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ELDONA Church Says - Don't Ask the Pastor. Sullivan Tapes Linked, Then Banished

 

 Pastors Sullivan and Rydecki had the wits to leave the ELDONA cult.

I was not shocked to learn that the Right Reverend Bishop Jim Heiser was making a move on St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Rogers, Arkansas.

The first indication was the church website linking Pastor Sullivan's Ask the Pastor video tapes. That link appeared on the front page. St. Mark's pastor, a late convert to Justification by Faith, urged people to watch the Ask the Pastor tapes to learn more about ELDONA.

Now the Rogers congregation is officially affiliated with ELDONA, and the link to the tapes has been removed.

Pastor Sullivan left ELDONA, as did Pastor Rydecki and one other pastor. Heiser's papal and dictatorial ways rose to the level of the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, SJ. The rubrics below have been added in red, as expected among the exalted.

The bishop’s responsibility of “oversight” and “administration” “encompasses all that has been associated with this [episcopal] polity in the historic sense,” as stated in the Bishop’s Episcopal Address, including “obliging the parsons and deacons of their superintendency to conform in all things according to our ‘Church Order.’” 

It is commonly noted that those who make a trifle of the most important things are also harder than diamonds about trivia - like the brittle demands of Bishop Heiser. For example, ELDONA, like the other Lutheran sects, loves every translation except the best one - the King James Version. Sure enough, St. Mark's in Rogers follows the same pattern, listing the KJV but also several very obscure translations, a natural path to confusion and loss of memory work in Bible. Claiming they are all OK is the same as repudiating the clarity and efficacy of the Scriptures.

ELDONA seems to loathe the KJV and embrace the horrid ESV and other money-makers among the Objective Justification sects.

Here is another indication of the papal errors of ELDONA and St. Mark's in Rogers. The Rogers church calendar includes Roman Catholic holy days, such as the Immaculate Concept of Mary, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and the Assumption of Mary.

I consider these calendar dates, which are posted on the St. Mark website, toxic relics of study at Concordia Seminary, Ft. Wayne and St. Louis. Those faculties promote Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox oddities. The numbskull graduates, like Jay Webber and Jim Heiser, are as cozy with Rome and Eastern Orthodoxy as they are with smells, bells, and magnificent Almy robes.

Bishop Randy DeJaynes, welcomed by Kincaid Smith and Jay Webber (ELS), was really the start of ELDONA. "If he can be a bishop, I can be the pope!" - Heiser must have thought, much like CFW Walther and the Repristination - Stephan, Walther - Press.

The Church Mouse Article on the Queen's Death.Look for the RATS.

 The article is found on the Church Mouse blog.

The Queen’s death: how Operation London Bridge probably worked

September 27, 2022 in history | Tags: Charles III, death, Duke of Norfolk, Edinburgh, Elizabeth II, England, government, history, London, media, Operation London Bridge, Operation Unicorn, radio, Scotland, television, UK

In 2017, The Guardian posted a long article: ‘”London Bridge is down”: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death’.

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GJ - His articles are always worth reading. The link will take you to the complete essay.

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I was discussing food on email when I began talking up turnip greens. I avoid turnips but I found out that the greens are especially loaded with nutrition.

Turnip Greens: The Healthiest Vegetable People Are Not Eating

I usually look up the profile of a vegetable I am trying out, and go back to the details. I found that chopped frozen turnip greens were easy to blend in with the mix. They also add a little tartness to the final product.

My parents grew up on farms with no electricity at first, but plenty of vegetables. When I talked about the greens I thought of my father's reaction to us kids eating such rural food. He would have laughed and laughed, his donut-fed stomach going up and down. "You? Eating good food?"

As I shopped at Walmart today, I thought about the abundance of expensive foods and their abundance of salt, fat, and sugars. I was there for dog treats and frozen vegetables.