Funeral Folder for Tomorrow

 

Lights Are On - Coffee Available for Visitors

 

Sassy is on alert for visitors. Loud barking means, "Hello, I love you. Where are the treats?"

Sassy's Photo-Op with Christina

 Sassy looked a little befuddled at Penney's, but she enjoyed her photo session, bursting out into barks of happiness after each set of poses. One pose showed how puzzled or amused she felt when seeing the photographer lying on the floor for these shots. Christina had a lot of fun, too. The pictures were for Ranger Bob.

 

For ears up and a big smile, just say "Treats!"

Everyone's Favorite - And ELCA's - Nadia

 

 That is Nadia on the far left. The Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber, left, is installed as pastor of public witness Aug. 20, 2021, by Bishop Jim Gonia, right, of the Rocky Mountain Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in a service at Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church in Denver. 

 

Gonia has served as bishop of the Rocky Mountain Synod in Denver since 2012. He was ELCA program director for West Africa, Tanzania and Madagascar from 2009 to 2012, and he served as associate pastor of Atonement Lutheran Church in Lakewood, Colo., from 1999 to 2009.  

Gonia received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Ind., in 1982. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Luther Northwestern Seminary (now Luther Seminary) in St. Paul, Minn. in 1988, and a Master of Theology degree in Islamic studies at Luther Seminary in 1997. Luther is one of seven ELCA seminaries.

Funeral Information

 

This recent screen grab is a good indication of Christina's joy in life. She was glad to have the service broadcast to our room, but she especially enjoyed popping in for a surprise. 

Our chapel is little more than "a spare room in a rented house," but that has never limited the Means of Grace, the efficacious Word. A neighbor left paganism and became a Christian through Christina. The lady demanded "her pastor and his wife" at the hospital.

Heritage Funeral Home

1591 S. 48th Street

Springdale, AR 72762 

479-751-2444

Pastor James Shrader will preach the sermon at Heritage Funeral Home and Zach Engleman will assist in the service. Chris Shrader will lead the music.

Visiting Time will be at 9 AM on Saturday, August 28th

The funeral will be at 10 AM. The service will be video recorded and broadcast afterwards. We will have the file for use on this blog.

Interment will follow at the Elm Springs Cemetery, which Christina picked out when we were making frequent trips to the college.

Lunch will follow at a local restaurant.

Other Details

Memorial gifts may be given to the Bethany Lutheran Church KJV Bible fund (for distributing books about correct text analysis and precise translations). The mailing address is 1104 Letha Drive, Springdale, AR, 72762. The church also has a PayPal account and non-profit status.

Gifts may also be given to Circle of Life Hospice. 1201 NE Legacy Parkway, Bentonville, AR 72712.

We have five motel rooms (two taken) reserved and paid for, so phone if you need a place to stay. The parsonage is booked.

Like Martin Stephan with LCMS, Randy DeJaynes Is Ignored as the First Bishop of ELDONA

 

This is the only DeJaynes graphic I could find - on the obit page -  all the others had photos.  I later found a Bishop DeJaynes photo, which is at the bottom of this post.

 Lutheran Confessional Synod Trade Mark

Randy L. DeJaynes

Jan. 10, 1951 - Aug. 18, 2021

FORSYTH - Randy L. DeJaynes, 70, of Forsyth, Illinois, died Wednesday, August 18, 2021, at Decatur Memorial Hospital. Randy struggled for two weeks with a COVID-19 infection that resulted in pneumonia.

Born on January 10, 1951, in Macomb, Illinois, to Roy E. and Joan (Martin) DeJaynes, Randy grew up in the Plymouth, Augusta, and Bowen villages and graduated from Bowen High School in 1969. He met his wife, Arlis White, in 1973, and they were married January 18, 1975, in Quincy, Illinois. He later earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees (summa cum laude) from Western Illinois University in Macomb, where he taught at the university for several years. Later, he earned his M. Div. degree from Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, and he served as pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Decatur for sixteen years.

