My First Blueberry and Two Ears Silver Queen Sweet Corn. Fun with Cardboard Mulch

I decided to get serious about mulching the blueberries bushes, before the well watered weeds took over. I used cardboard boxes to shade roses in Phoenix, and the same method worked well for blueberries. I cut the tape on the bottom and spread the flaps to put a small box around most plants. Some boxes just opened up and I used them as thick newspaper mulch.

I soaked newspapers in the third kiddie pool and used them around the edge to hold down the boxes, weeds, and long grass.

Now that I am mulching with cardboard boxes, the recycle barrel holds my mulch and I covet stacks of cardboard boxes. I had all the cardboard used up on blueberries. The rustic fence used quite a few boxes too.

At Walmart I looked over boxes and boxes I could use in the Wild Garden, as the first layer.

In mulching I found my first blueberry, which was not completely formed but tasted so good from the plant. I also had a second ear of Silver Queen sweet corn, which was quickly microwaved and eaten with butter.

The Quest for Pine Needles
Blueberries produce more with acid in the soil. I wanted to add peat moss, but could only get the composted version, which is neutral.

Another solution is mulching with pine needles, surely a possibility with pine cones in the neighborhood. When Sassy and I walked toward Almost Eden, to enjoy the shade and plants, I passed our neighbor's house with three pine trees.

My next challenge is to convince the residents that raking their needles is good, proper, normal, and likely to be rewarded with blueberries.

WELS Leadership Inaction - Compare It to the Golden Gophers. "For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light." Luke 16

Drinking on the job - check.
Inappropriate texting - check.
Enough to fire both of them for behavior and poor supervision.
Add - lewd material handed to female staffer,
obscene language, screaming at staff.
WELS DP and SP reward them.
District VP promoted to DP for supporting them.
Glende speaks to national WELS teachers conference.
Teague did not take his victims to court: Ski and Glende did.

Minnesota AD Norwood Teague resigns amid sexual harassment allegations

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/13393382/minnesota-golden-gophers-ad-norwood-teague-resigns-amid-sexual-harassment-allegations

Minnesota athletic director Norwood Teague resigned on Friday morning amid allegations of sexual harassment.

Teague, who got the athletic director job three years ago, issued a statement through Minneapolis television station KARE 11 in which he said he drank too much on the night in question and is seeking treatment for his alcohol problems.

"At a recent university event, I had entirely too much to drink," Teague said. "I behaved badly towards nice people and sent truly inappropriate texts. I'm embarrassed and I apologize to everyone involved. This neither reflects my true character or the true character of this great, great university."

In a open letter to the university community, school president Eric Kaler said Teague's resignation "follows the report of two recent incidents of sexual harassment of two non-student University employees." He didn't go into detail about the nature of the harassment.

"To be clear, sexual harassment will not be tolerated at the University of Minnesota and I sincerely regret that our employees experienced this behavior. The University has an explicit policy and a strong code of conduct that articulates our standards. Ensuring a healthy learning, working and living environment for all in our University community is very important," Kaler wrote.

Beth Goetz, the university's deputy athletic director and senior women's administrator, was named interim AD. A news conference is scheduled for Friday afternoon in Minneapolis.

Teague brought Goetz with him when he left Virginia Commonwealth University for Minnesota in 2012.

Teague was hired to replace Joel Maturi and was charged with reshaping a Golden Gophers athletic department that had fallen far behind the rest of the Big Ten in terms of its facilities.

Unlike Maturi, who tried to build a department that put resources into both the cash-generating sports, such as football and men's basketball, and lower-profile programs including track and wrestling, Teague came in with a clear plan to emphasize the most popular sports in hopes of generating more revenue that could trickle down to the rest of the department.

He set about to raise nearly $200 million to bring new practice facilities for football and men's basketball -- a gargantuan task for a school that hasn't had the type of sporting success that gets big donors to open their wallets. But Teague helped raise about $70 million in the first year of the plan, and the school had hoped to start breaking ground on new projects this fall.

Teague carved out a reputation as a basketball administrator in his previous six years as athletic director at VCU, where he teamed with coach Shaka Smart to bring the little-known program to national prominence. While at Minnesota, he fired Tubby Smith and hired Richard Pitino, the son of coaching legend Rick Pitino, to lead the men's program. He also replaced Pam Borton with Marlene Stollings on the women's side.

Teague said he planned to "reassess my career and life options. While I'm proud of my career accomplishments, I want to stop and take a look at my life and alcohol issues."

Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report.

How many pastors give nude male photos of a sports star to a female staffer
and find themselves protected by the Synod President,
and issued an insta-call to get them a new job?

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Couldn't help myself when seeing the stark contrast between 2 very similar factual events.

University of Minnesota AD.   1) Incident described as bad behavior, embarrassing, not a true representation of character.  2) resigns to examine his issues.

WELS Pastor   1) Multiple incidences vaguely described as boorish behavior to hide what actually happened.  2) Sues victim with a buddy Pastor and 2 cronies for talking about what actually happened, transfers to Texas with the new congregation that isn’t clued in about what actually happened.

If a person wants to go to hell, just keep listening to what the WELS preaches & teaches. 

In Christ,

WELS Layman

***

GJ - And even more important, WELS re-elected the same thugs and clowns who run this circus.

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Thanks Greg,

I don't know what is worse though....   Pastors & Teachers who pull this garbage or members who worship these scumbags like gods.

***

GJ - The enablers are worse, whether DPs or CPs or classmates who hold to the infallibility of their buddies. They teach that certain clergy are untouchable and beyond criticism, but they also shun anyone who -

• Cares about sound doctrine.
• Tells the truth.
• Questions the sodomitic secret rituals, like anal sex with the Sprinter statue.

They moved the Sprinter to MLC after closing Northwestern College,
because the pastors did not want to leave their marble friend behind.

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WELS 101 - Squash the thought that people saw what happened and can make their own observations.

WELS Layman

We Built This Synod on Rock and Roll Emergent Church Hymn Suitable for All Synods

We built this synod, we built this synod on rock an' roll
Built this synod, we built this synod on rock an' roll

Say you don't know me, or recognize my faith
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in emergent, sinking in our blight,
Too many Dee-You-Eyes eating up the night.

Mark Jeske plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this synod, we built this synod on rock an' roll.

[Chorus]

Someone's always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing congregation names
We just want to play here, someone built our stage
They call us irresponsible, write us off the page.

Mark Jeske plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this synod, we built this synod on rock an' roll

[Chorus]

It's just another Sunday, in a tired old street
Bloggers have got the choke hold, oh, then we just lost the beat.

Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars
Don't tell us you need us, 'cause we're just simple fools
Looking for America, coming through WELS schools.

(I'm looking out over that Milwaukee bridge
Out on a gorgeous sunny Saturday and I'm seeing that bumper to bumper traffic)

Don't you remember (remember)

(Here's your favorite radio station, in your favorite radio city
The city by the lake, the synod that rocks, the synod that always sleeps)

Mark Jeske plays the mamba, listen to the radio, don't you remember
We built this synod, we built this synod on rock an' roll

[Chorus:Repeats x2]

(We built, we built this synod) built this synod(we built, we built this synod)

Justification Book Moving Forward - As They Say Today. Anticipating a 500th Anniversary of the Reformation with Lutherans attacking and undermining Luther's doctrine: ELCA, WELS, LCMS, ELS, and the CLC (sic).

The goal is to have a completed justification book by Reformation this year. Using Lulu, we will have the free PDF available for anyone and printed books available for purchase. Donors to the project will get books sent to them.

Contents include  -

• The Calvinist background of Universal Objective Justification.
• A collection of UOJ quotations, gathered by Brett Meyer.
• How to study justification by faith.
• The Biblical doctrine of justification by faith.
• A list of worthwhile books on the topic.
• A lengthy review of the hideous Jay Webber essay at the Emmaus Conference.

The book will be aimed at the laity, because the UOJ clergy want to dance around topics like

1. Synodical Conference history, 
2. Their CFW Walther papal shrine, and 
3. Their own infallibility.

The history of the Missouri Synod is so important that they have to skip over its origins as a cult of Pietism built around a promiscuous, abusive bishop whose Dresden career was dead, so he took his followers and his mistress away to America.

The Saxon migration took place in 1838, but the official LCMS history begins in 1847. The Great Walther did not want that almost-decade written down, and his nephew Ludwig Fuerbringer was just as conveniently forgetful.

The roots of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod run deep, tracing back to 1847 when Saxon and other German immigrants [GJ - oh - that Loehe group - who initiated the formation] established a new church body in America, seeking the freedom to practice and follow confessional Lutheranism.

Sadly, the Synodical Conference, re-merging in time to follow ELCA's lead, remain stuck in Stephan's immorality and false doctrine while pretending to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.

