Paul Reveals Why the UOJ Hive Cannot Grasp Justification by Faith - From 2014

Many clergy slowly become unbelievers - and apostates - by allowing the weeds of Mammon and career advancement to choke and smother what little faith they had in the beginning. The result is not unlike a weed-choked plant, which still lives beneath the aggressive weed's foliage but produces no fruit.

This happens overtly in the WELS abusive sect, because every parson has to be a Kokomo cheerleader to exist. Just as publicly supporting Rauschenbusch was rewarded in the mainline denominations, so is bowing to the errors of JP Meyers and Sig Becker recompensed in WELS. The stupider the essay, the more likely the apostate will be teaching at The Sausage Factor in Mequon - where faith dies among the lies.

The process is subtler in the LCMS, because they no longer make an issue of UOJ. Being a Bronze Age Missourian, with heart-felt loyaty to F. Pieper, is no longer a selling point, now that the Bronzies are dead or retired.

Instead, the same effect is created when a pastor is punished for being fanatical about the Confessions (he actually reads them) or unionism - not wanting to march robed with ELCA women pastors. The entire ELCA-Thrivent-LWF-UN con game is really a victory for UOJ. No one can have any faith, discernment, or conscience left to work with any of those entities, let alone all four.

I can imagine the synodical responses:

"Do you recall that we voted overwhelmingly to continue work with ELCA? The synod convention - the ultimate authority, far more authoritative than the Scriptures?"

"If we don't spend all that Thrivent money, then ELCA will get it. Do you want that, you legalist?"

"We decided a long time ago that we can work with others in LWF to send relief to the poor in the Third World. I suppose that grieves you."

"What? You are in favor of malaria? I would love to tell all the dying masses that one."

But - as Grampaw used to say - "Lie down with dawgs, git up with fleas." The clergy who remain in the same stall with false teachers soon partake of the same Universal Salivation - thirsting for every god but the One True God. They handle the same warm asphalt that builds the road to perdition and think their hands are not stained and reeking.

Does St. Paul Contradict Himself?
The UOJ stylists have abandoned Romans 4:25 completely, because too many people opened their Bibles and read Romans 4:24. Sorry. Some of them ventured to read all of Romans 4 and saw that the theme of that chapter was not justification without faith, but Abraham counted as righteous because of faith. Instead of UOJ being as ancient as Stonehenge, it was re-discovered in Genesis in that citation about Abraham  - "he believed as it was counted as righteousness." Genesis 15:6

How can we believe that the Holy Spirit teaches justification by faith with utmost clarity in Romans 3 and 4, only to abandon that doctrine in favor of justification without faith in Romans 5 - if we only ignore Romans 5:1-2. The Mequon faculty is praying that you read Romans 5, minus the first two verses, with their guidance, of course.

Notify the NNIV committee, now meeting at the Gold Base of Scientology. They have a lot more additions and subtractions to make, in case people read past Romans 3.

Romans 10 KJV 
Here is another major section of Paul's inspired writing that demolishes UOJ. For now I am skipping over their thread-bare rants about reconciliation and "the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." I will get to them in a future post or two.

I would just like readers to consider Romans 10 and judge for themselves whether the dark shadowy dogmas of UOJ disappear completely in the bright light of that chapter.

Romans 10 follows Paul's lament in Romans 9 that his own Jewish people do not believe in Christ.

He disposed of righteousness through the Law and any other righteousness except the righteousness of faith. Note - there is no article in the Formula of Concord called Righteousness Without Faith, but there is a crucial article, III, on the Righteousness of Faith.

Romans 10 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.

