Scapegoat Studio Blog: Return to Wittenberg 2016. How Many Will Mark Schroeder Kick Out of WELS?

Scapegoat Studio Blog: Return to Wittenberg 2016:



"This past week I was privileged to be a part of the first Return to Wittenberg (R2W) conference, entitled “What Does This Mean?” The event was held at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee, on July 26-29. Since this was the event’s debut, I’ll spend a little time explaining what R2W is before reviewing my experience.

Last fall I was invited by several WELS pastors and laymen to consider presenting at the conference and help with the planning. Much of the groundwork had already been laid, so I can’t claim to have contributed much more than a graphic identity. In the early planning stages, the conference was conceived of as an alternative to WELS youth rallies that would be recognizably Confessional and Lutheran. While that may be the easiest way to explain it, it would be an oversimplification to say that R2W is just a WELS knockoff of Higher Things. What it became was a conference focused on the catechism, aimed at teens through 30-somethings, with the intent that all ages would be welcome."



'via Blog this'

In Production - Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant: A Doctrinal Comparison of Three Christian Confessions

Norma A. Boeckler designed the cover
and provided the artwork inside the book.

NSA Intercept - Making a Yuuuge Deal

Do not anger the Big Kahuna.

One of my sources downloaded this from NSAintercepts.com, but the URL has changed since then. Those spooks are so careful with their information.

Kudu: OK, boss. We will give Ski a big recommendation, that he is 100% for a call anywhere.

Big Kahuna: This will make Insurance-ho happy. He protects his alumni.

Tiny Tim: That's right, Big. We will call Ski as soon as we get the OK. No one wants to accept a call for that position. Hahahahahahahaha.

Kudu: But boss, my parish needs to take over his members and territory, OK? That way we can go multi-campus and make a big splash in the area. Round Rock is loaded with high-end potential members.

Insurance-ho: I am sure that some generous grants will come from this blessed plan. The board wants to do more with our institutions and congregations.

Big Kahuna: Kudu, we have to have a study about the situation, maybe call in an outsider on this, like Will Cell 4 Call. He will make sure we have good results

Kudu: He is a fine man. I am sure he would like to hunt lions in Africa with me.

Tiny Tim: He's a vegan.

Kudu: He can hunt deer with me. They only eat grass and leaves.

Big Kahuna: Great. We are all on the same page. Now let's make sure this does not get out.

Kudu: Boss, it's already a speculation post on you know what.

Big Kahuna: Conversation over. This never happened and nobody was here.

Tiny Tim: GA promise - better than a pinky promise.

The Mark and Avoid Jeske Crowd Embraces Scott Barefoot. From 2015

The Odd Couple - Richard Starr and Scott Barefoot
Their book will be turned into a Broadway musical -
"Once Upon a Mattress."
No wait, that title has already been taken.

WELS's Meditations, March-May 2014, for Monday, 17 March 2014.  The howler is in the second column which reads:  "No matter what you did yesterday -- or failed to do -- and no matter what you will do tomorrow, God has forgiven you."

Scott Barefoot and a delighted Jonathan Stern

Pastor Jon Stern (friend and classmate of my friend and book co-author Pastor Richard D. Starr) came to hear my presentation today. Enjoyed meeting him also!

Kudu Don Patterson, Scott Barefoot, and Dan Laitenen

Pastor Don Patterson (President of WELS' South Central District) and Pastor Dan Laitinen both of Holy Word, Austin TX with me prior to my talk there this afternoon. Enjoyed meeting everyone there today! They also had a great potluck meal while I was there.— at Holy Word Lutheran Church.

Ski, Scott Barefoot, and Ski's wife Janinne.

Pastor James "Ski" and Janinne Skorzewski with me at Christ the Rock (WELS) Round Rock, TX. They were kind enough to provide my transportation and lodging this weekend. It was great to see Ski again and meet the rest of the family! — at Christ the Rock.

Reviewing the August 8, 2016 Christian News Reading CN So You Don't Have To

Ralph Bohlmann is the only LCMS Synod President
to have a real PhD and be a life-long Missouri member.

I wrote the complete article on July 28, 2016
and most will not see it in CN until August 8th.
For fast results, read Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed

 This is an all-Lutheran sport.
Even those like Herman Otten join the sport.

This is another Bohlmann issue for Christian News, which backed his candidacy. Bohlmann was one of the remaining professors at Concordia St. Louis when most of them walked out and formed Seminex, the Seminex students gallantly and dramatically walking out with them, only to return for the next meal. Really!

This issue is more about Bohlmann's daughter, who married a woman and became a UCC minister working with the Unitarian-Universalists.

You know what is coming mext, don't you?

The LCMS, when it planted its flag in 1932, with the Brief Statement, also allied itself with the Universalists, claiming falsely that God declared the entire world righteous (justified) and simply listed some Biblical citations that revealed the opposite to anyone who could read.

David Becker, remarkably unqualified to write on Lutheran topics, has a lot of stuff on Bohlmann's daughter, which is rather odd, since Ralph was Synod President and a temporary ally of Herman Otten.

