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WELS pastor continues to plagiarize Reformed sermons!
From Bailing Water
It is sad that the WELS is allowing the Church and Change group to lead the way in the synod.
It is also sad that WELS pastors in Green Bay resort to plagiarized sermons and yet the WELS leadership does nothing.
Here is a comment that was recently left on BW...
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Check out this recent sermon (Dec. 23, 2007) from Parlow's church in Green Bay. It doesn't say who "wrote" the sermon, but as has been mentioned on this site and others, Parlow has plagiarized at least one sermon in the past.
Anyway, here is an excerpt from the sermon:
"'Joy' is clearly a Christmas word. Those other activities can make us happy but don’t confuse happiness with joy. They are not the same thing. Happiness is temporary; joy is lasting. Happiness is on the surface; joy is deep down. It is not unusual to have joy without happiness and even have happiness without joy.
A few years ago there was a book published entitled, The Progress Paradox. It documented the enormous improvement in American lives over recent generations. Average life expectancy has doubled since 1900. Undernourishment was a major problem in our country and now we are “over nourished.” How many of us aren’t officially overweight according to the national BMI scale? Central heating was unusual and air conditioning unknown. Medical care is much more sophisticated and available."
Here is an excerpt from Lieth Anderson of "Faith Matters":
"'Joy' is clearly a Chirstmas word....We sometimes confuse joy and happiness althout they are not the same. Happiness is temporary; joy is lasting. Happiness is on the surface; joy is deep down inside. It is not unusual to have joy without happiness and it is not unusual for some who have happiness not to have joy.
The progress Paradox by Gregg Easterbrook documents enourmous improvement in the American way of life and standard of living over recent generations. Average life expectancy in the United States has doubled since 1900. Undernourishment was a major problem, but now we are 'over-nourished'. Central heating used to be unusual and few homes had central air conditioning. Today medical care is much more sophisticated and available."
The St. Mark's sermon is here:
The "Faith Matters" article is here:
PP
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Ha! The Sermon from the week before is the same way. From "The Gif of Peace - Dec. 16":
"In the great depths of the oceans the pressure is enough to crush a submarine like a can of Coke. In order to explore down deep the oceanographers have built bathyspheres. They are like miniature submarines constructed out of steel plates that are several inches thick. They have thick "skins" to stop the crushing power of the pressure on the outside from getting to the scientists on the inside. When those bathyspheres finally settle on the ocean floor and turn on their lights for exploration, the scientists see fish—fish with very thin skins. Why don’t they implode? Those fish have pressure inside them equal and opposite to the pressure outside. They are able to swim freely and easily where we would be destroyed."
Type "In the great depths of the oceans the pressure is enough to crush a submarine like a can of Coke" into Google and you find this:
"In the great depths of the oceans the pressure is enough to crush a submarine like a can of Coke. In order to explore down deep the oceanographers have built bathyspheres. They are like miniature submarines constructed out of steel plates that are several inches thick. They have thick "skins" to stop the crushing power of the pressure on the outside from getting to the scientists on the inside.
When those bathyspheres finally settle on the ocean floor and turn on their lights for exploration, the scientists see fish—fish with very thin skins. Why don’t they implode? Those fish have pressure inside them equal and opposite to the pressure outside. They are able to swim freely and easily where we would be destroyed.
That is what peace is like. Peace on the inside is equal and opposite of all the stresses and pressures crushing us from the outside."
My Flock
PP
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GJ - Isn't it equally sad that the laity do nothing about the plagiarism? It is dishonest, unethical, and a crime to use another's words and claim them as original.
Perhaps this editorial--When Pastors Plagiarize--from Christianity Today (probably on their reading list) should be published on the St. Mark's website, too, with a proper citation.
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Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Plagiarizing the Reformed":
I did some googling of my own and found that all three of the sermons in this "Shopping for a Savior" series seem to come from the Advent 2003 sermon archives of Wooddale Church. Woodale is a Baptist church. The Pastor at Wooddale is the same guy that wrote the "Faith Matters" article.
http://www.wooddalechurch.com/sermons/sermons2003.asp
Note the copyright at the bottom. This isn't just plagiarism. It is copyright infringment too.
