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| Joe Pye feeds hordes of beneficial insects and butterflies. |
We had a rocking storm last night, with howling winds and drenching rains. My first thought was to check on the Fever Few during the morning walk. That plant is still green and growing, after several hard frosts and subsequent thaws. The mints are dormant. Most plants look dead, as if to say, "Wake me when it is spring."
The plants (and animals) follow the schedule built into them by the Creating Word. "All things were created by Him; nothing was made apart from Him." John 1:3 They thrive outside of their favorite zones for sunlight, soil, rain, and temperature. They burst into productivity when everything is just right for them. Some cannot exist apart from their natural - that is, Creation designed - habitat.
Joe Pye loves wet, poorly drained soil, as if the Creator said,
"We (the Holy Trinity) need a large and hardy plant full of nectar for butterflies, bees, and beneficial insects, for those places where nothing wants to grow. Let it be perennial with deep roots to loosen and improve the soil, to feed the fungi carbon in exchange for nutrition and water. And let the flowers and plant give off fragrances that attract the flying insects, so they know from a distance that shelter and food are near."
A Joe Pye in the right place, with plenty of water, will grow to seven feet and produce enormous complex flower clusters that regrow after the nectar stage is over. One could write a dissertation on the positive effects of one plant, and yet they are easy to grow.
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| Rev. Jack Schaap cheated on Rev. Jack Hyles' daughter, with a young girl. Schaap is in prison and his wife has divorced him. WELS made a guy like Schaap a Church Growth Consultant and Webber's ELS named a church in the Ukraine after his. |
How Do Abusive Sects Treat People? Sad Tale
WELS needs schools to train students to be WELSish, to assume that WELS is always perfect, no matter how bad their doctrine and behavior is. Why are WELS schools abusive, and why does Mordor in Mequon promote vicious hazing (secret) rites? They produce the results they want, total conformity, especially among those who claim to hate the abuse.
They rejoice in driving people away and then criticize those who leave for shaking the dust off their feet.
Their favorite response to abuse is "Nothing happened." Correction - "NOTHING HAPPENED!" The only people in positions of authority are those who will go along with everything, even covering up murder and worse felonies." They are the Nuffin Gang. "I know nuffin. I was there and saw and herd nuffin. I remember nuffin. I didn't do nuffin."
WELS rejects the Gospel as central to the Means of Grace - Justification by Faith. Like the Calvinists, the WELSians have their own little story, but it is like the artificial food on display at cafeterias. The ice cream under the plastic dome is a bowl of shortening. Mmmmm. The whipped cream is actually shaving cream - it holds up better. Save some for me. The pie is plastic. No thanks.
Why would anyone be attracted to and grow from WELS abuse and fakery? The answer is - the sect is melting down after all their loud efforts "to grow."
Some plants and animals will survive in extreme conditions, like a desert or a salt lake, but the numbers are few.
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| Cardinal Tobin said he tweeted his sister. |
Various Tests for WELS Leaders and Teachers
- Try to teach faith. The hatred unleashed is remarkable.
- Mention Ichabod and listen to the tirade.
- Ask their definition of the Chief Article.
- Does the seminary still have GA or is it HB now? Why are seminarians injured during a secret ritual to "make everyone closer"?
- What happened in the mattress room?
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| WELS-LCMS-ELS: they love Rick Warren, Hybels, Groeschel, Andy Stanley, and many other cult leaders - but abhor Luther. |
