We Are Set Up for the Internet Broadcast Tomorrow at 10 AM Central Daylight Time

 

The Internet throws every indignity at a user. The software we used from the beginning became obsolete.

When I was trying to set up the laptop for the wedding in Seattle, Sassy was so sick we thought it might be over for her. She is 90% back now, very much helped by her resident nurse Dottie and the right meds. I have had short-term vertigo - rarely, but I never had a spell lasting more than a few hours.

IBM told me I took too long to log in tonight, so I had to phone to get on their site. Luckily, they are 24/7 for the help desk.

I spent an inordinate amount of time dealing with the former email program (which uses Gmail, so no change of address for me). I won't have the old email address list, but I can conjure up most of it from what the new one saved.

As you know, the bank and IBM and everything else depends on phones and email to protect our/their accounts. I could not get into IBM without my email address being live and standing at attention.

Now the long, dark tea-time of the soul is over, and the broadcast will be saved at the same location, converted for YouTube, etc. 

The genteel apostates at ALPB Online Forum are moaning about the loss of parishes and ministers but never mention the Means of Grace or the efficacy of the Word. America has largely avoided using free Internet services for their worship. Even with Covid, the response was threadbare. 

We had 12,918 views today on Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed.

The LCMS-WELS Continue To Deceive Members about the Chief Article of Christianity - And the Bible. But They Started with Luther's Doctrine and Luther's English Bible - The KJV

 

 Lying and Objective Justification go together like WELS, liquor, and adultery.
And cross-dressing. Sig, as we called him, was the WELS Walther. Gausewitz was not just a WELS leader but also the president of the Synodical (LCMS-WELS-ELS) Conference. His original catechism is scarcer than hen's teeth.

Publishing proves that the LCMS and WELS switched 

• from teaching Justification by Faith and using the KJV 
• to advocating Objective Justification and denouncing the King James Version.

The early LCMS had the Schwan catechism - from a man whose education did not come from the in-bred swamps of Concordia St. Louis and Concordia Ft. Wayne. In fact, the last time I looked, Concordia Publishing House was boasting that its KJV catechism had sold over 2,000,000 copies! 

The Wisconsin sect was even more obvious. They published their Gausewitz catechism in English and German with nary a word about Objective Justification, and WELS kept adding to it until they could dump it for the Kuske monograph.

The Kokomo Theses blew up all over WELS and Missouri because the switch to Objective Justification and the NIV had been made stealthily, cautiously, deceptively, piously. The people who were filling Christian News with their outrage were raised on Justification by Faith and the KJV.

 It is time to make your decision for OJ!

 Cub editor Phil Hale says that the Scriptures are the wrong path!
The Chief Article infuriates Christian News and its lackeys.
The Path to Understandings Justification.

I have two witnesses to WELS ducking the issue. Pastor Jim Shrader and I both spent time at Mordor in Panning's Romans (in Greek) class. Panning was the Mequon professor who agreed on appeal that the Kokomo families should be tossed out for criticizing Objective Justification. Panning was also the man chosen to edit the new edition of Meyer's $45 Ministers of Christ, the source of three of the four Kokomo Theses. WELS denied that fact, and lied about it, but that is WELS GA dogma - lie, deceive, dissemble, and laugh at the results.

Jim Shrader and I do not remember Panning advocating Objective Justification in Romans 1-5. I knew from Christian News' Youse Guys Fight It Out that something had flared up, but I read Luther, knew Greek, and never heard a clear statement about OJ.

When asked by WELS about Justification, I responded with the Franz Pieper smokescreen - OJ as the Atonement, Subjective Justification as faith in the Gospel. I believe Pieper was quite deliberate about blending efficacy and Justification by Faith with the Walther-Stephan scheme from Pietism. Talking to laity, I realized that they were also misled, deliberately, by the terms which came from the Calvinist translator of Knapp's theology lectures.

Robert Preus, the clever scheme-meister, stated clearly that OJ was not the Atonement. His garbled piece was part of the scheme to oust Walter Maier II from Ft. Wayne and any future position in the LCMS.

Remember readers - that the Missouri Synod began to crater when the Preus brothers, Bob and Jack, seized the reins of power. Their sons and grandsons have been shoveling the OJ ever since. One son left his beautiful wife for another woman and still had a call and his second wife. That is so OJ.

