Books from the Lutheran Librarian, aka the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry, aka Alec Satin

Abraham Lincoln address by Watterson

Henry Watterson's address about Lincoln is the latest printed book from the Lutheran Librarian (print books) and also in the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry (free PDFs). This is only $3.95 printed.

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Compendium of Lutheran Theology

Schmauk and Krauth are my favorites in fighting for Luther's Biblical theology in their age of Calvinists pretending to be Lutherans - not only in the Missouri Synod but also in their counterparts from the General Synod split. 

The General Council rejected the revivalism and Calvinism of the General Synod.

Now we have the same thing in the new LCMS-ELS-WELS union, purring and drooling over Objective Justification, which is little different from ELCA's. But they are joined at the wallet anyway, with all their covert work through Thrivent's pro-abortion money machine.

Compendium of Lutheran Theology

Schmauk's work was the swan song of the General Council, a beautiful work before the successful work of his group and seminary led to the loosey goosey United Lutheran Church in America merger of 1918.

Enchanted Peace Rose - Looking Back at the Power of Creation by the Word

 Enchanted Peace is the new Peace offspring - more color, more blooms, more fragrance.
The original Peace has no fragrance except in the imagination.

Not even Thanksgiving, and Jackson/Perkins is "accepting orders for 2021 roses." That sounds like condescension to some, but it is the call to battle for others. Picture the baying hounds straining at their leashes, the horses' nostrils flared for the chase, the hunters arrayed in scarlet listening for the bugle call.

The Peace Rose was first sold at the end of World War II, and it remains wildly popular in its original state and its offspring. Double Delight is a Peace descendant I bought and planted in New Ulm, in a flower bed perfect for them. Six of them flowered in their own bed, protected and strengthened by garlic around them, plus a few hardy bulbs.

Buying early is a good idea, with free shipping offered until the normal rose season begins. Once that starts, shortages loom and procrastinators mourn the day they were born. 

 Double Delight is fragrant, unlike Peace, and even more colorful.

2020

Once again I was startled at the power of good soil. Joe Pye grew as ferociously as Buckwheat did, but to 9 foot heights and leaf fronds spreading far out to shade any competition. Once they were done blooming, I cut them and the Bee Balms back to the soil and piled the greens at the base of the maple tree. 

Veterans Honor stuns the people who walk by, 
and some take walks just to see the progress of the garden.
Long-lasting, perfect in form, and fragrant.

Liberated, the Veterans Honor roses began blooming here and there, the blooms a bit too heavy for the branches. No one objected. I have three Veterans Honor roses ready to show off on Sunday, plus one little Take It Easy in a bud vase.

Take It Easy must be what the rose thought when I watched the bee dive in for food, disappearing while rummaging around the bud. 

The altar guild and I thought the rose season was done during the drought. But then we had four days of slow and drenching rain. Sassy became very concerned about her ability to go outside without being soaked. We used her emergency drill of going across the sheltered front porch, slipping into the garden, and creeping back with a dry towel waiting for her.

That stretch of rain brought the Joe Pye roaring out of the ground. OK, soundless, but really vigorous and ready to take over again. Their deep roots took the rainwater down, and the soaked soil turned the usable nitrogen into stalk and leaf power.

Man has played with the DNA of plants, but nothing can equal the power of God's Creation through the Word. 

Missionary Palangyos sends me messages, "More power."

I respond, "More Word."

Nothing happens apart from the Word, so we emphasize the source of power, which has been and will always be the Holy Spirit at work in the Word.

The overpaid and underworked church experts of today remind of people who write books without knowing the Creation. "If you have clay soil, add sand."  That was exactly wrong. The way to lighten clay is to leave organic material on top and let the soil creatures - earthworms, slugs, bugs in general - pull the matter into the soil. 

We dumped leaves in the middle part of the rose garden, shaded so lacking in roses. In the spring, walking across that area was like walking on a waterbed. The soil can get like pudding with enough rain and humus (leaves, manure, dead plants) in it. 

So what will be more productive, following the logical idea of the expert, who probably read it somewhere - or following Creation.

When Will the Synod Leaders Be Accountable?

Why are they still in office?

What do they have in common, besides holding their trotters out for more insurance money? 

1. All four agree about universal absolution apart from the Gospel Word. Objective Justification.
2. All four loathe Luther and his Biblical doctrine. They falsely portray their Universalism as the Chief Article of Christianity. No, OJ taint the Chief Article, boys and girls.
3. All four worship and study together at Fuller Seminary, Willow Creek, and Andy Stanley's manly convocations.
4. All four have new hymnals, "aimed at the young," but driving everyone away.
5. All four are shrinking faster than Joe Biden's short term memory.

The bishops control the divine call and funding, so they control convention delegates and the vote. 

Once upon a time I had the owner's manual for being an LCA bishop in my hands, in the dusty archives of the LSTC library. One sentence stood out, aimed at new bishops - "Be a hammer, not an anvil." 

Yes, those genius management methods have brought the mainline denominations into death's dark shadows. And good riddance. The Wuhan Flu gave ministers permission to do even less work, so they played video games instead of reading the First Amendment. Freedom  of worship cannot be canceled by governors, health directors, or any other force.

Amendment I. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Mealy-mouthed ministers had a great chance to do nothing - and they took it. They subjugated themselves to the secular powers undermining the free exercise of religion.

WELS loyalist Father Steve Spencer often said, "The only way to fix WELS is to completely tear it down." That is why he worked with classmate Mark Schroeder to identify dissenters in WELS and stab them in the back. 

The last laugh is on them, as they look upon the devastation they have caused, instead of trusting the Word.

Just as the case with higher education, church people are going to look around and say, "Why do we need all these expensive buildings when so little happens inside and so much can be done online?"

• Most congregations do next to nothing with actual outreach (blog, newsletter, saved online worship and classes).
• Many ministers are happy to use the work of others and save themselves time.
• WELS leaders have been known to use the same "devotions," so someone going to two different meetings with two different synodocats would hear the same "devotion" verbatim, many with strong DNA strands of Fuller.

Lemme see - ELCA, women's ordination, LCMS, WELS, and Thrivent - the glories of fellowship together! We are standing on cusp of the Promised Land, the New Age.

Psalm 133 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;