Mulch, Water, Rain, Rain, Rain, But I Pruned the Crepe Myrtle First

The first bloom in 2018.

The Mother of All Crepe Myrtles was in full bloom not too long ago, and the compound blossoms were bigger than ever before. Seeing the petals fall off on the ground, I knew that seeds would be forming soon.

It took me four days to clip all the seedy flower heads off the bush. The glorious blossoms became part of the mulch below. But I had a plan.

The easy part was pruning. John 15 - the fruitful branches are cleansed to make them even more fruitful. I look over my neighbor's efforts to see how I am doing in comparison. Theirs are still colorful but about 50% in seeds. Mine have just a hint of flowers now but 100% budded. Soon mine will burst into bloom again, in radiant color - while they others become 100% seed.

The second most senior Crepe Myrtles are red/white picotee plants, and they formed flowers and seeds. I pruned those for that other beneficial effect of trimming. When roses and Crepe Myrtles are pruned, the branches and roots are energized to grow. Newcomers to gardening ask about fertilizers; veterans prune.

Crepe Myrtles are similar to roses. Many side shoots or suckers can be trimmed away to encourage more plant and root growth. That also serves to shape the plant. I enjoy doing some trimming and weeding each day. When it has rained hard, I enjoy skipping the chores for a day or two.

Too Much Rain - Like an Overabundance of Grace
We have enjoyed five inches of rain in two days, with more on the way. The rain barrels and buckets are full and overflowing.

That reminds me of growing up in Moline, with liturgical Lutheran services everywhere. Everyone took for granted - pipe organs, choirs, classic hymns, the Biblical liturgy and creeds, and Scriptural sermons. No one was around to tell us how horrible those practices were.

There is a simple yet beautiful description of the Word and Sacraments - they are the Means (or Instruments) of Grace. Does anyone seek forgiveness and peace? They only need to rely on those Means, the only ones used by God.

Another description is also significant. Teaching and preaching are the Invisible Word; the Sacraments are the Visible Word. God has bound His Spirit to His Word, whether invisible or visible. That is why the Enthusiasts get so bungled up in their thinking. Some imagine that grace is tied to feelings. If someone feels forgiven, he is forgiven. But what happens when that feeling is gone? It is far better to base forgiveness on something eternal and changless - the Word of God.

The Enthusiasts imagine the Means of Grace hamper and limit God. But they are the ones always filling the world with books, essays, posts, and texts, saying "The Word of God is not effective, but our word is." They criticize the Means of Grace and anyone who relies on them.

Curiously, the ones who love to read the works of Enthusiasm also speak and write as Enthusiasts. They are so lost in their hall of mirrors that they assign grace to the entire world. "Everyone is forgiven and saved, end of story" - they claim.

All the cannibals here and abroad are forgiven and saved? Yes, they think so.

The polytheists can have a group of gods they favor, all pagan, some very scary. Those people are forgiven and saved too? Yes, they love to assert that, without anyone asking.

All the modern theologians agree with this, so it must be true. If one reads Barth/Kirschbaum closely, in Dogmatics, II, 2, he finds the "restoration of the world" since Jesus is the Elect One. The LCMS is lucky, because their theologians - trained in Walther/Stephan - can easily see the magic of Barth/Kirschbaum, the burdens of the Means of Grace.

Therefore, since the Means of Grace are taken for granted, spoken against, and abused in so many ways, especially by the "conservative" Lutherans - the cheap substitutes they are offer provide no grace, no truth, no efficacy at all.

Gideon Drops a Line Since SpenerQuest Is Offering Free Rent for My Little Blog at Their Skunk Patch. They Need To Study the Scriptures and Luther

A few posts make the UOJ Stormtroopers stampede like Brownies encountering a spider.

Pastor,

I read the recent posts on UOJ, and I always wonder, why?  Why do they try too hard to make this UOJ/OJ/SJ harmonize with Scripture and Lutheranism in general.

I used to believe that it was to somehow protect the work of Christ and fend off Arminianism.  But, why bother since we already have Universal Atonement?  Doesn't make sense.

I honestly believe that most folks, especially lay people pay lip service to UOJ/OJ/SJ without knowing what it really means, but to those who vigorously defend it--  I say they do so out of cowardice and unbelief.  As you said yourself that you endorse "...the efficacy of the Word, the Means of Grace, and Justification by Faith."  These all fit together.

