Former Arkansas Sen. Jon Woods, Ecclesia College president accused of fraud in federal indictment

 John Woods is on the left, and Oren Paris, president of Ecclesia College, on the far right.

Former Arkansas Sen. Jon Woods, Ecclesia College president accused of fraud in federal indictment: "

Another $100,000 from the fund to Ecclesia came through the West Central Arkansas Planning and Development District in Hot Springs. The only documents from legislators provided by that district in support of the grants came from Woods.

Paris and Shelton were named in a federal subpoena issued to the development district Oct. 23, 2015,

Paris has declined to comment. He hasn’t responded to four messages, an in-person request at the college nor an email. A Facebook post attributed to him says he can “assure you that neither I nor anyone associated with Ecclesia College has ever participated or engaged in any activity to provide money to Mr. Neal or any other legislator in exchange for the receipt of those funds.”

He also stated “every effort was made to comply with every aspect of the law as we understood it.”

The General Improvement Fund is made up of unallocated state tax money at the end of each fiscal year and interest earned on state deposits. Each legislator is given a share and can earmark where he or she wants it to go as long as it goes to a nonprofit group or government entity. The money is administered through one of the state’s eight economic development districts.

Arkansas legislators gave nearly $700,000 of taxpayers’ money to help Ecclesia College buy almost 50 acres although it already owned more than 200 acres, according to state and county records.


The private Christian college in Springdale used state improvement fund grants to help buy two proprieties in 2013, both for well over their county-appraised value, Benton County records show.

Ecclesia said in its grant applications it needed the land for student housing to accommodate rapid growth in its fall 2013 and fall 2014 enrollments, but the Springdale building department shows no new buildings or structural renovation have occurred on the properties.

Several of the current and former legislators who directed money to Ecclesia said they did so because they support the college's mission.

Ecclesia College is a work-learning college, which allows students to earn money toward tuition and graduate with much less debt than the average university student, according to the school website. It offers three associate of arts degrees, 12 bachelor degrees and one graduate degree. The school was founded in 1975."



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Eighth New Testament Greek Lesson. John 1:41-49

 They made up their own rules for text criticism,
which undermined the traditional NT texts.

John 1:41 ευρισκει ουτος πρωτος τον αδελφον τον ιδιον σιμωνα και λεγει αυτω ευρηκαμεν τον μεσσιαν ο εστιν μεθερμηνευομενον ο χριστος

42 και ηγαγεν αυτον προς τον ιησουν εμβλεψας δε αυτω ο ιησους ειπεν συ ει σιμων ο υιος ιωνα συ κληθηση κηφας ο ερμηνευεται πετρος

43 τη επαυριον ηθελησεν ο ιησους εξελθειν εις την γαλιλαιαν και ευρισκει φιλιππον και λεγει αυτω ακολουθει μοι

44 ην δε ο φιλιππος απο βηθσαιδα εκ της πολεως ανδρεου και πετρου

45 ευρισκει φιλιππος τον ναθαναηλ και λεγει αυτω ον εγραψεν μωσης εν τω νομω και οι προφηται ευρηκαμεν ιησουν τον υιον του ιωσηφ τον απο ναζαρετ

46 και ειπεν αυτω ναθαναηλ εκ ναζαρετ δυναται τι αγαθον ειναι λεγει αυτω φιλιππος ερχου και ιδε

47 ειδεν ο ιησους τον ναθαναηλ ερχομενον προς αυτον και λεγει περι αυτου ιδε αληθως ισραηλιτης εν ω δολος ουκ εστιν

48 λεγει αυτω ναθαναηλ ποθεν με γινωσκεις? απεκριθη ο ιησους και ειπεν αυτω - προ του σε φιλιππον φωνησαι - οντα υπο την συκην ειδον σε 

49 απεκριθη ναθαναηλ και λεγει αυτω ραββι συ ει ο υιος του θεου συ ει ο βασιλευς του ισραηλ

Landslide of Lutherans into the Catholic Church | Defenders of the Catholic Faith | Hosted by Stephen K. Ray

 Holy Father Otten would rather promote
The Facts about Luther Dreck
and Randy Engels' Roman Catholic books
than Catholic, Lutheran, Protestant.

