ELCA's Grand Canyon ELCA Assembly - Don't Fail To Miss It

Rev. Dr. Anthony Bateza is our special guest at 2023 assembly

We welcome Rev. Dr. Anthony Bateza as our special guest at the 2023 Grand Canyon Synod Assembly.

At St. Olaf College, he is the: Associate Professor of Religion; Department Chair of Race, Ethnic, Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Director of Race and Ethnic Studies.

Anthony Bateza is a specialist in Martin Luther, moral theology and Christian ethics. Luther’s political theology is his primary area of resarch, focusing on the reformer's understanding of human agency and his relationship with the virtue tradition and Augustinian thought. He is also personally and professionally invested in questions of race, identity, and social justice. He has written on Black liberation theology and connections between Lutheran teaching and confronting racism in the United States.  

Dr. Bateza has earned degrees from Iowa State University (B.S, 2002), the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (M.Div., 2006), and Princeton Theological Seminary (Ph.D., 2017). He is an ordained pastor in the Lutheran Church (ELCA) and frequently speaks in congregational settings and at church events.

Dr. Bateza lives in Northfield with his wife, Cynthia, their two children, Austen and Magdalene, and their loveable dog Charlie. In his free time he enjoys cycling, board games, comic books and cooking.

The Simple Truth Ignored by Apostate Lutherans

Someone created this Luther Activated graphic, which illustrates the obvious but forgotten efficacy of the Word taught throughout the Bible and older theological volumes. Efficacy in Greek transliterates - letter by letter - as energy. The Word of God always has the energy and power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 10 and Isaiah 55:8ff are the classic passages, too clear to miss, but they mean nothing to the Unstuck, the Church Growth, the Management by Objectives, and the Marketing mobs.

What believers must do is shunned and excoriated by the Lutheran leaders of today - convey Christ the Son of God and His teaching. 

Everyone promotes grace - at least they say they do. Amazing that they do not grasp the key doctrine - faith in Jesus Christ the Savior is access to God's grace.

KJV Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

The confessional, Biblical, orthodoxical Lutherans - pause to laugh or cry or both - reject this passage from their own Book of Concord -

"Moreover, the declaration, John 6:44, that no one can come to Christ except the Father draw him, is right and true. However, the Father will not do this without means, but has ordained for this purpose His Word and Sacraments as ordinary means and instruments; and it is the will neither of the Father nor of the Son that a man should not hear or should despise the preaching of His Word, and wait for the drawing of the Father without the Word and Sacraments. For the Father draws indeed by the power of His Holy Ghost, however, according to His usual order [the order decreed and instituted by Himself], by the hearing of His holy, divine Word, as with a net, by which the elect are plucked from the jaws of the devil. Every poor sinner should therefore repair thereto [to holy preaching], hear it attentively, and not doubt the drawing of the Father. For the Holy Ghost will be with His Word in His power, and work by it...."
Solid Declaration, Article XI., Election, #76‑77, Formula of Concord, Concordia Triglotta, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921, p. 1089. Tappert, p. 629. John 6:44. [Cites A. L. Graebner, Doctrinal Theology]

 

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The Evangelical Review

Last updated on 28 Mar 2023 1 min read

The Evangelical Review was edited by William M Reynolds, Professor in Pennsylvania College and assisted by John G Morris, H I Schmidt, Charles W Schaeffer, and Emanuel Greenwald. Many faithful and prominent Lutheran scholars and ministers are featured in the magazine. The first issue was published in 1849 in Gettysburg.

This is one of the special collections of the Lutheran Library. Here are listed all available volumes of The Evangelical Review. You can also review the master index.

Full Volumes of the Evangelical Review

• The Evangelical Review Volume 1
• The Evangelical Review Volume 2
• The Evangelical Review Volume 3

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Related

• The Evangelical Review - Master Index
• The Columbus Theological Magazine - Master Index
• The Columbus Theological Magazine

Romans 10 - The Means of Grace Chapter - Defeats the Trilateral Union of Abusive Lutheran Sects

 

The top three Thrivent salespeople do all they can to promote irrevocable charitable trusts that benefit themselves while robbing widows and orphans. These executives laugh because they are very good at one thing - feathering their own nests. Ask Mirthless Mark Schroeder why Planned Giving Counselors need to have insurance licenses for their Spirit-infused jobs. 

It is all about the numbers, so only the Big Three abusive Lutheran sects are included in this - ELCA, WELS, and LCMS.

Romans 10 - Warning - KJV in Use,

Wear Safety Goggles

KJV Romans 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

Romans 10 teaches the Means of Grace in a few words. Faith in Jesus Christ comes from 

1. Teaching and preaching the Two Natures of Christ (human and divine) - the invisible Means;
2. Baptism and Communion - the visible Means.

The only question needed is - How do we use the Means of Grace? 

1. Parking lots?
2. Pot-bellied balding Boomers trying to recapture their youth in rock bands?
3. Using career coaches who never stop grinning and only know the Law, their law?
4. Merging failed congregations into smaller numbers to hide their accelerating losses?
5. Holding national conferences led by aging Church Growth drones?
6. Buying expensive clergy costumes modeled by Roman Catholic and Episcopal priests and notables?
7. Picking the right incense?
8. Dumping the pipe organ and replacing it with electronic noise-makers?
9. Avoiding classic hymns that focus on the the Messiah instead of "me"?
10. Using corrupted and badly paraphrased "Bibles" instead of the Apostolic traditional text and translation?

Sadly, these highly paid snake-oil salescritters have no grasp of the Means of Grace, the Gospel instruments for bringing Jesus Christ to the world.