LCMS and WELS Cults Fading Fast - ELS and CLC (sic) Sinking Even Faster.Micro-Minies...Forgotten But Not Gone

 

Martin Stephan was a Pietist who attended Halle University, gathered Pietists and the Walther Pietist circle to him, pursued young women, and gave them syphilis. He left Europe with his cult because he was convicted in court of various crimes.

Walther organized the riot that stole Stephan's land, gold, books, and personal belongings, forcing the bishop over to Illinois at gunpoint. Walther took over the leadership as pastor, seminary leader, and publisher. The Walther cults - LCMS, WELS, ELS, CLC (sic) - are imbued with Pietism and Calvinism, and no one dare question the infallibility of CFW Walther, even though he supported the slave trade.

Like Zwingli, CFW had very little training in the Biblical languages (only a B.A.) and a tremendous and undeserved ego. Walther's Objective Faithless Justification slowly became the standard dogma for his groupies, canonized in 1932 by the Brief Statement, F. Pieper's swan song.

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More later - consider the facts when enrolling students in an abusive and anti-Biblical prep/college/seminary. Anyone who objects to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse is considered a loser and not fit for the barbaric school. As one CLC (sic) leader said to a group, "We used to line up the students and slap them in the face, one after another, until one of them confessed."

Monarch or Viceroy? The Truth Matters Yet Predators And Arizonans Are Fooled.

The Monarch caterpillar dines on greens, but still gets fat. The racing stripes are cool.

Bloated from all those milkweed leaves, the Monarch caterpillar decides to become a slender, flying butterfly, using golden nails accessories to enhance its outfit. Those mysterious gold nails look real when examined.

They say Monarchs are quite bitter from devouring so many milkweeds. Birds avoid them.

Viceroys fool people in Arizona into thinking they are bitter tasting Monarchs. Nota bene - the black horizontal bar at the bottom is the clever device to prove its viceroyalist standards. Arizonans may get bitter about this trickery when it is pointed out.

Yesterday, the Schwan Yelloh truck pulled up, unbidden, and the driver offered various overpriced items. Debating, I pointed out the newly hatched Monarch caterpillars and the silken pods that identify milkweed. The sap is bitter.

My mother pointed out the milkweed plants in downtown New Ulm, instructing me to gather some hanging pods to develop in a big jar. I was in charge of adding leaves for them to eat while working on their metamorphosis. They grew enormously fat, hooked onto the branch with silken rope, and slowly changed.

I did not grow up with a SmartPhone, so I had to learn from science classes, my mother, and various books on insects and birds. My father was more interested in bewailing the sorry state of Cubs baseball, always winning until the end of the season.

I cannot understand how people can abandon Creation, based on butterflies alone, and kneel before Evolution.

Doctrine is similar. Lutheran leaders today are viceroys with grand costumes, impressive looking though empty degrees. 

Didja know about Viceroy Lutheran Leaders? -

1. All of them are conservative;
2. All of them are orthodox;
3. All of them are simply packed with grace;
4. All of them quote perhaps one or two Luther statements;
5. Some of them have actually read parts of the Augsburg Confession and a bit of the latest Bible.

Tom Fisher - Farm Struggles in Extreme Heat. Biblical Lessons.

 

Dear Pastor Jackson,

Thank you for praying for me, my livestock, and my farm as the hot, dry, humid weather is back. My sheep seem to be more resilient than my cows. I have to pour water on my cows, bull, and steer to get them cooled off.

