Planning Ahead - God Willing and the Cricks Don't Rise

We will finish the Gospel of Mark in Greek just before Advent. We are finishing chapter 12 next Wednesday.

We will start on the Gospel of John, aiming at beginners and veterans, on Ash Wednesday. I will try to gather a post on getting reading for it, with various resources on it. Anyone who starts with some practice in Greek will find it easier to digest as we start. Listen up - Greek is easy, and the Gospel of John uses the simplest language possible. The Fourth Gospel is also the most powerful, so going through it phrase by phrase is quite an experience for anyone.

I sent out some new booklets last week and will send more this week. If you think you have been overlooked, send me an email at greg.jackson.edlp@gmail.com

The next small project will be to gather quotations from the Household Sermons of Luther, three volumes, which we published lately. Then, if possible, the four volumes will be merged into one pdf and given away on the Net. Warren Malach and Alec Satin made that possible, with illustrations from Norma A. Boeckler.

I will be working on more projects for the Bethany Lutheran Mission in the Philippines.

Of the promised projects, I am working on how to present American Lutheran history, more along the lines of doctrinal trends, so it will be something like The Two Pietisms, ELCA versus the Synodical Conference. I may add to the Ichabod Lutheran Dictionary, one item at a time.

In the near future we are meeting with Glen Kotten, dateline Sioux Falls, God willing and the cricks don't rise.

Rolf Preus - Fulminating about His Beloved Objective Justification - Again!

The 9-23-2019 Christian News features Rolfie One-Note laying down a smothering blanket of Chief Article fog so he can re-define it as Objective Justification. Like the elderly, confused Joe Biden, his self-serving prolixity focuses on his astonishing abilities.

Likewise, scam artists begin with their pledge of honesty, sincerity, and dedication to their clients just before laying out their newest scheme to deprive someone of money. I love having them on the phone, because the right question makes them explode in anger and hang up.

The OJ scam artists accomplish their magic by combining and confusing two topics in the Scriptures. Because they are stuck on OJ the way chewing gum is stuck on shoes, the hidden agenda - and its perfume - become evident quickly.

OJ is simply - "God has absolved the sins of the world" or "God has declared the entire world forgiven." This comes from Calvinism, but they emphasize covenant and being the elect. Nevertheless, it is grace without the Means of Grace.

To work their magic, the OJ spinners have to throw their black capes over OJ for a second and transform it into Justification by Faith. Zarling and Bivens did this when Rolfie One-Note was falling off his Sears Roebuck trike.

Thus Rev. One-Note - "The chief article of the faith is justification through faith alone. Justification through faith alone is impossible without objective justification."

Just like that felon CFW Walther and the nincompoop JP Meyer, justification requires faith in universal absolution without faith.

In their wrath, the OJ Stormtroopers cite every atonement passage they can find, to prove what is never stated in the Scriptures or the Confessions, Luther or Chemnitz or Melanchthon.

In effect, by amalgamating atonement and justification, the neo-Calvinists fail to teach either topic correctly. That is why Mark Jeske can get WELS and LCMS to listen to gay activist Rev. Heidi Neumark, with hardly a squeak from the timid Christian News.

Church Mouse Campanologist Review of the Kavanaugh Story

Church Mouse - Church Bells Scholar

Church Mouse Campanologist has an excellent summary of the false accusations against Justice Kavanaugh. British news about America is far superior to the bilge the mainstream American press offers.

Rather than look all over the Net for interesting news, readers should start with the curated links I provide on the left (but not the Left) column of this blog. Curated is my new, favorite word. Turner Classic Movies offers a club where they ship curated wine every month, so I have curated links, carefully chosen to represent the best in Internet reading.

Lutheran Library

Alec Satin's Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry earned him the nickname Spindletop, because his site gushes classic, free books at an astonishing rate. There is so much glee in censorship and suppression of good books that individuals ought to download and share these books for the future.

Extra Nos - Justification by Faith

Extra Nos is from Dr. Lito Cruz - PhD in math, certified Lutheran pastor. He is our connection to the Bethany Lutheran Mission in the Philippines - Pastor Jordan Palangyos.

Comfort for Christians

Comfort for Christians is another site by Alec Satin, featuring essays on Christian topics.

Exposing ELCA has two links.

1. Introduction to his work about ELCA
2. Exposed ELCA Blog - ongoing articles about the latest disgraces.

Recently, the tireless editor Dan Skogen was denounced on the ALPB site for not having any influence. ELCA acknowledges having more than a million fewer members since it was malformed in 1987. I suspect the results are even more dire, so someone must be reading Skogen.

Today I learned from Skogen's work that one ELCA bishop is already promoting polyamory - in line with Nadia - which should push attendance up at Mark Jeske's Church and Change fiasco.

 Jeske loves working with and for ELCA leaders.

 I have a graphic of Nadia's gift to Gloria Steinem, but it is unpublishable (due to language) on a normal blog.

All the abhorrent trends in American education and culture - including abortion on demand and "marriage" with anyone - were started by the activists in the mainline denominations and quietly supported by their allies in the "conservative" groups like WELS-LCMS-ELS.

The "conservative" Lutheran seminaries are the problem - not the solution. The apostates own them now, because those who might have fought for something gave them up without a shot fired.

Mark 10 KJV

27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

28 Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.

29 And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

30 But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

These ELCA bishops agree with Objective Justification, if they believe anything at all. Their numbers are increasing.