The Father of WELS Scandals Revealed - UOJ Stormtrooper Leader. Darth Vader Hisself

"Darth, you are the father of Antinomianism in the Synodical Conference."

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The WELS scandals that go public provide an interesting diversion. It reminds me of the horrible skin condition called eczema. While the blistering skin is the symptom, the real cause of it is toxicity inside the body. Yet, the Church Growth leaders are all around within the WELS, and they get a free pass.

We can expect the usual damage control from the WELS leadership concerning the overt, public sins. What is happening is because of internal toxicity to the body of WELS. No amount of salve from the leaders will take care of that.

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GJ - That is a cogent analysis of the WELS situation - Missouri too. Each scandal is viewed as a public relations opportunity. Dissenters are silenced and shunned. Pious announcements are issued. Journalists print the lies, and everyone forgets until the next time.

Notice that nothing was ever revealed about where the MLC Schwan Cathedral money went. All kinds of controls were established (after 150+ years?) and whoops, another $300,000 vanished.

What really grinds the ordinary parish pastor in the boonies is this - he can barely take care of his family and pay for needed medicine. Meanwhile, the synod leaders waste money fast enough to make President Obama and the First Wookie jealous. And nothing is done by SP Helpless or SP Hapless. They are good at
shutting down discussion and mocking those who want solutions, but their mysterious powers ebb away at that point.

Heretics make merry with synodical money, the sheep are flogged and fleeced, and the seminaries charge Yale fees for a community college degree. As I often told my community college students, "Your associates degree will earn you the second window at McDonald's - at best."

"O-o-o-o-o-o-m."

St. Paul man pleads guilty to stealing from Lutheran synod - TwinCities.com

St. Paul man pleads guilty to stealing from Lutheran synod - TwinCities.com:


St. Paul man pleads guilty to stealing from Lutheran synod
By Maricella Miranda
mmiranda@pioneerpress.com
Posted:   04/27/2012 12:01:00 AM CDT
Updated:   04/27/2012 05:41:47 PM CDT

A church official who worked in Inver Grove Heights believed he was in "confession" when he admitted to stealing at least $62,500 from the nation's third-largest Lutheran synod.

But Dakota County District Court didn't consider the conversation Leon E. Piepenbrink, 52, had with at least four church officials to be a "privileged conversation," said Kenneth Udoibok, Piepenbrink's attorney. Instead, the confession was used as evidence.

Authorities now say Piepenbrink stole $300,000 from the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, which employed him for five years as an Asian ministry coordinator.

"He believed he was in confession," Udoibok said. "When you go to church and confess your sins, and your minister takes the information and gives it to police - it's appalling."

Piepenbrink, of St. Paul, pleaded guilty Friday, April 27, to seven felony charges of theft by swindle. He is scheduled for sentencing July 17.

According to Minnesota sentencing guidelines, Piepenbrink could spend up to two years and three months in prison, said Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom.'

The charges allege Piepenbrink stole in excess of $62,500, and Backstrom said he plans to ask the court to order that Piepenbrink pay $301,581 in restitution.

"This is a major economic theft," Backstrom said.

Piepenbrink, who worked with the Hmong community from an office at Shepherd of the Hills Church in Inver Grove Heights, was fired in August 2010 when allegations arose. The thefts took place from 2007 to 2010.

Police began investigating him after the president of the Milwaukee-based synod noticed suspicious activity, according to a criminal complaint filed in May 2011.

Piepenbrink told church leaders his safety was threatened by people in the community he was working with, the charges said. Piepenbrink said he was shot at from a vehicle in June 2010 when he was driving on Minnesota 55 near Hastings. He asked the church to reimburse him for security upgrades, such as bulletproof glass and a gun.

The church soon learned that his claims were fabricated. When questioned by church leaders, Piepenbrink admitted to stealing money from the synod, the complaint said.

Piepenbrink managed funds primarily through the synod's operating budget.

While reviewing bank statements with a financial officer for the synod, Piepenbrink identified transactions for personal use, which were not approved by the synod.

Piepenbrink also said he made up stories about his safety concerns.

Udoibok said Piepenbrink didn't spend the money for personal gain. Instead, he used the money on at least six needy families and on recruiting a pastor from Laos.