Randy and Arlis were blessed with two sons, Adam John and Christopher Nicholas, who were the lights of his life. Both sons reside in Decatur. Randy is survived by his devoted wife of forty-six years, Arlis: his sons: Adam (Sarah Hayes) DeJaynes and Christopher (Sara Hammann) DeJaynes, all of Decatur; his beloved grandchildren: Noelle (DeJaynes) Malkamaki, Christian DeJaynes, Caley DeJaynes, Avery DeJaynes, Mary Margaret DeJaynes, and Ella Smith; one brother, Roger (Gretchen) DeJaynes of Blandinsville, Illinois; one sister, Rhonda DeJaynes of Santa Rosa, California; numerous in-laws, 22 nieces and nephews, and his beloved Corgis, Huey and Taffy.

Randy was a simple man who loved simple things like his many flower gardens, fruit trees, his dogs, and his baking. He owned Daily Bread Bakery for several years. More than anything, he loved his family and being around them.

Services for Randy L. DeJaynes will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, August 23, 2021 at Sacred Heart Church, part of St. Katharine Drexel Parish, with a private family visitation preceding service. Burial will be at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in rural Illiopolis, immediately after service with a family luncheon at Grace United Methodist Church, in Decatur, Illinois after the burial. Memorials in Randy's honor may be given to Sacred Heart Church in Springfield or to his grandchildren's education fund c/o CEFCU.

The family is being served by Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Home in Decatur, Illinois.

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that Day." -- St. Paul's 2nd Letter to Timothy

Condolences and memories may be shared with the family in care of Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Homes at www.brintlingerandearl.com.

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GJ - You may read  - from the link - the charges against Bishop DeJaynes, who was working with the future Bishop Jim Heiser, STM. Heiser started Repristination Press there - an odd name for the odd couple to use. 

They started the Lutheran Confessional Synod with the help of Jay Webber and Kincaid Smith (DMin, Church Growth). So much to confess, yet they never told anyone why the ELS and WELS declared fellowship with this character, whose wife preached for him when he was away. Heiser, Webber, and Smith came from Concordia, Ft. Wayne, so there is also a common bond of Objective Justification fanaticism in the mix.

The ELS/WELS declared fellowship with DeJaynes (sniffle, can't help it, that touches my heart-strings), as reported by Presiding Bishop, ELS, John Moldstad.

The Lutheran Confessional Synod (LCS) was a Confessional Lutheran church, characterized by a strict interpretation of the Lutheran Confessions and a historical liturgy. Organized in 1994, when Christ Lutheran Church in Decatur, Illinois, broke away from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, it initially declared doctrinal agreement with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod,^[1][2][3] but broke fellowship with those two synods on June 14, 1997, because of differences in the doctrine of the ministry and the Lord's Supper.^[1][4] The LCS organized the Johann Gerhard Institute (a denominational publishing house) and St. Anselm Theological Seminary in 1996.^{[1] The LCS - Wiki.}

The LCS - Wiki 

The LCS' first bishop was the Rev. Randy L. DeJaynes, consecrated to that position on October 7, 1994.^[3][5] As of 2009, stating a "desire to return to the Apostolic faith," some former LCS clergy were chrismated in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, while others entered the Roman Catholic Church.^{[citation needed]} At least one is now a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America. By 2012, it was reported that the church body had disbanded.^[6]

 Repristination Press, Decatur, Illinois - The Right Reverend Jim Heiser, STM.

Bishop Randy DeJaynes ordained his son.

Some Photos of Christina Jackson

 

 Chris posed with George Harkins, LCA Secretary (#2 office at the time).
They elevated the titles to Presiding Bishop and all that.

Sassy loved going out for her first walk with Christina, after the radical.

 Erin Joy was loved and loving, full of fun because her vocabulary was large.
When I used Latin to get around this, she looked at me sharply.

 People thought Joy was a nickname. No, it was and is her middle name.
My nickname for her - Where's the Party?! - she loved parties.

 Engagement photo

 Augustana College loaned out the traditional Swedish crown for brides.
They did not give it away.

 

German Hungarians are serious about their desserts.

Christina's baby picture

Christina posed with her sister Maria, who is on the right. 
Maria (PhD) and her husband Kermit (PhD) will attend the funeral.

Memories - Lutheran Christina

 

This was a recent service.

