The Purpose of This Blog - Reformation Biblical Theology - From 2012

Pastor Gregory L. Jackson - Amazon Author Page.

Lutheran Resources - Posted on Ichabod

Melanchthon's Book of Concord Work

The Augsburg Confession, Book of Concord

Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Book of Concord

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Martin Luther

Luther - Sermons  - Lenker Edition

Luther - Small Catechism, Book of Concord

Luther - Large Catechism, Book of Concord

Luther - The Smalcald Articles, Book of Concord

Luther - Galatians Commentary, Recommended by the Formula of Concord

Luther - Preface to Romans - Also Called - Introduction to the Romans Commentary

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F. Bente's Historical Introductions

Complete Text of Bente's Historical Introductions in One File

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The Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration

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Martin Chemnitz Press Books - Free PDF downloads

Liberalism: Its Cause and Cure

Jesus Priceless Treasure

Angel Joy

The Story of Jesus in Pictures, In Color

Coloring Book - The Story of Jesus in Pictures

Luther versus the UOJ Pietists: Justification by Faith 

Jesus Lord of Creation 

The Wormhaven Gardening Book 

Thy Strong Word - English only edition 

Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant 

Discussion Guide for Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant

College Students - Tips for Success

Moline High School 1966 - The Class the Stars Fell On

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Purchase MCP printed books from Lulu.com here

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F. W. Stellhorn's family came across the Atlantic with the Bishop Stephan migration.
L. Fuerbringer mentions him as a Missouri Synod teacher in his memoirs.

From Bruce Church - The Error of Missouri and Lutheran Seminary Costs

Various Formats - The Error of Missouri


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H. Schmid - Doctrinal Theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

Text Version of Doctrinal Theology - Perfect for Copy and Paste

HTML Version of Doctrinal Theology - Webpage friendly

Another PDF of Doctrinal Theology

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This is a zipped folder of all the hymn texts from The Lutheran Hymnal - from the Wittenberg Project

Here are Lutheran Reformation hymn resources.

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Project Wittenberg - Texts about Luther and Other Lutherans

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Pastor Paul Rydecki is actively translating essential Lutheran materials.
Check out the link below.

Pastor Paul Rydecki's books and links to his stand on justification by faith are here.

Barron - What's In a Name?

Donald and Melania with their Barron.

Some were startled to learn that Trump's youngest son was named Barron, because it sounded like Baron at first, as if the parents giving away titles of nobility.

Not quite. The Hiltons, by J. Randy Taraborrelli, notes that Conrad Hilton's son Barron became friends with Donald Trump when Trump bought the Hilton hotel in Atlantic City. Subsequently, Trump named his last son after Barron Hilton.

But where does the Barron name come from? The family tree shows that Conrad's first wife was Mary Adelaide Barron.

 Roland Bainton was a liberal United Church of Christ minister,
but he believed in faithful research in the original documents.

Research
Research is like putting a vast jigsaw puzzle together. Large and small pieces have their place. Usually most of it cannot be put together, but if most of the parts are together, the overall picture makes sense.

Research means gathering random and conflicting information and theories, because errors and mistakes get published. Some people advance ideas that serve their interests.

One communications speaker told us about latent errors, such as when he told people that logs are left in water "to soak the rocks off." The audience looked at him with puzzled faces as he went on to say, "Sure, people throw rocks in the forest. Some stick to the trees and get into the bark. They have to be soaked off so the rocks don't hit the saws and break them." He slowly realized that a tall tale he heard as a child was lodged in his brain and came out just like that.

Unlike any other field, we have a clear, plain, final voice of the Truth in the Scriptures. No other original book has been so perfectly preserved and kept as written. Anyone can use a trustworthy translation and apply the revealed Word to the issue and resolve the problem in time.

Other textbooks are so obscure for the beginner that their information is hidden by the academic skills needed to interpret it. But the Bible has the Holy Spirit as its interpreter, so every sincere believer can be taught the meaning of the Word of God.