Piepenbrink "has a soft heart," Udoibok said. "He doesn't belong in prison."

Whatever the money was for, Backstrom said, Piepenbrink obtained it fraudulently.

After the charges were filed, the synod released a statement saying it had taken precautions to ensure that internal controls exist for funds nationally and internationally. The thefts by Piepenbrink were a "unique and isolated incident in which someone had direct access to synod funds without proper protocols and oversight," the statement said.

The synod is a fellowship of about 1,279 churches and 389,545 members in 48 states, the group reported.

Piepenbrink trained leaders and pastors for non-English speaking Asians across the country, a church spokesman said. Piepenbrink was ordained as a pastor in 1986.

See also - http://www.atoast2wealth.com/tag/leon-piepenbrink/


'via Blog this'

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GJ - WELS members - Aren't you glad SP Schroeder spent $250,000 on software to track synodical money better? That happened as soon as he took office. He should have called back the synod treasurer who found that staffers had taken the MLC chapel fund, some $8 million. That was under Gurgle.

The initial figure for Piepenbrink was impressive, but $300,000? The entire synod staff should resign. They cannot handle a real estate deal or manage their own people.

It is safe to say that anyone in American or world missions is a Church Shrinker. The main speaker at the Kelm "Leadership" Conference at WLC is in charge of the Third World Skim Program. You should hear the stories. I am guessing that Thrivent is funding some of this, but loot is loot. Stolen Thrivent loot is still money taken under false pretenses.

WELS members and pastors should de-fund the synod until sincere repentance is evidenced. So far, under Schroeder, each new scandal is just another opportunity to spin the news for people with short-term memories.

The trouble is - GA teaches seminarians to lie, and UOJ gives them an excuse for it.

UOJ and Antinomianism

The Little Sect on the Prairie is too small for Stormtroopers,
so they have Dark Helmet as their mascot and protector.

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One can see that UOJ and SJ are just Calvinism sandwiched together with Lutheranism. The OJ is Calvinism and SJ is Lutheranism, except that Calvinism is its own system and is not compatible with the Biblical system of salvation, aka, Lutheranism. Sandwiched together, OJ and SJ amount to gross antinomianism. Calvin counter-balanced justification before faith with the idea of limited atonement and DP so that the antinomianism implicit in justification before faith would be balanced by idea that if you act like an unbeliever, maybe that's because you actually are one. UOJ-type Lutheranism has no such counter-balance to fend out antinomianism since Lutherans believe in unlimited atonement and deny that God reprobates anyone. Therefore, some over-assured Lutherans end up getting in trouble in various sins and with the law, but for most the theoretical antinomianism results in a largely unregenerate and life and many sins of omission (a non-dedicated, non-rigorously religious life) that the UOJer Lutheran doesn't feel any guilt over.

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GJ - UOJ unifies the Synodical Conference (tm) and its scattered parts.We know Richard Jungkuntz was dedicated to UOJ because his essay is lovingly preserved in the Holy of Holies, the WELS Essay Files, even though they kicked him out of WELS. From there he did his liberal work in the LCMS, a real star of Seminex, as the chairman of the board of the first gay Lutheran seminary. Seminex was the official seminary of the Metropolitan Community Church.

Jungkuntz went on to serve as provost of an ALC college. He was written up favorably in the NY Times.

He argued for women's suffrage, conceding it was the same argumentation for women's ordination.

UOJ was the common thread in all his denominational affiliations. UOJ unites all the mainline Protestant denominations. Their motto is - "Everyone is forgiven and saved by the grace of God." Since they have given up the significance of creeds, hymns, sermons, and liturgy, they are vulnerable to every radical leftist fad.

For instance, the Episcopalians preserve the historic liturgy and creeds, and still hold solemn worship services, but they say, "We also have a contemporary service in our parish for the young people." (David Virtue, Virtue Online) Bad money drives out good, so that concession means the traditionalists will soon give way to the Fuller crowd, as all the rest have.

The Antinomian part is the most enjoyable. Anyone can do anything, as long as Holy Mother Church is not offended. If a man runs off with another woman, he will be restored as a pastor because "Who are you to judge?" That also goes well with communing a wealthy man  living openly with his mistress, which Dale Redlin of the CLC (sic) argued for at a pastors' meeting. The other pastors were appalled, but there were many other things they were happy to overlook.