 In the mainline denominations of today, including WELS-LCMS, the double justification dogma has degraded into pure Universalism. Everyone is forgiven! Go out and celebrate!

Boy wonder Andrew Preus had a hissy fit about my precise mapping of the Robert Preus change from OJ to anti-OJ. Could that be why Rolfie One-Note no longer cites the book he supposedly edited with his equally dense brother? Like Jack Cascione, Andy likes to lay down a smokescreen of fact-free denials and absurd claims.

Behind on Email But It Will Save Time

 

 This is not Springdale! We have two animals pulling each Priority truck. 
Andy got her keepsake doll in only two days.

I am working on a new email software program, which will reduce my time erasing tedious repeat unsubscribed messages.

I am not ignoring anyone, just the spammers.

How the LCMS-WELS Flipped, Slipped, and Dipped.The ELS Was Birthed on Justification without Faith

 

The CFW Walther bullies were not shocked by Stephan's adultery with numerous young ladies in their cult. They used an imaginary confession (denied by his #1 mistress) to form the riot and justify their felonious and anti-Christian behavior. Stealing Stephan's chest of gold made them solvent.

The following is a very short summary of the Synodical Conference, whose death is still mourned loudest by those who destroyed it.

Martin Stephan told the Walther circle of pastors to gather up their cult and sail for America, a plan plotted and organized for years. The pastors knew Stephan was a syphilitic adulterer, but they followed him anyway. Walther later blamed Mrs. Stephan on their marital troubles even though she stuck with him until he abandoned the whole family (except one son) and took his mistress instead. For that, the Walther circle made Stephan a bishop in America, which is what Stephan wanted. 

Stephan was no scholar of the Bible, and Walther was just as bad. Walther took over the Pietistic notion of the entire world being absolved the moment Christ rose from the dead. Do not be shocked - the simpletons of the ELS (Webber) and WELS (Buchholz) teach the same Halle University nonsense today.

Walther organized the riot that forcibly removed Bishop Stephan from his house (a felony) and the title they bestowed on him, from his land (a felony), and from all his money, books, and belongings (more felonies). They forced him across the Mississippi River at gunpoint (a felony) and blamed everything they did on him (slander, now called "Talking Points" in LCMS, WELS, and the ELS).

CFW Walther - the consummate liar, pimp, and false teacher - established his dominance over all actions of the Missouri Synod, as we now call it. Pieper blended efficacy and Enthusiasm, Objective Justification and Justification by Faith together in his Dogmatics, making it easy for people to think "Objective Justification is the Atonement, Subjective Justification is Justification by Faith." 

The Little Norwegians (ELS) left the Big Norwegians (eventually TALC) because they wanted to be purely Justification without Faith - OJ.

The original, official doctrine of the LCMS and WELS was Justification by Faith. Unlike today, most of the clergy could read Luther in German. Now the seminarians do not read much at all, little or no Luther, whose doctrine and writings are despised by the professors and dimwitted leaders. The LCMS-WELS coalition strengthened their Calvinistic and Pietistic roots, making the mainline denominations' dogma their dogma.

Fifty Years of Grace? - LCMS Collapse Began in 1970. Here Are the Stars. Preus Elected LCMS Prez in 1969.

 

On the left, Jack Preus became LCMS president in 1969, and it has been downhill ever since. Cousin David Preus, on the right, did the ALC no favors, guiding it into the ELCA. Trainees - I mean trannies - thank David for his leadership.

The power hungry Preus brothers, Robert and Jack, felt subordination to them was the world's destiny. They imbued their offspring with the same timeless call, "Follow ME!" while denying the Chief Article of Christianity. 

Pope Herman the Unready worked with the Preus brothers, Rolf One-Note, and Waldo Werning to remain at the center of every dispute and sell newspapers to both sides, including Roman Catholics and Born-Again Babtists. Grace Otten, the theologian of the family (Herman's words) convinced him of Objective Justification, further dooming the LCMS in its doctrinal decline.

From ALPB - 

"Theology and the Church after Google."  Here are some random points that Larry offered:

-Statistical decline in the LCMS began in 1971 (50 years!)

-Clergy nationwide who responded to surveys about stress and depression are about 70%; the LCMS claims about 25%.  Larry says we should split the difference and then say that about 50% of LCMS clergy are stressed and/or depressed.

