Metaxas' Luther Book Recommended to Ichabod While the Blogger Is Reading and Reviewing the Book

 Eric Metaxas' Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World is good reading for everyone.

Gregory L. Jackson I am reading the Eric Metaxas book now, and I agree. It is excellent. I love history but not many historians. He is up there with Roland Bainton. We were all at Yale.

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Gérald Parker So, we are reading this excellent bio at the same time! I really am enjoying the read. Eric has a radio show, too, and a prestigious forum that is available on YouTube (among other sites). He is a highly entertaining man, not something that one can say of others so hightly educated.

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Mr. Metaxes hits a Grand Slam Homerun! His research, writing, and presentation all award winning in my book. I loved reading (listening) to this book. The irony is I spent five years in residence at Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana and learned more about the Reformation from Mr. Metaxes in 22 hours of listening (reading) than I did at seminary. I rejoice that learning is unending. I will recommend this book to everyone I know. Thank you again Mr. Metaxes for writing and recording the book.
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John Wurst
Lake Ann, Michigan
10-13-17

Two commendable aspects of Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World are:

• Vivid stories about the main characters in the Reformation;
• Discussions about the meaning of their battles.

From the beginner to the self-styled church historian, anyone who likes to read will find Metaxas' book enjoyable and worthwhile, 

Two assumptions struck me as precisely true about today's Church, whether the Pan-Lutheran Synodical Conference or the Church of Rome:

1. Lombard's Sentences and Aristotle are in perfect agreement with Christian doctrine. This is the overlay of Fuller/Willow Creek philosophy and human reason, which constantly interpret the Scriptures.
2. No one can is allowed the infallibility of the visible Church. The wrong attitude toward Holy Mother Denomination immediately puts one in the Inferno.

Roman Catholics deserve a separate post, but observe how they are just as intoxicated by Barth/Kirschbaum as the Lutheran rubes who attend Fuller Seminary. The Rome of the Reformation is the Thrivent-managed Pan-Lutheran Synodical Corporation of today.

What does the Bible teach about forgiveness and salvation? Wait, first let me look up the Justification papers in the Holy of Holies, the WELS Essay File. I do not know the truth of God's Word until these atheists explan it to me. They must be correct, because they all agree with each other. Instead of Lombard and Aristotle, they have Bleauhard and Wigwaddle as authorities.

"You dare disagree? Why were these notable essays carefully picked? You actually doubt the Mordor faculty at Mequon, who chose them? Who are you, miserable swine, to doubt the wisdom of these saints? We have 60 essays against your pathetic scribbles, and each one was endorsed by his conference and the faculty. Repent of this insolence before it is too late. God will not be as patient with you as we have been. Time is running out. You have shredded the Eighth Comandment and violated Matthew 18."

The paragraph above is a summary of LCMS-ELS-WELS-CLC  dogma and behavior. Rome lies about the Immaculate Conception being taught from the beginning. The Pan-Lutherans deceive their members and clergy when insisting Objective Justification has always been taught, because they have found it in Luther, the Book of Concord, and ancient copies of the NIV. Questions? - see the above paragraph.

Readers - think about this fact. No one really objected to the Church Growth Movement when Missouri, WELS, the Little Sect, and even the hidebound CLC (sic) introduced it and made it normative. How dull were their consciences decades ago? How stupified were their ideas about the true Church? Their contempt for Luther oozes out of every effort they make.

Concordia Publishing House is a warning label.

Luther Always Taught the Efficacy of the Word. The Pan-Lutheran Synodical Corporation (ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC sic) Never Does

The Book of Concord, too!
Graduates of the Lutheran Seminary Franchise - ask for your money back. They taught what Luther did not, replacing sound doctrine with what Luther and Holy Spirit opposed.
Hint - NIV.

“We are to learn from this report of the casting out of a devil the most consoling truth that Christ is the Lord over the devil and his realm; and, further, that this work, then begun in the body, did not terminate, but still continues in the Church of Christ, and will continue until the judgment day.

“For the accomplishment of this work Christ has instituted the necessary means; namely, Holy Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, the Word and Absolution, also other offices pertaining to the ministry, whereby the devil is to be cast out from the people, so that they may become free from his thralldom and that his kingdom may be destroyed.