I have been pondering why I have always used the King James Bible for the last 52 years. I got my first King James Bible in eighth grade. My parents pulled my brothers and me out of the public schools and enrolled us in a Dutch Reformed parochial school. They had one thing right: they used, studied, and memorized the King James Bible as being the true Word of God. I loved to memorize, study, and ponder the true Word of God in the King James Bible. This enabled me to accept and cling to Luther's correct teaching after I graduated from high school. Bible class was my best class. Soon I was memorizing large portions of Scripture. I memorized Isaiah 53 and many precious Old Testament passages such as Isaiah 7:14 and Ezekiel 37:12 and Jeremiah 17:9.  I noticed all of the Old Testament passages being quoted in the New Testament. I experienced the perfect unity of Scripture as a whole. It rang true, just like the huge bell called Big Ben that was attached to the Westminster clock in England. Bells with a crack go clunk. So also the corrupt Bibles (ESV, NIV, NKJV, RSV, ...Beck) go clunk. They do not ring true. They have false doctrine, errors, omissions, and endless subtle corruptions. They hurt my spiritual ears. So I held to the true Word of God in the King James. 

Heretics love the corrupt Bibles (NIV, ESV, NKJV, RSV...). They love doubting the text. They love the footnotes that create doubt in the text. For example the NIV says (The most reliable early manuscripts and other ancient witnesses do not have Mark 16:9-20) What better way to deny the resurrection of Christ than to cast doubt on the text of God's Word. The NIV completely denies Jesus is God and man in one person by stating "He appeared in a body" instead of the King James Bible true reading of 1 Timothy 3:16 that says, "God was manifest in the flesh." The NIV footnote says, "Some manuscripts God" as if the Greek word "theos" which says "God" in English can scarcely be found in any Greek manuscript. This is a lie.

 Are you beginning to see the gravity and seriousness of this? You are in serious trouble with the Lord if you are not extremely upset and deeply troubled by the corruptions, lies, omissions, and extreme errors in the corrupt Bibles (ESV, NIV, ESV, NKJV, Nestle Aland Greek, United Bible Society Greek).

Immerse yourself in reading, pondering, and listening to the true Word of God in the King James Bible. I often tune my 5 G smart phone to the audio King James Bible. In just two hours I can listen to God's Word from the entire book of John. Like Big Ben it rings true, giving me true comfort, true faith in Christ, and a peace that passes all understanding. Only one thing is needful: listening to the true Word of God found in the King James Bible. So turn off the awful TV news and programming and listen to, read, and ponder the true Word of God in the King James Bible.

The temperature was 100 at 3 this afternoon. One of my cows I call "Fuzzy" had her mouth open gasping for breath. I kept pouring cool water on her back until she started breathing normally. I followed the same procedure for all nine of my cows, bull, and steer. My sheep and my guardian dog Ringo are more resilient. It's getting close to evening chores and I am sure my cows will need to be cooled down again. 

Please publish and add your comments as you wish. You may also use and publish these pictures from my farm. Tell Norma Boeckler to use any picture that she would like.

I Am Fine - Just Carrying Out Neighborly Tasks

 

I have slowed down because Ranger Bob had artery blockage in his legs, requiring surgery for a massive infection. That requires specialized infection (aka wound) treatment twice a week, plus daily IV infusion at the hospital for the next three weeks.

Recovery has been remarkable.

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 12 - Psalm 116:10: I believe, for I will speak. "There the heart is full, and the mouth must run over. Then when they are persecuted, they will not care."

 

Link to the Complete Sermon - Luther's Sermons - Mark 7:31-37. Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

24. Then they praise God, saying: “He hath done all things well, he has made the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.” For wherever there is true faith, there the Spirit will not allow you any rest; you will break forth, become a priest, teach other people also, as we read  Psalm 116:10: “I believe, for I will speak.” There the heart is full, and the mouth must run over. Then when they are persecuted, they will not care.

25. But the part of the story, that Christ took the man apart from the others, looks up to heaven, has this meaning: If God do not take me alone to a separate place, and give me the Holy Spirit, so that I cling to the Word which I have heard, then all preaching is in vain. But why does this require so much that he looks up to heaven and makes use of divine power, calling upon God’s grace to come and to act? By this he teaches us that such power must come from heaven, working in the heart of man by divine strength; then help comes to him. Again the spittle which is the Word of God is a noble thing for the Old Adam. Then they go forth to praise and glorify God.

