Thursday, May 5, 2022

Don't Dry for Me Northwest Arkansas!

 This proved to be a prescient Photoshop. Jeske's Change or Die clone of Fuller Seminary ran over Carl Gausewitz' Justification by Faith catechism. Try to find an original. Jeske - "We ran out of Germans?" No, WELS ran out of believers.

I glanced at the bird baths this morning, filled to the brim. More rain is coming today, with a few pauses.

The Gospel rain moves on. The wise men of the ALPB Online Forum figure the LCMS will continue but in a shrunken state. Of course, that claim may be a sugar high from their Ovaltine habit. When the liver is gone, Ovaltine fills the gap and firms the beltline.

As I wrote before, the LCMS moved into quasi-ELCA status a long time ago: promoting Universalism, promoting the Pope's agenda, slow-walking to women's ordination, eager to shed the burden of its colleges and overbuilt seminaries.

We are not far from the 100th anniversary of Carl Gausewitz' death in 1928. He was president of the Wisconsin Synod and the Synodical Conference, data here.

Fredrich wrote about him:

It would be safe to assume even without statistical evidence that 90 percent of the members in our church body learned the rudiments of the Christian religion from the Gausewitz Catechism in either its original or revised form. Who was Gausewitz? Even without statistical evidence it would be safe to assume that 90 percent of these learners would not even know the rudiments of a Gausewitz biography. That situation should be rectified. 

Already in 1927 the obituary writers were hinting at a reluctance of Gausewitz to have writings of his or about him appear in print.

Add to this the built-in aversion of our church body to heroes and hero-worship and a definite difficulty has been created for any biographical endeavors. Nevertheless some biographical material is required in a Quarterly issue that concentrates on the anniversary of Luther’s Catechism. Who was Gausewitz? 

It took a century of propaganda. Last I heard, DP Seifert was slapping the wrist of voted-out District VP Kuske, for criticizing Objective Justification. Kuske's honorary title of VP emeritus was deleted with malignant but tepid force. Felonies are denied and hidden in WELS (no less LCMS) but even the mildest statement in favor of the Chief Article of Christianity (Justification by Faith for Mordor graduates) must be addressed.


The Road To Hell Is Paved with Objective Justification - Plenty of Material Linked Here

 In WELS, professors wear Calvinist robes and promote Objective Justification with Jesuit educations. Stuck on the name John Brenner, each generation has to promote General Justification, no Universal Justification, no Universal Objective Justification, no Justification of the World. There are so many labels for the same old blarney. 


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Skimmed Two Issues of Calvinist News - Still Awake

His Sanctimoniousness Roger Kovaciny no longer works, but takes time to stay in the game. 

Some people are gone but not forgotten. Others - like WELS/ELS Pastor Roger Kovaciny - are forgotten but not gone. He loves to teach the things he does not know, so we forget the things he does, like how to explain an automotive collision with a utility pole. Or why combine Valium with liquor? Or why support an unrepentant ex-pastor and help him snag a new gig and a new wife?

When someone thinks or hopes CN cannot get worse - the Biblical expert with the fake doctorate and three wives - pops up.

The canning of Professor Schulz at Concordia, Mequon, is still being tossed around. What do these three pastors have in common? You must name two things or you might be given the Left Foot of Fellowship:

  1. John Sparky Brenner
  2. Jack Kilcrease
  3. Professor Schulz at  CUW.
First hint -
John Brenner, SJ
Jack Kilcrease, SJ
Professor Schulz, SJ!

All three earned a PhD at Marquette University, founded by the Jesuits - and those Jesuits never let go of their sinister power and influence.

I have never heard anyone say, "Oh! He has a doctorate from Marquette!" That has never come up. Like St. Louis University, another Jesuit gem, the school has little academic clout.

Some of you did not know that both schools were Jesuit. Or, you never heard about these schools. But here is the third unifying factor.

All three men teach Objective Justification. And Kilcrease teaches that dollop of Calvinism at the ELCA based online seminary that ordains women. ELS Pastor Jay Webber doubtless took his OJ STM from Kilcrease at the online school, but I am just guessing.

Meanwhile, OJ Extraordinaire Phil Hale gets free books every time I write one, but he never even mentions it. However, he ordered 10 copies of Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant at my non-profit price.

 Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant. The cover and illustrations are from Norma A. Boeckler

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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Thursday, Muddy Thursday

Enchanted Peace came back very strong. Hint: do not rush into a floral shop on Saturday and ask if there are any flowers left. They are the leftovers - reserve early or grow your own. Christina said, "I want to smell roses when I open the front door." And she did. 
 

Most of us take our garbage barrels out Thursday because the truck pickup is unpredictable on Friday.

When we have long-term sod soakers, like this week, the backyards are a soupy clay that pulls the feet ankle deep. Our entire backyard is one pond now, with the excess draining along the sides and out into the street. 

IBM expects us to have rain the rest of the day, all night, and tomorrow. This has happened so many times on Thursday that I thought of a movie title for it - Thursday, Muddy Thursday.


 Queen Elizabeth is impossibly beautiful, developed by a Creation scientist, a PhD in his field. Riddle me that one, evolutionists.


My best chance to survive Muddy Thursday is pulling the garbage and recycling barrels through the kitchen and living room again, leaving a trail of rainwater and leaves. 

We are not likely to flood, because our yard is slanted toward the street, the street toward Scott, and Scott toward White Road, which also is downhill and away from us. 

Friday and Saturday will be sunny, so the roses should be blooming well for Mothers Day.

 Fragrant Cloud is beautifully formed and potent with fragrance. I saw this year that they are eager to grow.


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Bethany Lutheran Church Members Are Invited to the Long-Awaited Wedding of Glen and Esther.

 Glen Kotten and Esther Estrada


Zach and the Shraders are coming. If church members could email Glen and confirm they are coming, that would be great, so I have a total head count for food and beverages. Hoping guests could email me and confirm they are coming.

There is also still one available guest-room at my parents' home - three are reserved for Pastor Jackson, Zach, and the Shraders.

Glen Kotten is our official church attorney. He set up our non-profit papers and incorporation. More importantly, he is dedicated to faithful Lutheran doctrine and does not harbor any patience with equivocation. He sponsored the book about "making disciples."


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Tuesday, May 3, 2022

From the Lutheran Librarian - Alec Satin

 



Came across this in the 9th Volume of the Columbus Theological Magazine, (1889) at the end of a survey of missions, and thought this description of a certain Judge Tucker might be an encouragement to all of us to remember our brothers and sisters from other times.

— Miss Tucker (A. L. O. E.) went to India as a missionary, leaving the field of authorship for the comparatively obscure field of mission work. Judge Tucker, of Futtepoor, was her brother. He served long in India, giving to Missions $200 per month. To those who remonstrated as to his liberality, he replied: “Here are 86,000,000 adult population; ae 5,000 die daily; every day’s delay means 5,000 souls!” After the duties of his office were fulfilled, he preached Jesus. “If every hair were a life,” said he, “I would give them all to a Him.” He fell, in 1857, at the hands of the mutineers. On his sitting-room walls were inscribed: “Fear God,” “Love your enemies,” “ Prepare for death.”

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Working on the New Set Up

I got the new camera up but could not figure out the remote. I am talking to the manufacturer's help desk tomorrow. This is good progress early in the week.

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Today Will Be a Break from Rain - Back to Sogginess Tomorrow

Does the devil look like Paul Kelm or does Paul Kelm look like the devil?

We had rainstorm upon rainstorm yesterday. This house, on a concrete pad, has good drainage to a street system that carries the water down the street and down two more streets.

We also save a lot of rain with mulch and rain barrels. At the moment, more rain in the barrels is impossible.

People experience the same when everything is peaceful and God's grace is being expounded according to the Scriptures. We take it for granted and become indolent. America had that after WWII, but generations of with-it seminary graduates took the "new ideas" into the parish and pulpit. They were groomed to be graduate students of Fuller Seminary. WELS denied being connected with Church Growth while sending everyone to Pasadena (but not for the Rose Bowl). The lying was Olympic quality, but typical of GA abuse training.

They all drank from the same poisoned sources became even blinder than before. 


Do Missouri, WELS, and the ELS join the CLC in tearing this out of Luther's Sermons? They seem to have no knowledge of it, or Romans, or the Gospel of John. They only know and recite what is published by Fuller, Willow Creek, and Trinity Divinity School.


