Getting Isaiah 55 Right - Not To Mention the Basis for All Biblical Teaching
I was discussing a topic privately with someone on Facebook. He is faithful to the Word and dealing with the issues, not kissing up to the synod officials. That is all I should say, because it narrows...
View ArticleThe Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity. Matthew 18:23-35. Seventy Times Seven
The Twenty-Second Sunday after Trinity, 2014Pastor Gregory L. Jacksonhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/bethany-lutheran-worshipBethany Lutheran Church, 10 AM Central TimeThe Hymn # 652 I Lay My Sins on...
View ArticleSnowing on the Compost - Winter Has Begun
Our winter came a little later than the Upper Midwest's. Our helper came over for the first session of raking on Saturday. On Sunday the snow was falling rapidly, and the compost pile was full again,...
View ArticleLuther's Sermon on the Parable of the Last Judgment. Matthew 25:31-46
TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY.This sermon is found only in the c. edition. Erl. 14, 375; W. 11, 2515; St. L. 11, 1884.Text: Matthew 25:31-46. But when the Son of man shall come in his glory, and...
View ArticleLuther Selection - Sent by Michigander
Below is today's selection from the John Sander collection of Devotional Readings from Luther's Works. Today being November 16, of course. Page 403-404. Augustana Book Concern, 1915.Remembering that...
View ArticleMegachurches after the Star Pastor Is Gone - Religious News Service. Does...
Kudu Don Patterson dressed up like this - no kidding.Photoshop added the dollar signs.What are megachurches without their star...
View ArticlePlants Grow in Soil - The Church Grows through the Efficacious Word in the...
Two Black Boxes for DarwinThe best known one (Behe, Darwin's Black Box) is the irreducible complexity of life at the microscopic level. There are too many mechanisms that must work together perfectly...
View ArticleThe Walther-Stephan Myths Burden the Olde Synodical Conference. Classic...
Synodocat has a grim outlook,because he must promote a mythology he knows is false.I get into phone and email discussions with people who scratch their heads over peculiar attitudes of the Olde...
View ArticleNote This Factoid from Virtue Online
Jefferts-Schori has decided to resign as presiding bishoprather than run for a second nine-year term of office.She has spent lavishly from church funds to sue bishops,congregations, and laity.Virtue...
View ArticleCosby Exposed by One Woman after Another. Prime Example of Victim Control
Bill Cosby's history has caught up with him.Time wounds all heels.If he gave enough money to Wisconsin Lutheran College,they would name a building after him.Long ago Bill Cosby gave me the creeps. I...
View ArticleCreating a Leaf Mulch To Make the Flowers Spring Up Later
Butterfly Weed is a close relative of the milkweed.Monarch butterflies need one plant or the other to feed their caterpillars.We had 48 degree weather yesterday, and it will be just as warm today. This...
View ArticleBirds Greet Me When I Open the Sunflower Seed Box
Purple finches will show up in groups to enjoy sunflower feeders.Long ago I pushed suet into mesh bags and distributed them around the backyard. Yesterday a downy woodpecker rewarded me by posing on...
View ArticleBack in 2011 - New Poster for WELS Headquarters
As I understand it, Mark Schroeder wanted a group to counter-balance Church and Change. He failed to tell his loyalists that he was already a bondslave to Jeske's group. They gathered the Intrepid...
View ArticleThree Days of Rain
Last month we had a brief wintery spell, broken by winds and a gradual warming trend. Today we will have our third day of rain and a 66 degree high.I had a double supply of newspapers. The outside box...
View ArticleAnother J. Huss He Isn't
Opening PrayerDear Savior Jesus, you do not want us to be tormented by the guilt of our sins. You died on the cross and have forgiven all our sins. The barrier of sin that separated us from you has...
View ArticleThe Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Trinity, 2014. Scoffers Following Their Own Lusts
The Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Trinity, 2014Pastor Gregory L. Jacksonhttp://www.ustream.tv/channel/bethany-lutheran-worshipBethany Lutheran Church, 10 AM Central TimeThe Hymn # 8 Father Who the...
View ArticleWELS and Other Lutherans - The Differences Explained Honestly - From 2010
The LCMS uses Satan to promote its congregations:WELS recognizes the efficacy of the Word alone, so its congregations do not need to ape the Babtists and Pentecostals:ELCA has an in-house lobbying...
View ArticleThis Could Never Happen in WELS, Missouri, or the Little Sect on the Prairie!...
VATICAN RADIOPope Francis recently appointed the Rev. Robert J. Geisinger (left) to be his chief prosecutor of serious church law violations, including child sexual abuse.By Michael RezendesGLOBE STAFF...
View ArticleFrom ChurchMouse - Another Downton Abbey Fan
Downton Abbey: Another memorable saying from Lady VioletNovember 23, 2014 in Uncategorized | Tags: television, Downton Abbey | Leave a commentIn the latest series of Downton Abbey, we see that Lady...
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