26. Thus have you learned, from the story and from its spiritual or secret meaning, that we must first hear the Word of God and thus, through the intercession of Christ, obtain a faith of our own, and then we come out, confessing this and praising God forever. May this be sufficient on this Gospel lesson. Let us pray to God for grace.

The ELDONUT Herald, Malone, Texas. “Rumination and Requiem—Reflections on the Lutheran Confessional Synod on the 29th Anniversary of its Founding”—Heiser

ELDONA started as the Lutheran Confessional Synod, which was initially led by Bishop Randy DeJaynes, former ELCA pastor who went to prison for a time. ELS pastors Jay Webber and Kincaid Smith convened with Heiser to have WELS-ELS and LCS in fellowship. They were allowed to pray together. Heiser wanted to keep the Gerhard press, naming it Repristination Press, a bow to CFW Walther and Objective Justification.

Some details from 2017 about DeJaynes, Heiser, and the Webber-Smith-Heiser connection.

Pre-Bishop: Heiser and early proselytes. Pastor Eric Stefanski is on the far right and below.

One Version - Lutheran Confessional Synod - 

From Wikipedia

The Lutheran Confessional Synod (LCS) was a Confessional Lutheran church, characterized by a strict interpretation of the Lutheran Confessions and a historical liturgy. Organized in 1994, when Christ Lutheran Church in Decatur, Illinois, broke away from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, it initially declared doctrinal agreement with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod,^[1][2][3] but broke fellowship with those two synods on June 14, 1997, because of differences in the doctrine of the ministry and the Lord's Supper.^[1][4] The LCS organized the Johann Gerhard Institute (a denominational publishing house) and St. Anselm Theological Seminary in 1996.^[1]

The LCS' first bishop was the Rev. Randy L. DeJaynes, consecrated to that position on October 7, 1994.^[3][5] As of 2009, stating a "desire to return to the Apostolic faith," some former LCS clergy were chrismated in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, while others entered the Roman Catholic Church.^{[citation needed]} At least one is now a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America. By 2012, it was reported that the church body had disbanded.^[6]

Another Version - ELDONA

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The Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA) is a confessional Lutheran church body in the United States. There are twenty-eight pastors in the diocese, serving congregations in Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin plus Colombia and the Philippines.^[1][2]

The ELDoNA was founded June 6, 2006 at a meeting held at Salem Lutheran Church, Malone, Texas. A second diocesan synod was held August 28 and 29, 2007.^[3] The third diocesan synod was held at Christ Lutheran Church in Richmond, Missouri on May 22, 2008,^[4] and the fourth in the same location, May 14–15, 2009.^[5] For the fifth Colloquium and Synod, the diocese returned to Malone, Texas, May 12–15, 2010,^[6] and met there again for the sixth Colloquium and Synod May 11–13, 2011. The sixth Colloquium and Synod was the first in which all but one of the pastors of the diocese and the entire clergy of the Association of Confessional Lutheran Churches (ACLC) were in attendance. Among the significant decisions of the 2011 synod was the resolution to open a diocesan seminary in September 2012; the 2012 synod chose to delay that planned opening to 2014. The 2012 synod took place at Salem Lutheran Church in Malone, Texas the week of April 23–27, 2012, and the 2013 synod took place April 29–May 3, 2013.

 Lawson - ACLC - strictly Objective Faithless Justification.

Above - The angel pose and the Almy costumes were apparently not mandated at this time.

In August 2013 the ACLC broke fellowship with the ELDoNA due to the latter's stand on the doctrine of Objective Justification.^[7]

In 2006, James Heiser was called to serve as the diocesan bishop. Heiser has published a volume of essays on the doctrine of the holy ministry entitled Stewards of the Mysteries of God.^[8] He is also the author of a study of the neo-Platonic revival which took place during the Italian Renaissance, entitled Prisci Theologi and the Hermetic Reformation in the Fifteenth Century.^[9]

In 2013, Repristination Press published a volume of essays by Pastor John Rutowicz which sets forth the diocesan understanding of the episcopal office: Holding Fast the Faithful Word: Episcopacy and the Office of the Holy Ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America.^[10]

The diocese produces The Lutheran Herald, a monthly devotional journal that also includes diocesan news.^[11]

"Ask the Pastor" Sullivan obsesses about  the Apocrypha. He, Rydecki, and Carver left ELDONA at the same time.