"Don't look back, but who invited Darth?"
Answer - you did - ELCA, WELS, ELS, LCMS.

No Desert This August - Our Helper Wrote - "Time To Mow Again"

The rollicking storm,  which moved through yesterday, was just the boost that all the flowers and vegetables needed. As a result, the grass and weeds are thick and growing fast too.

As readers were clucking their tongues over all the mulch on our gardens and fenced areas spread during the last year, I was patiently toiling to add even more. "Your scorn is my energy!"

Un-mulched soil will absorb some rain and let the rest run off into the street. Our front yards are sloped toward the street, so slowing down the drainage helps all the vegetation.

Another factor is evaporation. The back yard is flat and tends to pool up with long, heavy rains. But the sun evaporates water faster than I imagined - with 95 degree days. I filled the wheelbarrow and saw the water disappear rapidly, just from the sun.

But that much rainwater on mulch wakes up all the soil activity, sending it into early spring activity, with fungi growing, bacteria teeming, earthworms digging, beneficial insects preying.

Evidence - one distant neighbor does nothing for his two KnockOut roses. They were perfect this spring and looked like a display for a gardening magazine. He mows and trims his grass away from the walk, but ignores the roses, which are now barely alive after a summer of heavy rains, even now.

Flowering and fruiting plants want a steady supply of moisture and constant pruning or picking. I cut my KnockOut roses by  50% twice already. Now they are at 5 - 6 feet tall again - and blooming a bit too fast, thanks to the heat. They add a lot of color to the yard when blooming but that does require pruning and cutting off spent flowers.

Borage - aka Bee Bread - flower.

If beans and tomatoes are picked, they flower and fruit again, but they also need water for that to continue at full speed. The  Borage does not care - that herb just flowers, drops seed, and starts new plants. The foliage is floppy and the stems are weak and hollow, but the bees and hover flies love the constant supply of food. I leave the Borage alone in the backyard, and it never stops blooming because of this cycle of dropping seed and growing more. Some easy-to-grow (invasive!) flowers - like Feverfew - do the same thing.

I grow Borage amid the roses and along one fence.

My First Hummingbird on the Butterfly Bush - Near the Window

White Profusion Butterfly Bush

I decided to put the observational plants in the same area with the most sun, what amounts to the backyard extension of the sunny garden, on the south side.

There I planted butterfly, beneficial insect, and hummingbird flowers:

• Bee Balms
• Lavender
• Coreopsis
• Dill
• Gooseberry
• Beautyberry
• Chaste Tree
• White Profusion Butterfly Bush

I planted White Profusion where I could easily see it from the bedroom window. I was doing some laundry and peeked out the backdoor at that garden area. A hummingbird was darting from one white flower to another. I walked to the bedroom window and looked again. The hummingbird continued its work for a time and moved on.

White Profusion close up.

I began the year looking at lists of plants friendly to butterflies and hummingbirds, then added beneficial insect plants to my shopping list.

Diversity of plants is the main goal. As I mentioned with beneficial insects, the adults may live on one type of food (nectar and pollen) while the new-borns live on pests as they hatch. Having a large number of nectar and pollen plants - yea, even weeds and herbs - will help populate all the desirable creatures.

This is also the bird area, and they all get along fine. Birds, toads, and beetles eat pests. Those pests could be killed with insecticides, but that would eliminate the butterflies and beneficial insects. Hummingbirds do not simply sip nectar. They also need insects to feed that astounding energy level.

Driving away and killing the pests will always end in getting rid of the most attractive and useful creatures fashioned for that purpose by God. And best of all, these beneficial creations are a delight to the eyes and ears.

Below proves how one type of Bee Balm can attract the best of the delightful creations.

Rainstorms Make Gardeners Feel Accomplished - Tons of Usable Nitrogen for No Cost

El Nino is predicted by NOAA into 2016

I took Sassy for her morning walk at about 8 AM and saw nothing special. I really wanted some rain, because a long bout of sprinkling yesterday left the soil still dry. I know because I dug a hole for the Double Whammy Sunflower this morning.

The house got dark suddenly and a big thunderstorm rolled in at about 10:30. The rainbarrels, which I emptied yesterday - in hope - are already half-filled.

A long, steady rainstorm is a great boon to gardeners and farmers. No amount of artificial watering can equal a rainstorm in volume of water and in usable nitrogen.

Save the rain for later, like a boss.