-Technology has far outpaced human adaptability.  We can't keep up and we can't catch up. 

 Do not blame the Damascus pastors who went to Fuller Seminary to learn how to be branded "a Damascus pastor" (say that slowly). Their leaders - Preus, Otten, Werning, Kelm, Valleskey - were the Judas goats that led them to the slaughter house.

More Nutrition Basics, Plus Walking To Counteract a Sedimentary Life

 

 "You expect me to walk the dog every day?"

Some readers like the nutrition posts, and I may benefit from following my own advice. My doctor told me I had low potassium and I knew I had low energy. He gave me potassium for that and I looked into possible causes. I was drinking up to 48 ounces of Diet Pepsi a day, partly to keep energy up. But it seems that all diuretics have the tendencies to lower potassium. I let the supply of Diet Pepsi run out.

There is lot to say against paying for a mixture of water, bubbles, and artificial sugars.

I only drink coffee in the morning and when someone stops by for pour-over coffee. 

My A1C number has been steadily climbing, and I can get sluggish from too many carbos. The A1C number is long-term sugar levels, so a few days of monastic self-denial will not work. I told the doctor, "I have been using ice cream for stress relief." He burst out laughing and said, "Ice cream is very effective in combatting stress." I stopped buying ice cream products, which are so easy to enjoy when delivered at the door.

Eggs go well with efforts to lose weight, so I start the day with coffee first, and then with scrambled eggs and toast. 

WebMD

Along with milk, eggs contain the highest biological value (or gold standard) for protein. One egg has only 75 calories but 7 grams of high-quality protein, 5 grams of fat, and 1.6 grams of saturated fat, along with iron, vitamins, minerals, and carotenoids.

The egg is a powerhouse of disease-fighting nutrients like lutein and zeaxanthin. These carotenoids may reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in older adults. And brain development and memory may be enhanced by the choline content of eggs.

Walking for Health

The #1 prescription for health is walking every day. I kept my gym membership up during the Covid shut-down because I wanted to start over when things eased up. When I began, pre-Covid, I reached a point where the daily pain of being ancient largely went away. Besides that, an all-around approach is good for lower blood pressure, lower weight, and more muscular strength.

Health benefits of walking

You carry your own body weight when you walk. This is known as weight-bearing exercise. Some of the benefits include:

• increased cardiovascular and pulmonary (heart and lung) fitness
• reduced risk of heart disease and stroke
• improved management of conditions such as hypertension (high blood pressure), high cholesterol, joint and muscular pain or stiffness, and diabetes
• stronger bones and improved balance
• increased muscle strength and endurance
• reduced body fat.

Ten more reps!

Give Your Garden Your Breakfast Coffee Grounds, Unless You Like Sanka

 

People ask, "Are coffee grounds actually good for the soil?" Gardening sites turn this question into a dissertation.

The simple answer is - "Yes, because most organic additions to the soil are good for plants and the soil critters that fertilize, blend, aerate, and even sweeten the soil. Earthworms sweeten the soil with their unique calcium producing glands.

Creation gardeners do not need to get a degree in chemistry for their work. A blend of organic materials over time will be reduced to soil. My pile of used coffee ground packets (from pour-over coffee making) is not a pyramid because the paper and grounds keep being reduced by the soil creatures.

Packing tape lasts forever in the soil, so consider that when using cardboard for mulch in the fall. My neighbor had a jungle of grasses in her flower bed, so now she has most of that disaster (which she and her husband inherited) turning weeds into compost.

Today I was putting bulbs in the former Blackberry/Joe Pye little garden areas. I saw a black form behind me. It was Atlas, the puppy who escapes with his mentor Alaska. The odd thing was - they were in a locked yard. I had the only gate shut with a chain, and I was on the other side. But they got in and were happy to see their guardian gardening.

Sassy and I took them to their house and informed their staff about their latest venture (repeated by Atlas later today). We had some laughs again. He said, "I know my dogs are missing when I hear you calling their names." 

They generally follow me to their home, hoping for mercy rather than justice. One time they ran farther away.

Atlas walked up to my friend, threw himself on the ground, belly up, and begged for forgiveness, wiggling and faking contrition. We laughed and laughed.

