Every Nation Has Border Security - Look It Up in the US Constitution

 

Tom Fisher's KJV Farm - Snow Storms Now Rain To Follow

 

Dear Pastor Jackson,

Please pray God will fully restore my health and strength.  Working in the extreme cold with 20 to 30 mile an hour winds has been very hard on me and my livestock. Now another severe weather change to rain and mud plus cold. Pray God will keep me healthy and safe as I work in very tough weather.

Especially pray God will make me healthy enough to begin writing articles again, and most importantly finish my Christmas letters to my brothers, nieces, and nephews, and relatives, and friends.

Thank you for posting my article on President Trump's Inauguration speech! I am working on another article on God's Word in the King James Bible. Very important I complete it, but I need better health.

In Christ,

Tom Fisher

A lamb in May, 2024.

The Purple Vatican Has Spoken

Rick Strickert (Carlvehse)
Senior Member
Username: Carlvehse

Post Number: 11321
Registered: 10-2003

Posted on Monday, January 27, 2025 - 5:16 pm:

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From the 2023 LCMS Handbook, Bylaw 6.2 Recognized Service Organizations, one of the three classes of recognized service organizations (RSO) is an educational service organization (Section 6.2.2 (b)):

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An educational service organization, under the Scriptures and Lutheran Confessions, operates a Christian school (other than one governed solely by a Synod congregation or congregations), camp (with Christian programming), or the like. (Schools governed solely by Synod congregations, by virtue of their recognition as such by their districts, do not need recognized service organization status and have the rights and responsibilities of parish schools without obtaining recognized service organization status.)

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However, here is an excerpt from a January 24, 2025, news article, "Luther Classical College Continues to Pursue Relationships within LCMS after Submitting RSO Application":

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"Luther Classical College recently received notice from the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) that the college’s application for Recognized Service Organization (RSO) is being denied consideration. Notable RSOs include Lutherans for Life, Wittenberg Academy, and the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education, each of which includes, like LCC, rostered LCMS clergy on its board of directors. However, CAO Felix Loc’s letter interprets Synod bylaws to disallow institutions of higher education from applying for RSO status. As previously communicated through other synodical channels, LCC interprets those bylaws differently and believes they allow the possibility for a college to seek RSO status."

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In the meantime, there is a Gottesblog article, "In Harmony With the Doctrine and Practice of the LCMS?" about a RSO, Lutheran Community Services Northwest, in the Northwest District, pushing a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Action Plan, a Pride mindset to serve LGBTQ clients, and their proclamation of "LCSNW undaunted by new President’s anti-immigrant orders."

These kinds of woketardian shenanigans do not occur without the knowledge and consent of the President of the Missouri Synod. 

Rick Strickert (Carlvehse)
Senior Member
Username: Carlvehse

Post Number: 11322
Registered: 10-2003

Posted on Monday, January 27, 2025 - 7:14 pm:

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Here is CAO Loc's January 20, 2025 letter announcing that Luther Classical College is not eligible for RSO status. The letter states:

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LCC, as acknowledged in the LCC announcement, is not a college of the Synod and not a CUS institution. Bylaw 3.10.6.6, adopted by the Synod congregations at the 2023 Synod Convention, allows and provides a means for a college or university that is not part of CUS to request to join CUS. That is the option available to LCC if it is interested in pursuing the possibility of being a college of the Synod and a CUS institution. This information was repeatedly communicated to LCC before the enclosed announcement was made.

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However Bylaw 3.10.6.6 states:

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A college or university that is not a Concordia University System institution may request to join the Concordia University System.

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The Bylaw does not require a non-CUS college or university to join the CUS or forbid a non-CUS college or university from applying to become an RSO instead. And prior to the 2023 Synod Convention, the bylaws did not contain anything about a non-CUS college or university joining the Concordia University System.

Ever Wonder How an Unusual Flower Appeared?

 

Snow on the Mountain

The Daily Luther Sermon Quote has reached beyond the 400 mark, depending how the label system works. 

1. At first I thought the blog posting of entire sermons was a good way to get Lenker's Luther's Sermons around. 
2. Later I had the help of many editors - plus the art of Norma Boeckler - to print the volumes. 
3. Recently I began the Daily Luther Sermon Quote to wake up clergy and laity.