UOJ has nothing to say about the complete erosion of the family, the treatment of children (from conception on), and the culture of hedonism.

"When the Son of Man returns, will He find faith?"

That question suggest that the End Times will be dominated by a complete lack of faith in the Savior. Not surprisingly, that is the siren song of UOJ - forgiveness without faith.

Richard Jungkuntz, UOJ advocate:
WELS, LCMS, Seminex, ALC:
Chairman of the Board, 
First Gay Lutheran Seminary in America.

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The false gospel of Universal Objective Justification was leaned on heavily by departing (W)ELS president Karl R. Gurgel in 2007. The man who knows where the $8Million dollars of Synod money went but has never confessed.

"Then, as if out of nowhere, comes another truth that is not self-evident. A perfect life and an innocent death—not ours but the Savior’s—liberates us from our sentence of death and makes us eternally happy.

This truth can only be perceived and received by faith in God’s Son, our Savior, Jesus. This is the saving truth we’re privileged to proclaim: God’s pardon for sinners, the eternal peace of sins forgiven.

Notice the already existing forgiveness of sins by God to be perceived.

His statements can be read here: http://www.wels.net/news-events/forward-in-christ/july-2007/self-evident-truths?page=0,0

A self evident truth is that in order for Synod Leadership - Synod President, the Council of Presidents, the District Presidents, the Circuit Pastors, the church Pastors, the church councils and elders all have continue to promote the false and utterly unsubstantiated, Anti-Scripture, Anti-Christ and Anti-Lutheran Confessions gospel of Universal Objective Justification or face the enormous mountain of shame and guilt that comes from the whole world realizing they've decieved their members concerning Scriptures Chief and Central doctrine - Justification by Faith alone.

For the sake of their own souls may God grant them Godly contrition and the Holy Spirit's faith to trust alone in Christ and to lead and direct Christ's Church to the one true Christian faith and away from the New Age Antichrist's religion of justification before God without faith in Christ which is essentially belief that they are their own god - creating their own way to righteousness and the forgiveness of sins.

Brett Meyer Addresses the Synodical Conference Spin on the Book of Concord

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Manipulating Lutherans have been deceiving their flocks by spinning stories in their favor since the beginning.

Another spin is the deceptive statement that the Lutheran Confessions do not address the false gospel of Universal Objective Justification (UOJ) because the BOC was written to address the Works Righteousness doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. The spin says that obviousely the focus would be on "Subjective Justification" (SJ). It's hard to believe that so many people could fall for such an absurd assertion -that the Lutheran Confessions did not deal fully with the Chief Article of Christ's doctrine.

The truth is that the RCC would oppose UOJ even more than SJ alone because it teaches the whole unbelieving world was declared forgiven, justified and righteous by God without and before faith in Christ. Doubly offensive to justification by works.

The advantage the Lutheran heretics have is that they've established schools that teach such drivel in their school systems. Christian discernment is beaten out of the kids early on with Holy Mother Synod worship and institutional authority. Compound that with the (W)ELS paying Kuske to forfeit his soul and edit UOJ into the Catechism. All they need now is a Bible translation that clearly states what they've been reading into it all along...wait, the NNIV does that.

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GJ - The Naughty NIV has turned a perfectly clear translation (Genesis 4:1) into soft-core porn, and added another "all" to claim that all have sinned and all (sic) have been justified.

The NNIV is being promoted by The Sausage Factory because WELS turned mainline a long time ago. The translation has to catch up with the agenda.

