The Shrunken Lutheran (sic) School of Theology at Chicago. Now an All-Girl School. Let the Reader Understand.

 

CHICAGO — The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) was deeply honored to welcome Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton for her inaugural visit to campus. During her time at LSTC, Bishop Eaton met with institutional leaders, toured the campus, and participated in a profound reflection on the ELCA’s landmark 1994 Declaration to the Jewish Community. Crafted in partnership with the ELCA Consultative Panel on Lutheran-Jewish Relations, this declaration acknowledges Martin Luther’s legacy of anti-Judaic writings, repudiates those views, and emphasizes the ELCA’s commitment to fostering understanding and respect between Lutherans and the Jewish community.

Bishop Eaton’s visit, which took place during the campus community’s commemoration of Kristallnacht, underscored the ELCA’s active dedication to these principles, especially critical in a time that calls for clarity, compassion, and action. Historically, Christian relations with Jewish communities have often been marked by tragedy. For Lutherans, addressing the dark legacy of Luther’s influence and its appropriation to justify anti-Semitism is essential. Recognizing the ways in which these writings were weaponized to perpetuate suffering, the ELCA has made it a priority to promote a path of repentance and mutual respect, as symbolized by the 1994 declaration.

The gathering, which featured reflections from Bishop Eaton, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, and Professor Esther Menn, Chair of the ELCA Consultative Panel on Lutheran-Jewish Relations, affirmed the ongoing relevance of the declaration’s mission. Together, they acknowledged the depth of past wounds and renewed their commitment to combating anti-Semitism, affirming that such prejudice contradicts the Gospel’s core message of grace.

“Because Bishop Eaton is so deeply committed to improving relations between Jewish and Lutheran communities, we at LSTC were very glad to host her on campus and join in marking the thirtieth anniversary of the 1994 Declaration to the Jewish Community during our annual commemoration of Kristallnacht,” said President James Nieman of LSTC.

Bishop Eaton’s visit to LSTC, marked by genuine engagement and reflection, stands as a testament to the school’s mission: to oppose bigotry, cultivate dialogue, and live a faith rooted in love and humility. LSTC remains steadfast in its commitment to reconciliation, learning, and transformation and invites its community to join in this journey toward healing and understanding.

PS - ELCA has used up 36 years to embrace Church Growth mixed with Gay-Feminist-Tranny themes. Result? ELCats are a lot like LCMS-WELS and going down the drain even faster.

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 ELCA and THE Episcopal Church work well together, counting up the endowment donated by dead churches, which land in their chubby laps.

Tom Fisher - News and Prayer Brief

 

Subject: Tom Fisher Post: Urgent Prayer Request For America

From: Tom Fisher <tomfisher99@yahoo.com>

Date: 11/12/2024, 12:15 PM

To: Pastor Greg Jackson <greg.jackson.edlp@gmail.com>

Dear Pastor Jackson,

Powerful evil government officials are currently plotting to prevent the inauguration of President elect Donald John Trump on January 20.  They even plan to stop the certification of votes on January 6.  

President elect Donald John Trump is our Fredrick the Wise, the protector and defender of God's Word and the Christian Faith in America and throughout the world.  He recently urged all Americans to buy and read the King James Bible. He asserted that the King James Bible is the most trusted and reliable exact translation of God's Word throughout the world. 

So I request my readers to earnestly pray for America the same way Daniel interceded for his nation, confessing their sins and begging God to have mercy and forgive their sins, and deliver them from the wicked unbearable tyranny of Babylon. Much of Daniel's prayer applies to America:

 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;

2 In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:

4 And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

5 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

7 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;

10 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

11 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.

12 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.

14 Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.

15 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

16 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us.

17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies.

19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name. Daniel 9:1-19

Yes, God has clothed us in the righteousness of Christ in our Baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. He has made us His children, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. 

 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. Galatians 3:26,27

So pray in faith, remembering God's promise to hear and answer our prayers.

