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.
"Judge's order prohibits release of documents in Springdale, Ecclesia claims
By Ron Wood
Posted: May 17, 2017 at 1:10 a.m.
ANTHONY REYES • @NWATONYR
Credit: NWA Democrat-Gazette
Ecclesia College is again refusing to release documents requested in a Freedom of Information Act request by a former teacher and board member.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Ecclesia College is again refusing to release documents requested by a former teacher and board member.
Travis Storey, attorney for Ecclesia, in a renewed motion to dismiss filed late last week, contends the documents are covered in a protective order issued by a federal judge hearing the corruption case of former state Sen. Jonathan Woods, Ecclesia President Oren Paris III and Randall Shelton Jr. Former state Rep. Micah Neal has already pleaded guilty for his role.
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Arkansas legislators gave nearly $700,000 of taxpayers' money to the private Christian college in Springdale from the state's General Improvement Fund."
Missouri and WELS introduced the gravest error into their synods by promoting the rationalistic Halle Pietism of Stephan and Walther.
Now that some people are reasonably well informed about Justification by Faith, the synods are adopting more double-talk to hide the essence of their foul error - Universal Forgiveness and Salvation without Faith.
Here is one LCMS statement: Faith
alone
By His suffering
and death as the substitute for all people of all time, Jesus purchased and won
forgiveness and eternal life for them. Those who hear this Good News and believe
it have the eternal life that it offers. God creates faith in Christ and gives
people forgiveness through Him.
This can clearly be taken two ways. The red area certainly suggests the Universal Forgiveness of OJ - via Stephan, Walther, and F. Pieper. But - if someone is not aware of the brassy heresies lurking in that language, the rest of the statement sounds OK for someone who seldom thinks of Pietism's silence on the Means of Grace, the efficacy of the Word, and the Sacraments.
WELS honors the Augsburg Confession in the breach, repudiating its meaning while plagiarizing its language. UOJists are all shameless liars.
The Bible and Lutherans teach that God judged all sinners righteous in his sight when Jesus Christ died on the cross for us. God declared everyone free from the guilt and punishment owed for our sins. The sinner receives this free gift of forgiveness, not by doing good deeds, but only by faith. A person is justified when he or she believes in Christ and his redemptive work. It is a gift from God.
Ephesians 2:8,9; 2 Corinthians 5:19; Romans 3:22-24; Romans 3:28; Romans 4:5; Mark 16:16 (Mark 16:16 is no longer in the WELS OFFICIAL NIV Bible and UOJ has been inserted in Romans 3:32).
WELS has 60+ essays in their files extolling Justification by Faith and ignoring the ministry of the Word.
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GJ - The WELS statement should not fool anyone, but it will. "A person is justified when..." But they just confessed that God has absolved and saved everyone, thus merging the Atonement with Justification. They contradict themselves when claiming "a person is justified when he or she or s/he is believes in Christ..."
They cannot reconcile their language - a house divided that cannot stand. The WELS unwillingness to cite "Objective Justification" shows their timidity in the face of objections from those who actually read a trustworthy Bible.
The WELS-Missouri-ELS-CLC (sic) combine is destroying itself through their promotion of Universal Objective Justification. The irony is vast - Missouri has never officially declared itself in bed with UOJ. There has been flirting, and yes, plenty of chambering. But there is no official catechism in the LCMS that teaches UOJ. CPH's KJV Catechism teaches Justification by Faith.
But the UOJ Stormtroopers make sure their dogma is enforced and promoted at all times.
Gabe Brown is a believer who argues for reviving the ruined soil.
Gabe Brown is a regenerative farmer whose videos are very well done, combining his experience with statistics to support regenerating the soil.
One of his favorite sayings is exactly what I think, "Why ignore free resources and then write a check to buy the same resources?" After Sassy's walk, I went outside to rake up dead grass to place around the base of the newer Butterfly Bush. I promised Mrs. Ichabod it would grow even higher than the other one, which reached 10 feet last summer. The grass and muskmelon remains will feed the soil creatures under the bush.
My landscaper friend says, "Add sugar to the soil." OK, I added fruit sugar.
Brown planted triticale and hairy vetch together as a cover crop, to gain from both plants. Triticale is a grain for forage, putting phosphorous into the soil. Hairy vetch is a legume, pulling nitrogen from the air and fixing it in the roots, through bacterial nodes. The two plants feed each other through the fungal network and build the soil.
Brown is completely against plowing and rototilling the soil, because tillage harms the soil in many ways.
As a farmer, he has to plan his expenses and have a strategy that yields profits. Gardeners have an easier job than farmers, working only a tiny bit of land. But the goal is the same - why write a check for harmful methods that was free and yet thrown away?
Gardeners buy:
Rototillers that harm the soil and while cursing the moles that stir the soil for free.
Nitrogen fertilizers that harm the soil while telling me how they hate clover. And they pooh-poor manure, compost, and mulch.
Pesticides that kill the beneficial bugs that control pests for free.
Fungicides to kill all fungus, including the fungus that forms a nutritional network with plants.
Herbicides that kill a few weeds while harming microbes and beneficial plants like Dandelions.
My basic approach is to build the soil all year, which is why I am fascinated by all aspects of the soil. The simplest goal is to have a lot of active earthworms, although they are merely a part for the whole, a great indication of soil health.
Water infiltration rates? Earthworms tunnel and increase those rates.
More usable nitrogen? Earthworms increase and concentrate nitrogen from their tiny kidneys and manure.
Composting mulch and crop residue? Earthworms are shredders that do this and digest the material via bacteria.
Birds in the yard, eating pests? Earthworms are delicious all-protein treats for birds that hunt bugs, and for moles that eat grubs while mixing the soil for free.
The first complaints I hear from gardeners are: clover, moles, and Dandelions.
Luther's Rebuke
One of Luther's best remarks describes the wealthy degenerates courted by Planned Giving Counselors. "They purchase Hell when they could have Heaven for free."
That would not sound so appealing if the Planned Giving Counselors were called Thrivent Salesmen Earning Commissions, would it? "Great news, I have a divine call to sell Thrivent Annuities to unsuspecting hicks and rubes!"
No one was more willing to pay for his horrible sins than Marvin Schwan. The ELS-LCMS-WELS leaders mined that guilt with savage greed and lupine cunning. Schwan donated his estate to his foundation, to fund wild hair projects in each synod and glorify his own name. UOJ is so handy, in erasing the Sixth Commandment to comfort the guilt-ridden wealthy. But Luther says that we cannot pay for sinful works with good works. In fact, the smallest sin cannot be paid for through our merits.
So WELS-ELS-LCMS are in the same state as apostate ELCA, taking away the comfort of the Gospel and replacing it with the false comfort of indulgences. Christ's Atonement is such a treasure that we can say, "He has not only paid for trivial sins, but also for great and terrible sins."
The next post will show how the UOJists are squirming in their own fouled nests, which they feathered with universal forgiveness without faith.
"Fat, drunk, and stupid amkes you a buddy in WELS and Missouri, but it won't ever advance the Gospel."