Maximizing the Rainstorm
Always planning ahead, I obtained 30 cubic feet of cyprus mulch, which we put on part of the main rose garden. I could use more for the rest of the front garden. I am changing over from black mulch that smells bad until it dries out to dry shredded cyprus, which smells wonderful from the start.

I made sure the ranbarrels were empty and positioned under the eaves. They are the secret to the Intensive Creation Unit. I ladle out rainwater on all lagging plants

Double Whammy can grow to 3 feet.
It is a perennial sunflower.

We did a lot of weeding yesterday. I aimed at the big and ugly, such as crabgrass as big a mature crab, and that stealthy grassy weed that goes out from the center and plants new versions to repeat the process.

I am studying weeds to identify them better. Unfortunately I know too many weeds too well. However, they flatter me by growing five feet tall in good soil with plenty of water. "Aha! You will be composted soon under a layer of cardboard, newspaper, and mulch."

As I wrote, with deep sighs, the sunny potato garden turned into a riot of weeds, an orgy of slugs, and very few taters. You might say I reduced the initial supply of seed potatoes. But instead of hiding the evidence, I keep the composted bales in place, tore up the weeds, with help, and coaxed all the organic material around the roses and raspberries growing in wild abandon.

Keeping the material in place will create or sustain a harbor for beneficial beetles and spiders, an overwintering place for beneficial insect larvae. A heavy rainstorm accelerates the the decomposition process, which needs moisture and nitrogen.

Want to Meet Some Beneficial Creatures? Visit the Bee Balm section at Walmart.

I was looking over the plants at Walmart when I spotted a new, fresh display of Bee Balm. I bought a few of their bargain plants from before.

As I neared the display, tiny insects were flitting about. I approached and saw the flower flies (hover flies) feeding from the flowers. The beneficial insects look for the food, and they flourish where plenty of food is provided.

Details on SP Harrison House Fire

Dear Colleague in Christ: 

On Wednesday morning, July 29, an electrical fire broke out in the home of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod President Matthew Harrison and his wife, Kathy. While the fire caused heavy damage, we give thanks and praise to our merciful God that no one was injured.  

It appears the accidental blaze began in the basement while President Harrison and his two sons were at home, but they were able to get out of the house quickly. While many possessions may be salvageable, portions of the house were destroyed, and the internal structure was seriously compromised.  Smoke and water damage was sustained throughout the home, and insurance adjusters are now working to determine if the house will need to be rebuilt. 

Meanwhile, President Harrison and his family are staying in a hotel until temporary lodging is obtained through the insurance company. As the Harrisons take the necessary steps forward, please pray for strength and comfort in their family vocations during this process. The prayers and support of all are deeply appreciated by the family.

—
DAVID YOW
Director of Public Relations
The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

The Two Marks Will Bury WELS. Silver Mark Serves as Mark-and-Avoid's Enabler

DP John Seifert is another reformer while campaigning,
a pope while reigning.

The latest WELS sales convention represents the end of the sect, which is just as well, since they abandoned the vestiges of Justification by Faith long ago.

Papenfuss, the hero of the Kokomo Statements, never heard of UOJ before he went to the Sausage Factory at Mequon. He left breathing threats against justification by faith, like Paul before his conversion. The graduates who never heard of UOJ certainly heard of Gausewitz. That was their catechism, in WELS and other parts of the Synodical Conference.graduates have never heard of Gausewitz.

The current Sausage Factory grads have never heard of Gausewitz, but they live and breathe UOJ, Emergent Church, and the absolute necessity of having a Pentecostal Praise Band - hallelujah!

Mark Schroeder--a former high school principal with almost no parish experience and the worst kind of parochial education--ran on a reform platform, his way eased by the dismay of the Issues in WELS pastors and laity. That group and website is long gone.

When Mark felt surrounded by the Jeske Crime Family, he urged his classmate to organize a loyalty group, which became the Intrepid Lutherans. But Twelve Apostates (Conference of Presidents) became alarmed and joined Schroeder in dissolving the group.

Mark decided it was better to switch than fight, if any change was really intended. I concluded long ago that he was a Manchurian Candidate, the pliable one picked to finish off the sect. His intense focus on money earns him the title Silver Mark.

My take - he was doing well at first until the Jeske stable of millionaires threatened him with total non-support. Since WELS always teeters on insolvency, that was all it took.

Perhaps Schroeder really was a critic of Church Growth gimmicks. He gave a legendary but now-missing slide show against it, as told by the Intrepid Lutherans.