“For it is plainly written in this respect: Verbum meum non redibit vacuum – My Word shall not return void. As the rain which falls upon dry land produces vegetation and blossoms, thus does the Word of God, most assuredly, produce fruit in some hearts. The Holy Spirit is connected with the Word to illumine, incite and purify the hearts, that they may be set free from the tyranny and oppression of the devil.

Luther. House Postil. Oculi. Luke 11:14-28

 Yes, yes. Building and correcting, like UOJ and Church Growth.

ALPB Forum - About ELCA Seminaries

The original "LSTC" became Wrigley Park, but an ELCA pastor who went to Maywood (the second home of the original seminary) thought his school began at the White Sox site. Name it not! The ELCA pastor/journalist responded that I was correct. Ahem.

A discussion stated that off-campus seminary education is so prevalent that

"In our synod [ELCA district], of the 7-8 people who have been in candidacy over the last 3-4 years, only one is resident at sem."

Consider that, Cubs fans. That may be an extreme example, but it points toward the consecrated piles of brick and marble becoming monuments, memorials, and mausoleums.

That is already becoming true at the LCMS UOJ incense factories, Mordor, and the Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie.

Books Owed - And Ordering at the Lowest Price

Our artist-in-residence, Norma A. Boeckler, has illustrated our books and designed the covers for many years. The Sermons of Martin Luther are the only ones illustrated throughout.

I had a lot of help and encouragement from members, editors, and various friends of Luther's doctrine. In the next week or so, I am sending out books to those people who have supported this project. When I order them from the author's account, Create Space issues a tracking link, which I will forward to those recipients. Books usually arrive a few days after that. In the unlikely event of an ordering mistake, just keep the extra books for sharing.

Getting books from me = the author's price, a fraction of the retail price at Amazon. All the books published are designed to promote Luther's Biblical Christian faith.

The Sermons of Martin Luther (8 volumes, black and white) plus the Gems in color cost $70 with shipping and taxes. Some people use PayPal to send the money. Checks can be sent to 1104 Letha Drive, Springdale, AR, 72762.

The color version of the Sermons is $30 for each volume.

Question - Why do I link books to the retail when that version is so much higher? Search Engine Optimization - links make the books more visible on the Internet, because - "nobody reads Ichabod."

All the Books Will Be on Kindle eBooks at the Lowest Price
I am working on the Kindle edition while doing some tent-making in the education business. Most of the Sermons are already priced down to 99 cents on Kindle. Students and pastors like having mobile access and the lower price too. All the other books will be lowered too, because the purpose is getting Luther past the watchful dragons of the Pan-Lutheran Synodical Corporation.

Besides that, a complete edition of the Sermons plus the Gems will be on one PDF, linked for free for everyone.

And Yet There Is Always Hope

 Why pay $100,000 for an education in apostasy at the Concordia seminaries?

Doubtless the ancient Romans thought the world was coming to an end. The greatest engineering empire collapsed abruptly, though they saw it coming centuries earlier. But Constantine had already founded a New Rome, in what became Constaninople, and that lasted 1100 years.

The fall of Constantinople, conquered by the Muslim Ottoman Empire, led to the Renaissance and established the Reformation. The Turks drew the Christian forces away from Germany long enough for Luther's reforms to become established.

America has gone so far downhill - and so fast into the arms of Fuller and Rome - that I cannot imagine a recovery. Yet God changes history in a flash, and triumph turns to ashes.

I am encouraged by the interest in sound doctrine by the younger generation of men. There is a parallel with retail and other parts of our economy, like publishing.

Higher education, publishing, and other mainstays were local. Big rich families controlled publishing, and shooling was often an issue of location, whether teaching or enrolling.

The fancy publishing companies are collapsing while independent news gathering on the Net is taking over. The denominations turn out their laughable, expensive PR magazines (the few remaining) but everyone can blog the truth faster than the establishment can print.

Higher education is continuing to leave giant piles of carved stone and brickwork empty. The seminaries are their own competition, because people need online courses to study and pay their expenses. I lived in the Gilded Age, when seminary tuition was $150 a year and a Heick hardbound doctrinal volume cost $7, likewise the Book of Concord.