Landslide of Lutherans into the Catholic Church | Defenders of the Catholic Faith | Hosted by Stephen K. Ray:

"Landslide of Lutherans into the Catholic Church
by STEVE RAY on JUNE 12, 2012
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Article in National Catholic Register, by my friend Tim Drake

One of the most under-reported religious stories of the past decade has been the movement of Lutherans across the Tiber.

What first began with prominent Lutherans, such as Richard John Neuhaus (1990) and Robert Wilken (1994), coming into the Catholic Church, has become more of a landslide that could culminate in a larger body of Lutherans coming into the collectively.

(GJ - I wrote to Neuhaus a number of times and met him at Ad Fontes.
Robert Wilken was an unloved faculty member at Notre Dame. I didn't have him as a teacher, fortunately. One of Neuhaus' books was dedicated to "Robert Wilken, by the Sea of Galilee".)

Neuhaus, RIP, is another product of Concordia St. Louis.
He reminds me of Ed Preuss, who taught there,
was wildly UOJ, and joined the Roman Catholic Church,
becoming a noted scholar and editor for them.
He joked that I would not take communion with ELCA
at the Ad Fontes conference.
I said, "You are Ad Fontes. We are Fontes."

In 2000, former Canadian Lutheran Bishop Joseph Jacobson came into the Church, eh.

“No other Church really can duplicate what Jesus gave,” Jacobson told the Western Catholic Reporter in 2006.

In 2003, Leonard Klein, a prominent Lutheran and the former editor of Lutheran Forum and Forum Letter came into the Church. Today, both Jacobson and Klein are Catholic priests.

(I met Leonard Klein and his wife at the Ad Fontes conference.)

Over the past several years, an increasing number of Lutheran theologians have joined the Church’s ranks, some of whom now teach at Catholic colleges and universities. They include, but are not limited to: Paul Quist (2005), Richard Ballard (2006), Paul Abbe (2006), Thomas McMichael, Mickey Mattox, David Fagerberg, Bruce Marshall, Reinhard Hutter, Philip Max Johnson, and most recently, Dr. Michael Root (2010).

“The Lutheran church has been my intellectual and spiritual home for forty years,” wrote Dr. Root. “But we are not masters of our convictions. A risk of ecumenical study is that one will come to find another tradition compelling in a way that leads to a deep change in mind and heart. Over the last year or so, it has become clear to me, not without struggle, that I have become a Catholic in my mind and heart in ways that no longer permit me to present myself as a Lutheran theologian with honesty and integrity. This move is less a matter of decision than of discernment.”

It’s been said that “no one converts alone,” suggesting that oftentimes the effect of one conversion helps to move another along a similar path. That’s exemplified through Paul Quist’s story. He describes attending the Lutheran “A Call to Faithfulness” conference at St. Olaf College in June, 1990. There, he listened to, and met, Richard John Neuhaus, who would announce his own conversion just months later.

(Neuhause spoke to potential converts at Ft. Wayne too.)

“What some Lutherans were realizing was that, without the moorings of the Church’s Magisterium, Lutheranism would ineluctably drift from it’s (sic) confessional and biblical source,” wrote Quist.

Many of the converts have come from The Society of the Holy Trinity, a pan-Lutheran ministerium organized in 1997 to work for the confessional and spiritual renewal of Lutheran churches.

(Color me shocked.)

Now, it appears that a larger Lutheran body will be joining the Church. Father Christopher Phillips, writing at the Anglo-Catholic blog, reports that the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church (ALCC) clergy and parishes will be entering into the U.S. ordinariate being created for those Anglicans desiring to enter the Church.