Milkweed and Monarch Butterflies in the Creation Rose Garden

I did not see much from the Monarch butterflies until a few days ago. True to his Osage heritage, Ranger Bob spotted a swarm of butterfly caterpillars on the butterfly plants in front of the patio. They were just hatched out, not plump yet.

For years I have promoted butterfly plants, especially those catering to Monarchs, but also any plant listed as a pollinator. The result has been an overwhelming mixture of scents and butterflies of all types frolicking about. Bees consider me a good friend and never sting. Of course, I do not yell at them and swing utensils at them.

Hummingbirds have added to the delights. 

Christina ordered a front yard of roses, so they add to the overwhelming fragrance as well. 

I suggest being patient with the Monarch weeds promoted by garden suppliers. They are worth the wait.

Lutherdom Explained by Two Major, Successful Onslaughts

The Lutheran sects of America are overwhelmingly Calvinist and Papal, blended together in their hatred for the Biblical Reformation of the 16th century. As Chemnitz wrote in his Apology of the Book of Concord - the non-Lutherans who broke from Luther were not Reformers but wannabees! The copycats feigned fidelity to the Bible but they wanted a copyright for their strange and contradictory claims. Thus Zwingli established the foundation of Calvinism by rejecting the efficacy of the Word and the Means of Grace.

Although many Babtists teach faith in Christ, the burrowing Babtist-Calvinists seem to be taking over in the name of covenant. Covenant means God will only prosper those who give 10% and more to God - "He won't bless you unless you bless Him."

• Hast thou not noticed that all the modern Bad Bibles are variations on doubt, Zwingli, and Calvin? 
• And the Bad Bible Boosters (RSV, NRSV, ESV, NIV and Beck) mock the King James Version?
• And that the KJV unifies Christendom instead of dividing and destroying?

The origin of the Bad Bibles is the KJV Revision of 1881, as illustrated above. In short, the worst apostate leaders in America and Britain beat down the conservatives and the very limited scope of the Revision. They created such a horrible, dishonest Revision that no one would buy it once they saw the contents. Nor could anyone fix the Revision because the Biblical harlots were striving for total control.

Fifty years later, the Revision popped up again, like a bloated pig inflated by its death in a flood (which we saw during the St. Louis, 1993 flood. The 1930s hailed modernism, cooperating with every sect, and lusting for merger. Like the Methodists, the Lutherans figured out that they could steal all the assets by making the conservatives march away in a fury, leaving almost everything behind, keeping their old hymnals and little else.

The Lutheran blogs and discussion groups today are laughable, with almost no content, no Reformation knowledge, and no sense of humor. They used to rage against the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace, but now they rest on their flaccid fannies and praise one one another for their leadership. 

The apostate sisterhood has been capitulating to the Zwingli Calvinists for almost 100 years:

1. Bad Bibles
2. Worsening Hymnals
3. Constant digs against the Reformation.

ELCA-LCMS-ELS-ELDONUTs Love Dress-Up Day

The orans or angel pose seems to have spread its infection to the quasi-Lutherans. 

One historian called it "sinuflecting toward Rome," sneaking and snaking toward Roman Catholicism while tugging along the denomination. That was the plan of Cardinal Newman, and it worked fairly well. After all, he wrote "Lead Kindly Light," a hymn suited for all religions.

The Lutheran Church in America promoted the sisterhood first, awkwardly at first. At the Ad Fontes Holy Communion service, Synod President James Crumley looked strangely at the female pastor using the extreme orans pose, bowing toward the communion elements.