2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

5 For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

6 But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:)

7 Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

8 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the Word of faith, which we preach;

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

20 But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

21 But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

This chapter clearly shows the Order of Salvation, in reverse. To put it in ABC order -

• Preachers must first be sent. As Luther emphasized, the pastoral office is the Preaching-Office, not the Entertainment-Office, not the Sheep-Counting-Office, not the Synod-PR-Office.
• The Gospel must be preached, because faith comes from hearing the proclaimed Word.
• The only righteousness that saves is the righteousness of faith, the effect of preaching the efficacious Gospel.
• The Gospel is expressed in Isaiah 53 - who shall believe our report (sermon) - an vivid account of the atoning death of Christ, the purpose of His death, and our sinful weak souls being redeemed by His suffering.
• Those who call on the Name of the Lord will be saved, and that happens only through faith, which is created by preaching the Gospel. Christ is the end of the Law, for those who believe.
• This is the salvation message (10:1) that Paul brings to Jews and Gentiles.

ELCA-WELS-LCMS-ELS - Why They Are Collapsing and Becoming the UCC

"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own." James Russsel Lowell The three parts of the Olde Synodical Conference have inched together, the friction alleviated by lavish Thrivent grants and one simple fact - they work with ELCA, covet ELCA, and agree with ELCA's dogma. Expect no fruits of the Spirit when the leaders teach and enforce unbelief as the foundation for forgiveness and salvation. Even the forgettable splinters have retained the worst DNA of their parents - CLC, ELDONUTs, LCR, OLCC. (The font shrinkage is a clue to their size and importance.) I saw a photo of an old friend, we are both old now, and remember having enjoyable conversations with him. WELS threw him out for teaching the truth and Missouri dutifully treated him as a deplorable. Synods demand obedience to them, not to the Scriptures or the Confessions, which they neither know nor comprehend. A WELS Synod Council member on why he would not teach anything from the Book of Concord - "The confessions are boring and irrelevant." The nastiness they practice, which crosses the synodical chalk-lines, is guaranteed to shrink the synods even faster, an excellent example of creative destruction. They are  now so corrupt and evil that their collapse is inevitable, and new entities will emerge. America is not better for having seminaries that promote an ever-changing text of the Bible, ever-worsening translations, eyes blind to anything related to the KJV. The Lutheran synods are just another branch of Fuller Seminary's odious, apostate, feminist influence, energized by the Marxist duo Barth and Kirschbaum. We say to the Boomers of today, "Maybe your children have church positions, but your laziness, greed, and indifference to the truth has guaranteed your grandchildren will not." More than Fuller, I blame Walther, the ultimate politician. He was the enforcer for a leader - Pastor Martin Stephan - who claimed ownership of the bodies of his female members. You think Keith Raniere and NXIUM are new, radical, and disgusting? Stephan gave syphilis to his wife, children, and mistresses. That was the scandal used to depose the bishop. Walther and his circle of Pietists followed the Pietist Stephan blindly, willingly, slavishly. One pastor had to apologize to Stephan before he was allowed to meet him. Walther waited until he could organize a riot in Perryville, Missouri, steal all of Stephan's land, gold, books, and personal possessions, and kidnap him at gunpoint to Illinois. Walther made himself leader of the cult, attached his group to the Loehe congregations, and made Loehe the enemy when the time was right. Walther forbade anyone writing an early history of the sex cult, and LCMS loyalists have told a basket of mythological lies about Walther ever since. Carthage, Missouri has a shrine to the Virgin Mary. Missouri has several shrines to the Great Walther. No one seems to wince at the creepiness of the St. Louis shrine. Walther's example has promoted the idea of synod leaders being the most agile and flexible politicians. Matt the Fatt was eager to lick Otten's shoes while stabbing him in the back. Now we know that he is not lacking in clownish viciousness any more than McCain is. When close to the editor, they were unctuous and flattering. When they were gathered with their lupine friends, they bared their slavering fangs.

"Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—

Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,

Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own."
James Russsel Lowell

The three parts of the Olde Synodical Conference have inched together, the friction alleviated by lavish Thrivent grants and one simple fact - they work with ELCA, covet ELCA, and agree with ELCA's dogma.

