We Are Set Up for the Internet Broadcast Tomorrow at 10 AM Central Daylight Time

 

The Internet throws every indignity at a user. The software we used from the beginning became obsolete.

When I was trying to set up the laptop for the wedding in Seattle, Sassy was so sick we thought it might be over for her. She is 90% back now, very much helped by her resident nurse Dottie and the right meds. I have had short-term vertigo - rarely, but I never had a spell lasting more than a few hours.

IBM told me I took too long to log in tonight, so I had to phone to get on their site. Luckily, they are 24/7 for the help desk.

I spent an inordinate amount of time dealing with the former email program (which uses Gmail, so no change of address for me). I won't have the old email address list, but I can conjure up most of it from what the new one saved.

As you know, the bank and IBM and everything else depends on phones and email to protect our/their accounts. I could not get into IBM without my email address being live and standing at attention.

Now the long, dark tea-time of the soul is over, and the broadcast will be saved at the same location, converted for YouTube, etc. 

The genteel apostates at ALPB Online Forum are moaning about the loss of parishes and ministers but never mention the Means of Grace or the efficacy of the Word. America has largely avoided using free Internet services for their worship. Even with Covid, the response was threadbare. 

We had 12,918 views today on Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed.

The LCMS-WELS Continue To Deceive Members about the Chief Article of Christianity - And the Bible. But They Started with Luther's Doctrine and Luther's English Bible - The KJV

 

 Lying and Objective Justification go together like WELS, liquor, and adultery.
And cross-dressing. Sig, as we called him, was the WELS Walther. Gausewitz was not just a WELS leader but also the president of the Synodical (LCMS-WELS-ELS) Conference. His original catechism is scarcer than hen's teeth.

Publishing proves that the LCMS and WELS switched 

• from teaching Justification by Faith and using the KJV 
• to advocating Objective Justification and denouncing the King James Version.

The early LCMS had the Schwan catechism - from a man whose education did not come from the in-bred swamps of Concordia St. Louis and Concordia Ft. Wayne. In fact, the last time I looked, Concordia Publishing House was boasting that its KJV catechism had sold over 2,000,000 copies! 

The Wisconsin sect was even more obvious. They published their Gausewitz catechism in English and German with nary a word about Objective Justification, and WELS kept adding to it until they could dump it for the Kuske monograph.

The Kokomo Theses blew up all over WELS and Missouri because the switch to Objective Justification and the NIV had been made stealthily, cautiously, deceptively, piously. The people who were filling Christian News with their outrage were raised on Justification by Faith and the KJV.

 It is time to make your decision for OJ!

 Cub editor Phil Hale says that the Scriptures are the wrong path!
The Chief Article infuriates Christian News and its lackeys.
The Path to Understandings Justification.

I have two witnesses to WELS ducking the issue. Pastor Jim Shrader and I both spent time at Mordor in Panning's Romans (in Greek) class. Panning was the Mequon professor who agreed on appeal that the Kokomo families should be tossed out for criticizing Objective Justification. Panning was also the man chosen to edit the new edition of Meyer's $45 Ministers of Christ, the source of three of the four Kokomo Theses. WELS denied that fact, and lied about it, but that is WELS GA dogma - lie, deceive, dissemble, and laugh at the results.

Jim Shrader and I do not remember Panning advocating Objective Justification in Romans 1-5. I knew from Christian News' Youse Guys Fight It Out that something had flared up, but I read Luther, knew Greek, and never heard a clear statement about OJ.

When asked by WELS about Justification, I responded with the Franz Pieper smokescreen - OJ as the Atonement, Subjective Justification as faith in the Gospel. I believe Pieper was quite deliberate about blending efficacy and Justification by Faith with the Walther-Stephan scheme from Pietism. Talking to laity, I realized that they were also misled, deliberately, by the terms which came from the Calvinist translator of Knapp's theology lectures.

Robert Preus, the clever scheme-meister, stated clearly that OJ was not the Atonement. His garbled piece was part of the scheme to oust Walter Maier II from Ft. Wayne and any future position in the LCMS.

Remember readers - that the Missouri Synod began to crater when the Preus brothers, Bob and Jack, seized the reins of power. Their sons and grandsons have been shoveling the OJ ever since. One son left his beautiful wife for another woman and still had a call and his second wife. That is so OJ.

 In the mainline denominations of today, including WELS-LCMS, the double justification dogma has degraded into pure Universalism. Everyone is forgiven! Go out and celebrate!

Boy wonder Andrew Preus had a hissy fit about my precise mapping of the Robert Preus change from OJ to anti-OJ. Could that be why Rolfie One-Note no longer cites the book he supposedly edited with his equally dense brother? Like Jack Cascione, Andy likes to lay down a smokescreen of fact-free denials and absurd claims.