Holy Communion, New Year's Eve, 2021
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ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the National Council of Churches.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Berean, Luther, KJV, and Shakespeare
The Bereans were so keen on the Word of God that they searched over Paul's work to make sure it was true. There are few Bereans like that available today.
Luther was so knowledgeable and powerful in his work that he shaped the German language, a masterpiece by itself, thanks to his abilities. He was so concise in his language that his German of today still remains, though very much altered by the corruption of so many languages, attempts, and twists.
The King James Version is very special in gathering the text and working it over until it was as perfect as could be. The editors were the greatest of their time. One indication is the murder of its brilliant initial translator, William Tyndale.
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William Tyndale was murdered for working on the English Bible, but his work was embodied n the King James Version.
Tyndale and the KJV editors established their Bible, which was so effective and useful that the KJV remains the best and most loved English version to this day.  In the 1960s we were still being trained in Shakespeare in the high school. One teacher had us recite 100 lines of poetry to stay in the class. Shakespeare was studied in the classroom and offered for us (expected) in a live performance. Compare that to all the "cool stuff" promoted today. The ongoing use of the KJV is a way to keep up the language and the precision of Biblical English, but more importantly, it is the purest form and the most loved.  |
Norma A. Boeckler's Concordia Open University - South India
Today's post is all about Christian Art and the ways in which the Gospel is projected across the world. I never had any skill in art, so I signed up for computer skills instead. Unfortunately, actual artists participated in the class and left most of us in the dust. However, that gave me the urge to do more with computers, copy and paste, and sending out into the blogosphere.
I insisted on Norma Boeckler using her artistic skills for the computer, and it never stopped after that.
5,300 views of the latest page - and still counting.
It took me only a few seconds to copy the forlorn bear and send his sad face around the world. A lot of classical artwork is shared across all the boundaries, and many are used with stipulations.
A few examples belong with the writing and other works serve to enliven the message with colors, styles, and creativity.
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I am in Norma Boeckler's Egypt, looking out the window at the unrelenting snow in Minnesota. The couple is looking into the sunset and making us feel we are in another land.