Now they want ransom payments for tuition and books - $90 for regurgitated Barth - Missouri's UOJ Dogmatanic.

Congregations used to get people excited about a new building program, but now those aging buildings are their tombstones, not their anchors. They drive people away with their false doctrine, abuse, and gaslighting, then complain about the results. When one restaurant made my wife violently sick, do you think we went back? When a famous chain served rancid food and refused a full refund, can you imagine us going back for more?

The apostates of the Pan-Lutheran Synodical Corporation (ELCA-WELS-ELS-LCMS-CLC sic) know they are failing, but they hope to wring whatever salaries and benefits they can before the slide accelerates.

The Word will still accomplish God's will, no matter what they plot. Braver men than they burned dissenters at the stake, and what did that accomplish? The Reformation spread even faster. Smarter debaters argued against the Scriptures, and that only sped the forging of the Book of Concord.

Now the opponets are poorly trained, lazy, and prone to let their lupine fangs show. What are they against the Word of God? Better men - coached by Holy Mother Rome - had the power of the sword, the best dungeons in the world, the slowest torture devices. But still Rome raves against Luther, for defeating them. They cannot tell the truth - the Word defeated them - not Luther. However, Luther was not afraid to use the double-edged Sword of the Spirit against the murdering horde.

This parallel will give you goosebumps. 

What did Rome use against the Scriptures?

Answer - Theses. Philosophical statements that cited the Scriptures at times but never related to the actual issues at hand. Can you name another example like that, equally weak in the Scriptures, but impossible to derail from his domineering statements? Walther, Walther, anyone, anyone?

The Lutheran Church Continues To Prove It Is Dead to Faith, Crawling with Apostasy

 Kolb is the LCMS fig-leaf for the ELCA's many blasphemies, not that LCMS academics disagree with ELCA - not at all.

Commissioned in 1993: lie down with dawgs, git up with fleas.
Jane Strohl is an ELCA pastor with a PhD in church history, so the question about women's ordination in Missouri has been answered: No Problem!

 Exactly why did the LCMS jointly publish a Book of Concord with ELCA, notably with Timothy Wengert in the title: The Kolb-Wengert BOC?

Guy Erwin, the ELCA insta-bishop, held the 

Gerhard and Olga Belgum Chair in Lutheran Confessional Theology at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. WELS-LCMS-ELCA-Christian New - united against the Word of God, happy to flaunt it: UOJ triumphant.

Timothy Wengert resources at Reconciling Works.

 Face the facts - these scoundrels agree with ELCA's dogma - World Absolution without Faith - UOJ. They work with ELCA on all kinds of religious projects, and recently rejoiced in their triple-base hit: total agreement about UOJ.

 The LutherQuashes, who imagine themselves the Guardians of the Galaxy, fall all over themselves in agreeing with ELCA. 

Note the three advantages this blog has over the rowdies on the Internet.

• I know their sects' history better than they do. 
• I researched the LCA/ALC documents and deceits long before the 1987 merger - and I left.
• I studied modern theology, and recognized their affinity with Barth, Tillich, and the rationalistic Pietists at Hall. 

ELCA and the Olde Synodical Conference have intermingled histories, but one bad thing in common - being founded by Halle Pietists or Norwegian Pietists or Swedish Pietists.

Pietism is anti-Creed and therefore quickly succmbs to rationalism.

The Olde Synodical Conference postures about the Book of Concord but look at their bed-fellows for the Kolb-Wengert Book of Concord. When it was published, I was shocked to see it even attempted. However, that was really the final signal that all Lutheran groups promote apostasy, approve the blasphemies of the Left, and cannot wait to do even more damage.

The Reformation's 500th Anniversary was their chance for a 99.9% unified voice against Luther, against the Book of Concord, and above all - against the Chief Article of Christianity.

As many laymen have noted, the "conservative" UOJ fanatics cannot define or defend their hatred of Justification by Faith. A Greek exegesis of their favorite passages has taken away their weapons of deceptions. For good reason Jesus warned us about wolves wearing the finest woolens - they still growl, slaver, and gnash their teeth, waiting for a chance to murder, scatter, rend, and destroy.

