Friday, June 23, 2023

A Continuing Role for the Martin Chemnitz Friends Blog

 


I learned early to connect blogs, so I began the Martin Chemnitz Friends blog to concentrate on publications. The main link is the same, but the byline has changed to Chemnitz - The Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry.

For a long time, I have been double-posting Alec Satin's work, which has built up a large source of free online books - once obtained only at book auctions at seminaries. Pastoral estates had large collections - which they actually read - and seminarians liked getting them for almost nothing, boosting the library's stingy budget.


Martin Chemnitz Friends will continue to have the duplicate copy of the latest from The Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry.

Concordia Publishing House will continue to be in second place with their expensive "Lutheran Library." CPH is at the top only when they pay for it. That makes me laugh.


The Concordia ship today, ready to symbolize the work of Matt the Fatt, the apostate captain who made fun of the man who first got him the job, after he sang a ballad praising Herman Otten.


What makes me furious is the agenda behind their fake Luther works -

  1. Luther's Large Seminex Catechism.
  2. The Dogmatanic - even worse than Braaten-Jenson.
  3. Luther's Small Catechism - Objective Faithless Justification for Tiny Brains.


Lutheran Library Presents Lenski's In His FootstepsAlec Satin - Lutheran Librarian

In His Footsteps: Studies for Edification from the Life of Christ by Richard C. H. Lenski

Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry

Richard C. H. Lenski

Listen Up - Apostate Synods and Crypto-Papists!
The Episcopal Numbers Describe Your Ultimate Doom

 


Virtue Online - Stats Reveal Future of American Episcopalians

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
www.virtueonline.org
June 23, 2023

THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH is in a parlous state and more serious decline than anyone first thought. The latest 2021 domestic statistics show that there are 1,522,688 who identify as Episcopalians, of which 19.2% show up for weekly church services across 6,294 American churches with attendance under 50 in most parishes. Only 292,851 people warm domestic Episcopal Church pews during any given week. This is the lowest recorded numbers to date. 2022 and 2023 statistics will surely be even lower when we obtain them.

One in four priests in TEC is homosexual. The number of funerals, (23, 127) outweighed the number of baptisms (13,859) by nearly 2 to 1 in the Episcopal Church in 2021. Hundreds of parishes cannot find priests. The Episcopal Church is dying.

By 2040, it will, to all intents and purposes cease to exist. The millions of dollars spent litigating to hold onto properties will be viewed as wasted money as properties will eventually lie fallow. In time, they will become social centers, condos, saloons, bars, arts centers and more. They will no longer be places of worship. The abandonment of scripture as authoritative on all matters of faith and practice is the curse of revisionist and progressive thinking. God is not mocked; The Episcopal Church is reaping what it has sown and it has reaped the whirlwind.

You can read Mary Ann Mueller's full report, EXECUTIVE COUNCIL REARRANGES DECK CHAIRS here: https://virtueonline.org/episcopal-church-executive-council-rearranges-deck-chairs

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PRIDE MONTH. My article The Queering of The Episcopal Church looks at just how far the Episcopal Church has slid off the theological rails. If one had any doubt about how far the Episcopal Church will go in adapting to the culture, one need look no further than June -- Pride Month -- commemorating the 1969 Stonewall uprising. Pride started out as a homosexual men's rebellion. Today it has morphed into a spate of LGBTQ+ sexualities which both the culture and liberal mainline denominations celebrate with public displays that border on the pornographic.

The White House and its current president have also cheered it along, embarrassing a vast swath of Americans who feel uncomfortable celebrating a behavior that has taken so many lives.





After the cross-dressing parish picnic, lovingly portrayed in a public website, the holier-than-thou Wisconsin sect (aka WELS) made this pastor the lead speaker at one of their national events for parochial teachers. 


Hebrews - Daily Verses - "For For Verily He Took Not on Him the Nature of Angels; But He Took on Him the Seed of Abraham."


KJV Hebrews 2

16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Explanation

Nothing is more obvious today than the Reformation heirs departing from the Bible and clinging to the title of priest. The agenda is clear - they are to be called Father and identified by their expensive costumes. They want to be known by their gestures and clouds of incense while performing the Mass and despising the Gospel. 

Jesus is the priest and the seed of Abraham. When God promised the patriarch followers more numerous than the stars in the sky, He was predicting the millions of Christian believers trusting in the Promise and being forgiving - Justification by Faith, Romans 4 - 5:2.

KJV Genesis 15

15 After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

4 And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

6 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Not satisfied with the key verse of Genesis, which they forget every time they boost their Objective Faithless Justification, they take away the faith of Jesus from their Bad Bibles shelf, all based on the fraudulent Tischendorf-Westcott-Hort-Nestle Aland snip-and-clip Greek New Testament.

KJV Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

and 

KJV Galatians 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 

and 

KJV Philippians 3:9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Pay close attention to the Bad Bible Boosters of ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS-CLC. They adore the Tischendorf-Westcott-Hort-Nestle Aland snip-and-clip Greek New Testament and despise the Apostolic (Traditional) text of the King James Version. Oh yes, the faith of Jesus is in their apostate GNTs but they feel compelled to erase that clear phrase - the faith of Jesus - from the Apostle Paul. 

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 3 - "Learn from This, Then, That Our Neighbor Is To Be Sought As a Lost Sheep..."

 


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And so they were drawn to him when they heard his loving doctrine. Here comes the sheep out of the wilderness, and here the lost piece of silver is found.

16. Learn from this, then, that our neighbor is to be sought as a lost sheep, that his shame is to be covered with our honor, that our piety is to be a cover for his sins. But nowadays, when men come together they backbite one another; and thus they would show how zealous they are against sin.

Therefore, ye men, whenever ye come together, do not backbite your neighbors. Make not one face at one person and another at some one else.

Do not cut off one man’s foot and another man’s hand; make no such traffic of living flesh. Likewise, ye women, when you come together, conceal the shame of others, and do not cause wounds which you cannot heal. Should you meet with anything like this in some one’s house, then throw your mantle over shame and wounds, and close the door. A very good reason for doing this is, that you would have others do the same to you. Then, if you have kept the matter secret, bring the parties before you afterwards, and read them a good lecture; and let it remain with you as a secret.

17. Christ, too, acts thus. He keeps silent and covers our sins. He could, indeed, expose us to shame, and could tread us under foot, as our text shows that the Pharisees did. But he does not do so. All will be brought to light, however, at the final judgment. Then everything hidden must be revealed. Then the virgin must place her crown upon the harlot, the pious woman must throw her veil over the adulteress, and everything we have must serve as a garment to cover the sins of others. For every man shall have his sheep, and every woman shall have her piece of silver. All our gifts must be the gifts of others.

18. Hence there is, in God’s judgment, no greater sin on earth than that pious men and women and virgins commit when they despise those who lie in their sin and would appropriate to themselves their natural gifts, puffing themselves up and despising their neighbor.

Every sheep has a name. Which one is Black Nose?