Let's face it, Schroeder is no leader, but a school principal without principles. He could not make a stand for a good translation of the Bible, so he rolled over and played dead for the New NIV.

After all, WELS members are "afraid of the Bible," as Wendland told a resisting convention. What better way to solve that problem than to make a non-Bible - the New NIV - mandatory for all new publications.

WELS trained teacher - on the far Left.

Silver Mark has made sure that no one dissents from his enabling of Mark and Avoid Jeske. His Intrepids are almost completely gone. No one dares to say anything in public or even anonymously.

Nota bene - all those who used to post anonymously, without a hint of their names or locations, are silent. The nasties have stopped too, perhaps because they revealed too much about the drunken, illiterate, degenerate state of the WELS clergy. Anyone can write using any name he wants, since the email address is open and I happily publish the most toxic statements.

Afraid even when anonymous? That is intimidation. The WELS church workers know that they will be shunned by family and friends when bounced out of the abusive sect, even though that is the best medicine, a fumigant against the soporific vapors of the cult.

As the brother of a real lifetime prisoner told me, "He is happy he has a roof a three meals a day, even if he has no freedom. He thinks I am a loser for working and being free."

An imaginary prison can be just as secure for the people with that mentality. That is why WELS cannot reach new people without assuming a Babtist persona. They have nothing that people need - they can be beaten like a rented mule at work. They do not need a church that charges them for the abuse.

Observe the hilarity pose, used by all Church Growth gurus.
That helps Jeske avoid his default lopsided smile.
Graphic by someone else.

Most people have heard of Planned Parenthood as baby body-parts merchants of death, but no one paid attention when Brett Meyer described how Thrivent was part of funding Planned Parenthood, years ago.

Even if Planned Parenthood were removed - whether honestly or as a ruse - Thrivent would still be the major funder of ELCA and its relentless pro-abortion policies.

Does this bother Silver Mark or his boss Mark Jeske? I see no sign of it.

I decided long ago I would have no part of any pro-abortion institution or those who funded it, and I would oppose them vocally at every opportunity. I have talked people out of March of Dimes, United Appeal, and similar covers for Planned Parenthood.

Mark Schroeder is not offended by the sexual harassment of women staffers in a parish. He protects and rescues the offenders while the victims get sued in court.

But lo - if a WELS musician touches the keys of a non-WELS instrument, Schroeder sends an email, which is a threat.

And if a WELS pastor discusses justification by faith, Schroeder participates with his pal Jon Buchholz in kicking out that parish and trying to take away the parish property.

God uses false teachers to punish those who are indolent about sound doctrine, as Luther observed.

WELS and Missouri - Schroeder, Harrison, and Jeske are your punishment from God.

Luther says that people welcome wolf preaching -
here is the Wolf of Wall Street.

Thrivent even bragged about their speaker being the Wolf of Wall Street -
cocaine, whores, fraud, lies - all supported by "conservative" Lutherans.

Delegates view trailer for new WELS movie

2015/08/04/in Together

“Only one woman had the unique privilege to call Jesus her son,” notes Rev. Mike Hintz, director of WELS Commission on Evangelism. “WELS’ newest outreach movie, My Son, My Savior, portrays Mary experiencing the miracle of Jesus’ coming and then humbly growing in her understanding that her son is also her Savior.”

Synod convention delegates had the opportunity to view a trailer for My Son, My Savior. The movie, which was filmed in late May and early June, is scheduled to be released in October so that it can be used for outreach during Advent.

Dr. Daniel Ebeling, a teacher delegate representing the Southeastern Wisconsin District, says, “I’m particularly excited about the outreach opportunities My Son, My Savior can provide. I’m looking forward to seeing the other resources that are being prepared to help us utilize the movie.”

Some Nother Fund-Raising Campaign

One layman said there was a new fund-raising campaign announced, so WELS can do more.

The layman said, "They need more money to close more congregations and schools, and do it faster." 

I hastened to add that closing a church and keeping the equity is a choice racket. The members bear the burden of debt payments and interest that the sect collects. Then, when the land and buildings have gained in value, the sect liquidates and keeps the profits, which came from the disbanded members.

That is how Glende turned a successful church into nothing in Illinois.

An education at Martin Luther College will transform young men
into transvestites. Give more, give with your heart,
so they can buy better tutus.