 We knew the prognosis and enjoyed every moment.

 This remains the best-seller - the Gospel cannot be overcome by text fakery and infantile paraphrasing dressed up as "translation by scholars."

 Bethany loved the camera.

 Bethany Joan Marie

 Bethany could hold herself up and then lost that strength.

 Bethany was Ida's living doll, and they adored each other.

 Someone tried to shut down communication, out of sheer spite.
Pete Ellenberger saw this photo and we got together twice before she died.

 Now we know who painted that portrait.
Actually a member shared the program and Norm Boeckler has used it often.

LCA Bishop James Crumley was a true Southern gentleman.

 

Pete Ellenberger could not stop smiling when his cousin Christina came up from Arkansas.

 Engagement day - Henry and Marie Ellenberger

 Veterans Honor Rose - in honor of Pete and many other veterans, gone too soon.

 Erin Joy loved her swing, so the nursing home took it away. We learned to turn sadness into glee, such as the time we were all in trouble for laughing loudly in the hospital room. I played Nurse Ratchet and told Erin she would be swabbing floors and cleaning bedpans. She loved it. Our opinion is that nurses are the best part of medicine.

 The only way to get Erin to grasp the bear was to order her not to do it.
Typical Jackson, she grabbed it and grinned. In fact, lifting up her leg would bathe her in sweat from the effort.

 Erin was angelic in her photos. I took this one and developed it.

 This was Erin's last visit out, visiting Larry Carlson with ALS.

 Baby Christina.

 Christina wore the Swedish crown.

 Erin loved her mother so much that I had to yell at Mom for 
using the facilities at the hospitals or nursing homes. "Get out of there!"
Mom complained, so Erin laughed even more.

 Erin had to have two teeth removed from wearing them down to the pulp.
We were all crying that she was hurt. She smiled at me to show she was OK.
Christina had steely nerves from many crises and false hopes.

 This is a real rose tipped in told and preserved, as a wedding present.

The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, 2021. For Thy death, the bitter scorn, For Thy resurrection morn, Lord, I thank Thee and extol Thee, And in heaven I shall behold Thee.

 

The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, 2021

Pastor Gregory L. Jackson

https://video.ibm.com/channel/bethany-lutheran-worship

Bethany Lutheran Church, 10 AM Central  Daylight Time

The Hymn #175                When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Hamburg)

The Confession of Sins
The Absolution
The Introit p. 16

Make haste, O God, to deliver me: 

make haste to help me, O Lord.

Let them be ashamed and confounded: 

that seek after my soul.

Psalm. Let them be turned backward and put to confusion: 

that desire my hurt.

The Gloria Patri
The Kyrie p. 17
The Gloria in Excelsis
The Salutation and Collect p. 19

Almighty and merciful God, of whose only gift it cometh that Thy faithful people do unto Thee true and laudable service, grant, we beseech Thee, that we may so faithfully serve Thee in this life that we fail not finally to attain Thy heavenly promises; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, who liveth, etc.

The Epistle and Gradual     

I will bless the Lord at all times: 

His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

V. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: 

the humble shall hear thereof and be glad. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

V. Sing aloud unto God, our Strength: 

make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Hallelujah!

The Gospel              

Glory be to Thee, O Lord!
Praise be to Thee, O Christ!
The Nicene Creed             p. 22

The Sermon Hymn #126             Arise and Shine in Splendor

The Glory of the Gospel       

The Communion Hymn # 207        Like the Golden Sun

The Preface p. 24
The Sanctus p. 26
The Lord's Prayer p. 27
The Words of Institution
The Agnus Dei p. 28
The Nunc Dimittis p. 29
The Benediction p. 31
The Closing Hymn #123                       Our God Our Help   

 Norma A. Boeckler

In Our Prayers and Announcements

KJV 2 Corinthians 3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

KJV Mark 7:31 And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. 32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. 33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; 34 And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. 35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. 36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

Twelfth Sunday After Trinity

Almighty and everlasting God, who hast created all things: We thank Thee that Thou hast given us sound bodies, and hast graciously preserved our tongues and other members from the power of the adversary: We beseech Thee, grant us Thy grace, that we may rightly use our ears and tongues; help us to hear Thy word diligently and devoutly, and with our tongues so to praise and magnify Thy grace, that no one shall be offended by our words, but that all may be edified thereby, through Thy beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, one true God, world without end. Amen.

