The Building Block of Missions - The Word of God. The Bible Teaches Faith in Jesus the Savior

 The back cover, John 3:16, is designed by Norma A. Boeckler and translated by Pastor Jordan Palangyos.

Pastor Jordan Palangyos started a mission and began working on a church building, which is partially finished.

I wrote a brief booklet to be used (public domain, non-profit) and translated by anyone who wishes to have it. No permissions are needed.

 The front cover is designed by Norma A. Boeckler, and the interior is also illustrated by our artist-in-resident.

The English version The Bible Teaches Faith in Jesus the Savior is available on Amazon and Kindle.

The translated version will be printed at the mission because that is more economical. I understand the cost of the printer has already been donated.

When the rainy season is over, the mission will be able to complete their small building.

Print version.
Kindle version of the Bible Teaches Faith in Jesus the Savior.

Corrupt Media Exposes the Disgraceful Denominations

Jesus cleansing the Temple, by Norma A. Boeckler

The increasing revelations of crimes against the President have an unwelcome side-effect for the mainline denominations. They remind people of the collapse of their sects. As one life-long Democrat said to me, "I didn't leave the Democrat Party. They left me. I could never support abortion."

The various church organizations - dating back to the 19th century and earlier - are disgraceful in conduct and Stalinist in government.
The oldest denominations - Episcopal, ELCA - are the worst. Virtue Online wrote about Episcopal membership declines, though established and endowed in Colonial days. ELCA continues to get worse, especially since anyone with sense has left, never to return.

Do you remember Lyle Schaller claiming that ELCA would lose 600,000 members when they merged? Mrs. Ichabod and I met Schaller at a conference. WELS was quite taken with him and doubtless thought the 1987 merger would give them an automatic boost. The LCMS was likewise counting on serving as lifeboats for the sinking S.S. ELCA.

Something was missing, as always happens with the blind and hardened. The LCMS-WELS-ELS neglected to calculate the effect of

1. Attending seminars at Fuller Seminary
2. Promoting idiots with degrees from Fuller, Trinity Divinity, or other hives of Enthusiasm
3. Joint conferences with ELCA for all their leaders
4. Trimming their sails to work in harmony with ELCA
5. Sitting shoulder-to-shoulder at board meetings with Lutheran World Relief
6. The Michigan District WELS giving to the United Nations - prove it! - oh, never mind
7. The Snowbird Conference - who told?
8. The diversity project hatched at Snowbird
9. The Church Membership Initiative - with the notebook in their own synodical libraries
10. The ELCA-WELS-LCMS Joy "radio ministry" - who told?
11. The Church Growth Conference featuring Martin Marty as speaker, once denounced in official publications by WELS
12. More than a few have read Exposing the ELCA.

Nobody reads this blog, but 1500 and 2500 views have been counted in recent days.

Here is the bitterest pill of all - just like chewable aspirin - everybody knows!

"Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died." (Leonard Cohen)

As Luther wrote, associating with apostates is like handling road tar, the hands blacken soon enough - and everybody knows.

 The name of the publisher is a warning label.

How far must someone travel for a liturgical service with real hymns, creeds, and a genuine sermon based on a Biblical text?

How long must the sect listen to lame explanations about the systematic failures of their leaders, made worse by pilfering the offering money?

When will the Church Growth leaders issue a written apology to their sects before they die? When will they refund all the money they received for their synodical scholarships to Fuller, Trinity Divinity, Willow Creek, and Garden Grove Community Church?

 No one needed to ask - "Who got in the sprinkles?"