No one wants to talk about that matter at all. Or about Barry, Otten, and Paul McCain.

Or about Harrison, Otten, and Paul McCain. I blame Otten for promoting these bad Synod Presidents, though I appreciate Jack Preus - another temporary Otten friend - for moving Missouri away from apostate mainline Protestantism for a while.

Nor do they discuss the decline of the Missouri Synod, WELS, and ELS after they made the Brief Statement of 1932 their Holy of Holies, their Rosetta Stone for all doctrine, with the dogma of the Synodical Conference's sex criminal founder, Bishop Martin Stephan, STD, engraved on the hearts of the foolish, naive, and Biblically ignorant.

Forster's statement is demonstrably true,
so Walther was another opportunist,
another enable of Stephan's sex and money follies,
not the knight riding in on a white charger
to teach the Pure Doctrine.
Walther, loved, loved, loved, UOJ.

Report of the Twelve - From 2012

"Be it further resolved...
What do you mean, one of us went to state prison?
And the Director of Communications did what?"

Time of Grace
The convention last summer acknowledged that the situation with Time of Grace and its status as a “Recognized Service Organization” (RSO) of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) was a source of some concern and confusion. The convention encouraged Time of Grace in its ministry of gospel proclamation; at the same time it expressed support for the Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium in its continuing efforts to bring the matter to a God-pleasing resolution.

The Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium reported its progress to the COP in October 2011. On the basis of conversations with Time of Grace and the LCMS official in charge of RSOs, the Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium reported to the COP that it determined that the relationship was not a violation of fellowship principles, since the LCMS and Time of Grace understood the wording in the RSO definition to mean something different than the words say. It was the understanding of Time of Grace that the publicly stated requirements for an RSO to be in agreement with LCMS doctrine and practice and to commit to fostering the mission and ministry of the LCMS did not really mean what a WELS person would understand the words to mean, and that the LCMS was making no requirements of Time of Grace to alter its message to conform in any way to LCMS doctrinal positions.

"Guard and protect the rot we have passed down to you,
thou founder of Church and Change."

In spring 2012, the Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium, along with President Mark Schroeder, met with leaders of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod to clarify how the LCMS defines and understands the Recognized Service Organization status. The LCMS explained that the published guidelines defining the relationship are intended to be used by the LCMS in evaluating organizations for this status and that the guidelines do not require an organization to change its message or its program to comply. It was this understanding that led Time of Grace and the presidium of the Southeastern Wisconsin District to conclude that the RSO status did not represent a violation or compromise of biblical fellowship principles.

The LCMS officials also reported that they are currently in the process of reviewing the entire RSO program with the intention of developing new requirements and guidelines. From what was said, the new guidelines may include requirements that would make it no longer possible for a WELS organization to have RSO status. Once those requirements have been adopted, Time of Grace has indicated that it will evaluate what is being required and take the appropriate steps.

Patterson's outreach to gangs has yielded these recent converts.

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Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Wisconsin Lutheran College - Paul Kelm's Latest Ch...":

They would be more honest to maintain the mantra of their Synod Leader, Mark Jeske WELS/ELS/LCMS/ELCA, and refer to their group as Change Or Die.

Noticed that Jeff Gunn continues to teach (W)ELS sheep following his 2011 Youth Rally pied pipering:
Establishing a Vision for the Future, with Buy-In
Pastor Jeff Gunn of Cross Walk Church in Phoenix

As difficult as it may be to say, it's getting hard to think of (W)ELS leadership as crassly impotent and simply come away with the conclusion that they are intentionally enabling the New Age Emergent false teachers to lead their churches glibly into the Last Days.

Buckets of shame they heap upon themselves, from clergy worshiping with Baptists and Methodists, clergy learning evangelism from Satanic New Age motivational speakers, financing ELCA called worker abortions through Thrivent, financing the New World Order religion, the UN's United Religions Initiative (URI) through Thrivent, Change or Die seminars given by Synod cross dresser and (W)ELS Media celebrity Pastor Mark Jeske, unconditionally forgiven homosexual child pedophile (W)ELS Communications Director Hochmuth ...

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GJ - Hochmuth's name does not appear in the report. Remember how Schroeder and Otten went Medieval on me about the MLC gay video? Otten apologized to WELS for printing the truth. Soon after the Hochmuth scandal broke and page-reads doubled for a long, long time. The video continued to be posted on Facebook on its own page. Now it is gone, but replaced by two more copies posted by fans. Here is a message posted on that page:

A request from one of the originators of the video, and from all the guys in the video...I don't know who the administrator of this group is, or who created it, but it's time to get rid of this group, especially since the video is still posted on it. The video was removed from YouTube for a reason...because we didn't want the video open to public viewing. It puts those of us in the video in a bad light, and we don't want it posted anywhere, anymore. So please, if you are the administrator, or know who the administrator is, please remove this page and the video from Facebook. Thank you!