If no one read the short passages, I would still be reading them. Once upon a time i had a packet of Snow on the Mountain. I had no quick place for planting the seeds, so I tossed them into the bulb collection around the garage...and forgot. One day I saw a peculiar weed among the flowering bulbs. My squinty eyes examined the weed and revealed the surprise - Snow on the Mountain - not the stuff grown in the shade (Bishop's Weed). Everyone wanted to give me Bishop's Weed but they were shocked they only grew something with such a coarse name.

Bishop's Weed - "Although it has extremely vigorous growth and invasive tendencies, bishop's weed is useful in the right setting. If you are looking for an easy-to-grow groundcover to quickly fill a confined space, consider this plant [weed]."

Today I pulled volume 1 of Luther's Sermons off the shelf, to make sure I had the passage that I enjoyed, one of those surprises. The donor gave me the set and just celebrated her anniversary, so I sent some flowers.

Tom Fisher - On Trump's Inaugural Address

 

The MOST important statement made by President Trump during his inauguration speech:

"We will not forget our country!"

"We will not forget our constitution!"

"AND WE WILL NOT FORGET OUR GOD!!!!"

"Can't do that!"

President Trump emphasized this ONE statement with the STRONGEST heartfelt conviction and firm resolve:

"AND WE WILL NOT FORGET OUR GOD!!!!!"

He emphasized this statement more than any other, making it clear that the success of everything he said depended upon this broad foundational statement. 

This foundational statement echoed his continuous urgent plea for American's to buy and read the KING JAMES BIBLE. He urged American's to PRAY more. He urged American's to greet one another with, "MERRY CHRISTMAS" , believing the TRUE meaning of this greeting: that God sent His ONLY BEGOTTEN SON to be our Savior. In his own words President Trump preached Christ to America and the world in his Christmas Greetings.

As Lutheran Christians we need to follow President Trump's example and clearly express our Christian faith with our family and friends. Share KJV Bible verses with your sons and daughters, mom and dad, grandfather and grandmother, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, friends, and distant relatives. TELL THEM WHAT GREAT THINGS GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU IN YOUR BAPTISM. 

I have found that writing Christmas letters focused on quoting KJV Bible verses and clearly expressing the great things God has done for us is the best way to share your Lutheran Christian faith with your family and friends. 

I am way behind in writing my Christmas letters, but I hope to begin struggling with them soon. I say very little about myself. Christmas is about Christ NOT ourselves! 

Pray for President Trump and our Constitutional Republic with faith.

In Christ,

Tom Fisher

The MOST important statement made by President Trump during his inauguration speech:

"We will not forget our country!"

"We will not forget our constitution!"

"AND WE WILL NOT FORGET OUR GOD!!!!"

"Can't do that!"

President Trump emphasized this ONE statement with the STRONGEST heartfelt conviction and firm resolve:

"AND WE WILL NOT FORGET OUR GOD!!!!!"

He emphasized this statement more than any other, making it clear that the success of everything he said depended upon this broad foundational statement. 

This foundational statement echoed his continuous urgent plea for American's to buy and read the KING JAMES BIBLE. He urged American's to PRAY more. He urged American's to greet one another with, "MERRY CHRISTMAS" , believing the TRUE meaning of this greeting: that God sent His ONLY BEGOTTEN SON to be our Savior. In his own words President Trump preached Christ to America and the world in his Christmas Greetings.

As Lutheran Christians we need to follow President Trump's example and clearly express our Christian faith with our family and friends. Share KJV Bible verses with your sons and daughters, mom and dad, grandfather and grandmother, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, friends, and distant relatives. TELL THEM WHAT GREAT THINGS GOD HAS DONE FOR YOU IN YOUR BAPTISM. 

I have found that writing Christmas letters focused on quoting KJV Bible verses and clearly expressing the great things God has done for you is the best way to share your Lutheran Christian faith with your family and friends. 

I am way behind in writing my Christmas letters, but I hope to begin struggling with them soon. I say very little about myself. Christmas is about Christ NOT ourselves! 

Pray for President Trump and our Constitutional Republic with faith.

In Christ,

Tom Fisher

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Epiphany 4 - "That the people marveled and praised the Lord that the wind and sea were subject to him, signifies that the Gospel, God’s Word, spreads farther through persecution, it thus becomes stronger and faith increases; and this is also a paradoxical characteristic of the Gospel compared with all worldly things which decrease through every misfortune and opposition, and increase through prosperity and peace. Christ’s kingdom grows through tribulations and declines in times of peace, ease and luxury, as St. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 12:9: “My power is made perfect in weakness, etc.”