This is where unbelief plays a role.  If one has no faith in the Efficacy of the Word (and consequently The Means of Grace), then one would certainly be tempted to "sell their argument" or "sell the Gospel."  How sweet would UOJ be if one were to peddle that to sell the Gospel.  "You've won $1,000,000!  You're justified! You're good!"  They just don't ever talk about their fine print SJ.  That's just legalese to them.

UOJ is an easy sell because there's no law to preach, just decide to believe and sanctify.  This way they can kinda have it both ways.  But all they really do is cheapen grace.  Small law, small god, easy sell.

But, it's not about the sale.  It's about the Efficacy of the Word.  There is no sale.

If they believed in the Efficacy of the Word and the Means of Grace, they wouldn't have to resort to UOJ or hedging their bets.  They could simply trust that God will do what he says he'll do (Isaiah 55:10-11), and if their institutions aren't included in his plan for history...so be it because that's what faith does.  "O God, this looks really bad.  I think I'll die for sure, but I trust in you."  c.f. Daniel 3 - The Fiery Furnace.

SDG,

Gideon

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GJ - I appreciate their efforts in sending people to this blog and waking Lutherans up to their foul errors. Every day I have a lecture hall with thousands of readers. Our free worship services have "21,486 TOTAL VIEWS."

I have not seen anything serious from them, even though I took the time - which I enjoyed - going over Romans 4 and 5 in Greek and English. Since they make their beds in those verses and fall asleep dreaming of Halle and the earlier, halcyon days with Huber, they must be irritable, lacking in sleep, or suffering from withdrawal of various substances.

The Unified Truth of the Scriptures - Another Refutation of UOJ

KJV Acts 13:38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

39 And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

NIV Acts 13:38 “Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 

39 Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.

13:38 γνωστον ουν εστω υμιν ανδρες αδελφοι οτι δια τουτου υμιν αφεσις αμαρτιων καταγγελλεται

39 και απο παντων ων ουκ ηδυνηθητε εν τω νομω μωσεως δικαιωθηναι εν τουτω πας ο πιστευων δικαιουται.

Sent by a reader.

Rolf Really Needs To Study His Father's Book, But He Should Start with the Large Catechism

 I realize this is irrelevant for those on SpenerQuest.

Pastor Rolf David Preus (Rolf) Senior Member Username: Rolf Post Number: 9819 Registered: 5-2001

Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 10:22 am:       I should also point out that Jackson has falsely stated numerous times that my father abandoned the doctrine of objective justification before he died. He appeals to his book, Justification and Rome, in which he set forth the historic Lutheran doctrine of justification using the terms that the Lutheran dogmaticians used. Jackson imagines that since the 17th century dogmaticians didn't articulate objective justification by using the same language as the 19th and 20th century theologians of the Synodical Conference, this must mean that the 17th century theologians taught a different doctrine than we who use the terms objective justification and subjective justification teach. He interprets my father setting forth the 17th century theologians' teaching in their own language as my father abandoning his life-long teaching of objective justification. What Jackson demonstrates is not that the 17th century Lutherans taught differently than the 19th and 20th century theologians of the Synodical Conference, but rather the rigidity of his own thinking. To understand theology, we must know how to express the same truth with different words. When Jackson accuses my father of changing his doctrine on this critical topic he bears false witness against him.

 Rolf Preus agreed with Chapter Five of Thy Strong Word, when I sent it to him. Shortly after, he said he had the entire book (when nobody did) and it was full of false doctrine. He was the one who asked for the chapter, and I sent it to him by email. Later he wanted the whole book. Ha!

Let me briefly rehearse Robert Preus on Justification. Robert posted a bizarre and foolish little essay endorsing Objective Justification, which Ft. Wayne bullies Cascione and McCain have cited to prove that Robert Preus taught OJ.

Here is my post from 2011 on Preus' change in position.

Jack Cascione boasted here about his significant role at Ft. Wayne and his expertise in OJ. This post includes the Preus essay.

ELDONA, which is 95% Ft. Waynian, switched from OJ to Justification and Rome.

Another Preus on the warpath is posted here.

John Sparky Brenner on Election without Faith, which is another way of arguing Justification without Faith.

