Count the Racoons - Quick!

 

 Eye test - how many raccoons are in this tree?

I use the Internet to emphasize Creation, nutrition, and the efficacy of the Word. I need walnuts, every day.

 "This my dear puppy."

I enjoy the conversations with members and friends across the country - and world. There is something special about someone 8,000 miles away who is delighted at getting Pilgrim's Progress when most Americans do not know the book at all. And two books were sent for a pastor who works way up north. 

Blooms are bustin' out all over in the Creation Garden. The initial pesky little garden take-overs were the ajuga mints, purple, EV stations for pollinators. They look like bums but soon step aside to my favorite hardy weed - wild strawberries, which bloom in the shade, feed birds and bees, and fill the nocks and crannies of the garden. Want some? Put up a few tree stumps and wood leftovers. Birds will perch on the stumps while the wood rots into the ground. Knowing how to plant free food, the birds leave a deposit for the future wild strawberry plants that will grow around the stump, added and abetted with free fertilizer. If you are not laughing now, you grew up in a suburb.

The daffodils are done flowering in the backyard and front. I have added six bare-root roses (Maria Shriver and Plum Fragrance) plus five Knock-Outs (red, pink). Cannas are ordered for color and their ability to last the winter. I got Calla Lilies for Easter Sunday and planted them just off the front porch, where the Military Gardening Group gathered after supper - continuing their war stories after having chicken, rolls, and ice cream.

I was warned against placing the hummingbird feeder too close to the porch, so I put one right in front of where Ranger Bob sits. The look on his face when the hummingbird floated a few feet away was utter bliss. No more warnings.

There is no substantial difference between Creation, the efficacy of the Word, and Justification by Faith. Thanks to the Lutheran Librarian, Alec Satin, people can read extensive General Council and Ohio Synod (ALC) essays on 

1. The efficacy of the Word, 
2. Justification by Faith, and 
3. the Means of Grace.  

Why are the Lutheran politicians and professors so ignorant of those topics from the Bible and the Book of Concord? The toxic generations back 100 years ago began to erase and extract the substance of the Bible and Confessions from -

• The Bible - rejecting the KJV.
• Lutheran politicians
• Lutheran colleges
• Lutheran seminaries
• Lutheran teachers and professors. 

The sickening decay of Lutheran doctrine is nothing more than an utterly libidinous lust for Calvinism, Romanism, and marketing boosterism. 

One well known pastor bragged about his huge Vacation Bible School and said, "Go big or go home." Thus the Great Commission has a new translation -

Trans-synods - ELCA-LCMS-ELS-WELS-CLC (sic) Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. 19 Go ye therefore, and go big or go home."

The toxin is so great, so cherished by its leaders, that anyone questioning the basics is hurled into

• The Stygian darkness of Biblical inerrancy and efficacy, 
• Luther's Biblical doctrine, and 
• Freedom from cowardly tyrants. 

We have 500-1,000 views each day, doubtless a wee bit larger than they enjoy in synodical and diocesan palaces large and small. They are closing down their print operations "out of an abundance of caution about insolvency." They are scared crazy about their expensive piles of bricks and mortar, their empty libraries and classrooms, their lack of spiritual discernment.

The new Lutherans would like this graphic.

Artist Norma A. Boeckler Illustrated Quotation from Hymnwriter Bishop Heber

Quotation from Bishop Reginald Heber

Hosanna to the Living Lord - #70 - Bishop Heber


"Hosanna to the Living Lord"
by Reginald Heber, 1783-1826

1. Hosanna to the living Lord!
Hosanna to the Incarnate Word!
To Christ, Creator, Savior, King,
Let earth, let heaven, hosanna sing.

2. O Savior, with protecting care
Abide in this Thy house of prayer,
Where we Thy parting promise claim,
Assembled in Thy sacred name.

3. But, chiefest, in our cleansed breast,
Eternal, bid Thy Spirit rest
And make our secret soul to be
A temple pure and worthy Thee.

4. So in the last and dreadful Day,
When earth and heaven shall melt away,
Thy flock, redeemed from sinful stain,
Shall swell the sound of praise again.

The Lutheran Hymnal
Hymn #70
Text: Matt. 21:9
Author: Reginald Heber, 1811; 1827, ab.
Tune: "Vom Himmel hoch"
First Published in: _Geistliche Lieder_
Town: Leipzig, 1539