Sunday, June 10, 2007

Mueller versus Brenner - You Read It Here First

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I am risking my reputation for calling elections (Crumley, Kieschnick, Kieschnick re-election, Dan Preus out) to predict the WELS Synodical ...

Two Cities - St. Augustine

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Two Cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, eve...
Saturday, June 9, 2007

WELS Room, Board, Tuition

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Luther Prep, Watertown, is just under $8,000 per year. Martin Luther College is about $14,000 per year. Four years of prep and four years of...

Western Wisconsin - Just Say No to MLS Closing

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From the MLS website, the text, ipsissima verba : Report of the Floor Committee on Synodical Matters Memorial I - Vote “NO” to Synodical Cou...

MLS Responds to Synodical Sharks

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This is a pdf from the Michigan Lutheran Seminary (prep school) board, posted on its website. I decided to link it rather than copy it. A gr...

Hope Revival Church Likes the WELS AnswerMan

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An independent revival congregation is copying the Q and A from the WELS website. Another Church in Fellowship with WELS One WELS pastor tol...

Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary
We Are Not Amused
By the MLS Closing

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Posted at the Michigan Lutheran Seminary website: The Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary faculty sent its first letter to all pastors of the synod ...

You Dare Offend
The Great and Terrible Oz?
WELS Response to Dissent

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The Wisconsin Synod is the only group where the tea leaves can be read on a daily basis. Only WELS has the daily Q and A on its webpage. My ...
Friday, June 8, 2007

Twenty Years of Silence -
Too Late for the WELS-tanic?

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As I mentioned before, the defunding of the educational system in WELS was well known in 1987, 20 years ago (for those who went to public sc...
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Retired WELS Pastor Bartling - Ipsissima Verba

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"Venom" (ala LutherQuest sic ) or just the truth? BELIEVE IT OR NOT! Part III THE DOUBLE STANDARDS AND HYPOCRISY IN THE WELS ...

LutherQuest (sic) Piles On

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"Mr. Carter, I easily found the blog on google and I don't think Jeremy was attaching it to you specifically or personally. While I...
Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Cry Havoc! - And Let Slip The Blog of Venom

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I found this hilarious post on LutherQuest ( sic ) today. People were discussing candidates for WELS Synodical President. "Jennifer: Do...

WELS Statistical Summary - Fudge Factors

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The South Atlantic District had the largest gain at +232. The Michigan District had the largest loss at -230. The loss for Michigan was prob...
Monday, June 4, 2007

I Predicted This Years Ago

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The ELS and WELS have decided it is naughty for women to commune women "in certain circumstances." I get the impression that some ...

ELS Losses

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From The Plucked Chicken: "This year there are five of each to add to the three churches and one pastor we lost last year. In addition,...

WELS Statistics Summarized

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WELS has the most congregations and pastors ever. WELS has steadily lost members in the last 20 years (the Church Growth years) while adding...
Sunday, June 3, 2007

WELS Statistics - Looking Bad

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As Luther said, when people order God around, He denies them their infantile demands. WELS has focused on the Church Growth Movement for 30 ...

WELS: Where Is All the Money Going?
The Final Episode
Part 1

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"In keeping with policy established by the Synod in Convention, we are not opening new missions fully funded by the WELS Home Missions ...

New Lutheran Association -
The Churches of the Defenestration

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I like the word defenestration, finding it useful in dealing with the Evangelical Lutheran Synod and Pope John the Malefactor. The word is u...
Saturday, June 2, 2007

WELS and Missouri Work with these Pastors!

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Former Pastor's Misconduct Leads to Review of ELCA From Sleep with Dogs, Wake Up with Puppies CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The criminal sexual misc...

From the Same Guys Who LOST $8 Million

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"WELS Investment Funds, Inc., an affiliate of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, provides cost effective, professionally managed...

No Pastor or Congregation Kicked Out of ELS This Month

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The June newsletter of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod - The Pope Speaks - reveals no new defenestrations. The stewardship committee might ha...
Monday, May 28, 2007

Ur-Apostasy

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Pre-History The first manifestation of unionism and apostasy can be found in A Statement . The LCMS president did nothing when doctrinal dis...

Frequently Answered Questions - How Do You Do All This?

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My son taught me the essentials of a database when he was still in knickers. When I started using Professional File for addresses and mailin...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

Seminex War Foreshadowed Church Growth Movement

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I stumbled onto Dan Preus' talk about the Seminex walkout (LCMS, 1974). The liberals, led by John Tietjen, argued that they used the His...

Paul Kuske, Stolzenburg, Kovaciny

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LPR and Church Growth "CHURCH GROWTH. This program was basically the beginning of L.P.R. at St. Paul's. Certainly a church growth c...

Manufacturing Disciples - Look at These Strange Bedfellows

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Paul Kuske Launched, Supported, and Defended LPR "Lutheran Parish Resources, Inc. (LPR) is dedicated to the concepts of the Church Grow...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

Power is Given, Not Taken

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The biggest mistake pastors and laity make is in their assumption that synods and officials have taken power away from them. That is not tru...

Sources for Material

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BD asked for my original source for the Mark Schroeder statement. Whenever I have a link, I post it. I looked for it at Issues in WELS, but ...

WELS' Besetting Sin - Denying the Efficacy of the Word

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The Wisconsin Synod denies the efficacy of the Word...consistently, ruthlessly, to the point of excommunicating anyone who says the Word alo...