Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed

ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - The antidote trusts the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Does This Remind Anyone of the Lottery?
Rummage Sale 2007

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The state lotteries were established to "help education." Public education is worse than ever before and still craving more money....

Debates of the Century

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The WELS AnswerMan dealt recently with charges from the Church of the Lutheran Confession ( sic ) about Wisconsin Synod unionism: Church and...

Luther Prep's Rummage Sale

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WELS' Luther Prep held a rummage sale last year and raised $46,000 by selling over 200 items donated. Let me guess some of the items: Th...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

ELCA Convention - Everyone Is Meeting This Summer

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Here is the boring ELCA agenda: The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, in his sixth year as ELCA presiding bishop, will chair the assembly. Hanson is als...

Turning the Liturgy into the Law
Luther's Bear Story

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Most people have not heard of Ulrich Leupold, my worship professor at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary. He was a musical genius, earned a Ph.D. at...

Would You Buy a Used Synod from This Man?

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President-in-Waiting Wayne Mueller issued this formal denial in the midst of the WELS Church Growth tidal wave, which he supervised and prom...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Was Our Staff Infection There?

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Willow Creek Community Church said, Experience the Contagious Church : Staff Infection Leads to Contagion . This raging infection is at leas...

Area High Schools versus Prep Schools

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Ichabod is being read in all the synods, so I am getting questions. Today I was asked about the difference between a prep school and an area...

How To Be Contagious - Like Fuller Seminary

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After flopping with Pilgrim Community Church in Columbus (sponsored by Paul Kuske) and Crossroads Community Church in South Lyon (three WELS...
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...
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