 

Luther knew that Management by Objective was a farce, but today's Big Five Apostates - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) - immerse themselves in jolly follies, wondering where everything went.

Complete Sermon ->Fourth Sunday after Epiphany. Matthew 8:23-27. Christ stilling the Tempest, or Faith and Unbelief, and Love

12. But what does this Gospel say? There was a violent tempest on the lake when Christ and his disciples were in the ship. The sea and the wind allowed the other ships to sail in calm weather; but this ship had to suffer distress because of Christ being in it. The world can indeed tolerate all kinds of preaching except the preaching of Christ. Hence whenever he comes and wherever he is, there he preaches that he only is right and reproves all others; as he says in Matthew 12:30: “He that is not with me is against me”, and again, John 16:8: “The spirit will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness and of judgment;” he says that he will not only preach, but that he will convict the whole world and what is in the world. But it is this convicting that causes such tempests and dangers to this ship. Should he preach that he would allow the world to go unpunished and to continue in its old ways, he would have kept quiet before and never have entered the world; for if the world is good and is not to be convicted then there would never have been any need of him coming into the world.

13. Now it is the consolation of Christians, and especially of preachers, to be sure and ponder well that when they present and preach Christ, that they must suffer persecution, and nothing can prevent it; and that it is a very good sign of the preaching being truly Christian, when they are thus persecuted, especially by the great, the saintly, the learned and the wise.

And on the other hand that their preaching is not right, when it is praised and honored, as Christ says in Luke 6:22-26: “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you; for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets. Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake; in the same manner did their fathers to the prophets.” Behold our preachers, how their teachings are esteemed; the wealth, honor and power of the world have them fully under their control, and still they wish to be Christian teachers, and whosoever praises and preaches their ideas, lives in honor and luxury.

14. Hence, people have here an example where they are to seek their comfort and help, not in the world; they are not to guard the wisdom and power of men, but Christ himself and him alone; they are to cleave to him and depend on him in every need with all faithfulness and confidence as the disciples, do in our text. For had they not believed that he would help them, they would not have awakened him and called upon him. True their faith was weak and was mingled with much unbelief, so that they did not perfectly and freely surrender themselves to Christ and risk their life with him, nor did they believe he could rescue them in the midst of the sea and save them from death. Thus it is ordained that the Word of God has no master nor judge, no protector or patron can be given it besides God himself. It is his Word. Therefore, as he left it go forth without any merit or counsel of men, so will he himself without any human help and strength administer and defend it. And whoever seeks protection and comfort in these things among men, will both fall and fail, and be forsaken by both God and man.

15. That Jesus slept indicates the condition of their hearts, namely, that they had a weak, sleepy faith, but especially that at the time of persecution Christ withdraws and acts as though he were asleep, and gives neither strength nor power, neither peace nor rest, but lets us worry and labor in our weakness, and permits us to experience that we are nothing at all and that all depends upon his grace and power, as Paul confesses in Corinthians 1:9, that he had to suffer great affliction, so as to learn to trust not in himself but in God, who raised the dead. Such a sleeping on the part of God David often experienced and refers to it in many places, as when he says in Psalm 44:23: “Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off forever.”

16. The summary of this Gospel is this, it gives us two comforting, defying proverbs, that when persecution for the sake of God’s Word arises, we may say: I indeed thought Christ was in the ship, therefore the sea and wind rage, and the waves dash over us and threaten to sink us; but let them rage, it is ordained that the wind and sea obey his will. The persecutions will not continue longer than is his pleasure; and although they overwhelm us, yet they must be subject to him; he is Lord over all, therefore nothing will harm us. May he only give us his help that we may not despair in unbelief. Amen.

17. That the people marveled and praised the Lord that the wind and sea were subject to him, signifies that the Gospel, God’s Word, spreads farther through persecution, it thus becomes stronger and faith increases; and this is also a paradoxical characteristic of the Gospel compared with all worldly things which decrease through every misfortune and opposition, and increase through prosperity and peace. Christ’s kingdom grows through tribulations and declines in times of peace, ease and luxury, as St. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 12:9: “My power is made perfect in weakness, etc.” To this end help us God! Amen.