Expect no fruits of the Spirit when the leaders teach and enforce unbelief as the foundation for forgiveness and salvation. Even the forgettable splinters have retained the worst DNA of their parents - CLC, ELDONUTs, LCR, OLCC. (The font shrinkage is a clue to their size and importance.)

I saw a photo of an old friend, we are both old now, and remember having enjoyable conversations with him. WELS threw him out for teaching the truth and Missouri dutifully treated him as a deplorable. Synods demand obedience to them, not to the Scriptures or the Confessions, which they neither know nor comprehend.

A WELS Synod Council member on why he would not teach anything from the Book of Concord - "The confessions are boring and irrelevant."

The nastiness they practice, which crosses the synodical chalk-lines, is guaranteed to shrink the synods even faster, an excellent example of creative destruction. They are  now so corrupt and evil that their collapse is inevitable, and new entities will emerge.

America is not better for having seminaries that promote an ever-changing text of the Bible, ever-worsening translations, eyes blind to anything related to the KJV. The Lutheran synods are just another branch of Fuller Seminary's odious, apostate, feminist influence, energized by the Marxist duo Barth and Kirschbaum.

We say to the Boomers of today, "Maybe your children have church positions, but your laziness, greed, and indifference to the truth has guaranteed your grandchildren will not."

More than Fuller, I blame Walther, the ultimate politician. He was the enforcer for a leader - Pastor Martin Stephan - who claimed ownership of the bodies of his female members. You think Keith Raniere and NXIUM are new, radical, and disgusting? Stephan gave syphilis to his wife, children, and mistresses. That was the scandal used to depose the bishop.

Walther and his circle of Pietists followed the Pietist Stephan blindly, willingly, slavishly. One pastor had to apologize to Stephan before he was allowed to meet him.

Walther waited until he could organize a riot in Perryville, Missouri, steal all of Stephan's land, gold, books, and personal possessions, and kidnap him at gunpoint to Illinois.

Walther made himself leader of the cult, attached his group to the Loehe congregations, and made Loehe the enemy when the time was right. Walther forbade anyone writing an early history of the sex cult, and LCMS loyalists have told a basket of mythological lies about Walther ever since.

Carthage, Missouri has a shrine to the Virgin Mary. Missouri has several shrines to the Great Walther. No one seems to wince at the creepiness of the St. Louis shrine.

Walther's example has promoted the idea of synod leaders being the most agile and flexible politicians. Matt the Fatt was eager to lick Otten's shoes while stabbing him in the back. Now we know that he is not lacking in clownish viciousness any more than McCain is. When close to the editor, they were unctuous and flattering. When they were gathered with their lupine friends, they bared their slavering fangs.

The Opposers Do Not Deal with the Scriptures

This post is a very important one, quoting Luther on the people who opposed his Biblical teaching but would not participate in a discussion of the Scriptures.

That was essentially the method of Fuller Seminary and other scams. They told the Lutherans and others, who were more traditional, "You are doing things all wrong. You must get rid of the pipe organs, the formal worship, the hymns, and the sermons." Following their guru Robert Schuller - a colossal failure and snake oil salesman - they denounced the church signs that named their denominations. No one told the Fulleroids they were selling cheap baloney. The executives took notes instead and sent their subordinates through the same brain-washing seminars.

Fuller indoctrination expert had no worries. The church executives were scared, and the numbers made them terrified. "Do not fear. Only believe." Jesus said that in Mark 5, but they were filled with Drucker's wisdom instead.

Ichabod Lutheran Lexicon - Creation

 Raised without man-madechemicals and toxins, this Falling in Love rose is patrolled by beneficial insects and this tiny spider.

 This Easy-Does-It rose (center) bloomed spectacularly for our granddaughter's wedding, about 40 blooms on two bushes, May 19th, 2019.

Creation by the Word

Compromising Calvinists have undermined God’s Creation by the Word, ever since they decided that the Scriptures need to be reasonable and relevant.