From 2012 - Timotheus Verinus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Ernst_L%C3%B6scher

The Complete Timotheus Verinus - Northwestern Publishing House:

The Complete Timotheus Verinus

Author: Valentin Ernst Loescher

Translated into English for the first time, this an essential work for those studying the orthodox Lutheran response to Pietism. Author, Valentin Ernst Loescher (1673-1749), the most capable opponent to the Pietists, was moderate and patient during the bitter conflict that divided German Lutheran. The two parts of this book are his defense of Orthodoxy against the violent attacks of the Halle theologian. Part one -- systematic presentation of pietistic theology and Loescher's evaluation of it. Part two -- response to a Pietist refutation of Part one, and makes a plea for honesty in the judgments of embroiled theologians. In sum, these volumes represent the only complete and mature analysis of Pietism by someone who experienced it firsthand. Part One (1718) is translated by James L. Langebartels and Part Two (1721) by Robert J. Koester. Hardcover. Size, 8 5/8 x 11 1/4 inches. 488 pages. Published 1998. This product is eligible for quantity discounts.

Catalog Item Number: OL-150594

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GJ - A reader can find many excellent arguments for UOJ - all from Halle University, the center of Pietism in Europe, the launching point of most synods in America: from the Muhlenberg tradition of the LCA to the contagious evangelism of Bishop Martin Stephan, STD.

Rambach, Knapp, and Schleiermacher are Halle leaders. The first baptism hymn in The Lutheran Hymnal is by Rambach.

However, the arguments against UOJ came from Wittenberg: Luther, Melanchthon, and Chemnitz. The next round was the repudiation of Samuel Huber by the Wittenberg theologians, including P. Leyser, an editor of the Book of Concord.

Valentin Loescher is considered the last in a long line of orthodox Lutheran theologians. He was especially brilliant in his repudiation of Pietism. This volume reveals all the problems that are so prevalent today in the Pietistic Synodical Conference (tm) and its slightly more Leftist counterpart, ELCA. All the Lutheran sects in America promote the use of Pietist cell groups, which also marked the beginning of the LCMS.

From Wikipedia:

Valentin Ernst Löscher (born at Sondershausen December 29, 1673; died at DresdenDecember 12, 1749) was a German orthodox Lutheran theologian.

At the University of Wittenberg, where his father was professor of theology, he gave his attention mainly to philology and history, but out of respect to his father's wish he selected a theological subject for his master's dissertation, in which he opposed the Pietistic position. Subsequent study at Jena aroused his interest in church history. During travels undertaken at this time he formed the acquaintance of a number of influential anti-Pietistic theologians. In 1696 he began to lecture at Wittenberg on the origin of Deism and Pietism. After serving as superintendent at Jüterbog (1698-1701) and Delitzsch (1701-07) and professor of theology at Wittenberg (1707-09), he became pastor of the Kreuzkirche and superintendent inDresden. Here he remained the rest of his life. His practical duties here turned his attention more particularly to the needs of the Church. His orthodoxy did not prevent him from admitting the truth of the claims of the Pietists concerning the prevailing perfunctoriness of religious life, which he ascribed to the negligence of orthodox pastors. He at once took earnest measures to encourage a deeper spiritual life in the Church. He had already begun the publication of his Unschuldige Nachrichten von alten und neuen theologischen Sachen(Wittenberg and Leipzig, 1701 sqq.), the first theological periodical. The comprehensive scope and able management of the magazine gave it great importance. Through it Löscher became the leader of the orthodox party, as opposed to the Pietistic and naturalistic factions in the Lutheran Church, and the representative of scientific Lutheran theology.

In opposition to the proposal that Pietism should be considered the best means of promoting the union of the Lutheran and the Reformed Churches (advocated at the time by the Prussian Government), Löscher published several works, including Ausführliche Historia motuum zwischen den Evangelisch-Lutherischen und Reformierten (3 parts, Frankfort, 1707-08). In the course of a controversy with the Pietist Joachim Lange, Löscher defended orthodoxy in his Praenotiones et notiones theologicae (Wittenberg, 1708). However, his most comprehensive criticism of Pietism appeared in his magazine under the title Timotheus Verinus, in which work he held that the Pietists had a false conception of the relation between pietyand religion and that their zeal for piety placed them in opposition to the doctrine of justification by faith. The work inspired a bitter reply from his Pietistic opponents, which called forth from Löscher his greatest work, Vollständiger Timotheus Verinus (2 parts, Wittenberg, 1718-22. Eng. transl., The Complete Timotheus Verinus 1998, Northwestern Publishing House). In this he discusses the origin and rapid development of Pietism and elaborates upon its evils. Nevertheless he was unable to check the advance of Pietism or even to pass a true judgment upon the real significance of the movement. The importance of Löscher's part in the Pietistic controversy was not fully recognized until the return to Evangelical doctrine in the nineteenth century.