Robert Preus' Shift from Objective Justification
Rolf has a way of amusing people about his doctrinal blindness. The essay which he, Cascione, and McCain adore is pure OJ rubbish - laughable in every possible way. I wrote a critique of it, but I have lost the blog link for now.

At one point I had a Robert Preus typescript essay where he quoted OJ arguments and also the critiques which I copied from his last book, Justification and Rome.

I carefully read Justification and Rome and copied the citations from Quenstedt and Calov and Preus! which destroy OJ.  In his last work, which was probably much better before his sons mangled it, Robert was 99% Justification by Faith and 1% OJ.

 Bishop Heiser and the Pope of All Synods worked closely together - until they no longer did.

Rolf is constantly stirred up because I wonder about him being bedfellows with a self-appointed OJ/JBF bishop and the self-appointed dogma-shifting bishop for being bedfellows with Rolf.

Disagreeing with Rolf is not the same as slander, which he would know if he comprehended the Book of Concord. Nor do I consider his careful, nuanced mistakes as slander against me.

My only goal is to get Lutherans to study Biblical doctrine from the ruling norm (not from Stephan's pimp) - and from the ruled norm, the Book of Concord. (PS - It is not slander if it is true - Walther backed a promiscuous, syphilitic, abusive man as bishop. Recent history tells me that is one way to become a bishop.)

Readers can judge for themselves whether Justification by Faith or Objective Justification without Faith is Biblical. I would write less about OJ if the Stormtroopers did not obsess about it, offer absurd syllogisms to support it, and invent personal attacks to support their grace-filled ministries.

"SpenerQuest is pacified once again, Cardinal.
Now we will work on the rest of Lutherdom."

The Essaence of Calvinism - Supplanting Luther - Controls Theology Today

John Calvin passed himself as Lutheran for a time,
like the Synodical Conference Lutherans of today -
who gladly work with ELCA.
Future book - Calvin Ruined the Protestant Faith.

Here are some brief points about Calvin and Calvinism, which explain so much of what is happening today.

1. Calvin was an Enthusiast, like Zwingli before him - separating the Holy Spirit from the Word. Zwingli was fairly stupid and mocking, but Calvin was more sophisticated in his mockery.
2. Calvin apperded to agree with the Lutheran Reformation, signing the Augsburg Confession, but clearly deviated from it and proposed his own views.
3. Calvin argued that a sermon, a baptism, or Holy Communion would be ineffective if the Holy Spirit did not drop by. 
4. Likewise, he made his Double Predestination a completed transaction, so there is no connection between the sermon, faith, and salvation, contrary to Romans 10.
5. Calvinism is overly fond of philosophical disputes, which drove the Lutherans into countering Calvin with their own ornate and opaque arguments. That led to Pietism.
6. The precious categories of Objective Justification and Subjective Justification were canonized in the very popular lectures of Knapp, a Pietist. But the explanation comes from a Calvinist translator. No problem! Walther liked the labels and the Synodical Conference adopted these labels, where they are official dogma today.
7. Mrs. Matt the Fatt explained to me that "there is Objective Justification and Subjective Justification."
8. Just as Calvin sought to replace Luther, so his disciples seek to replace Luther's doctrine with their Calvinistic categories, chiefly Objective Justification, the favorite of Jay Webber, Rolf Preus, Mark Zarling, David Valleskey, Herman Otten, John Moldstad, Frosty Bivens, and other illiterates.
9. Just as Calvin's Double Predestination is central to his teaching, so is OJ central to the Synodical Conference dogma. Because SJ is simply another statement about OJ, the great and wise have little to say about SJ.
10. Cults spring from Calvinism the way mold grows from damp and dark environs. 
11. Modern theology is inherently Calvinistic in its rationalism and hatred of Luther's Biblical teaching, Justification by Faith being central to Luther and the Book of Concord.
12. Modern theology likes to play with words and concepts, starting with Biblical words but having flights of fancy, inevitably ending in a dramatic display of atheistic dogmatism, i. e. Barth's theology as promoted in all the best schools and Fuller Seminary.

 "Stick with me Charlotte," he whispered, and ve vill rule da vorld!"