(Don't let the door hit you in the incense pot on the way out.)

According to the blog, the ALCC sent a letter to Walter Cardinal Kasper, on May 13, 2009, stating that it “desires to undo the mistakes of Father Martin Luther, and return to the One, Holy, and True Catholic Church established by our Lord Jesus Christ through the Blessed Saint Peter.” That letter was sent to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Surprisingly, in October 2010, the ALCC received a letter from the secretary of the CDF, informing them that Archbishop Donald Wuerl had been appointed as an episcopal delegate to assist with the implementation of Angelicanorum coetibus. The ALCC responded that they would like to be included as part of the reunification.

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/tim-drake/the-lutheran-landslide#ixzz1wg1wV9tx"

McCain is one of the UOJ popes
who drool about Roman Catholicism.
He and Pope Otten were a team in getting
Barry elected Synod President - through guile and dishonesty.

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Dr. Luther and His Biblical Doctrine - Hardly Read, Seldom Acknowledged. LCMS-WELS-ELS No Better Than ELCA

5] 3. In the third place, since in these last times God, out of especial grace, has brought the truth of His Word to light again from the darkness of the Papacy through the faithful service of the precious man of God, Dr. Luther, and since this doctrine has been collected from, and according to, God's Word into the articles and chapters of the Augsburg Confession against the corruptions of the Papacy and also of other sects, we confess also the First, Unaltered Augsburg Confession as our symbol for this time, not because it was composed by our theologians, but because it has been taken from God's Word and is founded firmly and well therein, precisely in the form in which it was committed to writing, in the year 1530, and presented to the Emperor Charles V at Augsburg by some Christian Electors, Princes, and Estates of the Roman Empire as a common confession of the reformed churches, whereby our reformed churches are distinguished from the Papists and other repudiated and condemned sects and heresies, after the custom and usage of the early Church, whereby succeeding councils, Christian bishops and teachers appealed to the Nicene Creed, and confessed it [publicly declared that they embraced it].

The Comprehensive Summary, Foundation, Rule and Norm,
Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration, Book of Concord

Concordists - "It is our purpose, neither in this nor in any other writing, to recede in the least from that oft-cited (Augsburg) Confession, nor to propose another or new confession."

4] To this Christian [pious] Augsburg Confession, so thoroughly grounded in God's Word, we herewith pledge ourselves again [publicly and solemnly] from our inmost hearts; we abide by its simple, clear, and unadulterated meaning as the words convey it, and regard the said Confession as a pure Christian symbol, with which at the present time true Christians ought to be found next to [which pious hearts ought to receive next to the matchless authority of] God's Word; just as in former times concerning certain great controversies that had arisen in the Church of God, symbols and confessions were proposed, to which the pure teachers and hearers at that time pledged themselves with heart and mouth.

5] We intend also, by the grace of the Almighty, faithfully to abide until our end by [the doctrine of] this Christian Confession, mentioned several times, as it was delivered in the year 1530 to the Emperor Charles V; and it is our purpose, neither in this nor in any other writing, to recede in the least from that oft-cited Confession, nor to propose another or new confession.

Cascione, Otten, Webber, Bivens, Rolf Preus, Buchholz - All Have Repudiated the Book of Concord, the Formula of Concord, and Luther's Galatians Lectures . Will They Repent During This Season of Lent?

66] These and like errors, one and all, we unanimously reject as contrary to the clear Word of God, and by God's grace abide firmly and constantly in the doctrine of the righteousness of faith before God, as it is embodied, expounded, and proved from God's Word in the Augsburg Confession, and the Apology issued after it.

67] Concerning what is needful furthermore for the proper explanation of this profound and chief article of justification before God, upon which depends the salvation of our souls, we direct, and for the sake of brevity herewith refer, every one to Dr. Luther's beautiful and glorious exposition of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians.

Formula of Concord, Article III, The Righteousness of Faith. Book of Concord.