Löscher took an active part also in the controversy which at that time was being waged against the Roman Catholic Church in Dresden and contributed a number of studies to that cause, notably his Vollständige Reformations-Akta und Documenta (3 vols., Leipzig, 1720-29). He also opposed Wolff's system of philosophy, claiming that "philosophical indifferentism" portended a revolution in Christianity.

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Jackson, Samuel Macauley, ed. (1914). "^{article name needed}". New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (third ed.). London and New York: Funk and Wagnalls.

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• Confessional Lutheranism in Eighteenth Century Germany by Vernon P. Kleinig, Concordia Theological Quarterly, Volume 60: Numbers 1-2

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GJ - Every Lutheran pastor should have this in his or her library. Every congregational library should have a worn copy.

If your pastor does not have a copy, buy him one. If the congregational library is long on cast-offs and short on good books, start beefing it up and promoting it. 

Lutheran Biblical study, sermons, and doctrinal work begins with Luther's Sermons. Thanks to a few pots of coffee and the work of a non-Lutheran, Ichabod now boasts the 8 volume Luther's Sermons set, edited by Lenker.

Sure signs of Pietists in your midst:

• Drag a $100 bill on a string through a group of pastors. The ones that follow are Pietistic unionists: they always keep their eyes on the money. God cannot do this without lots and lots of money, which they pocket.
• Check out which congregations organize and promote cell groups, small groups, Bible babes, whatever they call cells at their particular hive. They are Pietists.
• Observe which congregations hide the Sacraments. Holy Communion may be observed mid-week, to keep the non-Lutherans from being miffed. The baptismal font just gets in the way of the pit band, so that is moved away too.
• Note which Lutheran denominations favor cell groups. They are Pietistic and unionistic.

Charming Sassy - The Three-Legged Wonder Dog

 Norma Boeckler took this photo at the dog park. Sassy gave me a special kiss on the cheek whenever I said, "Let's see the dog park."

Dogs were certainly created to be companions, and Sassy Sue is the epitome of man's best friend. She could have been shy, which is typical of Cattle Dogs, but she looks for friends everywhere. She is protective, smart, and easily trained - like German Shepherds - but also reverses roles and trains us.

When I tell people she is very special, they often respond with "My dog is very special too." I ask, "Does your dog have a blog?" That leaves them stammering.

I teach adult education most of the year, and I find Sassy a natural in her abilities to train others, especially me. Most dogs fall into natural habits, such as how they respond to certain activities, orders, food, and fun.

Sassy is unpredictably volatile. One night she will wiggle up to us on the bed for affection before going to sleep. That can include falling sideways into me and giving me kisses while being petted. But she can also turn her back to us and whimper about being neglected. Then we repeat the yanking drama.
"Come here for some love, Sassy."
Bark, bark.
"If you don't come here, I will have to yank you."
I touch Sassy and pretend to pull her 1/2 inch. Her eyes bulge.
"OK. Move! Move!"
She gets up and moves toward us one inch.
"Oh come on now, Sassy. You can do better than that."
She gets up close and collects on petting, compliments, laughter, and scritches. Animals are bad in spelling and grammar, so scritches are scratches on her forehead, chin, and ears.

This morning Patricia came out to see us at 7 AM. She loves to see us, and her yard is where Sassy looks for treats. When we leave, Pat is supposed to get some love. Sassy will be affectionate one day and indifferent another. This morning Sassy kissed both of Pat's hands and stayed for a third round of kisses, smiling shyly. We laughed at her change of heart. The last time, a few days ago, Sassy refused to show any response.

If we have guests, Sassy jumps into their bed and checks them over before letting them sleep. She has learned not to force herself on people, but she never forgets a friend. Anyone who loves Sassy can expect a morning hello, too.