Genesis 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

The more people place human reason above the revelation of God, the more they admire their intellect, the less they comprehend God’s mysteries revealed in the Word.

In Six Days

Rather than concede God’s power, the 19^th century scholars debated the length of a day in Genesis 1. The Hebrew word day (yom) being 24 hours long became the breaking point for many, their enlightened moment.

John 1

Since John 1 is a commentary on Genesis and the Pentateuch, the Spirit clearly reveals that the Son of God is the Logos, the Creating Word of Genesis 1.

John 1:3 All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.

The domino method of modern Biblical scholarship is to knock one down and watch in mock surprise as the others follow. In the 19^th century, Evolution judged Genesis 1 and found Creation wanting. Next, John’s Gospel was so doctrinal and compelling to believers that it had to be dismissed by rationalistic scholars as Hellenistic, late, unreliable, and symbolic rather than revealed truth.

But the domino method pays tribute to the truth – everything is linked together in the Bible, from beginning to end. Consequently, God’s Creation is all around us, an interdependent perfection revealed in its engineering and management. Those who find gardening with man-made chemical solutions will find great satisfaction in building an environment where all creatures can live, struggle, reproduce, and flourish as God intended.

The divine harmony of the Scriptures can be seen in the Son as the Creating Word using that Creation in His parables, each example so clear to those familiar with gardens, farms, and wildlife. This harmony naturally carries over to the language of our Faith.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature[1] [creation]: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

The Word created the universe in Six Days, and the Holy Spirit in the Gospel Word converts us into His New Creation.

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[1] Examples of the Greek word  as Creation - https://biblehub.com/greek/2937.htm

 He developed the Queen Elizabeth rose. A PhD in plant genetics, he taught the Creation of the universe in Six Days.

Two Copies of The Path To Understanding Justification Sent To Christian News.Time To End the Neglect

 This path was hidden by neglect - and covered with grass - for over 25 years, to such an extent that no one recalled even seeing it - much like Justification by Faith in WELS and the LCMS.

A free Kindle version of The Path To Understanding Justification is available here, if you qualify.

I am sending out copies now, but people can obtain a free Kindle if they click on the link above - and qualify for it.

Christian News is getting two (2) free copies to review. I know, they probably will not even mention it, because the book is not Babtist, Catholic, or OJ. But would they review if I did not send it? I doubt that, too.

One bonus comes from a research who shows how clearly LCMS taught Justification by Faith in the early days, in catechisms and doctrinal work. But LCMS switched to the opposite - World Justification without Faith - Objective Justification - and began persecuting those who taught the Chief Article of Christianity.

WELS did exactly the same thing. The Synodical Conference was united on Justification by Faith. Walther and his gang began the split which he bemoaned, and Pieper achieved the first stage of OJ triumph in the 1932 Brief Statement.

 Walther's nephew, Alfred Fuerbringer, read Luther and studied the Scriptures - in Hebrew and Greek - constantly. Does it show?

Luther - On Holy Baptism - From 2011

"Thus it appears what a great, excellent thing Baptism is, which delivers us from the jaws of the devil and makes us God's own, suppresses and takes away sin, and then daily strengthens the new man; and is and remains ever efficacious until we pass from this estate of misery to eternal glory."
The Large Catechism, Part Fourth, Of Baptism. #83. Concordia Triglotta, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921, p. 751. Tappert, p. 446.

The Cutting Edge - From 2012

AC V has left a new comment on your post "Bet on Bad Doctrine in the Age of Apostasy":

And this is a Lutheran Church? Just what I need on Sunday morning - a seminar on how to balance my checkbook. Check out Hope Lutheran Church (WELS) in Dousman, WI this Sunday, if you want to either be formed into a Pharisee or sent a guilt trip:

The Good Life. How could the richest nation on the planet, the nation with the most resources and the most opportunity be facing financial crisis? It's obvious isn't it? Isn't it the other political party? Or it's the current administration? Or it's the previous administration? Nope. The problem isn't in Washington. The problem is looking at you in the mirror. As we begin this series, we will discover that if our country is ever going to experience a recovery, it will start when the Christians begin paying attention to what God has taught us about how to handle financial responsibility.

http://hopeinjesus.org/

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(W)ELS is not using the Confessional Lutheran clergy to teach the next generation of Seminarians.

