Searching for Diamonds in the Right Places

They did it again! Every time someone finds a diamond in Arkansas, the press tells us that they are very rare here. Just the other day, someone found "a piece of glass" at the park and put it in his pocket. He did not think it was a diamond, but he showed it to the park expert anyway. The glass was just the "second largest diamond" ever found in the Crater of Diamonds State Park.

I can imagine the additional traffic that discovery created. Meanwhile, people are picking up broken glass and telling us to gaze in wonder and to polish (!) their diamond called Objective Justification. The lame essays of Zarling (Diamond Covid Mark) and Bivens (Frosty for short) are an embarrassment to the English language and Lutheran theology.

I enjoy pointing people to the real diamonds of Lutheran teaching. The ones to search for at the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry site - besides Luther, Melanchthon, Chemnitz - are:

1. Henry Eyster Jacobs
2. Krauth
3. Schmauk
4. Loy
5. Lenski
6. Hunnius
7. Reu

Oh yes - Lenker. He graduated from a disappeared Lutheran seminary (Hamma) and taught at another disappeared seminary (Dana). He did more than the combined, lazy-bones, OJ infected faculty of all the Lutheran church bodies, including the one waiting for students, any students, to balance their live bait business.

Doctrine for sale or rent, Worms to buy, 50 cents.

No phone, no heat, no beds. Ain't got no long beards yet.

Ah, but two hours of shoveling dirt,

Buys an ELDONA "Follow me" shirt.

I'm a Bishop for Life - that's right - maybe some day.

Sincere apologies to Roger Miller, King of the Road.