ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - The antidote trusts the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10.
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| The Roman Catholic widow said, "I don't want to just see - a book. I want one of your books to keep." |
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| The Emperor Constantine changed paganism into the Christian Faith, though he was far less than a saint. |
The problem with the Western countries is abandonment of logic and the structure of thought.
Greece may seem tiny to us in our current struggles, but we have a foundation of language and thought that remains. Words establish the foundations, which continue for centuries.
My name is Gregory, based on the word for being awake - and it is easily found in the New Testament. Jesus urged his disciples to "stay awake" when they were drifting off.
Greek and Latin words worked their way into European languages, so we still use variations in Greek, Latin, French, English, French, and even more.
Most of our American language is being bleached away (or worse) and replaced with nonsense from the latest snazzy fads, which seldom last and quickly become garbage.
Most of the "new Bibles" struggle to make more money and lose more content. Words become content, and content becomes new thoughts, new errors, dreadful speaking and writing.
Obscene language is not only accepted as proper English but also makes even worse with repetition.
I learned Lassie Come Home from my mother reading the book to all four of us. We warried in ability and improved over time. Lacking that kind of training, reading became trouble and thinking laborious.
Constantine changed his world because he used the language and increased what people could use as a thinking tool. We have little of that now.
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| Mother's Day is next Sunday, May 10, 2026 |
Bethany Lutheran Church
Jubilate Sunday Hymns and Liturgy at 9 AM Central Daylight,
And Both Can Repeat.
Pastor Gregory Jackson
THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
Lord God, heavenly Father, who of Thy fatherly goodness dost suffer Thy children to come under Thy chastening rod here on earth, that we may be like unto Thine only-begotten Son in suffering and hereafter in glory: We beseech Thee, comfort us in temptations and afflictions by Thy Holy Spirit, that we may not fall into despair, but that we may continually trust in Thy Son's promise, that our trials will endure but a little while, and will then be followed by eternal joy; that we thus, in patient hope, may overcome all evil, and at last obtain eternal salvation, through the same, Thy Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, one true God, world without end. Amen.
KJV 1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; 12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. 13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 15 For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. 17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. 18 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. 19 For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
KJV John 16:16 A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father. 17 Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me: and, Because I go to the Father? 18 They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while? we cannot tell what he saith. 19 Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him, and said unto them, Do ye enquire among yourselves of that I said, A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me? 20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. 23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
KJV Acts 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