 They’re using the cutting edge New Age Emergent clergy like Ski, Glende, Patterson and Oldenburg.

(W)ELS Pastor Jerrod Oldenburg – Eternal Rock Lutheran Church, Castle Rock, Co.
State of the Church 2012

01:55 - (W)ELS “Seminary asked if (he) would come and talk to the students about what it takes to start a church”
04:45 – “People are the most important part of a church.”
05:20 – “In order for us to have any success in trying to build a church we have to make sure we’re on the same page.”
06:50 – “How can we set it up so we can do worship with excellence.”
07:00 - “We don’t have a baptismal font today, we’re working on trying to pick the right bowl.”
07:15 – “we’re doing this because we’re ultimately trying to build this launch pad.”
07:44 – “So we said, what is the best possible way that we can get people to learn in God’s Word, so we went back and forth and we ended up saying let’s do like some sort of small group kind of idea.”
07:55 - “Some people asked why don’t we have Bible study right away – well we kinda wanta make sure we do worship well. So then we went to bible study and we worked on that and we started doing Grow Groups. And we’ll talk about how this is kinda shaken out in the end. And we also wanted to do some Serve Activities.”
09:30 – “we have over 30 people signed up for Grow Groups.”
09:50 – “Service. You say well how many people do we want to serve? The number I use is 50%, now this is probably getting a little convoluted, but 50% of the average adult attendance, so if we have 35 people I’m hoping we have 18 people serving in church in some way. And you say that actually doesn’t make sense because as a church you say we want you to worship, we want you to grow, and Bible study be we also want you to serve so why do we only want 50%? Well one, if you serve at the women’s shelter I don’t get reports from that. I have no idea how many of you are outside of these doors going to do something in the community and I have no way to figure that out. So I can say, of our own people I’m shooting for 50%. And why don’t we have a 100% of our people serving in church every week? Does anyone lift weights…yeah, burnout that’s exactly it, if you lift weights you don’t actually grow…your breaking down your muscle fibers as I understand it, breaking them down, breaking them down and the only time that they grow is when they recover. And I think it’s the same thing as believers…”
12:30 – “So we said let’s reduce this as much as possible. I want to do three things, cause that’s like triune and really neat. We couldn’t do it. We got it down to four, worship, growth, serve and share. But there’s something interesting though, we’ve nailed number three, have we nailed number four, really well?”
29:00 – “So you draw your little rocket…so right above that write five names of people that you want to say I want to have intentional impact with this year. Just five names…put it some place where you’re going to remember…”
http://www.eternalrock.org/media.php?pageID=23

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From Alec Satin - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - On Those Enthusiasts Who Run from the Scriptures

[20] Yea, with good reason I may say to you still further, because they have not been able to establish or to prove their text and interpretation, it is certain that they should not represent our text and interpretation as false. For, as remarked already, who can combat falsehood with certainty and success, unless he can elicit the truth which is opposed to that falsehood. Who can charge any thing as being wrong, who does not, on the other hand, point out that which is right?

 

In the nature of things light must dispel darkness; darkness cannot dispel darkness: and so too Beelzebub never drives out Satan. The Enthusiast knows and feels this profoundly; hence he steals around, like the cat around the hot panada [bread boiled to a pulp], and contends with savage fury, that our text and interpretation cannot be right; and he shuns and flies from the word of God, like Satan himself, that he may not be forced to prove his own text and interpretation right, for he feels in his conscience that he is not able to prove it.

 

From "Luther on the Sacraments".  A Dissertation On The Lord's Supper By Dr. Martin Luther. LutheranLibrary.org downloadable edition to be released July 2019.

