Thursday, February 17, 2022

ELCA Church Becomes Americus Hose Company

 

 Bishop Barbara Collins closes another church.

Church in Sunbury Closes, Sells Building to Fire Company

SUNBURY – A church in Sunbury has closed its doors after over a century of worship. Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church held its final worship service January 16. Bishop Barbara Collins presided, giving thanks for the gift of baptism and for a ministry that included service to many.

In addition, the church says it will sell its building to Americus Hose Company after auctioning items and furnishings to the public. After closing, he church says it will also divide its remaining assets among eight organizations: Camp Mount Luther, Haven Ministry, Susquehanna River Valley Dental Clinic, A Community Clinic, United Lutheran Seminary, Upper Susquehanna Synod Mission Fund, Birthright of Sunbury, and ARC.

Grace Lutheran Church in a statement said they supported many ministries in Sunbury and in the Upper Susquehanna Synod, including youth scouting and leadership clubs, Shikellamy Community Services, Meals on Wheels, Americus Hose Company, and Camp Mount Luther.

Luther's Genesis Commentary - Translated by Lenker.
Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry

 

 The print copy of Luther's Genesis can be found here.

The free online copy of Luther's Genesis is here.

“This volume on Genesis follows the first volume on the Psalms because the volumes ought to be published first that are needed most and will do the most good… While both these volumes will be a healthy corrective to the Old Testament critics, their contribution to the biblical knowledge and the devotional life of Protestantism cannot be exaggerated. Though first delivered to critical students they have also been extensively read in family worship.

“Luther began and closed his blessed ministry in the church of God not by fighting the Pope, but by expounding the Word of God. He began by explaining the whole Psalter… and closed his life’s labors by expounding the first book of the Bible, Genesis… He commenced with the penitential Psalms of David and ended with Moses, the earliest writings of the Old Testament. The reason so many preachers and congregations neglect the Old Testament is because it is neglected in the seminaries. God willing a volume of Luther on the Prophetical Books will be issued and then in all three years at the seminary the students may have something of Luther on the Pentateuch, Psalms and Prophets.” — Dr. Lenker

Level of DifficultyIntermediate: Some subject matter knowledge helpful.

John Nicholas Lenker (1858-1929) was educated at Hamma Divinity School (Ohio Synod), and served pastorates in Grand Island, Nebraska, the General Synod’s Board of Christian Extension, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Before moving to Minneapolis he served as professor in the Trinity Seminary of the United Danish Ev. Luth Church. Prof. Lenker founded Luther Press which translated and published affordable, high quality editions of Luther’s House and Church Postil sermons, copies of which are still used today.

Book Contents

  • Second Introduction to Luther’s Works in English.
  • Foreword to Lenker Genesis Volume 2.
  • Prefaces and Dedications of Luther’s “Dear Genesis.”
    • His “Swan Song” and His “It Is Finished.”
    • Dedication of Veit Dietrich.
    • Dedication of Basil Faber.
    • Preface of Dr. John George Walch.
    • From the Preface by Dr. Henry Cole. A Tribute of a Theologian of England.
    • A Tribute of a Christian Lady in Scotland.
  • Dr. Martin Luther to the Christian Reader.
  • Chapter 1.
    • I. Introduction.
    • II. God’s Work on the Six Days in Particular.
      • Part I. God’s Work on the First Day.
      • Part II. God’s Work on the Second Day.
      • Part III. God’s Work on the Third Day.
      • Part IV. God’s Work on the Fourth Day.
      • Part V. God’s Work on the Fifth Day.
      • Part VI. God’s Work on the Sixth Day.
  • Chapter 2.
    • Part I. God’s Rest, Sanctification of the Sabbath and Creation of Adam.
    • Part II. Paradise.
    • Part III. The Introduction of Man Into the Garden, the Command God Gave Him and the - Threatening God Attached to It.
    • Part IV. The Creation of Eve.
    • Part V. The Institution of Marriage and the Family.
  • Chapter 3.
    • Part I. The Temptation to Fall.
    • Part II. The Awful Fall by Sinning.
    • Part III. The Judgment God Held With Our First Parents After Their Fall and the Account - of Their Stewardship He Required From Them.
  • Chapter 4.
    • Part I. Generation, Marriage, Birth and Education of Cain and Abel.
    • Part II. Offerings in General, of Our First Parents, and of Cain and Abel.
    • Part III. Cain’s Conduct Upon the Rejection of His Offering and His Punishment.
    • Part IV. How Cain Murdered His Brother and Was Required to Give an Account, and How He - Conducted Himself.
    • Part V. How Cain Was Punished for His Murder.
    • Part VI. Cain’s Conduct Upon Being Punished.
  • Chapter 5.
    • Part I. The Records of the Generations of Man and the Glory of the Cainites.
    • Part II. Adam and His Son Seth.
    • Part III. Enoch.
    • Part IV. Lamech and His Son Noah.
  • Chapter 6.
    • Part I. The Sins of the Primeval World in General the Cause of Its Destruction.
    • Part II. The Judgment and Lamentation of God Over the First World; Noah and His Preaching.
    • Part III. Noah and His Preaching.
    • Part III. The Sins of the Old World in Particular.
    • Part IV. The Repentance and Grief of God Because He Had Made Man.
    • Part V. How Noah Alone Was Found Righteous, and How the Whole World Was Destroyed.
    • Part VI. God Decides to Punish the First World; Commands Noah to Build an Ark; The - Covenant.
    • Part VII. The Animals and Their Food, and Noah’s Obedience.
  • Chapter 7.
    • Part I. Noah Obeys Command to Enter the Ark.
    • Part II. Complete Destruction.
  • Chapter 8.
    • Part I. Noah in Ark — Flood Abates.
    • Part II. Noah Leaves Ark, His Sacrifice and God’s Promise.
    • Part III. Man’s Natural Depravity and His Natural Powers.
  • Chapter 9.
    • Part I. God Blesses Noah and the Race.
    • Part II. The Law Against Taking Life; God’s Covenant With Noah; The Rainbow.
    • Part III. Concerning Allegories.
    • Part IV. Noah and His Fall.
    • Part V. Ham Cursed; Shem and Japheth Blessed.