Luther on the Epistle text - Here

Luther’s Sermon on the Gospel text - Here

 

For Thy death, the bitter scorn,

For Thy resurrection morn,

Lord, I thank Thee and extol Thee,

And in heaven I shall behold Thee.

The Glory of the Gospel  

KJV 2 Corinthians 3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

Introductory

Some people find it useful to make fun of Paul's exalted language. The KJV - a revision of William Tyndale's translating, whose foundation (and printing location) was Luther's Reformation - was established to be read aloud. Notice how the staccato of this verse is majestic by itself. Yes, I know many had a hand in finalizing the great English Bible, all based on Tyndale, based on Luther's crew, based on the original Scriptures in Hebrew and Greek.

Such trust - this leads the section - faith in Christ the Word of God. The object is first - We have trust is so much tamer than this word order.

have we - this reversal of the verb and the subject is a rhetorical device. 

through Christ - agency, showing Christ is the agent who secures this trust. Word order emphasizes Christ.

The flat, simplified style is what they long for at the United Bible Societies - "We have such trust through Christ toward God." - Newspaper style.

The KJV is poetic and dramatic.

KJV 2 Corinthians 3:4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves;  but our sufficiency is of God;

We are used to directions, where two words are united - fore-ward, back-ward. This direction is God-ward, or toward God. That is why I love this rendition of the KJV.  The KJV - "Aiming at truth, they achieved what later generations recognized as beauty and elegance." Alister McGrath, In the Beginning, p. 254.

God the Father is unknown to us, for the most part, except the Son of God made it very clear that He and the Father were one in essence and one in the Gospel Word, the Holy Spirit witnessing to this Truth.

So Paul is saying that he and all others can trust in God because of Christ. All the qualms about forgiveness of sin and eternal life are based upon this trust.

2:16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

We could say there are two parts to this lesson. First of all, it is God who does the work through the Word - as exemplified in Christ. So God is sufficient to accomplish this while man is not. Secondly, the power and effect is from the Gospel of forgiveness and eternal life.

6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 

One of my students said he grew up in a church where they talked about the Gospel but always added the Law, as if the Gospel is not complete. Karl Barth put it succinctly, because Barth was a complete idiot - "The gift is a demand."

This student began to study Romans, because he could not align his congregation with the truth. He said these words - "We are Justified by Faith. That is what I learned from Romans.

So many will say, "I have to do God's will or God will not bless me. We go over our covenant every Sunday." That is a Law formula and the opposite of Paul and the Savior.

Forgiveness is free, say the Barth fans, but this also must be done. A list follows. That is where so much social activism comes from, the reversal of Paul's teaching. They teach their own sufficiency. "We have to do this. If not us, then who? If not now, then when?"

The letter of the Law kills, because no one is sufficient. The spirit is the witness of the Gospel, what Christ has done. While that seems obvious to many, it is equally plain to the majority (I think) that something else is needed.

7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 

This is one of Paul's opaque lessons until we learn what it means. If the giving of the Law on Mt. Sinai was great, how much greater and more effective and gracious is the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

This is why people fight me so much, not that it is me, but the Faith of Christ, the Faith belonging to Christ.

They (various denominations and false Lutherans) have tried to get rid of faith 100 ways, which are easy to detail.

But they cannot get past (though they buried it in the NIV/ESV) that we are justified by Faith of Jesus. The KJV does not bury this. Without the faith belonging to Jesus, there is no forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life.

It begins and is culminated in Jesus Christ the Son of God.

When God's Gospel is taught, wonderful marvels happen in the midst of opposition and difficulties. They often happen because of those events. 

I told someone, "I am not sorrowful. We knew this was coming and and we enjoyed the last year without worrying - but going over how much we appreciate each other and so many we know, often only through the Net and the Gospel."

That is why I posted from The Pilgrim's Progress before this.

Christine is just now saying, "I see Him!"