Greek Lesson - Mark 5:21ff - The Young Girl and the Woman with the Flow

Jesus raising the young girl from death - by Norma A. Boeckler

Parser - tells us the I.D. of the word

Lenski's Mark Commentary - download as a PDF


ΚΑΤΑ ΜΑΡΚΟΝ 5:21

21 και διαπερασαντος του ιησου εν τω πλοιω παλιν εις το περαν συνηχθη οχλος πολυς επ αυτον και ην παρα την θαλασσαν

22 και ιδου ερχεται εις των αρχισυναγωγων ονοματι ιαειρος και ιδων αυτον πιπτει προς τους ποδας αυτου

23 και παρεκαλει αυτον πολλα λεγων οτι το θυγατριον μου εσχατως εχει ινα ελθων επιθης αυτη τας χειρας οπως σωθη και ζησεται

24 και απηλθεν μετ αυτου και ηκολουθει αυτω οχλος πολυς και συνεθλιβον αυτον

25 και γυνη τις ουσα εν ρυσει αιματος ετη δωδεκα

26 και πολλα παθουσα υπο πολλων ιατρων και δαπανησασα τα παρ εαυτης παντα και μηδεν ωφεληθεισα αλλα μαλλον εις το χειρον ελθουσα

27 ακουσασα περι του ιησου ελθουσα εν τω οχλω οπισθεν ηψατο του ιματιου αυτου

28 ελεγεν γαρ οτι καν των ιματιων αυτου αψωμαι σωθησομαι

29 και ευθεως εξηρανθη η πηγη του αιματος αυτης και εγνω τω σωματι οτι ιαται απο της μαστιγος

find the Xerox word.

30 και ευθεως ο ιησους επιγνους εν εαυτω την εξ αυτου δυναμιν εξελθουσαν επιστραφεις εν τω οχλω ελεγεν τις μου ηψατο των ιματιων

31 και ελεγον αυτω οι μαθηται αυτου βλεπεις τον οχλον συνθλιβοντα σε και λεγεις τις μου ηψατο

32 και περιεβλεπετο ιδειν την τουτο ποιησασαν

33 η δε γυνη φοβηθεισα και τρεμουσα - ειδυια ο γεγονεν - επ αυτη ηλθεν και προσεπεσεν αυτω και ειπεν αυτω πασαν την αληθειαν

34 ο δε ειπεν αυτη θυγατερ η πιστις σου σεσωκεν σε υπαγε εις ειρηνην και ισθι υγιης απο της μαστιγος σου

hygiene

35 ετι αυτου λαλουντος ερχονται απο του αρχισυναγωγου λεγοντες οτι η θυγατηρ σου απεθανεν τι ετι σκυλλεις τον διδασκαλον

36 ο δε ιησους ευθεως ακουσας τον λογον λαλουμενον λεγει τω αρχισυναγωγω μη φοβου μονον πιστευε

37 και ουκ αφηκεν ουδενα αυτω συνακολουθησαι ει μη πετρον και ιακωβον και ιωαννην τον αδελφον ιακωβου

38 και ερχεται εις τον οικον του αρχισυναγωγου και θεωρει θορυβον κλαιοντας και αλαλαζοντας πολλα

39 και εισελθων λεγει αυτοις τι θορυβεισθε και κλαιετε το παιδιον ουκ απεθανεν αλλα καθευδει

40 και κατεγελων αυτου ο δε εκβαλων απαντας παραλαμβανει τον πατερα του παιδιου και την μητερα και τους μετ αυτου και εισπορευεται οπου ην το παιδιον ανακειμενον

41 και κρατησας της χειρος του παιδιου λεγει αυτη ταλιθα κουμι ο εστιν μεθερμηνευομενον το κορασιον σοι λεγω εγειραι

42 και ευθεως ανεστη το κορασιον και περιεπατει ην γαρ ετων δωδεκα και εξεστησαν εκστασει μεγαλη

43 και διεστειλατο αυτοις πολλα ινα μηδεις γνω τουτο και ειπεν δοθηναι αυτη φαγειν

1550 Stephanus New Testament (TR1550)

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 Will the LCMS candidates for Synod President be able to explain this verses, which anchor the doctrine of Justification by Faith?

