February 3, 2023 - Avelin

 

Only One Driveway Cleared - By the Oldest Resident in the Cul-de-Sac

 Minnesotans and South Dakotans know what a real snowstorm leaves behind.

I shocked the Walmart cashier today - "I am the oldest person on the cul-de-sac, and the only one with a cleared driveway." She was as shocked as I was.

We were responsible for cleared walks in Moline, and my parents encouraged me to do it for free. A pedestrian's slip on ice could have earned a ticket plus a great deal of disgust. "What's wrong with these lazy kids? In my day..."

In Arkansas, shoveling snow is considered a mental disorder. At a group meeting, when we first moved here, one man said, "I grew up in Arkansas. I DO NOT SHOVEL SNOW!" 

I already went to the gym today, so the idea of leaving slush, ice, and snow on the walks and driveway seemed a bit hypocritical. No one did the walks in the neighborhood, so I did mine plus another where the resident had just moved away.

Youth no longer mow lawns or shovel snow. 

Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - Lutheran Library Publishing Ministry - Alec Satin

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Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski Behind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann The Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope Of the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article] Lutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding

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Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski “The need of a more adequate exegetical-homiletical treatment of the ancient gospel and epistle selections has long been felt. The manager of the Lutheran Book Concern has commissioned the writer of these lines to meet this need.” — R.C.H. Lenski Hardback edition now available! “…all epistle texts are selections from letters directed to certain definite persons for a certain important spiritual purpose. What the preacher of today does is to place himself and his hearers in the light of some part of one of these imperishable letters, that now once more the original purpose of this part of the letter may be attained. When this fact is well understood, it will be easier to preach on epistle texts… The opinion that it is much harder to preach on the epistles of the Church Year than on the gospels is really not justified.” — R.C.H. Lenski Richard C. H. Lenski (1864-1936) is best known for his insightful and still invaluable series of New Testament Commentaries. He served as Professor of Theology at Capital University and President of the Western District of Joint Synod of Ohio and Editor Die Lutherische Kirchenzeitung. Level of Difficulty: Intermediate: Some subject matter knowledge helpful. Dr. Lenski’s sermons are found in these books: Gospel Selections of the Ancient Church. Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church. Eisenach Gospel Selections. Planned. Eisenach Epistle Selections. Eisenach Old Testament Selections. New Gospel Selections. Book Contents Index of Scripture Texts Contents Preface by Lutheran Librarian Introduction The Festival Half Of The Church Year From The First Sunday In Advent To The Festival Of The Trinity The Christian For Whom Salvation Has Been Wrought By The Lord The Christmas Cycle The First Sunday In Advent. Rom. 13:11-14 The Second Sunday In Advent. Rom. 15:4-13 The Third Sunday In Advent. 1 Cor. 4:1-5 The Fourth Sunday In Advent. Phil. 4:4-7 Christmas. Titus 2:11-14 The Sunday After Christmas. Gal. 4:1-7 The Circumcision Of Christ (New Year). Gal. 3:23-29 The Epiphany Cycle: The Christian’s Manifestation Of Epiphany Epiphany. Is. 60:1-6 The First Sunday After Epiphany. Rom. 12:1-5 The Second Sunday After Epiphany. Rom. 12:6-16 The Third Sunday After Eplphany. Rom. 12:17-21 The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany. Rom. 13:8-10 The Fifth Sunday After Epiphany. Col. 3:12-17 The Sixth Sunday After Epiphany. 2 Pet. 1:16-21 The Lenten Cycle Septuagesima. 1 Cor. 9:24-10:5 Sexagesima. 2 Cor. 11:19 To 12:9 Quinquagesima. 1 Cor. 13 Invocavit. 2 Cor. 6:1-10 Reminiscere. 1 Thess. 4:1-7 Oculi. Eph. 5:1-9 Laetare. Gal. 4:21-31 Judica. Heb. 9:11-15 Palm Sunday. Phil. 2:5-11 Thursday Of Holy Week. Maundy Thursday. 1 Cor. 11:23-32 Good Friday. Is. 52:13-53:12 The Easter Cycle Easter. 1 Cor. 5:6-8 Quasimodogeniti. 1 John V. 4-10 Misericordias Domini. 1 Pet. 2:21-25 Jubilate. 1 Pet. 2:11-20 The Pentecost Cycle Cantate. James 1:16-21 Rogate. James 1:22-27 Ascension Day. Acts 1:1-11 Exaudi. 1 Pet. 4:7-11 Pentecost. Acts 2:1-13 The Festival Of The Trinity. Rom. 11:33-36 The Non-Festival Half Of The Church Year The Twenty-Seven Sundays After Trinity The Christian In Whom Salvation is Wrought by the Lord The First After-Trinity Cycle The First Sunday After Trinity. 1 John 4:16-20 The Second Sunday After Trinity. 1 John 3:13-18 The Third Sunday After Trinity. 1 Pet. 5:6-11 The Fourth Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 8:18-23 The Fifth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Pet. 3:8-15 The Second After-Trinity Cycle The Sixth Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 6:3-11 The Seventh Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 6:19-23 The Eighth Sunday After Trinity. Rom. 8:12-17 The Ninth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 10:6-13 The Tenth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 12:1-11 The Eleventh Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 15:1-10 The Twelfth Sunday After Trinity. 