Monday, November 26, 2018

Learning To Love

Also the author of The Blessings of Cheerfulness


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James Russell Miller writes in this little book:
The problem of Christian living is to keep love in the heart, year after year, even though bearing wrong and injustice continually. That was the way Jesus did. His enemies reviled him, denied him, mocked him, betrayed him, but he loved on and never grew bitter. His heart was as gentle at the last as it was at the beginning. No matter how men hurt him, the wound healed itself instantly. That is the problem of love with us. “Love endureth all things,” “never faileth.” “For fifteen years,” one said, “I have had to bear daily outbursts of anger, with abusive words and unkind accusations, in my home; must I go on keeping sweet just as if I received only sweetness?” Well, that was Christ’s way. That is what love means…
This is a most delicate test of life. Of whom do we think first in deciding that we will, or will not do a certain thing — of ourselves or of others? Love does not ask, “What is in it for me? Will it benefit me? Will it bring me gain? Will it make me happy?” Instead of this, it asks, “Will this be a blessing to others? Will it impart happiness to them? Will it give comfort and enrichment of life?” “Love seeketh not its own.”

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The Purpose of Ichabod




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 Nothing is more pleasing to WELS than letting the flowers bloom so the heads can be cut off. Apologies to Mao for borrowing his idea. The Trepid Lutherans met only once.
Issues in WELS scattered too. But the Jeske Crime Family grows oncologicially.


I am gratified to see so much interest in reading this blog. Many people participate, and I welcome their thoughts. They vastly expand what I can do alone. I especially like laity sharing their research and views, because they speak most directly to the audience.

The purpose of this blog is not force people to agree with me - as if I could. I laugh at the publications that quarantine anything that is not their dogma - LutherQueasy, Christian News, Dead Last Lutherans, etc. I am 99.9% banned on all three, which is pretty funny. One refutes by quoting, not by shunning. When the timid shun someone, they only make the contraband more interesting.

I was told that at one WELS convention, everyone's laptop had Ichabod showing on the screen.

There are the frenz too. I write frenz because they are not friends, but they easily fall into a frenzy if someone thinks they are. Examples include the Not-So-Intrepid Lutherans, who scattered once they found out on their own that Justification by Faith really is the Chief Article and that UOJ came from Pietism. Three of them joined the ELDONUTs and the Cone of Silence was lowered.

 Never underestimate the synod's Inner Gollum. He is always restless to complete his work, to pursue the Ring of Power. The Watherian Matt the Fatt gave Weedon a call to the Purple Palace, to spread Romanism at the top. WWWW - Why Would Walther Worry? - he was a pope too.


The purpose of Ichabod is simply to provide as much research as possible so people can investigate and think on their own. 
The Lutheran sects are so controlled and controlling that no light enters their discussions. They are like little boys playing starship in a crowded clothes closet. Mythologies are used to energize their disastrous plans:

  • WELS was born orthodox - Mirthless Mark Schroeder.
  • Walther established Lutheran orthodoxy in America - Matt the Fatt. "I did not sing the Ballad of Herman Otten."
  • The Little Sect on the Prairie is the best! - Pope John the Malefactor. "Ask about our instant Left Boot of Fellowship."

 When the Little Sect on the Prairie fades away, who will buy the frozen food college? Will they build a monument to the first Mrs. Schwan and name a building after her?

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