 The UOJ simpletons call the Chief Article "Calvinism," but look who gave them their favorite terms - OJ and SJ - the Calvinist translator of Knapp the Pietist.

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 Is the Chief Article Calvinism, as various beanbrains claim?
They do not even know the Book of Concord or the Bible.

 While you are reconciling, reconcile this with UOJ.

Gaslighting - Or - Nothing Happened!

Council of Presidents,
or is it Conference of Presidents?

11 Warning Signs of Gaslighting

Gaslighting is a manipulation tactic used to gain power. And it works too well.

Posted Jan 22, 2017

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Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or entity, in order to gain more power, makes a victim question their reality. It works much better than you may think. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. It is done slowly, so the victim doesn't realize how much they've been brainwashed. For example, in the movie Gaslight(1944), a man manipulates his wife to the point where she thinks she is losing her mind. 

People who gaslight typically use the following techniques:  

1. They tell blatant lies.

You know it's an outright lie. Yet they are telling you this lie with a straight face. Why are they so blatant? Because they're setting up a precedent. Once they tell you a huge lie, you're not sure if anything they say is true. Keeping you unsteady and off-kilter is the goal. 

2. They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof. 

You know they said they would do something; you know you heard it. But they out and out deny it. It makes you start questioning your reality—maybe they never said that thing. And the more they do this, the more you question your reality and start accepting theirs. 

3. They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition. 

They know how important your kids are to you, and they know how important your identity is to you. So those may be one of the first things they attack. If you have kids, they tell you that you should not have had those children. They will tell you'd be a worthy person if only you didn't have a long list of negative traits. They attack the foundation of your being. 

4. They wear you down over time.

This is one of the insidious things about gaslighting—it is done gradually, over time.

Read the whole Gaslighting article at this link.

 How to steal a church property and its endowment: WELS.
Ask LCMS and ELDONA for their insights.

When People Engage in Personal Attacks, They Are Disrespecting Most of the Readers of This Blog

LutherQueasy went off the rails for a few days, then returned to abnormal. Christian News managed to make defending Justification by Faith, WAM I and II seem eeeevuuul. Then, someone I do not know (not even a FB friend) began posting vague personal attacks after my blog post on the contradictions in Lutherdom.

Miles Whitener wish you hadn't gone off the deep end there, Greg

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Gregory L. Jackson Too many popes, Miles?

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Miles Whitener there are certainly plenty of them, greater and lesser - just say no, ok? you don't see that you've become a crank!

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Gregory L. Jackson Miles, that really grieves me that you have so little to do, so you yammer at someone you do not know. I doubt whether you read much of the blog or Luther. That is your loss. I count the name-calling as a singular honor since you have nothing substantive to say.

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Miles Whitener I do know you. Bizarre that you passed for an orthodox Lutheran at one time. I do think you have almost invented your own heresy. No, you have not even done that. Very sadly, almost nobody cares about CFWW any more, so they don't even know who you are talking about.

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Miles Whitener And by the way you only popped up because you dishonestly represented that you are "with" one of my friends. Creepy, man.

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Gregory L. Jackson Miles, you are very troubled. I have no idea what you are talking about or who you are. Someone who is a non-FB-friend and posts vague accusations is a guy who needs a real hobby at the very least.

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GJ - I am trying to figure out the heresy I invented - Justification by Faith? Is the Midwest so besotted with Stephan/Walther/Pieper that the Chief Article is a heresy I invented?

I would like these virtue-signaling Walterites and JPMeierites to simply say, "We love UOJ and we hate Justification by Faith, the efficacy of the Word, and the Means of Grace."

They want to wear the mantle of Lutheran when it is convenient, exactly like ELCA, and repudiate Luther's Biblical theology, in ways more subtle but more toxic than ELCA.

They also want all the benefits of Thrivent loot, the lukewarmness of ultra-mild Lutheranism, and the esteem of Belial - while ignoring the funding of ELCA, the ELCA-Thrivent love for abortion, and the pansexualism of the elite.