Sassy's ears and eyes are very expressive, and she watches our expressions closely. The paw in the air is designed to make me laugh, because that is her mock sign of distress, to get attention. It could be used on the nearby metal shelf, but simply waving it in the air - at an angle - is enough to signal a priority request. Yes, I know dogs and pets lift a paw for "moar" - "moar food, moar pets." But this pawing of the air came out of her discovery that scratching the antique table - and then the replacement shelf - would get a fake reaction of horror. That startled and scared her at first, but when she realized I was having fun, it became her little signal with a mischievous smile.

Sometimes the evening quiet is disturbed by her broken-hearted barks. "What's wrong with Sassy?" Christina asks.

"Her staff has disappointed her. She is not angry, just disappointed. Did I forget something?" I ask as if I know nothing.

"Frosty Paws?" Sassy's eyes light up and her ears seem to grow in size and receptivity. Her reactions are varied:

1. More broken-hearted barking, because we forgot.
2. Expressions of delight and fun. 
3. Melting over the corner of the bed and looking toward the kitchen with great sadness and longing.

She is willing to go to sleep after one teaspoon of ice cream, but it is never truly bedtime for her until she gets that tidbit.

 Sassy is always ready for a ride somewhere.

Like the General Flynn Case - Evil Will Be Punished

 Betrayed the Scriptures. Betrayed the Scriptures. Betrayed the Scriptures.

Navigation for Jeske's Change or Die! Conference

I have been following the General Flynn case from the beginning, when he was accused of dealing with the Russians, contrary to the facts, including the FBI report.

The high and mighty can deceive and manipulate successfully, but Judgment Day comes sooner than they expect.

The apostates who took over the Lutheran synods have been superb at maintaining power. They keep driving pastors and laity away from their Synagogues of Satan, so who is left to vote against them?





Perhaps the last straw will be Mark Jeske's Change or Die! conference, featuring two ELCA bishop staffers on the steerage committee. Two ELCA lady pastors are there as activists for gay ordination and gay marriage - not to mention the horrors of abortion on demand. Abortion is paid by the ELCA insurance policy and promoted by Thrivent and ELCA.

Who would want to slither up like Jeske and make common cause with those ELCA clergy-critters who engage in such blasphemies, crimes against Nature and against Nature's God?

I would rather walk barefoot in San Francisco with my Voyager parked nearby, decorated as it is with NRA stickers.

 Betrayed the Scriptures. Betrayed the Scriptures. Betrayed the Scriptures. Betrayed the Scriptures. Betrayed the Scriptures. Betrayed the Scriptures.

Let's hear from the "conservative" Wisconsin Sect about their Mark Jeske, son of Jester, son of perdition. Only a brood of vipers raised on Objective Justification could conceive and give birth to such a repudiation of all they pretend to oppose.

They complain that I am mean and hurt their widdle feelings. But I put my name on the truth while they remain anonymous with their lies.

Greek Lesson for Wednesday, 7 PM Central Daylight. Mark 11:15ff.

Parser - tells us the I.D. of the word

Lenski's Mark Commentary - download as a PDF

Mark 11

15 και ερχονται εις ιεροσολυμα, και εισελθων ο ιησους εις το ιερον ηρξατο εκβαλλειν τους πωλουντας και αγοραζοντας εν τω ιερω - και τας τραπεζας των κολλυβιστων και τας καθεδρας των πωλουντων τας περιστερας κατεστρεψεν

πωλουντας - bartering, buying

αγοραζοντας - noun is market place, verb - purchase (one of the verbs for redeem) agoraphobia - fear of malls.

