Dear Pastor Jackson,
Please publish this letter. Feel free to include your comments and insight. Feel free to use any pictures from my farm.
The home of my childhood was unusual, warm, and wonderful! We had NO TV. We had a huge garden, a huge Macintosh apple tree, three beautiful cherry trees, and a huge nearly acre of grass to cut. My two brothers and I spent our summers picking cherries, cutting grass, and tending the huge garden. Work was a privilege and blessing. Our mom taught us this by example. She always sang as she worked. Her faith in Christ was never lazy, timid, or idle. She had NO TV to baby sit, brainwash, and ruin us kids. Instead she spent every minute teaching us the Lord's Prayer, the Ten commandments, and especially to NEVER fight or hurt each other with words or fists. We grew up helping each other instead of hurting each other. How unusual and wonderful this was! My dad was a design engineer at Caterpillar. He NEVER cursed. He told us it showed your stupidity. He never drank any liquor. He warned us about it's danger to us and others. He insisted we learn to spell words correctly and to look up the correct spelling and meaning in the dictionary. He knew Latin, English, and math very well! My parents were always there to help me and encourage me to excel academically and spiritually. I remember my mom constantly asking, "Did you read your Bible today?" Then in eighth grade my parents bought me my first King James Bible. This is when I began to read, study, and memorize the Bible.
I really want to speak about an even more wonderful home of our childhood with God our Heavenly Father, and Christ His Son, and God the Holy Ghost. God our Heavenly Father has made all of us His children by faith in Christ His Son. "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Galatians 3:26,27 - Baptism in the name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost clothes us in the righteousness of Christ, and gives us the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. Here in our baptism God makes us His children, and gives us forgiveness of all sins, and makes us heirs with Christ. Faith in Christ and our baptism in the name of God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost creates a new home for all of us called the Christian church where God the Holy Ghost forgives all our sins, sanctifies us, and keeps all of us in the one true faith. God has already created a new Lutheran Synod and church among us by His Word, Faith, Baptism, Holy Communion, and the Office of the keys. Christ is our good Shepherd. He calls us all by name. We know His voice and follow Him as one flock. "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." So our new Lutheran Synod and church is a gathering together of two or three true Lutheran Christian believers in Christ. Christ has not left us comfortless. "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." John 14:18 Christ sends us the Comforter: God the Holy Ghost. "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you." John 14:26.
So let us not be lazy Lutheran laymen (myself included). Our faith in Christ cannot be idle regarding the reading, memorization, and study of God's Holy Word (KJV). We have the gift of God the Holy Ghost in our Baptism. He is our teacher guiding us into all truth. God the Holy Ghost is always with the Word. " For the Word of God is quick (living) and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12 "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the Holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." II Timothy 3:16
In Christ,
Tom Fisher
PS from GJ
I enjoy hearing from Tom. He knows the KJV Bible very well and supports Justification by Faith in a world where "Lutheran" pastors and professors deny the Chief Article, mock Luther, and sell Luther trinkets at Concordia Publishing House to prove how shallow they are.
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| This mocks Luther, who faced burning at the stake for teaching the Gospel. |
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| This is how to get to the Purple Palace, honor the Reformation with a dog-shirt. |
