Saturday, June 20, 2015

Remember Ann Rhoades at the Jeske Confab Blessed by Jon Buchholz?
But Jon Bugged Out on the Worship, So That Makes Jon UOJ Orthodox

I love the look of hilarity, which says,
"You paid $25,000 to hear me babble about values?
That is so amazing."
Fee level - 4 - $15,000 to $25,000

Here is the conference -

Keynote and General Session Speakers

SPEAKER

SHARON BUCK

Leading a Volunteer Army!
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SPEAKER

DR. RAVI JAYAKARAN

Leadership and Empowerment – a Contradiction of Terms?
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

PASTOR MARK JESKE

Transformational Leadership
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

ANN RHOADES

Built on Values
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Leadership and Change

Presenter 2B

JOSH BIRKHOLZ

The Future of Christian Stewardship
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Presenter 2D

MATT BUROW

Applying Business Principles to Church Work
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Presenter 4A

REV. MARK CARES

It Takes Faith to Build a New Ministry
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Panel Member 6B

SUSAN DOHERTY

The Christian Woman in Leadership
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MODERATOR 3A

SCOTT GOSTSHOCK

What is Effective Leadership in Christian Education?
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Panel Member 6B

WENDY GREENFIELD

The Christian Woman in Leadership
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Presenter 3C & 5C

DR. RAVI JAYAKARAN

Learning "Total Health Village" Analysis Tools
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Panel Member 3A

DR. DAN JOHNSON

What is Effective Leadership in 
Christian Education?
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Presenter 6A

MIKE KLATT

Facing Facts and Changing the Course of your Ministry
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Presenter 5A

DAN KUNZ

Collaboration in Ministry
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Presenter 1B

TIM LEHMAN

Applying Business Principles to Church Work
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Presenter 4B

MARILYN MILLER

Applying Leadership Lessons from Nehemiah in Today's World
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Presenter 1A

ARVID SCHWARTZ

Board Leadership Qualities in Non-Profits
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Presenter 2A & 3B

PASTOR ELTON STROH

Do Metrics Belong in Church?
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Panel Member 6B

KATE TOHAL

The Christian Woman in Leadership
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Panel Member 3A

HENRY TYSON

What is Effective Leadership in Christian Education
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Presenter 5B

KATHIE WENDLAND

Christian Woman in Leadership in the Church and Secular World
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Presenter 2B

ART WESTPHAL

The Future of Christian Stewardship
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Panel Member 3A

REV. MARK ZARLING

What is Effective Leadership in 
Christian Education?
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Outreach and Evangelism

Presenter 1E

PASTOR TIM FLUNKER

Working in a Cross-Cultural Kingdom
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Presenter 6D

LAURA HARSTAD

Be "Salt!"
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Presenter 4E

BILL KESSEL

Apache: A Mission Example
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Presenter 5E

REV. DON MOLDSTAD

Millennials on a Mission
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Presenter 6D

MICK SCHEUER

Be "Salt!"
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Presenter 2E

ROCHELLE TRAUB

It Only Takes a SPARK
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Global and Community Health

Panel Member 1C

DR. REBEKAH CAREY

Improving the Health of Your Congregation and Community
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Presenter 2C

JUAN DIAZ

The "Sombrero for the Teenage Mind
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Panel Member 1C

AMANDA PALTZER

Peer Support for Diabetes
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Panel Member 1C

JASON PALTZER

Improving the Health of Your Community and Congregation
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Presenter 4C

PASTOR DAN SCHMIDT

Utilizing Community Resources for Outreach
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Presenter 6C

DAN SCHWARTZ

Community Agriculture Methods
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Building and Expanding

Presenter 3D

JARED JUSTMAN

Building Financing
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Presenter 1D & 5D

JOHN LAUTZ

Builders For Christ: Concept to Completion
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Presenter 4D

HERB MEHNE

What does it mean to volunteer with
Builders For Christ
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Worship Leaders

Worship Leader

REV. JON BUCHHOLZ

Emmanuel Lutheran,
Tempe, AZ
Worship Leader

REV. CHARLES DEGNER

St. Peter Lutheran,
St. Peter, MN
Worship Leader

PASTOR DON MOLDSTAD

Bethany Lutheran College, 
Mankato, MN
Worship Leader

PASTOR MARK JESKE

St. Marcus Lutheran, 
Milwaukee, WI
Worship Leader

JOHN SEBALD

Arizona Lutheran Academy, 
Phoenix, AZ
Ann Rhoades' people-centric values are at the core of JetBlue’s extraordinary success. She shows how great things happen when organizations believe in their people—and give them the authority to succeed. 