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Luther on Genesis by Martin Luther

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I Will Use This Blog for Now - Finishing the No-Holds-Barred KJV Book

 

 The Ultimate GA WELS lie - publishing this picture to warn members against those snip, clip, and erase Bibles out there. Like their precious NIV, the worst of them all? Shame WELS, twice shame Mirthless Mark the Timid Bookeeper.



This particular Ichabod blog will be the main place for storing, broadcasting, and news - for now. I have a WordPress version, but I have to learn the navigation. I want to finish the KJV book, which will be 

The King James Version:

Apostolic Text, Precise Translation

versus 

Fraudulent Text and Heretical Translations

I had many kind emails after Google erased the blog for no valid reason. The first claim was linking too much, as if the Web did not begin with hyper-text-markup-language, yes based on linking. The second claim was violating community standards! I cannot sink that low - I never graduated from a WELS school.

Speaking of that, one victim of felonious abuse told me I probably saved several lives by publishing the truth about WELS hazing and alcohol abuse - which is probably worse than state universities.

A lot of leaders are just like the characters in those occult movies. They are smiling and normal until approached and suddenly the evil, satanic glare is beamed - as if to say "I will kill you with my hate-filled eyes." One WELS DP did that to Christina, and she was truly shocked.

That is the problem when a sect has only two sacraments - 

  1. The stink-eye, and
  2. Permanent shunning.
 This is very therapeutic for those who are - or were - in WELS, LCMS, ELS, CLC, and ELDONA.

 I ordered this book today.



Another Way To Live



The best way to live is to consider each day an opportunity to create joy in someone's life. Sometimes that means giving items that another person will value or use. Nothing is more vacant than an unused book, previously read and appreciated, but simply filling up space. Book collections, like garden soil, need to be turned over to remain productive. 

Giving someone time is very special, because time is far more valuable and volatile. It is here and gone, even when decades are involved. I feel honored when a neighbor needs a ride. I have needed rides to eye surgery appointments - four in all, two surgeries, two follow ups soon after - not the best time go solo. Lots of things go back and forth in a close neighborhood - food, gifts, flowers, rides, house-watching. I told a heart-patient, "Your garbage barrel days are over. I am taking over." He told me priceless stories about Bill and Hillary Clinton. 

The Gospel is the most important. I think it is good that the fossilized, overly-endowed, false-teaching piles of brick and marble are going away. I told one Lutheran, seminaries are so loaded with money and so lacking in students that they keep merging. Andover and Newton Seminaries (typical young Calvinists, old Unitarians) had to merge as Andover-Newton. They still got embarrassingly small, so they merged with Yale Divinity, which had already merged with the Episcopal Seminary nearby. 

The Gospel is not found or kept in brick, mortar, marble, silver, brass, and gold. The spoken Word is the Gospel. Luther called the Church a mouth church and an ear church. The mouth must teach the truth of the Scriptures without additions or subtractions. That eliminates every parish and pastor using the NIV, ESV, RSV, NRSV, and other poor imitations of the Bible. 

The Gospel Word heard is going to move around, in the family and community. The fruits of the Spirit are inevitable with the speaking and hearing of the Word. When Ranger Bob and I took Sassy out to the garden today, the green daffodil leaves were up everywhere - just the start. The bulb has to bloom. It is already a flower when planted. It only has to finish up to welcome spring and lift heavy hearts.

The daffodils are not only beautiful and varied, they are also easily cut and shared with others. And get this - the daffodils multiply on their own, so much that they have to be thinned.

Daffodils symbolize happens when the Gospel leaven is at work.