From Boomers to Bust - Shrinking University Results - The Four Waltherian Cults - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic),

 

The new home for Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, called A School in Motion. The Catholic Theological Union has cleverly bundled together a beehive of academic drones.

Saving Planet Earth while smoking weed.

50.7% of college applicants to Cook County's 98 universities were admitted for fall 2022

Among the institutions that provided disclosed enrollment data, University of Illinois Chicago stood out with the largest enrollment at the time, welcoming 33,747 students.

U.S. college enrollment has been in a downward trend since peaking at around 18.1 million students in 2010. Recent increases offered some relief, but experts project a steeper decline in 2025.

This decline is likely due to two main factors. First, the pool of young adults is shrinking as birth rates have fallen nearly 23% between 2007 and 2022. Second, the rising cost of higher education, including skyrocketing student loan debt. A 2023 Wall Street Journal report shows that more than half of Americans think a four-year degree is not worth the cost.

NCES shows that enrollment data was not available for 19 institutions in Cook County, including Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, National Latino Education Institute and Catholic Theological Union at Chicago.

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GJ - The registrars know that telling everyone about their enrollment shrinkage will only drive away more potential students. Online studies have also kept many at home to earn money. 

No, I don't follow Notre Dame football.

I drove 100 miles round trip for Notre Dame studies, which were free. Waterloo Seminary was $150 tuition for the first year, and married housing was very inexpensive. LSTC tuition!!!!

WELS and LCMS bragged about their DMin degrees from Fuller Seminary, a higher number than their own seminaries. This accelerated the downfall of both sects - and the ELCA as well.

ELCA Shrinking and Merging Seminaries - 

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"Brett, we are doing the best we can."

Where Does LCMS Start And End? Holy Mother Synod!

 

From Rolf Preus, Co-Editor of His Father's Justification (by faith) And Rome

"It's not that Concordia doesn't owe some loyalty to the LCMS.  It's rather that the BOR statement spoke of the LCMS in terms that apply only to the one holy, Christian, and apostolic church.  She is the Jerusalem which is above who is our mother.  (Galatians 4:26)  We confess in the Large Catechism, on the Creed, third article (paragraph 42), "For, in the first place, He has a peculiar congregation in the world, which is the mother that begets and bears every Christian through the Word of God, which He reveals and preaches, and through which He illumines and enkindles hearts, that they understand, accept it, cling to it, and persevere in it."  We should not refer to a synod as our mother."   

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GJ - Rev. Dr. Matt the Fatt Harrison wants to hang onto Concordia University in  Texas, but I would dump that property as soon as possible. CTX! - get it? Missouri hates the Book of Concord, so every little or big synod entity has to be fasioned Concordite.

"We confess in the Large Catechism"

We can overlook the hundred or so Preus boys who have endured the continued inbreeding of Rambach-Stephan-Walther dogma in their synod. Everywhere they look or listen, one of the relatives is singing their favorite hymn (in Norwegian) "How Great We Art."

Rolf should know better, because he is listed as an editor of Justification and Rome. ELS loyaltists thought it was Just A Vacation in Rome. That shows how devoid of scholarship the Little Norwegians are.

Rolf Hisself continues to argue against the book he edited, more importantly - against the Book of Concord, which always teaches Justification by Faith in harmony with the Scriptures. 

The windbags of the deceased Synodical Conference (LCMS-ELS-WELS-Fuller) are blind to the Scriptures and enchanted by the Enthusiasts. They even have their own Fuller-lite training facility in WELS, some of the worst examples charging money for their own clergy to be more like them.

This relative of the Preus clan was a seminary professor for CFW Walther - his book still a classic in Objective Faithless Justification humor. Ed Preuss looked for a vision and saw a brilliant red sky, so he joined the Church of Rome and became a famous scholar for them. And yet The Four Waltherian Cults - LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) continue to honor Mr. Ed.

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Vindication of Luther Against His Recent English Assailants by Julian Charles Hare

“When a man has taken a leading part in the conflicts of his age, it will often happen that… the feelings with which he was regarded during his life, will cluster around him after his death… Now perhaps there is no one in the whole history of the world, against whom such a host of implacable prejudices and antipathies have been permanently arrayed, as against Luther.

Hare, Julian Charles

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History of the Old Covenant by J H Kurtz

“(This is) one of the best contributions towards the explanation of the Old Testament with which Germany has enriched our common theological literature. Comprehensive and trustworthy in its information, exhaustive in point of research and learning, fresh and vigorous in thought and style, throughout marked by sobriety and good sense; above all, thoroughly evangelical in its tone.

