Details to Follow - Martin Luther College WELS

Sunday, October 9, 2011. It was on the calendar in the student center. I assume it was similar to the "best evangelism fails" session they do during Evangelism Day.

Sending a Message to the New Love Shack in WELS?

Was supposedly leading the opposition to the NNIV.
Never voted on the NNIV but approved all translations/paraphrases.

This is the time of year when congregations are prayerfully determining the level of financial support they can provide for our common work as a synod. Congregation Mission Offerings (CMO) serve as the primary means of support for our synodical mission and ministry.

Over the past four years, congregations have done a commendable job in meeting the commitments they have made. On the other hand the CMO commitments have been relatively flat and have not been meeting the goals established by the synod in convention. CMO are still below what they were in 2007. While we have been able to avoid cuts in ministry and, in fact, have been blessed in our efforts to carefully expand our efforts, God continues to place many opportunities before us to share the gospel with more people.

Plans adopted by the synod in convention assumed a four percent increase in CMO. While this is a greater increase than we have seen in recent years, the synod in convention believed it was achievable.

The "reforming" District Pope kicks out the only Lutheran pastor in the district,
but embraces Jeff Gunn's Ministry of Plagiarism.

It’s our prayer that congregations throughout the synod will recognize the privilege they have in supporting the work we do together as a synod. God’s blessings on our synod, our congregations, and on our families have once again been more than we could ask or imagine, and our offerings for the mission and ministry of the synod are one way for us to demonstrate our humble thanks. Pray about this. Encourage one another. And trust that God will bless our efforts.

Serving you in Christ,
President Mark Schroeder

Tons of WELS money for the Glende/Ski circus,
but Glende's first parish is being foreclosed by WELS -
no mission support for the victims of Glende's bullying.

Lutherdom's Violation of the Seventh Commandment Proves One Thing: Unbelievers Run the Show

I was preparing for the yet-untaught lesson on the Seventh Commandment, Large Catechism, Book of Concord.

I realized it was one of the funniest passages in Luther. The best humor consists of observations that go beyond the accepted view of a given situation.

Luther - Seventh Commandment:
After your person and spouse temporal property comes next. That also God wishes to have protected, and He has commanded that no one shall subtract from, or curtail, his neighbor's possessions. 224] For to steal is nothing else than to get possession of another's property wrongfully, which briefly comprehends all kinds of advantage in all sorts of trade to the disadvantage of our neighbor. Now, this is indeed quite a wide-spread and common vice, but so little regarded and observed that it exceeds all measure, so that if all who are thieves, and yet do not wish to be called such, were to be hanged on gallows, the world would soon be devastated, and there would be a lack both of executioners and gallows. For, as we have just said, to steal is to signify not only to empty our neighbor's coffer and pockets, but to be grasping in the market, in all stores, booths, wine- and beer- cellars, workshops, and, in short, wherever there is trading or taking and giving of money for merchandise or labor.

Luther expounds on all the ways people steal, such as mechanics charging too much, and ends with the Church of Rome as the primary thief.

Luther:
229] Therefore they are also called swivel-chair robbers, land- and highway-robbers, not pick-locks and sneak-thieves who snatch away the ready cash, but who sit on the chair [at home] and are styled great noblemen, and honorable, pious citizens, and yet rob and steal under a good pretext.

230] Yes, here we might be silent about the trifling individual thieves if we were to attack the great, powerful arch-thieves with whom lords and princes keep company, who daily plunder not only a city or two, but all Germany. Yea, where should we place the head and supreme protector of all thieves, the Holy Chair at Rome with all its retinue, which has grabbed by theft the wealth of all the world, and holds it to this day?

And now, the "conservative" Lutheran Church takes its place beside the Church of Rome as a den of thieves, stealing from its own members - even stealing from various denominations.

The "conservative" Lutheran congregations either steal from Fuller and Craig Groeschel or they rob Rome of its titles, incensed entertainments, and robes. If they are not stealing the anti-liturgical clown acts of Evangelicals, they are cloning the smells and bells of popery. The emphasis is never upon the Word of God, which they do not trust, but upon their methods of amusing the masses.

They are lazy, greedy, and violent. If anyone dares to point out their follies, no matter how polite and deferential the critics might be, these clowns drop their smiles and pious gestures to get even. They want an open and honest discussion only among those who agree completely with them. The rest they will silence and eject, shunning them as lepers.

Lutheran pastors and laity - while they are stealing the worship of Rome and Driscoll, they are robbing you blind. They skim all the money for themselves because they are too weak to dig ditches and too proud to beg on the streets.

They scoff at the poor fools in real missions, who barely have enough to keep going, whether on the arid Great Plains or the frozen tundra of the Upper Midwest.

Intrepid Lutherans - This Is "Intrepid" - Just So You Know

LCMS/WELS Pastor Mark and Avoid Jeske
sits on the Thrivent Board.

Thrivent Choice Controversy – An Overview

http://daringlutheran.net/thrivent-choice-controversy/

On or about December 17th, 2013, it was discovered that Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota had appeared in the Thrivent Choice database. Thrivent Choice is a member-directed grant program funded by Thrivent Financial, “a faith-based, not-for-profit membership organization nearly 2.5 million members strong.”

Much controversy erupted, with large protests online directed against Thrivent and asking them to immediately remove Planned Parenthood from the list of approved Thrivent Choice organizations, and to setup a moral criteria for organizations allowed in the Thrivent Choice program.

This page is intended to provide an overview of the events and related links pertaining to the controversy. Please provide any additional links that should be included.

December 17th, 2013

• Thrivent’s Dangerous Game is published, outlining initial conversations on Twitter with Thrivent surrounding the issue.

December 18th, 2013

• My article is republished by LifeNews.com and SteadfastLutherans.org.
• After more investigation, it’s discovered that Thrivent Choice dollars, if given to Planned Parenthood, would be undesignated and therefore directly fund abortions. (Thrivent Does Not Have the Komen “Out”)

December 19th, 2013

• The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod issues a statement on the matter.
• The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod Reporter published a more detailed news story.
• The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod also issues a statement.

December 20th, 2013

• Thrivent issues a statement officially responding to the controversy. In their response, they remove Planned Parenthood from the list of eligible Thrivent Choice organizations.
• At the same time, Thrivent also temporarily removes all pro-life organizations from the program. (Thrivent’s Statement)
• My article “Thrivent’s Statement” is republished at LifeNews.com.
• The LCMS responds to Thrivent statement with a statement of their own.
• The LCMS Reporter publishes a follow-up news story.
• A list of the “temporarily suspended” organizations is published. (Download PDF)
• Christianity Today publishes a short story on the controversy.
• Christian Life Resources issues a statement on the controversy.

Ongoing

• Issues, Etc. has a half-hour open-lines discussion of the controversy. (12/20/13)
• Rev. Todd Wilken posts some thoughts about Thrivent’s resolution. (12/21/13)

Lutheran Satire Video

St. Peter and The CORE Have Plans

Lutheran Wall of Shame on Facebook

Can't wait for January 10th when this site is launched. 922Church.com. Watch the video below announcing it.

Will it be an effort to be This 922 Church ?



http://www.christschapel.net/ministries/church-922

or this one?

http://www.resonatechurch922.org/

Can't wait to see how "The Core" and all the various affiliates join together to be a 922 Church. You know you are Lutheran when you are all things to all people.

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Nearby - In the Valley of the Fox -

http://www.stmarkpartners.org/

Men of His Work or Men of His Word - Cannot get their headlines to match the story.