The Waltherian Spin on the Election Strife

The LCMS is Mormon-like in its
hagiography and veneration of C. F. W. Walther

F. A. Schmidt (1837-1928) was a member of the Concordia Seminary faculty in St. Louis, from 1872 to 1876. He graduated from Concordia and taught at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, until he joined the St. Louis faculty. The Preus family is quite prominent in the history of Luther College. Schmidt left Concordia in 1876 and served Luther College and other Norwegian institutions. Schmidt was fluent in Norwegian and English. (Suelflow, Servant of the Word, p. 104)

Suelflow dug up this nugget from the Lutheran Witness, which is quite illuminating, since it parallels how Walther treat the son of Bishop Martin Stephan:

Now someone among the friends or enemies informed Professor Schmidt that Dr. Walther had prevented his nomination by putting on such a face and shrugging up his shoulders in such a manner, when Professor Schmidt's name was mentioned, as to indicate he would not like Schmidt as a colleague. Though there is not a word of truth in this, Schmidt took it for granted and--now comes the worst feature--took it also as an affronting challenge of his [Schmidt's] orthodoxy, which he was found to avenge...We reasoned with him there, and not knowing the facts, we begged him for the sake of the Church, even if Walther should have done something out of the way, not to act in a rancorous spirit, but to consider that God had given him more knowledge and talents than others, to employ these in the maintenance of harmony and peace in the Church, and not to destroy his own usefulness, that our Professors should not make the whole Church suffer for the infirmities they find with their brethren. But he had his mind fixed. (Suelflow, p. 110f. - citing Meyer, Log Cabin to Luther Tower, p. 70.)

Without the details about Walther making a face, this story is told repeatedly about the real cause of the election controversy - it happened because Schmidt was not elected to the job.

Walther's chosen disciple was elected instead. Contrary to Suelflow, Fuerbringer said that Pieper's election to the post was unusual. The synod convention elected Pieper, while Fuerbringer said the best approach was the "electoral college," which I assume meant going out to the districts. WELS pretends to do that when manipulating votes.


Fuerbringer was irenic in his presentation of the old battles, and his tidbit suggests to me that his Uncle Walther created division by slighting one professor, selecting another one himself, and making sure it happened at a convention he could control. Walther was just as democratic as his disciple, Jack Cascione, allowing everyone to vote as long they agreed with him.

The arguments against Schmidt could easily be turned around. If he had been such a heretic, why did he teach at the seminary, the school from which he graduated? Walther called Schmidt "his hands."

The LCMS has dismissed the election controversy as turning on Schmidt's "rancorous spirit," self-destruction (!), and obstinancy. "But he had his mind fixed."

However, it is generally assumed and often affirmed that Walther chose F. Pieper for the job, a fact that WELS enjoys repeating, since the Pieper family was Wisconsin Synod. Needless to say, Pieper was slavishly devoted to Walther's UOJ, repeating the double-justification scheme of Knapp (Halle University, where Bishop Stephan and Hoenecke studied).

Excusing the election controversy through personal attacks against one man is troublesome for anyone studying the history of doctrine. The facts do not match the theory. For instance, Stellhorn came from the original Perryville cult and taught at Ft. Wayne, but he also parted company with Missouri.

Stellhorn was an author of the Error of Missouri.

In those days, before pension funds and synod ownership of property, men were much braver in discussing doctrinal issues. Nevertheless, it was difficult for men to part company with others who were related in doctrine and through family ties.

Later I will try to get into more detail about all this, which figures in the promotion and ultimate victory of UOJ - forgiveness without faith.

Virtual Tour of Creation Museum - Observe Every Denomination Involved in This Ecumenical Endeavor

Answers in Genesis Museum, aka Creation Museum.
Cost - $27 million.

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Virtual Tour of the Creation Museum--a 360 wrap around photo of every room:
http://creationmuseum.org/whats-here/photo-preview/

Here is the Wiki tour.

Ken Ham

He appears to be Baptist - hard to tell - with a "ministry."

Reaching Out to Southern Baptists

ShareThis Published on June 15, 2011 in Current Issues in the World and Ministry Updates.

Answers in Genesis has the opportunity this week to promote our ministry at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist convention—being held in Phoenix, Arizona. We have a display on the Ark Encounter project, along with various resources we are giving away to pastors and other Christian leaders in attendance. We are handing out copies of ourAlready Gone and Already Compromised books, plus a variety of creation-apologetics booklets. It’s all a part of our mission to equip leaders in the church.

Our two staff out there (David Chakranarayan and Jason Nave) have told me they have been blessed to hear testimonies from several people who have expressed their thanks for our ministry—enabling them to defend the Christian faith in today’s world. A typical comment they heard goes something like this: ”The ministry of Answers in Genesis has changed my life . . . our family’s life . . . our church . . . ” and so on.