First, Remove the Walther-LCMS Mythology

 The LCMS celebrated the 200th anniversary of Walther's birth with various efforts suggesting his infallibility, omnipotence, and omniscience. Compare that lengthy and solemn celebration and consider Missouri mocking Luther with gimmicks like the Reformation dog collar, a few years later.

Various points are good to remember when people act as if Walther is the final word on theological issue:

1. Walther only earned a bachelor's degree at a rationalistic university, Leipzig, and he was certified by the state church's rationalistic supervisors. His clergy father was also a rationalist. Did Walther have two stories - one for those who gave him a call and another for his cell group?
2. Walther's additional training consisted of his submission to one abusive, Pietistic guru and then a second abusive Pietistic cult leader - Martin Stephan.
3. Walther served as the enforcer in the clergy group that followed Stephan, yet Stephan's adultery with young women was never an object of concern until it suited Walther and his pals. Then they organized a riot that threatened, robbed, and kidnapped Stephan.
4. Stephan, like Jim Heiser, made himself a bishop and had his clergy followers - including Walther - sign the document.
5. Walther and his clergy friends were schocked, schocked that Stephan was an adulterer, even though their bishop left his wife and kids in Europe and took his mistress Louise Guenther on the same ship with him to America.
6. Walther and his brother kidnapped their niece and nephew from their father's parsonage. Their excuse was pathetic - the kids wanted to go to America. According to Zion on the Mississippi, other minors went along, and the Stephanites rejoiced. The police sought Walther, to arrest him, but he let his future mother-in-law go to jail instead while he sailed to America.
7. Stealing Bishop Martin Stephan's land, money, books, and personal possessions benefited the cult enormously; few of us remember those measures being part of the disciplinary measures used against a sinner.
8. Walther feigned great humility but went on to be in charge of everything.
9. How did such an expert in theology choose Baier to be the norm of Lutheran theology? - Walther as editor, naturally. Baier was far removed from the Reformation and the Book of Concord era.
10. When we start with Walther, Baier, and their loyalists, how soon do we get to Luther, Melanchthon, and Chemnitz? Never.

Polemics Are Good When the Other Side Has Some Ammunition

Surely the Jack Pack knows more than an editor of the Book of Concord!

A few illiterates object to my polemics, where I endorse the efficacy of the Word, the Means of Grace, and Justification by Faith. They cry like Brownies caught in a thunderstorm, never thinking they have a life-long hatred for Justification by Faith, while they cling to the opposite - Objective Justification. They are at war against Biblical doctrine.

They try to be polemicists (based on the Greek word for war), but they have no ammunition. For example, a good polemicist knows the other side and carefully portrays that as a position to oppose. The UOJ Salesmen do not even start, perhaps because their Spidey sense tells them they are not arguing with me, but with the Book of Concord, the Lutheran Reformation, and the Scriptures.

Notice how seldom they make a case from the Scriptures. More like never. They repeat single verses as if that one verse clinches their case. The strangest is Romans 4:25, omitting the verse before. LCMS Pastor Steve Flo is so opposed to Romans 4:24 that he rephrased it as "If we believed we are already forgiven..." Rolf has given up on exclamations of "Raised for our justification!" because I have shown repeatedly how Romans 4 is a short, perfect essay on Justification by Faith, with Abraham as the star.

Now Rolf is on a new toot - Election without Faith, which John Sparky Brenner correctly identified as an OJ strategy. Brenner is still a false teacher advocating OJ and refusing to say Justification by Faith. However, he is an exception to the norm - OJ advocates shamelessly lying.

 So WELS-ELCA-LCMS-ELS-CLC, so goofy.

What comes through so clearly is the UOJ hated for faith and their love of rationalism. Rather than starting with the Scriptures, they begin with "If this is true, then..." Like statistics, anyone can do anything with such arguments.

The latest Rolf effort, Election without Faith, is his lame attempt to push OJ forward while hiding the agenda.

 What was Rolf Preus gaining from palling around with a
self-appointed bishop? Why was Jim Heiser against OJ and yet seeking fellowship with Mr. OJ?
"Guilty feet have got no rhythm."

Cardinal Jack Cascione's Version of the Chief Article of Christianity

  Walther was poorly educated in theology and the Biblical languages - which is why Ft. Wayne graduates lap up his dogma.