WELS Is Worried about Grabbing More Money from Congregations Kicked Out or Hated out of the Abusive Sect. Following the ELCA, Presbies, and Episcocats down the Drain

 Money makes zah WELS go around,
zah WELS go around,
zah WELS go around.
Grab more loot or
we'll run aground,
we'll run aground,
Jah! we'll run aground!

Floor Committee 21: Ad Hoc Commission 2 Subject: Topic 11 -

Protection/recovery of synodical support provided to congregations that elect to close or to leave the synod. Reference: Book of Reports and Memorials, p. 194 Resolution No. 8 WHEREAS the Ad Hoc Commission 2 (AHC2) believes it is a matter of prudent stewardship for options to be explored regarding how and to what degree changes can be made to current practices and procedures so as to enhance the ability of and the likelihood that the synod can recover some portion of the support that it provides to congregations, which after receiving such support, then elect either to leave the synod or to close;

therefore be it Resolved,
that the synod in convention supports the recommendation that both the Board for Home Missions and the Church Extension Fund should examine their respective practices and procedures, and specifically the terms and conditions under which each organization provides subsidies, grants, loans, and/or other support to congregations to see if changes can be made to such so as to enhance the ability of the synod to recover some portion of the subsidies, grants, loans, and/or other support provided in the event that a congregation that has been the beneficiary of the subsidies, grants, loans, and/or other support elects to leave the synod or closes. 

Pastor Charles Vannieuwenhoven, chairman Teacher Kevin Ehlke, secretary ADOPTED

Who needs a resolution?
The Two Marks - Schroeder and Jeske - stole St. John and its endowment,
giving it to an ELCA pastor to bleed dry.
But they lost big time when John Seifert
kicked out Marc Schroeder and his parish in Columbus, Ohio.

Congregations Begin To Leave the Presbyterian Church USA - Following the Lead of ELCA and the Episcopalians - For the Same Reasons

The largest Presbyterian church in the Lehigh Valley has begun a process that could lead to a split from the most visible national denomination — a move initiated after a survey showed most of its congregants disagree with church positions, including those allowing same-sex marriage and the ordination of gay ministers.

The leadership of the First Presbyterian Church of Bethlehem voted on June 15 to enter the discernment process to leave Presbyterian Church (USA), or PC (USA), and seek affiliation with ECO: a Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians after spending years considering the move.

The 140-year-old church on Center Street in Bethlehem has 2,609 members and would be the largest congregation to leave the Lehigh Presbytery, the group of congregations covering seven counties in eastern Pennsylvania.

But it's certainly not the first to do so.

SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2010

New Moderator of PCUSA: Elder Cindy Bolbach

This is always important in getting a sense of the tenor, or the temperature, of the General Assembly of the PCUSA: Elder Cindy Bolbach is Moderator.

She has been supportive of LGBTQ concerns.

For some of us in the Church, this is great news. The GA body is set to continue the trend, the arc, of restoring justice to the Church body.

But the hard work--if this is a pro-LGBTQ assembly--comes to the Presbytery meetings, which will have to ratify any amendments to the Constitution of the Church.

The hard work is before us. I've seen this play, this movie, before.

Hard work.

As for me:
Back from the beach after days of reading and rest and therapy for one of our dogs, Toby, who had a mini-stroke in his hip last Sunday.

Pace!

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1 Samuel 4:11 And the ark of God was taken ; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain . 

12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army,and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent , and with earth upon his head. 

13 And when he came , lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside * *watching : for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out . 

14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said , What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily , and told Eli. 

15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old;and his eyes were dim , that he could not see . 

16 And the man said unto Eli,I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to day out of the army. And hesaid , What is there done, my son? 

17 And the messenger answered andsaid , Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas,are dead , and the ark of God is taken . 

18 And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake , and he died : for he was an old man,and heavy . And he had judged Israel forty years. 

19 And his daughter in law,Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered : and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken , and that her father in law and her husband were dead , she bowed herself and travailed ; for her pains came upon her. 

20 And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard * it. 

21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying , The glory has departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken , and because of her father in law and her husband. 

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The boring blogs - LutherQuest, Steadfast Lutherans, and ALPB Online Forum - expending vast quantities of digital bits, are silent about the alleged Matt Harrison lawsuit.

A Missouri Synod pastor has reported that his members received the information by mail, so the story is out, whether true or not. The accusation should be resolved.

The LCMS began in scandal.

Missouri apologists say, "The kids wanted to go,
so Walther was justified."