κολλυβιστων - money changer

16 και ουκ ηφιεν ινα τις διενεγκη σκευος δια του ιερου

διαφέρω

17 και εδιδασκεν λεγων αυτοις ου γεγραπται οτι  - ο οικος μου οικος προσευχης κληθησεται πασιν τοις εθνεσιν, υμεις δε εποιησατε αυτον σπηλαιον ληστων (also John)

18 και ηκουσαν οι γραμματεις και οι αρχιερεις και εζητουν πως αυτον απολεσουσιν, εφοβουντο γαρ αυτον οτι πας ο οχλος εξεπλησσετο επι τη διδαχη αυτου

19 και οτε οψε εγενετο εξεπορευετο εξω της πολεως

20 και πρωι παραπορευομενοι ειδον την συκην εξηραμμενην εκ ριζων

21 και αναμνησθεις ο πετρος λεγει αυτω ραββι ιδε η συκη ην κατηρασω εξηρανται

22 και αποκριθεις ιησους λεγει αυτοις εχετε πιστιν θεου

23 αμην γαρ λεγω υμιν οτι, ος αν ειπη τω ορει τουτω αρθητι και βληθητι εις την θαλασσαν και μη διακριθη εν τη καρδια αυτου αλλα πιστευση οτι, α λεγει γινεται εσται αυτω ο εαν ειπη

24 δια τουτο λεγω υμιν παντα οσα αν προσευχομενοι αιτεισθε πιστευετε οτι λαμβανετε και εσται υμιν

25 και οταν στηκητε προσευχομενοι, αφιετε, ει τι εχετε κατα τινος ινα και ο πατηρ υμων ο εν τοις ουρανοις αφη υμιν τα παραπτωματα υμων

26 ει δε υμεις ουκ αφιετε ουδε ο πατηρ υμων ο εν τοις ουρανοις αφησει τα παραπτωματα υμων

27 και ερχονται παλιν εις ιεροσολυμα και εν τω ιερω περιπατουντος αυτου ερχονται προς αυτον οι αρχιερεις και οι γραμματεις και οι πρεσβυτεροι

28 και λεγουσιν αυτω, εν ποια εξουσια ταυτα ποιεις, και τις σοι την εξουσιαν ταυτην εδωκεν ινα ταυτα ποιης

29 ο δε ιησους αποκριθεις ειπεν αυτοις, επερωτησω υμας καγω ενα λογον, και αποκριθητε μοι και ερω υμιν εν ποια εξουσια ταυτα ποιω

30 το βαπτισμα ιωαννου εξ ουρανου ην η εξ ανθρωπων αποκριθητε μοι

31 και ελογιζοντο προς εαυτους λεγοντες εαν ειπωμεν εξ ουρανου ερει διατι ουν ουκ επιστευσατε αυτω

32 αλλ εαν ειπωμεν εξ ανθρωπων εφοβουντο τον λαον απαντες γαρ ειχον τον ιωαννην οτι οντως προφητης ην

33 και αποκριθεντες λεγουσιν τω ιησου ουκ οιδαμεν και ο ιησους αποκριθεις λεγει αυτοις ουδε εγω λεγω υμιν εν ποια εξουσια ταυτα ποιω

1550 Stephanus New Testament (TR1550)

by Public Domain

  Graphic by Norma A. Boeckler

Navigation for - LCMS-WELS Joins ELCA's Pro-Abortion, Feminist Gay Ordination Agenda.ELCA Owns LCMS-WELS, Without a Fight

 ELCA's Heidi Neumark - ELM Mentor

For Even More Research - Exposing the ELCA Blog

 Speaker for the Change or Die! Coven - October 10, 2019

 ELCA's Heidi Borkenhagen

"RIC – What is needs to be done - complete an Affirmation/Welcome statement (to be completed by committee formed), hold Adult Forums on this throughout the year (options for meeting: – review what Bible does and doesn’t say; have families come in to discuss this; Bill Beyer 1st openly gay pastor in area come talk). Would be looking to have this completed by end of 2019 to have church vote on this at annual meeting. Committee formed could be short term to long term, based on what the committee chooses to do. Council recommends moving forward with presenting information to church leading to vote by end of the year. Pastor Paul, Linda 2nd, approved. Pastor Heidi will head up committee and start getting Adult Forums plan." -  

GJ - From her congregation's website, but now missing.

