Good Nutrition Debates

 

Then - Costa Concordia Cruise ship, poorly navigated, sunk - and many were drowned for no reason.

The Costa Concordia now, is just as seaworthy as WELS, LCMS, ELS, ELCA are today. A little paint and a lot of bars will ease the pain.

I have learned a lot about nutritious food, junk food, and food fads in the last 18 months. I recently enjoyed some fabulous cooking when the Andersons visited for Christina's birthday memory. 

The first step - I read Dr. Joel Fuhrman's Eat To Live plus some of his other books - a big emphasis on 

1. Chopped leafy greens, spinach and kale.
2. Beans, low salt chick peas.
3. Vegetables, light on corn and potatoes.
4. Fresh fruits,  
5. Seeds and nuts, especially walnuts (without ice cream as a base).

Second step - eliminating as many bad foods as possible, replaced by the list above. Bad habit foods are a waste of money and promise only a waist of funny -

• Fast food businesses of all types.
• Ice cream.
• Pizza.
• Hard candy, especially Werthers. Don't. Even. Ask.
• Bread in excess. PBJs.
• Fruit juices (sugar water).
• Colas whether sugared or chemistry prizes.
• Popcorn and Fritos.

Nothing on the bad habit list is really bad but each one sets up high blood sugar and craving for that food. Staying away from the bad food itself can build an "I deserve just one" binge that sadly makes up for the lost opportunities.

The key - in my opinion - is having a good mix of nutritious foods and the use of fruits to replace desserts and other tempting delights. 

Three good meals are like this -

Breakfast - toast and scrambled eggs.

Lunch - chickpeas, chopped kale/spinach, blueberries, walnuts, mushrooms, onions/peppers, and a small amount of sausage. 

Supper - two giant Cosmic Crisp apples. I find this very satisfying, replacing the urge for desserts. Other fruit options include fresh pineapple and citrus.

Any fad diet with a trademarked name is bound to have serious flaws. 

Cat selfies are being promoted by smartphone users.

Efficacy - One of the Clearest and Most Powerful Biblical Explanations. "So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth."

KJV 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Explanation

Don't the future WELS pastors study this passage in Hebrew in the Isaiah II book from Jungkuntz' father-in-law?

How can anyone miss this foundational passage about the efficacy of God's Word?

When rain and snow are sent from God, He always produces results. That is the essence of Church Growth feverish longing - results.

But here is a twist of doctrine. God sends His Word to produce results while the false teachers of WELS-ELCA-LCMS-ELS-CLC send gimmicks, programs, and entertainment. 

I was complaining about our drought to a neighbor in the hospital, who saw the thunderstorm rush by from the picture window on the sixth floor. Rain pounded the hospital at 4 AM, for a few minutes. I said, "That is why the neighborhood lawns were a lush green." Neighbor - "Check your rain-barrel. It has to be overflowing." It was.

 

God says through Isaiah, "When I send rain, it has to have an effect, and I have established three effects of My Word:

1. My Word will never lack My purpose.
2. My Word will always accomplish My purpose.
3. My Word will always prosper My purpose." 

Farmers and gardeners know how true this passage is, because rainwater has a powerful effect while irrigation water simply keeps plants alive.

1.

God's Word is never a dead letter that we bring to life or a metal statue in the garden, pointing the way. His Word will enlighten or blind, convert or harden like the Pharaoh's. 

2.

We cannot judge the time or manner of its effect, but He will accomplish His purpose with His Word. That may take 20 years or 20 minutes. We trust in His Promises, not in our clever speculations.

3.

His purpose will always prosper, which can mean the destruction of a pagan population or the revival of thousands of former unbelievers and skeptics.

WELS Convention Begins with Fuller Seminary Clown Preaching - First VP Huebner, Who Replaced Church Growth's Wayne Mueller, Another Jeske Gang Member

Jim Huebner's father led the cover-up of the infamous Tabor murder. Read this Ichabod post about hazing rituals in WELS. 

Michigan Lutheran Seminary once had 300 high school students. Now they have only 192 students - Church Growth at work! John Lawrenz, as a previous principal, laughed about students holding a fellow student upside-down, outside an upper level window. They slipped, he dropped head-first, and broke bones. Lawrenz laughed. The appalled parents found a better school.

WELS is a sect where alcoholism is praised and promoted, lying is a team sport.

"Do you know who my father is?" - The WELS Crocodile Farm always has an alibi for alcoholism, adultery, and various felonies. They tell their tall tales about anyone who dares to challenge their abusive cult. Jim Huebner - we know, we know.

When Huebner invited himself to visit Shepherd of Peace in Columbus, the local WELS clergy and fake clergy included three divorced pastors out of six, which was OK. They embraced Fuller Seminary dogma, just like Valleskey, Bivens, Huebner, Kelm, and Larry Otto Olson. 

I would not trust the numbers published by WELS. They never tell the truth. Schwan checks were not always included in the money mailed in - as told by someone in charge of handling the funds legally. "Missions" are often renamed and restarted to show how active they are. 

But now - like the LCMS and the Little Sect on the Prairie (ELS) - they have a legacy of bricks and mortar for the glory of Holy Mother Synod. They must carry their inflexible, demanding, and unmoving burden, soon calling for furnace, AC, roof, and population repairs.

Relax, WELSians, a new generation of alcoholic pastors and teachers are becoming senior leaders, eager to take the place of their sclerotic seniors. They have a new gimmick to divert attention from the actual numbers - Unstuck. Never mind their love of the worst Bible ever - the NIV. Ignore their anti-Lutheran, anti-Scriptural dogma. Let the youngest - if they can be found - take over.

Yes, this is being sold to WELS suckers, who need to be unstuck to "grow, Grow, GROW!" - quoting their patron saint, Waldo Werning.

WELS, ELCA, LCMS - who says Lutherans cannot get along? Some ELCA parishes have removed material as soon as I posted about them. Mark - The Germans Stopped Coming - Jeske is the key person in bringing ELCA clergy and the LCMS-WELS together. Now is a good time to dab tears from one's eyes - or were they blinders?

WELS has blown a lot of loot to make themselves larger, but they keep shrinking faster than ever.

The Southern Babtists rejected the NIV that WELS loves so dearly. NIV Romans 3 - "all" are justified? 

 How about that Sprinter statue? 

ELCA has nothing on WELS, a leader in societal evolution and hanky-panky.

Michigan Lutheran Seminary dresses their young men in dresses each year, good training for Martin Luther College and Mordor (Mequon). "One gender to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them."

 

Cross-dressing Michigan Lutheran Seminary students lead to cross-dressing pastors and congregations. No problem - ELCA understands and applauds this breakthrough.