Yale Divinity School Costs Less than WELS Martin Luther College And - Almost All of the Cost Is Paid

 

Martin Luther College is around $30,000 a year in cost. 

Yale Divinity's tuition is $25,000 a year, but the net cost paid by each student is about $1,500 annually. YDS gives tuition support to over 90% of the students. 

Yale Divinity has endowed student scholarships - over 12 new ones this year.

Yale Divinity School has had its own campus, faculty, and degree program since 1869.

Yale Divinity does not have a hazing tradition where newcomers are insulted, physically harmed, abused, and manipulated with lies. Martin Luther College and Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary both do.

Is Their Precious Sinaiticus Codex a Complete Forgery?

 

Tischendorf is connected to two "ancient" manuscripts, Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, the fakes that gullible scholars embraced as the "purest and best sources."

I just got my Bruce Metzger books in the mail, which I wanted for the second edition of The Bible Book: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love the Word of God.

How could anyone burn a Bible based on the oldest and best and purest manuscripts, Metzger wondered. Aha. He fell for it too.

I have known a lot of frauds, which may be why I spotted Tischendorf so early - with the help of others who saw through his obvious lies.

The entire international printing industry for new Bibles with strange and ever-changing texts is based on one self-promoting salesman - Tischendorf. 

 Tischendorf gave Sinaiticus the Hebrew letter Aleph, above, making it first on the list of New Testament sources, B for Vaticanus, making it second. Clever boy.

Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are deceptively called the oldest and best sources, but they disagree with each other, even though they are supposedly from the Alexandrian, Egyptian group of manuscripts. Readers may recall that David Valleskey wanted to "spoil the Egyptians" (borrowing from Fuller Seminary) and I countered, "The Israelites took the Egyptians' precious metals and gems, not their garbage."

Valleskey is a sworn, published enemy of the Chief Article of Christianity. Herman Otten promoted and sold this gem of Fuller Pietism and Enthusiasm.

One version is that Tischendorf saved Sinaiticus from being burned by the scholars in an effort to keep the St. Catharine's library warm. Sinaiticus is parchment, skin. How many people burn leather to warm a room? How many scholars burn the "oldest" manuscript to heat their tootsies?

Sinaiticus is 1500 OR MORE years old, and yet it was pure white, like new, when first described by two different men. It was artificially aged later.

In contrast, the KJV New Testament Greek text is in harmony with 95% of what we have, thousands and thousands of examples.

Mirtrhless Mark the Mendicant Has a New Campaign for the Shrinking WELS College

 

"Throw us a lifeline, eh?"

How is a field house a mile away from campus going to help in the middle of winter when most students don't have cars?

They forgot to mention that part... It isn't ON CAMPUS, it's OFF CAMPUS at the Athletic Fields site.

"Sports Complex

• Shared locker rooms for field sports - home & visitor

• Indoor practice turf

• Game day support - concessions, restrooms, coaches,

and officials

• Team rooms

• Satellite training room"

Martin Luther College now costs over $30,000 a year, and the average student leaves with more than $50,000 in debt. That may be a reason why students pick Granger Community College instead. Another reason is WELS protecting felons, denying anything happened, and treating so many students like dirt under their Stormtrooper boots.

WELS stole a march on ELCA, doubling down with Satanism and gender bending.

When Dr. Martin Luther College in New Ulm absorbed Northwestern College in Watertown, everything was supposed to be glorious:

1. Men and women together
2. Separate tracks for teachers and future pastors
3. Decreased alcoholism
4. No more Cattle Crossing signs popping up when the NWC students were visiting.

I have been reading Augustana College (Rock Island) history lately. The Swedish Augustana Synod, after some years of doctrinal difficulties, established their synod and college in 1860. Northwestern College began in 1865. 

The differences are enormous today, because the Swedes took higher education seriously, instead of putting incompetents in teaching roles. Andreen, an early Augustana College president, left his comfortable job as head of a language department at Yale University to get the Rock Island campus on solid ground. He was pummeled in Sweden for asking for funds and succeeded in winning over the opposition. He cultivated the prosperous Swedes in the Midwest and strengthened the faculty. 