The remarkable story of JetBlue Airways is founded in the people-centric values of Ann Rhoades, one of its five founding leaders. With the goal of bringing humanity and enjoyment back to air travel, JetBlue is one of very few commercial airlines ever to earn a profit in its first full year of operation. The airline and its innovative culture have captured the imagination of its customers, whose loyalty borders on obsessive. Rhoades has made a habit of creating high-performing cultures, with her influence pervading among other high-flying companies including Southwest Airlines, Doubletree, First Interstate Bank and most recently, CareLeaders, a company dedicated to helping US hospitals attain a new level of performance. With enthusiasm, humor and candor, Rhoades urges audiences to throw away the rule book in developing and sustaining companies that treat people fairly, build loyalty and produce solid profitability. She describes her strategies for empowering people and building successful cultures in her book Built on Values: Creating an Enviable Culture that Outperforms the Competition (January, 2011).

Lenski Wrote - "Resist the Beginnings" - Meaning:
Never Neglect the Foundations




Good graphics of Lenski are hard to find, yet his New Testament Commentary, a magnificent achievement, is always in demand. Our Baptist theologian-physician loves Lenski and was pleased to receive two out-of-print Lenski books from the Jackson Library. He wants to complete his PhD in theology, and wondered if I would be his professor.

Lenski wrote, "Resist the beginnings," and yet Lutherans have not resisted the very steps that have united them with ELCA, an apostate sect as openly anti-Christian as anyone could name. Yet the "conservative" Lutherans honor and fear Mark Jeske, who shovels millions of their dollars toward ELCA and invites ELCA to share the podium with him when teaching - Change and Die!

This compares with the abuse, misuse, and destruction of a vastly neglected part of God's Creation - the soil. Many of my friends travel to exotic locations in the world, and I enjoy their sight-seeing without cost or lower GI distress, courtesy of Facebook.

My exotic travels are in my yard, where I see the strangest creatures and watch the living ocean of life - the soil - support and nourish roses, potatoes, corn, beans, peas, and various vines and beneficial insect and hummingbird plants.

Gardening changed and all the modern fallacies were exposed when key discoveries were made about the relationships between soil micro-organisms.

Everyone is in awe of dinosaur size, and whales dwarf them. No one can even imagine the size of this living organism, the largest in the world - as far as we know.



Far Bigger Than Any Whale
Underworld creatures are not only numerous and weighty in aggregate, but ancient and exceedingly durable. Toughest among them are the “extremophiles,” bacteria and ancient microbes known as archaea that can live a mile or more deep in the earth, or in boiling hot springs or polar ice, enduring extremes of heat, cold, pressure, and pH that were considered unfailingly lethal to any form of life only a few decades ago. 10 Some tiny soil animals can time-travel for decades or more in dormant states, impervious to extreme heat, cold, desiccation, and otherwise lethal radiation. 11 

Although most soil organisms are small and short-lived, some of the oldest and largest creatures ever identified are sprawling underground masses of the root-rot fungus Armillaria that far outclass blue whales in size. A 220,000-pound specimen that stretches across 37 acres of Michigan woodland was reported in 1992, setting off a race of sorts to find the biggest “humongous fungus.” 12 By 2003, a 2,200-acre Armillaria in Oregon had captured the record. 13 (12 Smith, M. L., J. N. Bruhn, and J. B. Anderson. 1992. The fungus Armillaria bulbosa is among the largest and oldest living organisms. Nature 356: 428– 431. 13 Ferguson, B. A. et al. 2003. Coarse-scale population structure of pathogenic Armillaria species in a mixed-conifer forest in the Blue Mountains of northeast Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research 33: 612– 623.)

Finally, although we think of plants as denizens of our aboveground world, many plants spend more than half the energy they capture from the sun to grow roots that nurture and interact with life underground. 14 A prairie, for example, grows more grass biomass below the surface than above.

