Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Gospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry – "Faithful to the Reformation"





Gospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry – "Faithful to the Reformation": "

“This little volume of sermons has been prepared in response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit. With some slight discrimination, they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses.

About Rev. John Edwin Whitteker
John Edwin Whitteker was born April 21, 1851, in North Williamsburg, Ontario. At the age of fourteen years he left home to complete his education by his own efforts, and after passing through the grammar school of Morrisburg, Ontario, spent three years in public school work, and then entered Thiel College, at Greenville, Pa., in the autumn of 1871. In 1875 he was graduated from Thiel, taking the second honor in his class, which carried with it his appointment as valedictorian. In 1874, while a student at Thiel, he became the second tutor in that college, and, immediately after his graduation, was made first tutor. Meanwhile he began the study of theology under the direction of the president of the college, following the course laid out by the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. In May, 1877, he was ordained, and continued work in the college until 1888, having meantime been promoted to the position of Adjunct Professor of Latin, and later to the chair of Latin Professor."



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New York Times CEO: Print journalism has maybe another 10 years

 One can only surf the Net for news before naptime
demands its payment in full.




New York Times CEO: Print journalism has maybe another 10 years:



" New York Times CEO: There will be many times more digital subscribers than print 

The newspaper printing presses may have another decade of life in them, New York Times CEO Mark Thompson told CNBC on Monday.

"I believe at least 10 years is what we can see in the U.S. for our print products," Thompson said on "Power Lunch." He said he'd like to have the print edition "survive and thrive as long as it can," but admitted it might face an expiration date."

 It's noon. The synod staff-members are waking
from their meetings the day before.


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Why the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry and Not the Walther Crop-Dusters?



I really admire what the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry is accomplishing. That is more of a division of labor enterprise (non-profit).

ELCA has abandoned its best authors, who remain forgotten in the largest nominal Lutheran synod.

The other nominal Lutheran synods have done the same, picking the bloated false-teaching David Kuske catechism over Gausewitz' concise and Biblical edition.

Some neglected authors are from the General Council, which loose from the General Synod, and various ethnic synods.

Bodensieck was a liberal, but his three-volume Lutheran Encyclopedia is far better and more useful than what the publishing houses are producing today.
 Notice Walther looking up from his smart-phone.
I think someone updated the shrine.


In contrast, Walther was a crop-duster, who had to be the papal authority on everything Lutheran everything in his own group. He established a terrible precedent, borrowed from his Bishop Stephan, that they had the only Gospel, the only authors.

Walther could not tolerate anyone questioning his Halle Pietism, so he rigged the election of his predecessor and got a newly ordained disciple, Francis Pieper, instead of a seasoned veteran who might question the infallible CFW.

Look at how that is reproduced today. ELDONUTs take on the same, wrong-headed, snooty approach in obedience to their bishop, who like Stephan, raised himself to that office and restricted the Gospel to his group.

The pin-headed narrow-mindedness of the ELS-LCMS-WELS varies a bit in content but not in scope.

Even the LCMS seminaries play the game. Ft. Wayne is perfect, St. Louis is "the other one." Mequon is heaven on earth - Bethany is wobbly. And so on.