Dave Menton belongs to the CLC (sic), which opposes ecumenism,
except when it is involved in ecumenism.
Menton was very much opposed to publishing in Christian News,
until he began publishing in Christian News.

July 16, 2012 to July 20, 2012 in Branson, MO

with Ken Ham, Dr. Tommy Mitchell, Dr. Georgia Purdom, Dr. Andrew Snelling, Buddy Davis, Dr. David Menton, Mike Riddle, Dr. Terry Mortenson, Bodie Hodge, Steve Ham, Jason Lisle.

More Plagiarism from Paul McCain, MDiv

http://cyberbrethren.com/2012/04/20/commemoration-of-john-bugenhagen-pastor/

"His" post on his blog, linked on LaughQuest.

http://lutherimwald.wordpress.com/category/bugenhagen/ - the original post.

This looks like another verbatim copy. See for yourself.

I see nothing wrong with cloning an entire post, if the original author is clearly identified and his contributions are acknowledged with the right editorial formatting.

This is disgraceful, to pretend to be writing Cyberbrethren posts while copying them from other sources. But he is busy ordering people NOT to quote me or link me. I wonder why. The guilty runs when no one pursues. He startles at the sound of rustling leaves.

Big shot!

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McCain has some interesting fellowship principles. Quote and link to the Antichrist all you want, but the same is verboten when it comes to Dr. Jackson. Dr. Jackson is worse than the Antichrist it seems.

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GJ - Bruce, you are the only person who imagines that Paul has principles.

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Why the WELS and LCMS don't grow. The UOJ doctrine makes them too close to the reformed doctrinally. I just rec'd an email where former WELS members who moved out east reported there was no WELS church in the area, so they checked out an LCMS church. The service was "pretty bad," the liturgy was "horrible," and the sermon was "uninspiring". The pastor joked around with the elders during communion. (Sounds like UOJ antinomianism at work, to me.) Having so quickly given up on the WELS and LCMS, they are checking out a Presbyterian church, and reported that "the reformed Presbyterian church (PCA) beliefs match up quite closely to the
Wisconsin Synod Lutheran" synod. Since they had a good experience with the PCA, they think that maybe "other [Reformed] conservative churches" like the Reformed Methodist and Reformed Baptists might be equally acceptable, but they haven't checked any of those out yet.

So you can see what is going on--the Lutherans copied the Reformed righteousness before faith concept, but not their limited atonement concept which puts the brakes on the antinomianism that righteousness before faith implies. Double-predestination also puts on the brakes, but only very conservative Reformed groups believe in DP. Anyway, that's why the Reformed have more gravitas than most Synodical Conference antinomians. Any gravitas the Synodical Conference had was a hold over from the days before they adopted UOJ.

This Is How I Feel When Kelming Luther's Sermons for Everyone To Use

Report of the Twelve Apostles, WELS. Glad They Were Not Around in the Early Days

"Be it further resolved...
What do you mean, one of us went to state prison?
And the Director of Communications did what?"

Time of Grace
The convention last summer acknowledged that the situation with Time of Grace and its status as a “Recognized Service Organization” (RSO) of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) was a source of some concern and confusion. The convention encouraged Time of Grace in its ministry of gospel proclamation; at the same time it expressed support for the Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium in its continuing efforts to bring the matter to a God-pleasing resolution.

The Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium reported its progress to the COP in October 2011. On the basis of conversations with Time of Grace and the LCMS official in charge of RSOs, the Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium reported to the COP that it determined that the relationship was not a violation of fellowship principles, since the LCMS and Time of Grace understood the wording in the RSO definition to mean something different than the words say. It was the understanding of Time of Grace that the publicly stated requirements for an RSO to be in agreement with LCMS doctrine and practice and to commit to fostering the mission and ministry of the LCMS did not really mean what a WELS person would understand the words to mean, and that the LCMS was making no requirements of Time of Grace to alter its message to conform in any way to LCMS doctrinal positions.

"Guard and protect the rot we have passed down to you,
thou founder of Church and Change."