Assaults against the Gospel and the Scriptures will continue until the end of time, and now that includes manipulating and disfiguring the New Testament text itself. But that is only an effect of the Faith taking root, Satan's constant opposition to Christ, and Jesus being conveyed to us by the Word and Sacrament. The battle against the Kingdom of God will never have a truce until the end of time.

The Reign of Dishonesty, Secrecy, and Corruption

I have experienced the dishonesty, secrecy, and corruption of the Lutheran synods, which not only parallel secular politics but even foreshadow the same tactics.

Dishonesty, secrecy, and corruption go together. One signals the dominance of the other two. The WELS cannot admit to anything less than perfection and infallibility. To maintain the mirage, scandals are covered up and denied. I joked with an ELS pastor's wife about the WELS mission that went Pentecostal (Taiwan?). She scowled and rebuked me, "That is not supposed to be discussed."

When a denomination suffers from major crimes - such as murder, embezzlement, sex abuse, child porn - keeping it a secret is the same as protecting the worst criminals and motivating others. The Book of Concord, Large Catechism, Eighth Commandment, points out that identifying public criminal behavior is  not slander.

Luther's words:

284] All this has been said regarding secret sins. But where the sin is quite public so that the judge and everybody know it, you can without any sin avoid him and let him go, because he has brought himself into disgrace, and you may also publicly testify concerning him. For when a matter is public in the light of day, there can be no slandering or false judging or testifying; as, when we now reprove the Pope with his doctrine, which is publicly set forth in books and proclaimed in all the world. For where the sin is public, the reproof also must be public, that every one may learn to guard against it.

This also applies to teaching false doctrine, as the red section makes abundantly clear.

But what do we have today? Questioning the blatant false doctrine - almost verbatim from Fuller Seminary - is slander! I used to keep an Eighth Commandment file, with letters from Gerlach, Kelm, Berg, Nitz, Paul Kuske, Paul Tiefel, James Tiefel, et al.

Meanwhile, how do these consecrated and consecrating leaders deal with issues? They invent, promote, and magnify slander. No one wants to run into the buzz-saw, whether WELS, LCMS, ELS, or CLC (sic). They sew the canker shut, disguise it with make-up, and cannot find this false doctrine or know nothing of the criminal behavior.

What might be a healthy discussion and cleansing of the problem turns into an even bigger problem. The net result is also magnifying of evil and a hardening of hearts, so people say, "Larry Olson is not a problem. Everyone knows he's a heretic," or "Paul Kelm listens to confessionals." One pastor in WELS said, "I cannot disagree with the Circuit Pastor, because the Holy Spirit appointed him." Haha - I have a higher regard for the Trinity than that - I never viewed a tubby, lazy, alcoholic District President as the embodiment of the Holy Spirit.

Roman Catholics teach that the Holy Spirit does not allow the Pope to err in doctrine, so now we have Lutherans aping the papacy in this and other ways.

Run Up to the Election
I had to correct many friends before the election because of the external polls. The public polls were wrong and the exit polls were even worse. Why was that? Polling is a business. They get paid to promote statistical baloney to help their cause, knowing the faked results are lies.

The candidates pay big money for internal polls. Remember that term. The real, secretly viewed polls are closer to the truth. That is why Hillary canceled the fireworks days before the election. They had to apply for the permits weeks in advance to hold the NYC fireworks. They also had to give advance notice of halting them. Everyone was hailing a Clinton victory, and Newsweak (sic) put her on the cover. But Clinton's leaders knew she was doomed.

The media people are so dishonest that they believed the lying external polls and scoffed at anything dissenting from the accepted results. My favorite mockery of the facts was averaging the external polls. Let's say we have a classroom of math incompetents or adroit liars. If we average their results of 8 - 6 x 2 + 4.1, then we will have the correct answer? I do not think so.

God only works through the Word, so whatever happens from applying the Word is good, divinely willed, and bound to prosper God's mission. Tis time to start trusting God's Word rather than man's feeble efforts at manipulation.