On SpenerQuest
Many people, including myself, have a long standing scriptural disagreement with Greg Jackson on the Doctrine of Objective Justification. It permeates his entire thought process. If forgiveness did not exist before faith, there would be nothing to believe in and no reason to convert to Christianity. What should we say, "Be a Christian and we have a big surprise for you?"

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GJ - Someone should give Jack a D.D. - Doctor of Deflection. Rather than stay on the topic - which concerns publishing libel and getting him into legal trouble for owning the site - Cascione squeezed out a joke worthy of Scaer.

Cascione cannot say the words - Justification by Faith - although Paul always taught the Chief Article and never departed from it.

Notice that His Eminence stooped to beg the question - "If forgiveness did not exist before faith" - which is an awkward way to arrive at his parody of Christian theology. He finished his tour de farce with a straw man fallacy.

Cascione is another Ft. Wayne bully who wants to teach the world without knowing Luther, the Book of Concord, or the Scriptures. Some other notables from The Fort are:

• Rolf Preus
• Jay Webber
• Paul McCain
• Jim Heiser.

 Didn't Andreae start the Book of Concord?
Too bad Cardinal Jack was not around then to burn him at the stake.

The Cardinal Has Spoken...On SpenerQuest. Anonymous Libel Is Prohibited - And Also Very Expensive

 Even Cardinals consult their lawyers.

Pastor Cascione (Cardinal) Intermediate Member Username: Cardinal Post Number: 410 Registered: 11-2004

Posted on Monday, July 16, 2018 - 4:44 pm:       Dear Luther Quest Participants: It is important that we follow the guidelines. Rude name calling will not be tolerated on this board. This open forum permits the free exchange of ideas. The purpose of this board is to promote Lutheran dialogue. Many people, including myself, have a long standing scriptural disagreement with Greg Jackson on the Doctrine of Objective Justification. It permeates his entire thought process. If forgiveness did not exist before faith, there would be nothing to believe in and no reason to convert to Christianity. What should we say, "Be a Christian and we have a big surprise for you?" However, rudeness and name calling on this board will not be tolerated. Further outbursts will be result in expulsion from this board. Signed: The owner who just paid another $179.00 to keep this board online.

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GJ - I am giving them 30 days to publish an apology. Since they are addicted to grace, according to their stance, that should be no problem. Or, am I right in saying the UOJ Salesmen are Antinomian?

Jack Cardinal Cascione cannot bring himself to say Justification by Faith, but he does feel compelled to mock the Chief Article of Christianity.

Nor can he avoid the temptation of judging my thoughts and motivations.

Another Ft. Wayne conference on the Confessions!

Dragons and a Few Lizards Slain - Now Sending Out Luther's Sermons and Gems Mined from Luther's Sermons

 The Enthusiasts are sending more readers this way.
Here is my bio, which they posted.

I put off a number of things while finishing Luther's Sermons. New ones appeared at the same time, from medicine costs to other matters, all neatly entangled. Last Monday featured $500 stolen from my account, which I had to retrieve - and did.

I even had to decode the Amazon author's page for sending out titles at my cost. They do not assume a nine volume set is going to be listed.

Here is the short version on ordering Luther's Sermons and the Gems.

The 8 Volume Luther's Sermons are by default in black and white, which allows them to be priced at $5 each, without shipping and taxes.

The Gems Mined from Luther's Sermons (from all 8 volumes) is in color, because it is smaller: $10 without shipping and taxes.

Together, the cost is $70 at my cost, including the shipping and taxes: 8 volumes of Sermons, the complete Lenker set, plus some of the best quotations from each volume.

Kindle E-Books - most of the Kindle Sermons are 99 cents now. I am working with the finishing editor to keep those prices down to the lowest possible level. I thought I could get them to zero, but I am not sure. There will be a unified file of all 8 plus the Gems, God willing - free. All other books I publish, past and future, will be priced the same way on Kindle - the lowest possible.

My purpose is to distribute traditional Lutheran material as inexpensively as possible. Neglect of Luther is simply shameful today. The results are clear, from Fuller adoration to pilgrimages to Willow Creek to worshiping with Andy the Apostate Babtist. Didn't see that coming? Look at his daddy's marital record and discipleship under Dave (nee Paul) Y. Cho.