Baskin, Yvonne (2012-09-26). Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape Our World (Kindle Locations 90-96). Island Press. Kindle Edition.

One of my three favorite gardening books, Teaming with Microbes, has put together the scientific information to show how intimately the tiniest organisms work together. Most of the modern methods of gardening are at war against the microbial foundations of the soil:

  1. Rototilling
  2. Chemical fertilizers
  3. Chemical weed killers
  4. Chemical pesticides
  5. Chemical fungicides
  6. Hauling away gardening trash
  7. Gathering grass clippings to haul away
  8. Removing autumn leaves from the property.
  9. Monoculture and excessive neatness.

Perhaps few garden writers want to associate Creation with their experiments, observations, and research, but the strangest comments come up that give incredible intelligence and wisdom to organisms. For instance, one fungus keeps growing because it does not depend on a living tree for food but gladly lives off the dead material it has created by its growth. Other fungi cannot afford to kill their host, so they do not, but this one does not care.

Once a few of these co-inky-dinks are put together, the complexity and design of Creation begin to emerge. At the most basic level. the power of the Creating Word is evident.

Thus, because we have lost track of the foundations of the Christian Faith, we are duplicating in congregations what modernist gardeners have done in their own yards. In the same way, once the damage is noticed, even more money is spent to use the same methods with even greater negative effect. Jeske bellows, devouring other people's money, Change or Die!

Eventually, unless people face the facts, the downward spiral will accelerate. ELCA and The Episcopal Church have already demonstrated that fact.

Psalm 113:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?




A Jesuit in the Vatican - Not a Franciscan.
Misdirection of the Eyes Has Worked Marvelously Well Among Lutherans

The Holy Spirit is saying to Francis, - "Be quiet!"

When people comment on Pope Francis' latest actions and words, they falsely assert he is a Franciscan. That is a good example of misdirection of the eyes, which magicians use successfully. If someone looks in the wrong direction for a moment, the sleight of hand is missed.

Francis is a Jesuit, and he is named after the founder of the Jesuits - Francis Xavier. But he said he chose the name Francis in honor of St. Francis, patron saint of the poor. Aww.

So when people complain about the Leftist radicalism of the pope, I simply say, "He is a Jesuit." That order has always gravitated toward power, secular power. No other order is more corrupt in every possible way. Like the secret hazing ritual at Mequon, the Jesuit order was banished and banned for a short time, only to be brought back.

All Lutherans should pay attention to the papacy, the most powerful crime family in the world. The Vatican approach is so successful that the American synods have adopted the same tactics. If a few key power centers are controlled, everything else falls in line.

I talk to Lutherans who wonder how they could be so out of sync with their own synods. I explain how their synods were stolen from them, issue by issue, while no one was looking. This works, because everyone will re-elect Mark Schroeder, Matt Harrison, and Pope John the Malefactor.


  • They took away the traditional text of the New Testament, but I said nothing, because I still had the King James Version.
  • They took away the KJV, but I said nothing, because everything seemed to be the same, and they told us how outdated the language was.
  • They took away justification by faith, but I said nothing, because they kept saying they still believed in justification by faith - they were "protecting the Gospel" with justification without faith.
  • They took away The Lutheran Hymnal, but I said nothing, because it used the outmoded KJV texts and old hymns - not a single Fanny Crosby song. Now the same groups have three hymnals instead of one.
  • They took away the liturgy, hymns, and creeds, but I said nothing, because they did this for better outreach.
  • They tore out the pipe organ, but I said nothing, because we had electronic keyboards that could reproduce the pipe organ sound, the Hawaiian guitar, and anything else, even the sound of a choir, which we longer could gather.
  • They took away the Lutheran name, but I said nothing, because they told me Luther did not like the name, and it was blocking our outreach to the unchurched
  • They took away "church," and I said nothing, because they told me The CORE, Illumine, and GracePoint were better marketing tools, so we could establish a brand and appeal to the unchurched who did not like the word "church."
  • Finally, they took me away, because I kept wondering what happened to church where I was baptized and confirmed, and married.
Step by Step - Just Like the Song - "And Now I Know We'll Always Be in Love"

Hint for Mequon graduates -
Ichabod means the glory has departed.