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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.
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Imagine everything moving and reflecting from a barrage of mirrors. |
I boosted attendance at Crystal Bridges 3-D Hall of Mirrors. It is actually a small room, with an entrance and an egress, two people allowed inside at a time. Spheres hang from the ceiling with mirrors reflecting various combinations of objects moving and glowing.
I moved forward, hitting a ledge gently with my right hoof, going down in a thump. ALARM! ALARM! GEEZER DOWN! GEEZER DOWN! LIGHTS FLASHING!
I retrieved the glasses that spilled from my shirt pocked, saw Randy ahead, and the jailer behind. She was the first of three to ask how much damage I incurred. Once outside, I saw a gathering of 10 or more people. I was questioned a second time about whether I was hurt. (No.)
I was walking away when the emergency medical team arrived. Randy noticed Erin had a first-aid kid and a portable de-fib unit. Like the others, she peered at my eyes while asking what happened and was I hurt. "No. I bumped my foot and went down. I do a lot of gardening, so I practice safe falling. It's a good idea at 75 years." She took down my name and phone, in case their legal team had to meet with my legal team.
Randy and I caught up with the rest of the family. In case anyone wonders, I do leg exercises several times a week. That strengthens muscles and ligaments, keeping them flexible rather than actionable.
That is one of the ironies of our anatomy. Neglect of joints and ligaments can cause immense pain, often solved by painful exercise in recovery. The complicated shoulder joints can develop rotator cuff agony or a frozen shoulder (not to be confused with a cold shoulder, the precursor of the WELS/LCMS stink-eye and Left Boot of Fellowship).
Knee damage is especially limiting, so it is wise to walk every day if possible and gradually improve the connective tissue so easily neglected.
Thomas Cole, the Good Shepherd |
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6. Therefore the powerful conclusion follows, there must be something far greater and more precious than all good works, by which a man becomes pious and good, before he does good; just as he must first be in bodily health before he can labor and do hard work. This great and precious something is the noble Word of God, which offers us in the Gospel the grace of God in Christ. He who hears and believes this, thereby becomes good and righteous. Wherefore it is called the Word of life, a Word of grace, a Word of forgiveness. But he who neither hears nor believes it, can in no way become good. For St. Peter says in the Acts 15:9: “And he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.”
For as the Word is, so will the heart be, which believes and cleaves firmly to it. The Word is a living, righteous, truthful, pure and good Word, so also the heart which cleaves to it, must be living, just, truthful, pure and good.
7. What now shall we say of those passages which so strongly insist on good works, as when the Lord says: “Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness?” And in Matthew 25:42: “For I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat.” And many other similar passages, which sound altogether as though we had to become good by works. We answer thus: