I wavered about the promised late night post, but I found some great organ music, which energized me.
I love to hear music from the great pipe organs of the world. Certainly they will one day be considered the quirkiest of all the sound producers of the last 500 years. Who would put together so many pipes and tune them, rig them to a manual, and arrange the ranks to generate sounds from thunderous to delicate? The cost to build and maintain - hard to believe.
Did anyone else notice that America denominations abandoned:
- The classic KJV in favor of pathetic paraphrases with missing verses?
- Justification by Faith so they could exploit universal salvation (Objective Justification)?
- Biblical hymns so they could pound their percussion instruments and howl their self-praise?
- The message of salvation, only to replace it with pre-church popcorn Pepsi salivation?
Some of my favorite responses from the past have been, "How can you be so critical of the synods? You should stop writing!" Somehow they failed to comprehend the meaning of Ichabod - The Glory Has Departed.
And they are so comical in their absurdities. Josh Scheer runs like a scalded dog away from the important matters, in order to cluck his cloven tongue about a sure thing in Missouri. Steadfast? I foresee him as a District President or special counselor for Calvinist News. The DeadLast Lutherans "had to" erase criminal evidence, ordered by Matt the Fatt, and Josh now wants His Enormity to do the right thing at Concordia Mequon.
So much was at steak in those days - free lunches, free suppers, free travel, and freedom from preaching, which he escaped early. |