In spring 2012, the Southeastern Wisconsin District presidium, along with President Mark Schroeder, met with leaders of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod to clarify how the LCMS defines and understands the Recognized Service Organization status. The LCMS explained that the published guidelines defining the relationship are intended to be used by the LCMS in evaluating organizations for this status and that the guidelines do not require an organization to change its message or its program to comply. It was this understanding that led Time of Grace and the presidium of the Southeastern Wisconsin District to conclude that the RSO status did not represent a violation or compromise of biblical fellowship principles.

The LCMS officials also reported that they are currently in the process of reviewing the entire RSO program with the intention of developing new requirements and guidelines. From what was said, the new guidelines may include requirements that would make it no longer possible for a WELS organization to have RSO status. Once those requirements have been adopted, Time of Grace has indicated that it will evaluate what is being required and take the appropriate steps.

Patterson's outreach to gangs has yielded these recent converts.

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They would be more honest to maintain the mantra of their Synod Leader, Mark Jeske WELS/ELS/LCMS/ELCA, and refer to their group as Change Or Die.

Noticed that Jeff Gunn continues to teach (W)ELS sheep following his 2011 Youth Rally pied pipering:
Establishing a Vision for the Future, with Buy-In
Pastor Jeff Gunn of Cross Walk Church in Phoenix

As difficult as it may be to say, it's getting hard to think of (W)ELS leadership as crassly impotent and simply come away with the conclusion that they are intentionally enabling the New Age Emergent false teachers to lead their churches glibly into the Last Days.

Buckets of shame they heap upon themselves, from clergy worshiping with Baptists and Methodists, clergy learning evangelism from Satanic New Age motivational speakers, financing ELCA called worker abortions through Thrivent, financing the New World Order religion, the UN's United Religions Initiative (URI) through Thrivent, Change or Die seminars given by Synod cross dresser and (W)ELS Media celebrity Pastor Mark Jeske, unconditionally forgiven homosexual child pedophile (W)ELS Communications Director Hochmuth ...

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GJ - Hochmuth's name does not appear in the report. Remember how Schroeder and Otten went Medieval on me about the MLC gay video? Otten apologized to WELS for printing the truth. Soon after the Hochmuth scandal broke and page-reads doubled for a long, long time. The video continued to be posted on Facebook on its own page. Now it is gone, but replaced by two more copies posted by fans. Here is a message posted on that page:

A request from one of the originators of the video, and from all the guys in the video...I don't know who the administrator of this group is, or who created it, but it's time to get rid of this group, especially since the video is still posted on it. The video was removed from YouTube for a reason...because we didn't want the video open to public viewing. It puts those of us in the video in a bad light, and we don't want it posted anywhere, anymore. So please, if you are the administrator, or know who the administrator is, please remove this page and the video from Facebook. Thank you!

One comment below:
Hank Williams hmmm and when did that happen? After Hochmuth was arrested for distributing child porn? You should really think how your actions can lead others into sin ans stop hiding behind the 8th commandment. No one would have anything to say if you'd used your other head and thought through what the ramifications were goig to be. And BTW it doesn't just put you in a bad light - it harms MLC and WELS. No shortage of stupid here?! Right.

Response:
Troy Schreiner You're right, sir. It was a mistake. It doesn't make it an excuse that it was a dumb thing we did in college, and we didn't think it through. It was a poor decision, and we now regret it, which is why we've been working to get it taken off of every public venue since it first happened. We have repented and asked for forgiveness for what we did and haven't "hidden behind the 8th commandment" at all. It does put our school and our synod in a bad light....which I reiterate is why we're trying to get rid of it, so it isn't available for people to see anymore. As I said, we've apologized, we've repented, and we've been forgiven by our God and by those we've apologized to. Hope you can do the same, Mr. Williams.

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GJ - Obviously people made copies of the video and it will never go away. Martin Luther College is completely lacking in faculty supervision. The college students were angered that I posted objections to their gay plagiarism and they grudgingly said they would forgive me! The objections came from WELS members and several WELS pleas are still on that special FB page of theirs.

SP Schroeder's claim in Christian News that the video was taken down is ridiculous for anyone under nursing home age. The video was linked to many different gay websites, and the people they copied were flattered by the imitation.