2 Cor. 3:4-11 The Third After-Trinity Cycle The Thirteenth Sunday After Trinity. Gal. 3:15-22 The Fourteenth Sunday After Trinity. Gal. 5:16-24 The Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity. Gal. 5:25-6:10 The Sixteenth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 3:13-21 The Seventeenth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 4:1-6 The Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Cor. 1:4-9 The Fourth And Last After-Trinity Cycle The Nineteenth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 4:22-28 The Twentieth Sunday After Trinity. Eph. V. 15-21 The Twenty-first Sunday After Trinity. Eph. 6:10-17 The Twenty-second Sunday After Trinity. Phil. 1:3-11 The Twenty-third Sunday After Trinity. Phil. 3:17-21 The Twenty-fourth Sunday After Trinity. Col. 1:9-14 The Twenty-fifth Sunday After Trinity. 1 Thess. 4:13-18 The Twenty-sixth Sunday After Trinity. 2 Pet. 3:3-14 The Twenty-seventh Sunday After Trinity. 1 Thess. 5:1-11 The Festival Of The Reformation Rev. 14:6-7 The Mission Festival. Rom. 10:13-17 Copyright Notice Order a Printed Copy USA and world: Hardback: Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - “Lutheran Librarian” edition Canada: Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - “Lutheran Librarian” edition United Kingdom: Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - “Lutheran Librarian” edition Australia: Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - “Lutheran Librarian” edition Germany: Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski - “Lutheran Librarian” edition Download the eBook PDF Apple/Kobo EPUB Kindle AZW3 Legacy MOBI (If EPUB or AZW3 won’t work on your device) You can expect your book to arrive within a few hours. 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Epistle Selections of the Ancient Church by R.C.H. Lenski “The need of a more adequate exegetical-homiletical treatment of the ancient gospel and epistle selections has long been felt. The manager of the Lutheran Book Concern has commissioned the writer of these lines to meet this need.” — R.C.H. Lenski Hardback edition now available! “…all epistle texts are selections from letters directed to certain definite persons for a certain important spiritual purpose. What the preacher of today does is to place himself and his hearers in the light of ... Read more Behind the Dictators by Leo Lehmann “What the Catholic Church is hoping and working for… is the reestablishment… of the ‘Real State,’ a rigid hierarchical system wherein inferiors are subject to superiors. In this system each individual, like a cell in a body, must humbly submit to his fate and occupy his “natural place” which is allotted to him from birth and have no desire to get away from it. “This basis of social structure is not only anti-Jewish, but also anti-Protestant. It ... Read more The Letters of John Hus (Jan Hus) by Herbert B. Workman & R. Martin Pope “The Letters of Hus have long been recognized by the best judges as one of the world’s spiritual treasures. The discovery of Hus, if we may so express it, forms more than once a landmark in the spiritual development of Luther. “‘When I was a tyro at Erfurt,’ we read, ‘I found in the library of the convent a volume of The Sermons of John Hus. When I read the title I had a great curiosity to know what doctrines that heresiarch had propagated, since a volume like ... Read more Of the Church in General: The Lutheran View, Romish, Reformed by Guericke and Krauth [Journal Article] “The conception of the Evangelical Lutheran church proceeds from the inward spiritual essence of the church, as a communion of faith, love, the Holy Ghost, knit together by means of the word of God and the sacraments, but which also forms itself into a body in an outward manifestation. “In this outward manifestation, she is to be recognized by word and sacrament, as the outward conditions of what is within, and by confession, whose purity and unity, as in the case of word and ... Read more Lutheran Fundamentals: A Simple System of Scripture Truth with Applications for the Common Man by George Gerberding “The Church needs to restudy, to re-accept, to reaffirm, to re-experience justification by faith… Has not a large part of the Protestant Church practically lost this Reformation doctrine? …Is she not unconsciously drifting back into the old Romish heresy of justification by works, by service, by doing? Is she not, unconsciously perhaps, drifting into the Rationalistic and Unitarian idea of justification by self-made character? “The doctrine of justification by faith ... Read more Gospel Truths: Presenting Christ and the Christian Life by John Edwin Whitteker “This little volume of sermons has been prepared in response to repeated appeals from the people who heard them from the pulpit… they have been chosen from a cabinet of upwards of two thousand discourses. “In their preparation for pulpit use, two thoughts were constantly kept in mind: to preach Christ as the Way, the Truth, and the Life, with all their redemptive significance, and to implant in the minds and hearts of those who listened to their deliverance, those principles ... Read more The Table Talk of Doctor Martin Luther: A Selection “Another quality that strikes us… is Luther’s unfailing sense of humor. Reformers are usually deficient in humor. Their earnestness seldom permits them to laugh. Luther was the most earnest man of his century, and lived in more earnest times than any Europe had witnessed since the close of the first century. But his merry laugh rings through the entire solemn drama of his life. He relieved himself and others by permitting himself glimpses at the ludicrous aspects which human nature ... Read more May God cause his face to shine upon you and bring you peace. From Your Lutheran Librarian editor@lutheranlibrary.org