23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.          John 16:23,24

God hears our prayers and sets His face against those who do evil.

12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? 1 Peter 3:12,13

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

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43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.

46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.

47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.

48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.

49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

51 And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;

52 And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.

53 Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.

54 Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

55 And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

56 Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?

57 Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.

Next - more about Lazarus and his sisters

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Trinity 25 - "The other treats of the abomination of desolation. Here Christ now says, When ye shall see this one standing in the temple, then take heed (he wants to say) for that is a sure sign from Daniel’s prophecy that his kingdom is now at an end; and do not let yourselves be deceived because the Jews and weak Christians think that it shall never be destroyed."

Luther's Sermons - Matthew 24:15-28.
Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Trinity

7. The other treats of the abomination of desolation. Here Christ now says, When ye shall see this one standing in the temple, then take heed (he wants to say) for that is a sure sign from Daniel’s prophecy that his kingdom is now at an end; and do not let yourselves be deceived because the Jews and weak Christians think that it shall never be destroyed.

8. But the abomination of which Daniel writes is that the Emperor Cajus, as history tells, had put his image in the temple at Jerusalem as an idol, for the people to worship, after everything there had been destroyed. For the Scriptures call idolatry really an abomination, because God abhors and abominates it, inasmuch as he is the enemy of no sin so much as of this.

The others he does truly punish, but he does not cast the people away if they repent, as he says in Psalm 89:31-34: “If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. But my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” But this sin, called idolatry, which is really unbelief and denial of God, which he cannot at all endure, condemns man completely. For where this remains in the heart of man, so that he teaches and believes correctly, indicates that our works are nothing, and that we shall be acceptable to God and serve him aright alone through faith, then there will be a truly godly character; there light and truth abide. Although along side of faith there runs a sense of the weakness of the flesh. It is not an abomination before God, but only a daily sin that God will punish unto repentance; yet he keeps the people, spares them and forgives them, when the people turn to him and learn to acknowledge his goodness. On the other hand, where this faith and doctrine do not exist, everything is lost; for it is impossible for man not to establish for himself a false worship and choose his own opinion and work, and worship it, so that he really denies God and his Word, and God is entirely turned aside; so that his grace cannot operate. Such abomination is generally the most beautiful and the greatest holiness in the eyes of the world, which outwardly appears in beautiful works and customs; but inwardly is full of filthiness, as we can see at the present day in our orders and church services where they are at their best. However there are again some Christians who are not like these in their works and ways; but are truly holy before God.

9. Now Christ says, when the abomination, that is, this idol, shall stand in the temple, the kingdom shall finally be made desolate and destroyed, so that it can never be rebuilt again, as Luke expresses it clearly in these words, Luke 21:20f: “But when ye see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that our desolation is at hand. Then let them that are in Judea flee unto the mountains; and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter therein. For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.”

And further, “Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! And pray ye that your flight may be not in the winter, neither on a Sabbath: for then shall be great tribulation, such as had not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.”

10. All this pertains still to the Jewish nation. For if this should come upon us at the end of the world, then would we, according to the text, have to be in the land of Judea, because he really points to that country. It is also true, when he says that no greater calamity has been or can be upon the earth than was at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem; as we see in history, how unmercifully they were slaughtered and even killed one another, cast themselves into the fire, and permitted themselves to kill one another. Yea, the famine was so great that they ate the strings of cross-bows and even their own children. It was so shameful and abominable that like pity and distress shall never be heard again.

11. But they themselves wanted it, hence God permitted them to be thus blighted and destroyed. He would gladly have had mercy upon them and preserved them, but they brought themselves to such distress with their stiff-nakedness, that they killed and consumed one another; that as they began it, all such murder and bloodshed had to increase. Thus the death of Christ and of all the prophets is most abominably avenged on them, and that without ceasing, they raged against the Word of God, and persecuted and drove away the Apostles, as St. Paul says in Thessalonians 2:15-16, that the wrath of God finally came upon them.