Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Picking Up LCMS Background Chatter

 Now the 1932 Brief Statement is the bludgeon that judges
and condemns Justification by Faith.
Remember that ship? - Concordia

Our seminarian asked for some background from the quotation I copied. I do not follow pastors in the LCMS enough to keep track of them. I know there is an "ultra-orthodox" group within Missouri, which means they adore Walther. 

Lutherquest.org and alpb.org will provide a lot of opinions on the upcoming SP election in 2019.

I found the current LQ post interesting on New Seminex at Concordia, St. Louis and doubtless Ft. Wayne: denial of the traditional text (Kloha in the lead), Voelz denying the ending of Mark. The St. Louis faculty denies the six-day Creation. 

I was reading Gems today, did not get far at the radiation clinic. But an early quote was that reason cannot comprehend the Trinity. If it could, the Scriptures would be unnecessary. Apply that to Creation. When the faculty sides with the evolution party of science, we can see what they think of the Bible as revelation. 

Now the radiation staff, doctor and nurses, want copies of Gems. Ordered.

Rolf Preus does not think WAM II would have defeated Uncle Jack as SP. No, not after the Preus brothers and Otten destroyed WAM II because he taught Justification by Faith - like his father - Dr. Walter A. Maier, who invented radio ministry, teaching JBF and Biblical inerrancy.



The LutherQueasies (Webber and Rolf Preus, OJists who hate each other - don't they all?) keep yakking about ministry. But the Chief Article condemns their chatter because Justification by Faith judges all articles.

LCMS began its death spiral when the radical Left made Objective Justification canon law, a convention stipulation in 1932 that ushered in evolution, textual abandonment, rationalism, Romanism, Pentecostalism, and Church Growth.

Harrison, McCain, and the LCMS windbags made OJ official with their dogmatics text and their gigantic Small Catechism.

 Otten's political tabloid opened all the doors to apostasy,
fanning the sparks of OJ to a blaze.


Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - Updates


New Books | End of the Year Round Up | Upcoming in 2019

What’s happening with the Lutheran Library?

Website

You should notice faster loading times for the website. The cover images have been reduced in size, and other changes have been made to make it easier to browse whether you are using a computer or some other device.
If you are on a cellphone or in an otherwise low-bandwidth situation, you can always access the text-only authors page or the text-only catalog. Both are listed at the top of the menu on the upper left side of the page. These may be handy if you are out and about and want to recommend a book to a friend.

Six Dozen Books!

There are now 72 Lutheran Library titles available. These cover the range of Christian books including daily and weekly devotionals, sermons, Q and A and catechismal materials, biographies, etc. Both “milk” and “meat”. But even the theological titles have been carefully chosen to be both orthodox and readable.

Format Updates

All ebooks have been updated with new formatting. Feel free to re-download your PDF files or request updated versions of EPUB or Kindle MOBI files.
What’s changed? The embedded images in the books will display better on e-readers. There have also been improvements made to the line spacing and typefaces.

Novels and Christian Fiction

While books like The Shack have given “Christian Fiction” a bad name, there are well-written novels in the genre which glorify the One True God and can encourage faith. An author of such books who deserves to be better known is the Rev. Joseph Hocking.
Joseph Hocking was a faithful Nonconformist minister in Wales who had nearly 100 books published in his lifetime. Over the next year, the Lutheran Library plans to release many of these in ebook editions.

Church Schools and Seminaries

All of the books put out by the Lutheran Library may be freely shared and copied. If you know of or are affiliated with a Church School or Seminary, consider using LutheranLibrary.org materials which may be translated into other languages and/or printed without incurring extra charges or dues for rights.
May the Lord bless the next generation with faithful teachers and good material.

Upcoming in 2019

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Upcoming Lutheran Library Covers
Some of the books to be released in the next year include the following:
  • The Life of Charles Porterfield Krauth, by A. Spaeth
  • Life and Times of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg by W. Mann
  • The Planting of the Lutheran Church in America (also known as The Halle Reports)
  • Morning Exercises by Rev. William Jay
  • The Child’s Book by Emanuel Greenwald
  • Weapons of Mystery by Joseph Hocking
And more!

A Personal Note

My heart breaks for the younger generations, who in many cases don’t even realize they are starving for truth, or even believe that it exists or can be known.
A major hope for starting the Lutheran Library has been to find and make available Biblically sound, readable books from a time when the American Lutheran Church was in a better place (the late 1800’s to early 1900’s).
Please pray that these books may encourage some to understand and believe the gospel, and more than that, to know why the Lutheran Confessions are an accurate and trustworthy explanation of the teaching of Scripture.
In searching out these books, it has been quite a revelation to me to discover that a large part of the conservative Lutheran tradition was apart from the Synodical Conference. Simon Peter Long, Theodore Schmauk, Emanuel Greenwald, Henry Eyster Jacobs, Charles Krauth, and Matthias Loy are all my friends and brothers now through their writings. Nothing would make me happier than for them to be as well-known and appreciated as they were not so many years ago.
My own history is a story for another time. In brief, like Lehmanovsky, Lichtenstein, and Einspruch (titles by each available in Lutheran Library), I am a “branch grafted back in”. By God’s grace I heard and believed the Gospel as a teenager. After college I attended seminary for a time, but family difficulties made it impossible for me to continue. Eventually I fell into so-called “spiritual but not religious” (really pagan) practices for about 20 years. One day I saw my Bible on the shelf, took it down and by God’s grace remembered my faith. Now a much humbler man, I depend only on His goodness through Jesus Christ as the sole means by which I have any hope for eternal life.
To God be the glory, great things He hath done. Amen
Merry Christmas from the Lutheran Library.

The Lutheran Library
The goal of the Lutheran Library is to re-release well-written and readable books from sound, faithful American Lutherans of the past for the enjoyment and edification of a new generation. All books are available at lutheranlibrary.org for free download in a variety of formats for Kindle, Apple, and other devices.
Your help is appreciated in spreading the word as often and in as many ways as you feel is appropriate.
May God bless you and keep you, help you, defend you, and lead you to know the depth of His love. Amen
2018-12-17