Ichabod, The Glory Has Departed

ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the National Council of Churches.

Thursday, January 9, 2025

A Bitter Snowstorm Reached Springdale, Arkansas Today,
Leaving an Inch of Accumulation by 10 PM.
Correction - Knee-high Snow

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Before and after - Friendship Sunday in WELS and the LCMS. This is how Northwest Arkansas people view the first snow of the year. "Do y...

Going Downhill Fast - ELCA's United Lutheran Seminary - aka Gettysburg Seminary - aka Philadelphia Seminary

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    Keith Gough and his son, Matthew, sled on the hill at the United Lutheran Seminary in Gettysburg Tuesday. Many schools in Adams County c...

People Ask about Charlie Sue, Patterdale Terrier

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  I had to look up Charlie Sue's papers to recall the peculiar sub-group, Patterdale Terrier. The vets were stumped too. Her traits incl...

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Epiphany 1 - "But God does all this out of his superabundant grace and goodness in order that we might perceive on every hand how kindly and lovingly the Father deals with us and tries us, so that our faith may be developed and become continually stronger and stronger. And he does this especially so as to guard his children against a twofold danger which might otherwise threaten them. In the first place, being strong in their own mind and arrogant, they might ultimately depend upon themselves and believe they are able to accomplish everything in their own strength."

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  Complete Sermon -> Luther's Sermons - Luke 2:41-52. First Sunday after Epiphany 8. We find many examples of this in the Scriptures,...

How Many Members Were Lost Since President Matt Harrison Took Office in 2010?
How Many Leaders Have Apologized for Their Beloved Church Growth Movement?

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  "The LCMS membership is declining at a little over 50,000 members (2.8%) per year. The data on LCMS membership don't include the ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Quote - "You Are Not a Christian. You Are a FAITHian. Your Faith Is in Faith!"

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  The "faithian" argument has been around for some time. Those who know and understand English, or German, or Greek can discern th...

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Epiphany 1- Jesus in the Temple - "When God vouchsafes to us a strong faith and a firm trust in him, so that we are assured he is our gracious God and we can depend upon him, then we are in paradise. But when God permits our hearts to be discouraged and we believe that he takes from us Christ our Lord; when our conscience feels that we have lost him and amidst trembling and despair our confidence is gone, then we are truly in misery and distress."

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  Luther's Sermons - Luke 2:41-52. First Sunday after Epiphany FIRST SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY. TEXT: Luke 2:41-52.And his parents went ever...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

The Reformation Seminary Lecture Is Not Working Today

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 There are multiple computer conflicts, so it is not working in Zoom.

The Scriptures Are Always Effective -- The Holy Spirit Working Through the Word

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  The Bible begins with the Holy Trinity - The Father commands each of the days in Genesis. The Son executes those commands. The Holy Spirit...

The Denominations Do Not Believe the Scriptures - When Did They Stop?
The Big Five Apostates Shrink! - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic).

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" The work of the fathers was not to give light to the Scriptures with their comments, but rather to set forth the clear Scriptures and...

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Epiphany - "The work of the fathers was not to give light to the Scriptures with their comments, but rather to set forth the clear Scriptures and thus interpret Scripture by Scripture only without any additions of their own."

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  Complete Sermon ->  Luther's Sermons - Matthew 2:1-12. Epiphany - The Story and Spiritual Meaning of This Gospel 45. In the third p...
Monday, January 6, 2025

Tom Fisher - Illinois Blizzard

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  Thank you for praying for me Pastor Jackson!  Here are some pictures I took this morning, Monday January 6, 2025. Everything looks so much...

ELCA - "One Ring To Rule Them All And In the Darkness Bind Them!"
The Big Five Apostates - ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic),

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The Day of Epiphany marks the moment when the Wise Men from the East risked their lives to visit and worship the Christ child. The Star of B...

Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Epiphany - "Therefore these gifts were not presented to Christ like artists paint the scenery that one offers gold, another frankincense and the third myrrh, but they presented the gifts in common as one man. And probably there were quite a number present, a few of them being the leaders, just as now a prince or a city sends a few brave men as messengers to the emperor with presents."

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  Complete Sermon ->  Luther's Sermons - Matthew 2:1-12. Epiphany - The Story and Spiritual Meaning of This Gospel 1. This Gospel ha...
Sunday, January 5, 2025

The LutherQueasies Honor Their Pope - The Big Five Apostates -
ELCA-LCMS-WELS-ELS-CLC (sic) Teach Objective Faithless Justification

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  ELDONA loves the Orans (angel) pose. Wonder why? Jim Craig (Jcraig) Junior Member Username: Jcraig Post Number: 33 Registered: 1-2016 Post...
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