Friday, October 1, 2021

ALPB Online Discussion Forum Author and Society of Holy Trinity Member (ELCA) - Child Trafficking Sentence

 

 ELCA Pastor Steve Tibbits had 10,000 posts on the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau's Online Forum when he was arrested. The Forum has not mentioned this - to my knowledge.



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Friday, October 1, 2021

ELCA Lutheran Pastor Sentenced for Distribution of Child Pornography

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. – Steven P. Tibbetts, 62, of Godfrey, Illinois, was sentenced to 87 months in  federal prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for knowingly distributing child  pornography in December 2019. The Court further ordered Tibbetts to pay $10,000 in restitution to victims who were depicted in some of the videos and photographs.

Court documents and evidence showed that Tibbetts began viewing and distributing child pornography starting in the 1990s and continued until his arrest in June 2020. Furthermore, while Tibbetts was on pre-trial release for the charged offense, an officer located additional devices in his home, which were later  found  to  contain  child  pornography.  The  instant  offense  involved  2,430  images  of  child pornography and 408 videos containing child pornography.

Tibbetts has served as a Lutheran pastor since 1992. At the time the complaint was filed, Tibbetts was employed as the head pastor at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Godfrey, Illinois. In imposing the sentence, the Court noted that “The defendant was living two lives of sorts.”

FBI   Springfield   Division   and   Macoupin   County   Sheriff’s   Department   investigated   the   case. Significant assistance was provided in the early stages of the investigation by the Peoria (Illinois) Police Department.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Christopher R. Hoell and Karelia S.Rajagopal.

 

 Pat Robertson, age 90, a graduate of Yale Law School and a graduate of the school LCMS DP David Benke attended, is stepping down as host of the 700 Club. Christina and I met Robertson in Midland and listened to him campaigning for President. The campaign prompted me to ask a question to help start discussions. 

I asked Pat Robertson about the concept of natural law, God commanding what is good for us. He jumped right into the topic and discussed it.

When I was looking for an online school offering an MA in writing or journalism, Robertson's Regent University was the best option.  The journalism classes were lame, but the literature and writing classes  were excellent. Our main teacher in those fields studied under an author who earned a Nobel Prize in writing - Isaac Singer. That teacher had me reading literature from all over and unread books in my personal library. I dropped out after earning the 20 hours of credit needed to teach writing.

 Robertson's son, Gorden, age 63, will bring youth and vigor to his new role as head of the 700 Club.

The English Language Ultimately Prevails. Lying Liars Do Not

 

 

I was going to start with apostasy, which is the only thing left for Lutheran synodical leaders to grasp. But no, I will let people read the WELS, LCMS, ELS, CLC, and ELDONUT periodicals for themselves. Everything is already in writing - easily discerned by what is deceitfully written and cleverly avoided.

For instance, I recall the statistics for ELCA in 1987 - 5.3 million members and 10,000 congregations. Yesterday I saw the official ELCA totals as 4 million members and 9,000 congregations. ELCA did not lose pastors, members and congregations - they drove them away with whips, tasers, poison gas, and insulting slanders. Overall they kept the property, the endowments, and the Irrevocable Charitable Trusts midwifed by Thrivent.



What the overly credentialed and under-educated leaders do not realized is the divine preservation of the Word of God. He did not give us the Sacred Scriptures and say, "Keep this up to date with societal trends and language shifts. He did fashion the Holy Spirit to  always work with the Word and never without the Word - only to spin 180 degrees around and say to us, "Do what you will."

The Scriptures have great power because they are preserved and precisely revealed. Therefore, the apostates - who have lost the Faith - must produce counterfeit, denatured Bibles glorified by various ever-weakening PR campaigns - "fresh, new, and exciting."

KJV 2 Thessalonians 2

8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.


Evil will be rebuked and quashed at the End. The inglorious band of scoundrels who deny the content of the Bible and then pass around the plate - they will be uncovered like the wiggling bugs beneath a rotting log. 

But in the meantime, the treasures of the Gospel will be valued that much more because of the contrast.

 

KJV Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

The Great Commission does not even come close to saying "Make disciples!" but the pickpockets of Church Growth rage against anyone who dares to question the making, because they are makers, and do not let the Holy Spirit teach through the Word.




 Lutheran Christina will soon be done.
Next - the second edition of The Bible BookZ: The KJV Reborn for Those Who Love the Word of God.