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.
Friday, May 7, 2021
Golladay's The Ten Commandments
Golladay's books remain quite popular today, and they circulate widely.
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| The Paperback, available on Amazon. |
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“The message of the Law is needed in our congregations today as much as ever. Even where church attendance is gratifying, spiritual life is often on a rather low spiritual and moral plane… The range of topics treated in these sermons is virtually extensive with the spiritual needs and duties of our people. Subjects… likely to result in resentment upon the part of some of the hearers, are boldly dealt with from the standpoint of one who is accustomed to declaring: ‘Thus saith the Lord.’” – From the Introduction by C. B. Gohdes
Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter knowledge needed.
“The message of the Law is needed in our congregations today as much as ever. Even where church attendance is gratifying, spiritual life is often on a rather low spiritual and moral plane… The range of topics treated in these sermons is virtually extensive with the spiritual needs and duties of our people. Subjects… likely to result in resentment upon the part of some of the hearers, are boldly dealt with from the standpoint of one who is accustomed to declaring: ‘Thus saith the Lord.’” – ...
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“No Calvinistic preacher has ever produced a Postil, — the term derived from post illa (sc. verba), meaning “after those words,” i.e. the sermon spoken after reading the words of the text. Among the sermon books of all time Luther’s Postil stands in the front rank. Great is the number of other Postils. All of them expound the anciently chosen texts. Often they were called Sermons for the Church Year; many of them bore specific and beautiful titles. All these preachers ...
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“So thorough has become the importance of the Individual, that the supremacy of law over royal power is now an established rule in England, and every individual has the right to resist an illegal act against his person or property, by whomsoever attempted. The right of Freedom of Debate in Parliament, and the immunity of the representative from all answer elsewhere, long contested by the King, were ultimately wrested from him, as also the Freedom of the Press and the personal Freedom of ...
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“…if the character of a religious system can be ascertained by the rites which it imposes, and the practices which it sanctions, I should not hesitate to pronounce the mythology of Hinduism to be cruel and obscene. If you examine it, you will not discern any of the amiable and lovely qualities which Christianity manifests. The emblems which adorn their temples, and the instruments with which their deities are armed, are more calculated to inspire dread than confidence, and betray the ...
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Timothy East’s practical book is intended to, “disturb the false peace of the criminally indifferent… impart consolation to the conscientiously fearful, (and to) excite to higher degrees of gratitude the comparatively few, who know that they are safe for eternity.” Timothy East (1817-1892) was the writer of the famous “Evangelical Rambler”, later republished under the title “The Sheepfold and the Common.” Level of Difficulty: Primer: No subject matter ...
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Why are the LutherQueasies so afraid of quoting this blog when they pretend to be on a quest for Luther. They hardly mention the Reformer's name - except for the masthead. That is like having a website called Astronomy Now! and posting about vegetable gardens most of the time.
And po' Hale - he has pages to fill with the glories of Objective and Subjective Justification, but he dwells on his Pietist roots. He is afraid of quoting any Biblical, Lutheran books, because something unsettling might come up.
Mark Schroeder, prune-faced principal of the WELS cult! He could just list the felonies covered up each month, and people would sigh and say, "We picked the right man!" They always frame their compliments in self-praise.
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The Big Question - "How Did You Get So Interested in Birds?"
Mrs. Ichabod asked me, "How did you get so interested in birds? Was it your mother?" I will try to explain.
Growing up, I thought birds were boring, because our homestead in Moline was filled with very old trees, the maple being the largest I have seen. The elms in our front yard were for climbing, so birds did not care to nest in them.
The current Ichabode is a paradise for birds, simply because the front yard is all garden and the backyard combines bushes, kiddie pool birdbaths, and mulch. Besides, the front porch is ideal for observing Creation, from the casual bunny stroll to the hummingbirds, cardinals, hawks, robins, and cardinals. The backyard has mischievous squirrels, starlings, grackles, cardinals, crows, juncos, mourning doves, blue jays, goldfinches, common finches, and chickadees.
Yesterday we were drinking coffee on the porch when a female cardinal zoomed right past us, at eye level, a few feet away. A hummingbird sipped some food from one of four feeders in the garden. Best of all, the female cardinal stopped to rest in the nearby clethra (Cinnabon Tree), which is little more than a slender bush and leafing out.
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| Clethra, or Summer Sweet, or Sweet Price, is a slight bush, perfect for birds to land, too fragile for most cats or squirrels. |
When Andrea's family was here, the cardinal called out so loudly in the backyard that they thought the bird was in the house. I was being scolded by the cardinal for not having more food out. No matter how much a mother prepares food for her family, she still likes some take out.
Bringing birds closer for observation is a lot of fun:
They need baths, so a shallow birdbath is a great attraction, but it needs to be kept clean. We have two kiddie pools in the back, three shallow birdbaths in the front. Sassy uses the concrete one I got on sale for $7.
Start with one bath and one feeding place. Expect little activity for two weeks. Birds are cautious.
Provide food twice a day on open, flat feeders like our garbage barrels.
Grow seed plants, like sunflowers.
Save stale bread products and extra fruit for the flat feeders.
Raise fruit bearing plants, such as wild strawberries, beauty berries, and Poke in the south. Poke Weed is scorned as a weed but attracts more species than any other plant. We have a beautiful specimen outside the back door, heavily mulched, and watered from the rain barrel.
So far, a cardinal and a starling have dashed in to grab food while I would pouring it on the top of the recycle barrel. Ranger Bob says, according to Indian lore (Osage tribe, Oklahoma) - cardinals in the yard are a good sign.
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