly discovered .... |
LGBT Couples Retreat--Saturday, May 11
Abiding Savior Lutheran Church in Fairview, NC, will host an LGBT Couples Retreat on Saturday, May 11, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. This one-day retreat offers a time apart for LGBT couples to work on their communication skills and meet other couples who value spirituality as an important part of their relationship. There will be time for worship, relationship building, Bible study, and fellowship. The cost of this retreat is $40 per couple which includes a light breakfast and lunch.
The retreat is made possible by a grant Abiding Savior received from Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries. "This is an area of ministry with the LGBT community that our congregation thought was missing," says the Rev. David Eck, pastor of Abiding Savior. To download the brochure and register for this event, please go to the Abiding Savior website.
Abolition Sunday - Focusing on Repealing the Death Penalty
Lutheran Advocacy Ministry - CO has been involved with a coalition working to repeal the death penalty in Colorado for many years. This year is the year! We ask everyone to get involved to support the repeal of the death penalty. As Christians, we are called to be committed to justice and oppose the death penalty. "Executions harm society by mirroring and reinforcing existing injustice. The death penalty distracts us from our work toward a just society. It deforms our response to violence at the individual, familial, institutional, and systemic levels. It perpetuates cycles of violence" (ELCA Social Statement).
One way you can take part is participating in Abolition Sunday. During Abolition Sunday, you can host a guest speaker, watch a movie on the death penalty, gather facts sheets and petitions, and contact your Representative and Senator to support the repeal of the death penalty.
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| ELCA goes to Fuller Seminary for training and also works on faux-evangelism projects with Missouri and WELS - same great results! Members give millions of dollars to keep all these thugs in their luxury digs. |