How Many Times Have I Published This? - "LCMS-ELS-WELS Are Branches of ELCA!"

 

"I got you, my pretties, and your little dog, too!" ELCA's agenda is the same as the WELS and LCMS. It began with rebuking the KJV and the Apostolic Text of the New Testament. 

Years ago, it was clear that Thrivent was pro-abortion, advocating for and financially supporting the modern attacks against the poorest of the poor, the weakest of the weak - the unborn.

WELS-ELS-LCMS did nothing about this, because they were already locked into the dribble of money from Thrivent. As one WELS genius said about the Snowbird ELCA-WELS-LCMS joint pratfall, "We have to spend the money or the others will get it!"

WELS cross-dresses instead of bearing the cross.

Cross-dressing begins at the WELS high schools, starting with freshman hazing and leading to these drag cheerleaders. I saw the GA Pope - at the dubious WELS seminary - dressed in drag, an important step toward becoming a District President, a position he holds now.

WELS does drag as a family event, promoted on the church's webpage, so everyone can see what fun they had, including children putting makeup on men.

How is a future ELCA pastor at Luther Seminary different from the WELS clergy? This chap recorded his dance at the chapel while his pals cheered him on. Yes, he was ordained after graduation.

Charli Sue Is My Associate in Gardening - She Loves To Dig

 

This is a fancy honeysuckle named Scentsation, but it was planted in semi-shade.

"Honeysuckle?! Honeysuckle?! You paid for two of them? Didn't anyone tell you honeysuckle is a weed? You can't get rid of it. I've seen 70 feet of that weed."

The same person often spoke of the fragrance of honeysuckle in summer, the aroma drifting through the windows in the summer. Two children have made a point of finding the few berries deep in the back of the yard. Honeysuckle is a big deal in the South.

Mr. Gardener told me years ago about that same weed taking over the grass alley behind our homes. I confessed that I could not get it going. He was amused and puzzled.

I am one of those gardeners who grabs bargains at the end of the season, so I bought two tiny honeysuckle starts - not very impressive. Like some hostas I have ordered for their special colors (stripes, white, gold and green, green and white, blue) - I imagined the honeysuckles pulled out of the ground and eaten by rabbits, squirrels or anything wanting some expensive salad.

I put collars around each plant and bamboo sticks to mark them, pinning down the flighty collars (a collar once rolled a block away during a wind storm).

By spring I had forgotten how to distinguish honeysuckle leaves from a normal weed or ordinary plant. I looked them up on the Net - Aha! They are starting to grow and reach up for support, which a handyman is going to set up for me with "cow squares."

This is Charli Sue on a walk at the local animal shelter, showing off her alert status. 

She is 23 pounds, very active, intelligent, and attentive to most commands. She is gleeful when playing and running at rocket speed. I added her middle name so she would not be misgendered. 

Thrivent Celebrates Pride Month - WELS Discussion Group. LCMS Embeds Pride Month in "Luther's Large Catechism" Endorsed by Matt the Fatt

 

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - "All Human Power Can Do Is Useless, But Faith in Christ Does It All."

Complete Sermon - Trinity Sunday. John 3:1-15. The Holy Trinity, and Christ’s Conversation with Nicodemus on the New Birth

25. Christ uses this Scripture to point to himself; his reference is as if to say: Just as the Jews in the desert, who were bitten by fiery serpents, were saved by looking upon the serpent of brass, which Moses set upon a standard, so it is also with regard to me. None who looks upon me will perish; that is, all those who have an evil conscience, are tormented by sin and death, should believe that I have come down for their sakes and have ascended again. Then neither sin nor death shall harm them; nay, they shall not perish in all eternity. Whoever would enter heaven and be saved, must be saved by this serpent, which is Christ; otherwise he will perish. Thus, this Gospel condemns freewill and everything of human accomplishment and points only to this serpent.

26. The spiritual significance of the narrative in Numbers is this: The serpent, which bit and poisoned the Jews is sin, death and an evil conscience. I know that I must die and that I am under the power of death; I cannot free myself and must remain in this state until a dead serpent is set up for me, one which, because it is not alive, can harm no one, but rather benefit, as did the serpent of Moses. Now, this is Christ. I see him hanging on the cross, not beautiful nor greatly honored. If his death upon the cross were in fashion to win for him the plaudits of men, the flesh might say that he deserved his honors and his exaltation by his works. But I see him hanging in disgrace on the cross, like a murderer and malefactor; thus, reason must say that he is cursed before God. The Jews believed that this was true and they could only consider him the most cursed of all men before God and the world, for they remembered this passage in the Law of Moses: “He that is hanged is accursed of God.” Deuteronomy 21:23.

27. Moses had to set up a serpent of brass, which looked like the fiery serpents, but did not bite or harm any one, nay. it rather saved the people.

Thus, Christ also has the form and the appearance of a sinner, but has become my salvation; his death is my life; he atones for my sin and takes away from me the wrath of the Father. The living, fiery serpent is with in me, for I am a sinner, but in him is a dead serpent; he was indeed regarded a sinner, but he never committed any sin.

28. If, then, man believes that the death of Christ has taken away his sin, he becomes a new man. The carnal, natural man cannot believe that God will gratuitously take away and forgive us all our sins. Reason argues in this manner: You have sinned, you must also atone for your sin. Then it invents one good work after another and endeavors to take away sin by good works. But the Gospel of Christ is: If you have fallen in sin, another must atone for you, if a man believes this, he becomes one with Christ, and has everything that is Christ’s.

29. This Gospel, then, signifies that our works are nothing, and that all human power can do is useless, but faith in Christ does it all.

 ‘Christ Instructing Nicodemus, attributed to Crijn Hendricksz Volmarijn (ca 1604-1645), oil on panel, 87.5 x 111.4cm, sold by Sotheby’s, London, 1994