One comment below:
Hank Williams hmmm and when did that happen? After Hochmuth was arrested for distributing child porn? You should really think how your actions can lead others into sin ans stop hiding behind the 8th commandment. No one would have anything to say if you'd used your other head and thought through what the ramifications were goig to be. And BTW it doesn't just put you in a bad light - it harms MLC and WELS. No shortage of stupid here?! Right.

Response:
Troy Schreiner You're right, sir. It was a mistake. It doesn't make it an excuse that it was a dumb thing we did in college, and we didn't think it through. It was a poor decision, and we now regret it, which is why we've been working to get it taken off of every public venue since it first happened. We have repented and asked for forgiveness for what we did and haven't "hidden behind the 8th commandment" at all. It does put our school and our synod in a bad light....which I reiterate is why we're trying to get rid of it, so it isn't available for people to see anymore. As I said, we've apologized, we've repented, and we've been forgiven by our God and by those we've apologized to. Hope you can do the same, Mr. Williams.

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GJ - Obviously people made copies of the video and it will never go away. Martin Luther College is completely lacking in faculty supervision. The college students were angered that I posted objections to their gay plagiarism and they grudgingly said they would forgive me! The objections came from WELS members and several WELS pleas are still on that special FB page of theirs.

SP Schroeder's claim in Christian News that the video was taken down is ridiculous for anyone under nursing home age. The video was linked to many different gay websites, and the people they copied were flattered by the imitation.

The MLC guys should apologize for lying about not knowing the original was a gay video. That also seems to come from the locked ward of the nursing home. "Hey Maude, look at those Lutheran boys dancing around like girls."

One person on the FB page asked:

Anita Hardkak shared a link.

August 8, 2010

Did they steal your idea for this vid? It's remarkably similar. Also, it's odd that FIP is a gay retreat camp, isn't it?

Party in the FIP / Party in the USA / MUSIC VIDEO

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Music Video to Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" Filmed with my Flip Video mino HD

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Anita Hardkak or like a gay beach?

August 8, 2010 at 7:27pm · 

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Adolph Hoenecke has left a new comment on your post "Report of the Twelve Apostles, WELS. Glad They Wer...":

..."did not really mean what a WELS person would understand"... "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"-Bill Clinton. When did Bill Clinton become WELS?

Anticipating Fall - Preparation for 2017

Autumn Leaves - by Norma Boeckler.
They feed the soil creatures - for free.

Jessical Walliser wrote a column on the garden in autumn, which reminded me to mention a few ideas early. Some of us are already planning for next year.

The most important part of autumn is NOT cleaning up the garden. Everything should be left alone to let the beneficial insects over-winter in the debris. Hollow plant stems are good locations for wild bees and other insects. Some use the dead leaves for cover and warmth, too. When I used to have forests of sunflowers, I left all the stems intact for insects and birds. My mother wanted me to remove the mess. I said, "What will the birds perch on when the snow has fallen? They like to have an elevated place for safety and food spotting." She said, "I never thought of that."

Large annual plants like a sunflowers also have a large root system to rot into the ground over the winter. Rotting organic material is good for the soil, food for various creatures, and by creating a food magnet, also a good place for birds to harvest for their needs, in winter and early spring.

Apple Tree by Norma Boeckler.
Fruit trees increase their production when mulched with leaves all winter.

Autumn Leaves
We will finish the cardboard layer of three gardening areas before the leaves begin to fall:

1. Hosta Garden - formerly The Three Sisters, which the squirrels treated as their main food source.
2. The Bird Feeding and Butterfly Zone. Some see that as a contradiction, but we have bird feeders surrounded by Butterfly Bush with Bee Balms also planted. I want to subdue the weeds in-between
3. The Wild Garden, which could use a little less wild. I know tall grass is good for many beneficial insects, but cardboard and leaves will tame the area

The Hosta Garden is now covered and the cardboard weighed down so we do not share our cardboard with the neighborhood during windstorms. Today is another cardboard delivery, which will modify the bird and butterfly area. There the red Bee Balms spread like crazy and also went quite wobbly, surrounded by tall grass weeds. I decided to stick to purple BeeBalms called Monarda.

Cardboard is free, easy to lay, and blocks weed growth
very well. The covering of leaves and pine needles will make it
a giant feeding zone and also more attractive.

Cardboard Plus Leaves
Newspapers work well for the first layer of mulching, but they do not cover much and want to fly away rather than stay in place while laying them down.

Wood mulch looks great, but the cost adds up. In the backyard gardens we are using only leaves now. They also look good and mat down well for the winter. In the late spring they are decomposed into the ground by rain, earthworms, mites, and other soil creatures.

The extensive leaf layer serves three purposes:

1. The overwintering beneficial insects will burst into life in the spring and provide protection against pests, food for birds.
2. Leaves piled around roses will insulate them from the cold and drying winter winds.
3. The leaves and cardboard will become part of the soil over time and feed God's creatures. I see a pound of organic matter as a pound of organic fertilizer, whether the material is manure, grasses, weeds, leaves, cardboard, or newsprint.

Sharon Lovejoy says, "Let the birds eat the seeds
from the plants that bloomed" - like these coneflowers.