Kurtz, J H, Alfred Edersheim

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Sayings and Doings of Luther by John Gottlieb Morris

“Of thirteen hundred and forty-three books… written on the subject of Luther… not one is like this one… Some may think that I should have given my authorities and references; but as the book was (made) for plain readers… the mention of which would have interrupted the narrative and been of no service.

Martin Luther, John Gottlieb Morris

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Watchwords for the Warfare of Life: Quotations of Martin Luther

“The selections in this volume have all been freshly translated from Luther’s own German or Latin, with the exception of the extracts taken from the sixteenth century translation of the Commentary on the Galatians.

Martin Luther

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Why are you a Lutheran? by Benjamin Kurtz

“Those who know nothing of (Lutheranism) can here learn everything that is desirable to know, and those who know us well, will be pleased to find the whole matter so conveniently arranged.

Benjamin Kurtz

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 17 Epistle - "The ground of all doctrine, of all right living, the supreme and eternal treasure of him who is a Christian in the sight of God, is faith in Christ. It alone secures forgiveness o£ sins and makes us children of God. Now, where this faith is, fruits should follow as evidence that Christians in their lives honor and obey God."

 

Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity.— Exhortation to Live According to the Christian Calling, and in the Unity of the Spirit. Ephesians 4:1-6.

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EPHESIANS 4:1-6. 1 I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 giving diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.

THE CHRISTIAN CALLING AND UNITY.

1. This, too, is a beautiful sermon, delivered by Paul to the Ephesians, concerning the good works of Christians, who believe and are obedient to the doctrine of the Gospel. In the knowledge of good works Paul desires Christians to grow and increase, as we learned in the epistle for last Sunday. The ground of all doctrine, of all right living, the supreme and eternal treasure of him who is a Christian in the sight of God, is faith in Christ. It alone secures forgiveness o£ sins and makes us children of God. Now, where this faith is, fruits should follow as evidence that Christians in their lives honor and obey God. They are necessary for God’s glory and for the Christian’s own honor and eternal reward before him.

2. Paul, remembering the imprisonment and tribulations he suffered because of the Gospel and for the advantage, as he before said, of the Ephesians, gives the admonition here. He would have them, in return for his sufferings, honor the Gospel in their lives. First he names a general rule of life for Christians. “To walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called.”

THE CHRISTIAN CALLING.

3. The chief thing that should influence a Christian’s outward walk is the remembrance of his calling and appointment by God. He should be mindful of why he is called a Christian, and live consistently. He must shine before the world; that is, through his life and God’s work, the Word and the name of Christ the Lord must be exalted. Christ exhorts his disciples: “Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 5:16.

4. Similarly, Paul would say: “You have received God’s grace and his Word and are a blessed people. In Christ all your needs are blessedly supplied. Be mindful of this and remember you are called to a far different and vastly higher life than others know. Show by your manner of living that you seek a higher good than the world seeks — indeed, that you have received far greater blessings. Let your lives honor and glorify the Lord who has given you such blessings. Give no occasion for dishonoring your treasured faith, or for scorning his Word. Rather, influence men by your godly walk and good works to believe in Christ and to glorify him.”

5. Let the Christian know his earthly life is not unto himself, nor for his own sake; his life and work here belong to Christ, his Lord. Hence must his walk be such as shall contribute to the honor and glory of his Master, whom he should so serve that he may be able to say with Paul, not only with respect to the spiritual life — the life of faith and of righteousness by grace — but also with respect to its fruits — the outward conduct: “It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me.” Galatians 2:20. The Christian’s manner of life may be styled “walking in Christ”; yes, as Paul elsewhere has it (Romans 13:14), “putting on” the Lord Jesus Christ, like a garment or an ornament. The world is to recognize Christ by his shining in us.

6. But the so-called Christian life that does not honor Christ makes its sin the more heinous for the name it bears. Every sin the people of God commit is a provocation of Jehovah; not only in the act of disobedience itself, but also in the transgression of the second commandment. The enormity of the sin is magnified by the conditions that make it a blasphemy of God’s name and an occasion of offense to others. Paul says in Romans 2:24: “For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” So a Christian should, in his life, by all means guard the honor of God — of Christ. He must take heed that he be not guilty of blaspheming that name and of doing wickedness. The devil, aided by the world, construes every act, when possible, to reflect upon God’s honor and glory. His purpose is to manifest his bitter hatred against Christ and the Word; also to injure the Church by charging offenses, thus deterring unbelievers from embracing the Gospel and causing the weak to fall away.