DEI or DIE - This Has Been Brewing for a Long Time

In seventh grade, our teacher called us "The Garfield Gashouse Gang," because we stuck together, cheered each other, and had a great time in class. Public education has been curdled by the DEI and CRT agendas.

"During the last few years, most conservatives have become at least dimly aware that leftist ideology, in the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), has infected public education. It’s unlikely, however, that many Americans realize just how far the disease has advanced. It has long since spread beyond a few courses embedded into the social studies curricula of secondary schools and elite colleges. Public school students as young as 9 and 10 years of age effortlessly recite leftist shibboleths even as they descend into functional illiteracy in reading, writing, math, and science."

DEI Has Already Killed Public Education

Leftist indoctrination begins in elementary school and continues through college graduation.

The article is in American Spectator

Record Setting Bonanza for WELS Piggy Bank - First Draft

 

Congregation Mi$$ion Offering$ set another record

"God continues to bless our synod with the generous and faith-filled offerings of his people, even in these difficult economic times. Rev. Kurt Lueneburg, director of the WELS Ministry of Christian Giving, reports:

By the gracious working of the Holy Spirit, God’s people remitted $3.36 million of Congregation Mission Offerings (CMO) in December. (This is $15.00 more than CMO given during December 2021.) We thank our Lord for these generous offerings!"

Editor's note - WELS is enriched with faith-filled gifts and yet the entire world, back to Adam, is forgiven and guilt-free without faith. If the guilt-free saints in Hell are suffering, how much better off are the KJV-free professors at their shrinking seminary?

Northern Fix-It Guy Helps Out Southerners after Ice Storm

 

 Move to Minnesota. Glen and Esther know all about cold.

Ranger Bob came over to borrow a snow-scraper, the second innocent in several days. Tupperware does not do the job.

He said, "Your snow is soft. My driveway is all ice."

I said, "Did you notice the aquamarine-colored salt?"

No answer.

Even the Laotian family left their snow and ice on the driveway.

A few hours after I lightly salted the driveway, half of it was easily scooped to the side. Yes, I took chemistry and physics in high school, so I knew about salt melting snow and moving downhill to keep the magic working. I should have moved to Arkansas. I coulda been someone. I coulda been a contender.

Tomorrow is almost torrid, so the snow-ice will mostly melt away.