For Even More Research - Exposing the ELCA Blog

LCMS-WELS Joins ELCA's Feminist Gay Ordination Agenda - The Two Heidi's

Siebert Foundation
758 N. 27th Street, Milwaukee, WI 53208
414-269-2832
contactus@siebertfoundation.org

 ELCiC's Bishop Susan Johnson (Canada's ELCA, eh?)

WELS and LCMS Leaders Approve of What?

The Two Pietisms Have Merged

One Heidi Does Not Belong - Jeske's Change or Die!

Mark Jeske's Breakthrough Conference - October 10, 2019

Party in the MLC is back!

Jeske Delivers WELS-ELS-LCMS to Sodom and Gomorrah

Evil Will Be Punished 

Secrecy and Curiosity Provoke Even More Views

Mark Jeske's Change or Die! Conference Proves ELCA's Victory

Damage Control - What Got Erased Overnight

More Research on Time of Grace, Jeske, Change or Die!

ELCA's Heidi Neumark - The Face and Voice of LCMS-WELS

The Fruit of WELS Objective Justification

Ghastly Debacle - LCMS-WELS Working with ELCA

ELCA Says Jesus Is NOT the Only Way of Salvation

For Even More Research - Exposing the ELCA Blog

ELCA's Mission Investment Fund Is One Sponsor

Church and Change Basics - From the Cloaca Magma - Source

 Heidi - "Oh, my goodness!"

Hilariously Bad Change or Die! Jeremiads - Previous Years. Note spelling of "commitee" each year, including 2019.

Change or Die! in 2018 - Plenty of ELCA.

Change or Die! in 2017 - Yes, loads of ELCA here.

Changer or Die! in 2016 - Jeske allows Hisself  to be listed! Ewart a hoot - snarling, arrogant, pompous, like his mentor.

 Note the WELS dude - Steve Witte - was a founder of Church and Change, the false doctrine coven funded by WELS donations, which then organized to grab positions for its advocates and lots more offering money for itself.

Party in the MLC is back - just in time for this conference.

Why So Many Views? Secrecy and Cover-ups Provoke Curiosity. Erasing Pages and Changing Names for the Two Heidis

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ELCA gay and abortion activist Heidi Neumark is one of only two speakers for Change or Die! - 2019. She wrote about Jewish persecution in Germany, but what about baby persecution here in America?

ELCA gay activist Pastor Heidi Borkenhagen is on the Steerage Committee. They spell it "commitee" at Siebert - too lazy to edit, too dumb to spell-check. She was tasked with getting her congregation to go full gay with RIC, but that narrative on her church site was erased from the Net - overnight.

WELS Church and Changer John Parlow posed with this performer at the Andy Stanley Drive Conference (Ski, Glende, Bishop Katie, and a host of other dunces). 

Stanley is admired for some reason - and emulated by WELS. At least he does not teach Justification by Faith! He is clearly OJ all the way, as messed up as his dad Charles Stanley.

 WELS D.Min. Bruce Becker is also on the Steerage Committee. Becker has a distinguished record of repudiating Biblical doctrine while enjoying the fruits of apostasy.

 Grand Theft Parish - Time of Grace (Becker, Jeske) was central in stealing Historical St. John Lutheran Church and its endowment, the same church WELS kicked out of the synod. 

Here is an interesting example of spin-doctoring. The link to this debacle is

https://www.siebertfoundation.org/changeordie

But the ugly words - Change or Die! - are absent in the graphic for the gay activist conference. The graphic's file name says "CoD" but the graphic's words do not. The 1 Peter 4:10 citation is New NIV, a dreadful departure from the original text. Do we wonder why people are addicted to "you" when the third person is correct?

Some of us jokers were going to produce Yo! - The Surfer Dude Living Online Paraphrase, but the NIV beat us to it.

 Reimagine? How clever! The whole Jeske Church and Change, Change or Die! effort has been aimed - with great success - at replacing Biblical, Lutheran doctrine and worship with a ferago of fads, Left-wing activism, and third-rate Calvinism.

Most organizations would look at its failures, the leaders of those failures, and fix things. Not WELS or LCMS - oh no - they are running to Hell when they could offer Heaven for free.