LutherQuest (sic) Surrenders, Runs Away from Facing Genesis 15:6, Romans 4, and Galatians 3. Now the Boo-Hoo Babies Have Buried the Justification Thread

LutherQuest (sic) indulges its poorly educated denizens - letting them use puerile name-calling, bad information, and evasive maneuvers to avoid the facts of Biblical doctrine. They seem to be deeply disturbed by The Path To Understanding Justification by Faith (free PDF at the link).

 LutherQueasies do not get this, because they are wedded to the Calvinism and Pietism of Stephan and Walther. 

Update - Now they have buried the thread on Justification that they started, a tactic used before when someone said the wrong thing, such as Rolf Preus admitting that forgiveness only comes through faith.

Camp Forgiveness without Faith.
Experts on what is not Gospel preaching.

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God Landscapes My Garden - Yours Too. Big Project Managed by Ranger Bob and Sassy

 Hidden Lily was killed by the zero temps last winter, until it came up again.

A constant lesson of Creation Gardening is this - God does the landscaping. No matter what we plant, the forces of Nature (as some call it) will dominate the final outcome.

Our neighborhood is blessed with nut trees, squirrels, and rabbits.
Plenty of living space is above for the squirrels and in the bushes for the rabbits.

Birds built the green fence that blocks the view of our unused backyard (the farthest segment) and our neighbor's yards. All I did was build a rustic fence from logs. The birds perching there planted their favorite foods, and the rains boosted the growth. I added two elderberry plants, which are now nine feet tall and filled with sunflower like blooms, ready to convert into berries. Ranger Bob, who is an experienced landscaper, said it is perfect.

 Sassy is not a digger. One dog park friend taught his dog to dig, and that dog never stopped digging.

In the past I did a lot of mulching with newspaper, cardboard, and shredded wood. The heavy rains have proved that newspaper simply turns into soup and leverages weed growth. Cardboard does not last much longer. However, they do add plenty of organic mass to the top soil, and the soil creatures never complain.

The hay bail garden worked great - for the slugs - since I refused to poison everything to keep down slugs. I even wore a giant slug inside the house, after bending over near the wet bushes one night.

The butterfly garden was another success - for the rabbits. They ate most of the young plants I set out last fall. Comfrey, Joe Pye, and the Hidden Lily survived. That patch is so remote that rabbits gather there for food fests, socializing, and shelter.

Ranger Bob argued for a metal strip to edge our mulch-rich rose garden on two sides, to keep the driveway and sidewalk neater. That was the intended project yesterday. Sassy took up her station, in the shade, and watched everything happening on the block.

But lo, Bob brought his weed-eater, after deciding to cut back the grass growth in the rose garden. He kept the lethal line away from good plants and leveled the luxurious growth of the weeds. Our last rainfall was about six inches, and we have one more rain expected this week. His mechanical work gave me the freedom to removed some dead rose stumps and weeds intertwined with other plants.

We finished by installing some of the garden-edge material along the driveway.

Some spectacular results from the Creator so far this year:
Wild Strawberries are well established and large in the front and back;

• Roses are growing fast, attracting pests, which will attract more beneficial insects and spiders;
• Fever Few is blooming and five feet high;
• Daisies are ready to bloom;
• Bee Balm is especially tall and blooming;
• Borage (bee bread) and Buckwheat are blooming;
• Cat Mint bloomed early and continuously.

Hardly anyone grasps the concept of sheltering beneficial bugs and spiders to wipe the pests, which are in the minority. Plant it - and they will come - Fever Few, Daisies, Sunflowers, and mints.