The MLC guys should apologize for lying about not knowing the original was a gay video. That also seems to come from the locked ward of the nursing home. "Hey Maude, look at those Lutheran boys dancing around like girls."

One person on the FB page asked:

Anita Hardkak shared a link.

August 8, 2010

Did they steal your idea for this vid? It's remarkably similar. Also, it's odd that FIP is a gay retreat camp, isn't it?

Party in the FIP / Party in the USA / MUSIC VIDEO

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Music Video to Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" Filmed with my Flip Video mino HD

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Anita Hardkak or like a gay beach?

August 8, 2010 at 7:27pm · 

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..."did not really mean what a WELS person would understand"... "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is"-Bill Clinton. When did Bill Clinton become WELS?

Dropbox versus Google

Dropbox is safer than photographing lightning.

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DropBox is a "cloud" type application of the internet, and Google wants a piece of the "cloud" action:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/47174300

Google's long-awaited entry is sure to raise questions about the immediate future of Dropbox, its startup rival in the space. Google intends to drop the digital hammer on Dropbox with cut-rate pricing, too. While Dropbox charges $10 a month for 50 GB, Google intends to sell 100 GB for $4.99 a month.

Drive is also offering consumers 5 GB of free storage — more than twice the 2 GB of free storage offered by Dropbox.

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"Ma, he's making eyes at me."

GJ - I am a contented user of Dropbox. If you want an invitation to get the free software, drop me (har har) a line at gregjackson1948@qwest.net. Send me the email address you want me to use and I will invite you via their server.

I now have 8.8 gigs of FREE space because I invite people and do other things (take the tour, install on my other computer) to increase the FREE space.

I have used it often. That is how I manage to publish all my books as PDFs for free. The link is on the left for every single one. That uses the public Dropbox function, which does not require the end user to have Dropbox.

I also used it to share photos. The sharing can be public or it can be with a limited group of people, defined by their emails.

My Moline classmate got me to start it. We were in the same chem-physics class in high school. Three of us earned PhDs from that one classroom: one in math, one in rocket science, one in theology.

LaughQuest Hypocrisy about McCain's Plagiarism

In Honor of Walther's 200th birthday - another cover-up.

Maybe my eyes have failed me. I looked several times on LaughQuest for Paul McCain's link to Cyberbrethren, the post where he copied verbatim from the Catholic Encyclopedia.

The Cyberbrethren post is still up.

Where are those bullies and thugs who beat up people who stand for justification by faith? They have no shame in their attacks on anyone who does not follow the unwritten rules of their little club.

I never saw a more maladroit bunch of misfits and misanthropes. They were all over me about graduating from Notre Dame with a PhD in theology, until I listed all the Ft. Wayne faculty who did the same thing. Not one of the LQ regulars has a graduate degree. They think an MDiv from a parochial school is a big deal.

Some people call the behavior at LaughQuest a symptom of the Imposter Syndrome. They want to be bigshots, as long as they do not have to do any work. They have the typical characteristics of the false teacher, which I am going to illustrate in the near future.

Summary: LaughQuest is against promoting Roman Catholicism, unless one of their inept members does it himself.

Wisconsin Lutheran College - Paul Kelm's Latest Church and Change Conference

Wisconsin Lutheran College:

2012 Leadership Conference Agenda

Friday, June 8 (morning)

Opening Worship

Plenary Session Presentations: "Leadership Roles and Relationships in the Church"

• Pastoral Leadership, a biblical and practical overview
  Dr. Allen Sorum of Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary
• Lay Leadership, a biblical and practical overview
  Mr. Mark Massman, South Atlantic District representative to the WELS Synodical Council
• Issues of Tension and Opportunity, led by a panel of WELS leaders
  Lay Leaders Matt Trotter, Dave Schoeneck, and Kris Metzger, with Pastor David Kehl

Friday, June 8 (afternoon)

Seminar Sessions: "Leadership Skills for a 21st Century Church" (choose three)