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Monday, May 2, 2022

The Synodical Conference, She Is Back! LCMS-ELS-WELS with a Side-Helping of ELCA.
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Deuteronomy - Concordia Commentary

by Harstad, Adolph

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In This Volume

Recorded in Deuteronomy, the final three sermons of the patriarch Moses reaffirm the pillars of the faith established earlier in the Pentateuch. Dr? Harstad sets out to prove that the book of Deuteronomy is a quintessential text, both for understanding the Old Testament and the New. With an original translation, he identifies key themes of law, gospel, justice, and love in Moses’ address to the Israelites in the plains of Moab. Harstad finds unique importance in the motivational tone Moses uses during his final exhortations of his people, interpreting its masterful rhetoric as exemplary of God’s unending grace and stalwart love for wayward Israel.

Features

  • The Unique Character of Deuteronomy
  • The Author and Authority of the Book of Deuteronomy
  • Preaching and Teaching in Deuteronomy

Additional Essays

  • Love is at the Heart of Deuteronomy
  • Interpreting Moses
  • Bride-Wealth: An Anthropoligical Perspective

About the Author

Adolph L. Harstad is Professor of Exegetical Theology, Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary, Mankato, Minnesota. He studied at Northwestern College, Watertown, Wisconsin (B.A.), Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (M.Div.), and the University of Wisconsin—Madison (M.A., Hebrew and Semitic Studies). He has also served as a parish pastor and missionary in Zambia, Africa.

Endorsments

“Deuteronomy holds essential themes of the entire Bible” (p. 3). Prof. Adolph Harstad expertly demonstrates the truth of this fundamental premise in this latest volume in the distinguished Concordia Commentary series. There are many other reasons for pastors, professors, and students of the Scriptures to consult this impressive, in-depth study of the fifth book of Moses. In addition to its rigorous, multifaceted exegetical value, I found the author’s compositional style to be eminently readable—a quality not often found in scholarly commentaries, past or present!
—WELS Prof. Ernst R. Wendland, Stellenbosch University—Ancient Studies, Stellenbosch, South Africa; Lusaka Lutheran Seminary, Lusaka, Zambia; South African Theological Seminary, Sandton, South Africa

Drawing upon years of seminary teaching and African missionary experience, Prof. Harstad delivers in-depth analysis and superb commentary on Deuteronomy. His exegesis and commentary on the Decalogue provide a valuable resource for every teacher of Luther’s catechism. Shining throughout the book is the message of God’s glorious love in saving us by grace alone through Jesus Christ, the Seed of Eve, Abraham, and David. Harstad’s lively commentary is a strong encouragement for readers to serve the Lord God with all their heart and soul!
—Dr. Terry Louis Schultz, Artistic Development Missionary, WELS World Missions, Chicago, Illinois; former missionary to the Peruvian Amazon and Haiti

As readers have come to expect of the Concordia Commentary series, this commentary is both scholarly and pastoral, with the latter quality perhaps the most important for busy pastors. It provides abundant help with the Hebrew text and highlights the nature of Deuteronomy as a book that provides motivation for a thankful life of obedience and love. Moses’ farewell sermons still speak to us today.
—Dr. John Brug, Professor Emeritus, Mordor Lutheran Seminary, Mequon, Wisconsin

About the series

The Concordia Commentary Series: A Theological Exposition of Sacred Scripture is written to enable pastors and teachers of the Word to proclaim the Gospel with greater insight, clarity, and faithfulness to the divine intent of the Biblical text.

The series will cover all the canonical books of the Old and New Testament, with an original translation and meticulous grammatical analysis of the Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek of each text. The foremost interpretive lens centers on the unified proclamation of the person and work of Christ across every Scriptural book.

The Commentary fully affirms the divine inspiration, inerrancy, and authority of Scripture; Each passage bears witness to the confession that God has reconciled the world to Himself through the incarnation, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ His Son.

Authors expose the rich treasury of language, imagery, and thematic content of the Scripture, while supplementing their work with additional research in archaeology, history, and extrabiblical literature. Throughout, God’s Word emanates from authors careful attention and inculcates the ongoing life of the Church in Word, Sacrament, and daily confession.

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