Ichabod Lutheran Lexicon - Church Growth and Fuller Seminary and Barth-Kirschbaum

Church Growth Movement – Donald McGavran

The Church Growth Movement began with Donald McGavran. This highly organized and lavishly funded plague has been portrayed as doctrinally neutral or conservative in Christian values. McGavran belonged to the extreme leftist denomination, the Disciples of Christ, which began as a way of united all denominations and promptly split into four warring factions. McGavran received a Disciples education and, like many missionary children, graduated from Yale Divinity School, certainly the epitome of New England liberal trends, though less radical than Harvard and Union. McGavran omitted his PhD in sociology from Columbia University from his autobiographical lectures.[1]

The ALC-LCA-ELCA leaders tumbled for Church Growth, and so did WELS-LCMS-ELS. Mission funds and AAL-LB insurance donations made sessions at Fuller safe, legal, and effective. Objective Justification, which is shared among the mainline denominations and all the Lutheran, made the faux-neutral aspect of Church Growth ideal for the leaders, and the conservative claims made Church Growth appealing to uninformed laity.

Thus began the apostates’ Long March[2] through the Protestant denominations of American and the Roman Catholic Church. Congregations were no longer places of worship but marketing centers to be studied by sociologists. A drive-by D.Min. degree from Fuller Seminary is the ticket for denominational advancement and rewarded with undeserved academic positions.

Fuller Seminary

Although the school has a conservative reputation, that is only in comparison with the Disciples schools, such as their seminary at Butler, operating jointly with the Unitarians.[3] McGavran was invited to move his Institute of Church Growth to Fuller Seminary in 1965, after Fuller’s repudiation of inerrancy. That faux-conservative stance was watered down in the original version, so they subsequently treated inerrancy and sound doctrine as superfluous burdens for world and domestic missions. Several additional influences should be noted. Robert Schuller’s Garden Grove Community Church and Hour of Power TV broadcasts certainly influenced Fuller Seminary. Anything that worked, apart from the efficacious Word, was hailed as a Church Growth Principle.

Karl Barth and His Mistress Charlotte Kirschbaum

Two key figures at Fuller Seminary studied under Karl Barth and his mistress Charlotte Kirschbaum in Switzerland. The students and theological leaders knew of the mistress living in Barth’s family home. Barth-Kirschbaum were eager to adulterate their Calvinistic doctrine, which was bad enough, but it was mixed with Marxist dialectic, adding a hypnotic effect on those who favored the Bible containing God’s Word but not being God’s Word.

Fuller Seminary’s theologian continues to be Barth-Kirschbaum, whose deadly effect continues to wear Protestantism down to Unitarianism or worse.

Paul Y. Cho and C. Peter Wagner

One Church Growth ingredient to consider is the Pentecostal-Occult influence of Paul (now David) Cho and C. Peter Wagner. The far side of entertainment evangelism is the concept of attracting people through claims of miraculous manipulating God’s universe to benefit those with arcane knowledge of how to handle the spiritual powers (The Fourth Dimension, Wagner) who gladly obey orders.

Wagner, for all his charismatic clowning, should be honored for saying, “Church Growth Principles do not work.” Nevertheless, this vast movement of apostasy has achieved what an outsider never could have done. Every denomination is poisoned and shrinking after 65 years of Church Growth, degenerate Calvinism, and occult magick.

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[1] Dr. Donald Mc Gavran    A Brief History of the Church Growth Movement,  Lecture 5, The Final Lectures

Cited in   http://drboborr.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-brief-history-of-church-growth.html

[2] The Long March in China marked the beginning of Mao’s genocidal political control.

[3] McGavran earned his B.A. at Butler, founded as a Disciples of Christ school.

 Downplaying? Downplaying? John Sparky Brenner would not answer why their precious theological journal printed this lie, except to say, "Write a letter." I then asked, "Does anyone edit that journal?"