Christina and I did not participate, but wondered afterwards how much wackier worship was going to be in the future. We saw the same sort of Romanizing at Ft. Wayne, with David Scaer marching down the aisle in a big ceremony, as if in a trance.

When two WELS pastors side-stepped over to the LCMS, one posed in his pink cope - or was it rose? WELS finally abandoned their Geneva (black) gowns in favor of Vogue gowns. Progress?

At an ELS installation, the pastor genuflected toward the elements. Missouri began using incense. ELDONA regressed from Eastern Orthodox threads down to Almy Roman Catholic costumes - enhanced by EO haybale beards.

Lutherans have been buying Roman Catholic Bibles and promoting the Apocrypha for decades. Let's face it - the Apocrypha is boring and uninspired. 

"Ask the Pastor" should be banned until Lutherans have exhausted the treasures of the Bible and repudiated the detritus of the Revision.

No words - they even found a way to top Liz Eaton, with ELCA's United Not-Lutheran Seminary.

Matt the Fatt:

"Oh, I could sing a sonnet

About my bishop's bonnet

If I had some donuts

At the ELCA parade."

The Speed of the HP Laser Printer!

Best Buy's Three Hour Delay

Recently I had Best Buy over for some issues. That ended with setting up a new printer so the active computers could use the same printer. Yesterday, I needed to print up the pharmaceutical list for the infusion nurses. I did everything and yet the printer did not hum and whirl. I tried twice and gave up, using the stone age ink pen for the list. Three hours later, I checked email and the printer suddenly lit up, printing two clear examples of the list I created - and "printed" - three hours earlier in Word. 

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 12 - "And this spittle, the Word of God, is a noble thing, but very bitter to the Old Adam."

 

Link to the Complete Sermon - Luther's Sermons - Mark 7:31-37. Twelfth Sunday after Trinity

PART 2. THE SPIRITUAL MEANING.

20. The people bring the poor man to the Lord, the Lord takes him to a special place, lays his fingers into the man’s ears, spits, and touches his tongue with the spittle, looks up toward heaven, and sighing, says, Ephphata, that is, Be opened! This is a lovely picture, and its meaning is good. For by those who here bring the deafmute to the Lord, the office of the ministry is meant. Ministers and the Apostles lead the poor consciences of men to God. This is done in three ways, by preaching, by a godly life, and by intercession. With the Word and preaching, they are brought to God; a godly life serves to show the Word so much the mightier in its power. But the Word itself leads to Christ, though it be preached by a sinner. Yet, a good life serves as an emphasis and a furtherance of the Gospel; while a wicked life dulls its edge. Their third duty, to pray for the people, likewise leads them on the road both to faith and to works.

21. Now if the Word go on its way in this threefold manner, it cannot fail to bring forth fruit, as God says, Isaiah 55:11: “My Word, that goeth forth out of my mouth, shall not return to me void.” This is indicated by the action of the pious persons who carry the mute into Christ’s presence; this signifies the ministers, who bring forward the sinner; then God appears, giving growth and increase, as Paul says, 1 Corinthians 3:7, He opens the sinner’s eyes, ears, and mouth. This happens in a wink of the eye, for God’s Word is like lightning, which in a moment passes from sunrise to the ends of the earth. Thus when such persons are brought to God, he gives them grace to believe.

22. This is signified by the act of laying his fingers into the man’s ears; through the Word he breathes the Holy Spirit into him, making the heart believing, decent, chaste, and holy; for the finger signifies the Holy Spirit.

23. Again, the spittle that is laid on the man’s tongue, typifies the Word of God; this is put into his mouth in order that he may be able to speak it. And this spittle, the Word of God, is a noble thing, but very bitter to the Old Adam.

24. Then they praise God, saying: “He hath done all things well, he has made the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.” For wherever there is true faith, there the Spirit will not allow you any rest; you will break forth, become a priest, teach other people also, as we read  Psalm 116:10: “I believe, for I will speak.” There the heart is full, and the mouth must run over. Then when they are persecuted, they will not care.