From Rev. Long via the Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry

Long's statement is true to Luther's sermons.
"The closer to Luther, the better the theologian." That is why we have so-called Lutherans repudiating him, which makes them bitter theologians all. They are only fighting over their Thrivent scraps now.

From Rev. Long:

 

(1) How often I have heard Sunday-school teachers talk about the Pharisee as though he were a mean, low man. I have heard ministers of the Gospel hold up the Pharisee as if he were the lowest of the low. No wonder that the people are misled in understanding the Scriptures. You take all the argument away from Jesus, if that were true. The real truth is that the scribes and Pharisees were considered the best people that lived on God's earth in the days of Christ. Who were the scribes? Why, they were the men of God who copied the Old Testament for the people; they were the men who interpreted God's Word, and read it in the synagogues; they were the people who taught theology; they were the people to whom every one looked for advice in the things that pertained to sacred things. And who were the Pharisees? When I study the history of the Pharisee closely, I discover that he got his name from the enemy and did not give it to himself. The Pharisees were a people who dated back to the Babylonian captivity and became national in reputation between the second and first centuries before Christ; they were a people who had the utmost respect and love for God's holy law, written and oral; they were a people who were so far above the average in their piety that the enemy looked at them, and said, "Look at the separatists" – and that is the very meaning of the word Pharisee; they were a people who felt that they were too noble and too good to associate with the low trash of the country; they were a people who were educated and had no use for ignorance, and tried their best to lift the people up to their own level; they were the people who were orthodox, in opposition to the Sadducees, who were infidelic, who did not believe in the resurrection of the body, what we would call in this day agnostic. The Pharisee did believe in the resurrection of the dead; he did believe in the holy angels; he did believe in a Judgment Day to come. They were the preservers of God's holy law, and the only reason that the Lord Jesus Christ called them hypocrites, was because they did not live according to the spirit of the law, as much as they did according to the oral form handed down by tradition, for in many respects the law of Jesus Himself commends the thing the Pharisee did, and the real truth is that Paul himself, one of the greatest of all men, was a student of Gamaliel, the Pharisee, and he called himself the Pharisee of Pharisees. Let us therefore not lose the argument that the Lord Jesus Christ gives us in this lesson today. He says this, "I am now talking to you, My disciples, in the presence of people known as the scribes and Pharisees; a people that are looked up to as the best people on God's earth, and I want to tell you, my dear friends, that this thing is true, that they are the best people on God's earth, as far as human righteousness is concerned; nevertheless, unless you have a righteousness that will exceed the righteousness of the best people that today are living, you cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven." There is a force in that argument that every man should take home to himself.

SpenerQuest Proves - "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid." (NIV)

 Acolite John

Dave Schumacher (Lex) Senior Member Username: Lex Post Number: 1222 Registered: 6-2003	Posted on Sunday, July 15, 2018 - 8:47 am:       "That the human race is truly redeemed and reconciled with God through Christ.." That IS objective justification. No more, no less.
Dave Schumacher (Lex) Senior Member Username: Lex Post Number: 1223 Registered: 6-2003	Posted on Sunday, July 15, 2018 - 8:54 am:       Because Christ redeemed the world, the world is reconciled to God. The world could not be reconciled to God if the world of sinners had not been forgiven by God.
Rick Strickert (Carlvehse) Senior Member Username: Carlvehse Post Number: 8265 Registered: 10-2003	Posted on Sunday, July 15, 2018 - 9:36 am:       Well, now Lufauxabod is asserting that Luther Quest incurs legal liability for suppo

Dave Schumacher (Lex) Senior Member Username: Lex Post Number: 1224 Registered: 6-2003	Posted on Sunday, July 15, 2018 - 9:54 am:       Why would anyone think that that is nuts?
AcolyteJohn (Acolyte) New member Username: Acolyte Post Number: 4 Registered: 7-2018	Posted on Sunday, July 15, 2018 - 4:06 pm:       Is anyone else amused by the high irony (not to mention hypocricy) of a man whose entire blog site is filled with libel getting his nose bent out of joint and claiming "libel"? Pot meet kettle.  LOL.

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GJ - One reader suggested Proverbs 12:1 for the SpenerQuest cell group. I used the NIV because it was written for a very low level of reading comprehension.

I pointed out they were quoting the Book of Concord and reading Ichabod (hourly!) - a good start.

I already talked to my attorney.