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.
“It is the most beautiful of all the translations of the Bible; indeed, it is probably the most beautiful piece of writing in all the literature of the world. Many attempts have been made to purge it of its errors and obscurities. An English Revised Version was published in 1885 and an American Revised Version in 1901, and since then many learned but misguided men have sought to produce translations that should be mathematically accurate, and in the plain speech of everyday. But the Authorized Version has never yielded to any of them, for it is palpably and overwhelmingly better than they are, just as it is better than the Greek New Testament, or the Vulgate, or the Septuagint. Its English is extraordinarily simple, pure, eloquent, lovely. It is a mine of lordly and incomparable poetry, at once the most stirring and the most touching ever heard of.” — H. L. Mencken (1880-1956).
The quotation above is in the masthead. The blog will keep changing the quotation (all from The King James Version) from time to time, enticing readers to obtain the entire list.
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Norma A. Boeckler, our award winning artist, illustrated the book and covers.
"All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. Ànd the light shineth in darkness and the darkness Comprehended it not." John 1:3-5
Reasoning, that puss sack of sin and unbelief, has engulfed Lutherans in a false understanding of the chief article of the Christian faith: justification by faith.
"The overly chipper opponents of Justification by Faith want to tell the entire world that God is no longer angry with them, no longer viewing them as sinful and faithless. By starting with the wrong inference about reconciliation, the opponents of the Chief Article draw the wrong conclusion, repeatedly saying, 'God has declared the entire world righteous, forgiven of sin.' " (Pastor Gregory Jackson, PhD, The Path To Understanding Justification, ISBN 9781072530428, pg. 62). Pastor Jackson goes on to explain that "this false assurance is the foundation of modern antinomianism. Every Biblical sin is absolved in advance, except denying this strange dogma, which crime results in excommunication, shunning, and an avalanche of slander. (Gregory Jackson, PhD, The Path to Understanding Justification, pg. 62, footnote 21)
We must teach our children the correct understanding of Justification by Faith by using the King James Bible, Luther's Small Catechism pocket edition, and Pastor Greg Jackson's The Path To Understanding Justification.
A group of students finished their project and almost followed my directions. I use Word's tool for the table of contents, which updates the page numbers.
The paper began - Table of Content.
I liked that typo and kidded them about contentment. This morning I looked at two examples of Bee Balm. One is the area around the mailbox, where I caught the carrier cutting away the flowers around the box.
He did not realize that the Bee Balm blossoms attract several kinds of bees that care only about the pollen. They are like him, taking their predestined packages where they will be useful and appreciated.
The little stand of Bee Balms grew to several hundred around the mailbox, so I trimmed back the ones closest to the box.
The Military Gardening Group enjoys watching the bees work on the balm closer to the porch. It is peaceful and no one gets stung. I even added some red Bee Balm closer to the porch, saving rainwater just for them.
Balm is an generic word for soothing - Is there no balm in Gilead?
KJV Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there?
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The other Bee Balm patch began in a weak state, but I was confident, even content. I dug up some and planted them against side of the house getting the most sun - and often the most weeds, from crabgrass to comfrey (knitbone). I planted in the fall, knowing the roots would do their work during winter and spring.
Bee Balm has the advantage of waiting patiently to show off - just when the roses and other flowers are beaten down by too much sun and too little rain. The handful of balm from last fall grew into a patch of several hundred flowers in the Butterfly Garden for July. Now the blooms are nodding and bending from a host of bees sampling their food.
KJV 1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
I was required to visit people daily when I worked at St. Peter's in Kitchener. I got to see many retired people and enjoyed every minute. They were the living history of the congregation and the area. One Croft told me about the relative who went to America ("no good" she smiled). He changed his name to Kraft and did very well in the food business. He was the Schwan of cheese.
One lady did not like those people who countered her health problems with theirs, which were far worse. She said, "Your pneumonia won't cure my cold!" She had many quips like that.
Our world is becoming crazier. I even resist my favorite independent news sources now. However, God uses the foolish, greedy, and evil to accomplish His will. Pardon the homey example, but one judo practitioner told me, "Use the opponent's strength against him and he will fly through the air, which is what that brown belt did to you."
7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
That is a Greek New Testament pun that translates well. Luther used it too - He is as anxious for us and we are for Him.