• Defining Current Reality so that People Get It
  Pastor Elton Stroh of Crossroads Consulting
• Establishing a Vision for the Future, with Buy-In
  Pastor Jeff Gunn of Cross Walk Church in Phoenix
• Strategic Planning: Getting from Here to There
  Mr. Mark Wrightsman, President and CEO of PaR Systems in the Twin Cities
• Recruiting and Mentoring Volunteers
  Mr. Bill Meier, Director of WELS Kingdom Workers
• Team Building
  Mr. Rick Loewen, Director of Cross Train Ministries
• Dealing with Disagreement
  Pastor Charles Degner, Minnesota District President
• Assessment and Accountability
  Pastor Mark Henrich and Mr. Al Greschner of Atonement Lutheran Church in Milwaukee

Friday, June 8 (evening)

Networking fellowship, sharing common problems and successes, according to the size or situation of congregation

Saturday, June 9 (morning)

Opening Worship

Plenary Session Presentation: "Jesus' Mission in my Situation," introducing the importance of implementing leadership principles in a congregation's specific ministry context.
Pastor Jon Hein of Beautiful Savior Lutheran in Summerville, SC and chairman. of the WELS Commission on Congregational Counseling

Workshop Sessions: "Processing Principles – How Leaders Address Areas of Ministry" (choose two)

• Community Outreach
  Pastor Matt Vogt of Water of Life Lutheran Church in Las Vegas
• Children's Ministry that Connects
  Mrs. Cindi Holmen, WELS Coordinator for Early Childhood Ministry
• Leading the Lutheran School through a Time of Change
  Mr. Phil Leyrer, Principal of Siloah Lutheran School in Milwaukee
• Connecting Adults through Small Groups
  Bob and Karen Zastrow of Grace Lutheran Church in Milwaukee
• Ministries of Compassion for Hurting People
  Pastor Paul Kelm of Wisconsin Lutheran College
• A Fresh Look at Financial Support
  Pastor Ken Fisher, Director of Mission Advancement at Wisconsin Lutheran High School
• Leading Worship for the People You Want to Serve
  Pastor Aaron Christie of Trinity Lutheran in Waukesha, WI and member of the WELS Commission on Worship

Wrap-Up Open Forum (Quo Vadis) and Closing Devotion

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April 26, 2012



 2012 Leadership Conference - Register Today!
 “Leading Together  to Advance Christ's Kingdom” is a conference for pastors and lay
  leaders pursuing a biblical, honest, and practical approach to enhancing their  partnership in the church’s   mission.

 The conference is hosted  by Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee on June  8 and 9, in consultation with Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary and the WELS  Commission on Congregational Counseling.

 The agenda and registration  are  available online.

 The cost of $75 per person until May 15 ($100  thereafter) includes meals and materials.

 Plenary sessions will be led by Dr. Allen Sorum of Wisconsin Lutheran


 Seminary, Mark Massman of the WELS Synodical Council, and Pastor Jon Hein from

 the Commission on Congregational Counseling. A panel comprised of lay leaders

 Matt Trotter, Dave Schoeneck, and Kris Metzger and Pastor David Kehl will tackle

 the tough issues of partnership among pastors and lay leaders.

Give Stroh some credit - he was part of the team that shut down the Latte Church,
the one with this logo - a cross resting in a mug of coffee.
I call that a real turn-around.

 Seminars will teach leadership skills such as  defining reality, establishing a vision, strategic planning, recruiting volunteers,  team building, and more by people who’ve done it, including Pastors Elton
 Stroh, Jeff Gunn, and Mark Henrich, District President Charles Degner, CEO Mark  Wrightsman, and church leaders Bill Meier, Rick Loewen, and Al Greschner.

 Workshops that apply leadership principles to  critical areas of the church’s work, such as community outreach, worship,  children’s ministry, group life, compassion, and financial support will  be led by Pastors Matt Vogt, Aaron Christie, Ken Fisher, and Paul Kelm, teachers

 Cindi Holman and Phi Leyrer, and lay leaders Bob and Karen Zastrow.

 There  will be opportunities to network with Church and Change leaders in congregations like yours.

 Register a team from your congregation today.




 Rev. Paul  Kelm
 Center for Church and Change in Exile
 Wisconsin Lutheran College


 Wisconsin Lutheran College
 8800 West Bluemound Road Milwaukee, WI 53226
 Phone (414)

 443-8800 | Fax (414) 443-8514
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