"Augustana ranks among the top 40 U.S. liberal arts colleges in the sciences, based on the number of graduates earning Ph.D.s. Students accepted to Augustana typically rank in the top 20% of their high school classes." (Wiki)

Similarly, Gustavus Adolphus in Minnesota is one of the top music schools in America. I remember when a prominent ELS pastor sent his daughter there for music. 

Christina and I graduated early from Augustana, Rock Island, November, 1969. We got married 10 minutes later.

 The Augustana Synod abhorred slavery, unlike Walther's sect, where slavery was practiced from the beginning and supported by CFW Hisself.

Basics for Spring in the Fall Garden - For the Seattle Group

 

 Crepe Myrtle looks like fireworks here,
and Buckwheat feeds the bees and soil.

Questions are frequently asked about what to do in the fall for the spring garden. If fall bulbs are not planted - and they are so easy - there is plenty to do otherwise.

Roto-tillers feel manly, but they mix up and destroy the creatures God made to help, build, perfect, and repair the soil.

One British expert, Shewell-Cooper, resolved a lot of problems for me by writing - "Put the organic matter on top. The soil creatures will pull it down. If they are completely full, the top layer of compost becomes the perfect mulch." (Paraphrased)

Organic ingredients that will improve the soil - even become the soil - wherever they are placed:

• Leaves, wood mulch, wood chips, sawdust, lawn grass, and twigs
• You can dump bags and bags of neighbors' leaves on growing areas. They are ideal for protecting roses during a bad winter. Leaves can be composted in one area, for gardeners who love extra work. I spread them around the garden areas and they stay there. In late spring they are absorbed into the soil and apparently gone.
• Newsprint and cardboard can be held down by mulch, manure, and wood chips. A tomato garden can start in the fall, with a layer of cardboard (no peeking) held down by organic matter. In the spring, open up holes for tomato plants, beans, whatever works.
• Cow, horse, goat, rabbit, poultry manure (avoid cat and dog manure)
• Weeds - unless they are rampant and toxic - like Hemlock and Giant Hogweed, Deadly Nightshade. If the plant is shockingly robust and exotic, it may also be highly toxic.
• You may want Wild Strawberries, planted with love by the birds who adore the berries. They bloom early, bloom in the shade, and bloom all summer. They are a relief program for ground feeding birds.

God invented mulch, so use it.

The covering of organic mulch I conjured in your minds - above - will serve several purposes in autumn, winter, and spring:

1. The organic blanket keeps the soil warmer, moister, and more fertile by maximizing conditions as long as possible.
2. The organic blanket keeps soil from blowing away in harsh winds.
3. Best of all, this blanket becomes the soil. Place a tree stump in one spot and watch how it rots out and crumbles in a few years. Soil creatures come for food. Toads come for nums. Insects become fat and fatten the toads.
4. You call it rot - I call it God's recycling.

Fungus is the powerhouse.

All soil creatures work for their benefit and for the benefit of others. Nothing is more powerful than soil fungus. 

Serious, lazy gardeners will sell their roto-tillers covertly, rest a lot more, and use Creation methods. God clearly made all things through Christ the Word, the Lord of Creation.

LCMS-WELS-ELS Leaders Work with Bishop - Now President - Guy Erwin Through Thrivent.

 

Seminary President will be guest speaker at Wyomissing Church [Religion Digest] – Reading Eagle

Rev. R. Guy Erwin will preach and lead worship at the Atonement Lutheran Church in 5 Wyomissing Boulevard, Wyomissing, on Sundays at 8:30 am and 10 am. Prior to this appointment, he was the fourth bishop of the Southwestern California Theological Seminary of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church. (SIC!) [GJ - He was never a pastor, but an academic instead. He was quickly made a pastor so he could be the bishop of his San Francisco district - and then became president of the fractured United Lutheran Seminary, because the Presbyterian they elected was not woke enough.]

Nobody tars and feathers a victim better than the woke do. This is Theresa Latini, the gone but not forgotten first president of a once great seminary. I was invited to apply for a position there.

Irwin has a degree from Harvard University and Yale University and was a Fulbright scholarship student at the University of Tubingen in Germany. He has taught at the Yale Divinity School in Thousand Oaks and California Lutheran University.

His husband, Robert T. Flynn, from West Virginia and a graduate of Yale Divinity School, has been involved in academic publishing at Yale University Publishing, Columbia University Publishing, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. 

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Bishop Megan graduated from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D.