You think Michael Moore hates coporations, wait until you see what he thinks about small buisness.

Lo and behold, I find that Preacherman is back. He fell off all our maps about six months ago and I really hadn't bothered to check and see if he was still blogging. Well, he has reemerged and the blog looks better than it did. I'm very glad to see Pastor Jeff back.

The Empty Cradle Will Rock: How abortion is costing the Democrats voters--literally

Consensus has bee on a rampage recently, trying to keep up with the mailings of Jesus First(NI!). Anyway, there are six more articles now available.

Days of Peace or Three More Years of Turmoil?

Daniel Preus–The Best Choice for President

Allah and Zeus—“Also the True God”?

THINGS THAT WOULD IMPROVE THE LSB

The Lutheran Service Book Proposal: Some comments, encouragements and cautions

A Sobering Lesson from the Methodists

For those of you who have bothered to read my profile and have actually bothered to look under my interests, you will have seen I have potificated on just about all of them except one: amateur radio. Unless you had read my profile, you would have been clueless that I am an amateur radio operator. In case any hams are reading this, I love six meters and my callsign is Kahlua Beer Zero Vodka Tequila Whiskey. I don't talk much about amateur radio because, honestly, it hasn't held the place in my life it once did. I once lived and breathed amateur radio. It was one of my favorite things to do. I'd fire up my handheld radio and see whomever was on the repeaters at the time. My interest in six meters came later on when my dad bought a six-meter all-mode radio (I don't remember what type of radio it was). I personally own a ICOM IC-T8A tribander. If I can ever get my 5 wpm code, I would probably fly through the general and extra class tests. Yes, I am a no-code tech and I was licensed in 1996. I've put off learning code for quite a while now.

I thought I was going to be in Aliceville, Kansas. Why in the world would I be going to Aliceville, KS? My uncle is the pastor of . I am going there for two reasons. First, to celebrate with my cousin and his wife the baptism of their baby daughter. Secondly, I am going to celebrate the retirement of my uncle. It is earlier than it would normally be, but his health hasn't been the greatest and, because of that, he has decided to retire early. May God be gracious to him and grant him peace with this decision.

This is not good news. New polio outbreak in Africa.

I just added two new blogs and moved and changed the link to another blog. Don't ask me what I did. I don't remember. At this point, I'm just going to start updating my blogroll without really talking about what I did. I've already done that a couple of times.

I think it's time to go through the list of stuff I've neglected.

Belated Congratulations to Chris Burgwald on the birth of his daughter.

Belated happy birthday to us as yesterday was the anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession and also the first published Book of Concord. Whohoo!

I think I've covered everything I needed to catch up on. Probably not, but that's all I can remember at the moment.

I now have a new e-mail adress. It is daniel dot sellers at gmail dot com.

Why go to gmail? One gigabyte. It's that simple.

Reformation Today Endorses Daniel Preus

Nobody Expects the Missouri Inquisition

Update:

Beneath the Synod “Ablaze”–A Burning Problem

We’re All One in Christ, No Matter How Large or Small

The Board of Directors: Wise leadership

The Choice Before Us:
Continued Conflict or a Process of Peace

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I doubt that any sort of large split will happen in either church. It's more likely to happen in Missouri... but less likely in the ELCA.

And also lately I read about a new "synod" that is comprised of congregations who broke off from the ELCA because of the gay issue.

But guess what? They have female pastors. They aren't conservative. That's why you won't be seeing ELCA congregations joining the LCMS any time soon.

I wanted a chance to respond to this comment made by Brian, but I am not sure how much space my reply is going to take, so I'm placing it here. The last time I talked to Chris (I have another friend attending the ELCA seminary in Minneapolis that I've known for a while who happens to be named Chris), he thought that chances were the ELCA was going to split into four synods. I don't know how much things have changed since I last talked to him (it has been a while), but things don't look good. It wouldn't surprise me if some of the more conservative elements within the ELCA merged with our liberals to form a new synod. I personally believe that the conservatives will start talking with WELS and the ELS to try to form either a new synodical conference or a new synod. As a matter of fact, if we were smart, we would start talking to them unofficially right now.

Has the LCMS Really Lost 500,000 Members in the Last 30 Years?

One more reason to be conservative.

Oh Lord, please don't burn us,
Don't grill or toast your flock,
Don't put us on the barbecue,
Or simmer us in stock,
Don't braise or bake or boil us,
Or stir-fry us in a wok...

Oh please don't lightly poach us,
Or baste us with hot fat,
Don't fricassee or roast us,
Or boil us in a vat,
And please don't stick thy servants Lord,
In a Rotissomat...

I just felt a little silly.

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Enjoy.

Now that I've let loose with the below post (it didn't turn out nearly as bad as I thought it might), I need Thomas because a few more indulgences are in order...

I have been thinking about the whole Contemporary Christian Music debate that continues to fester within the synod. There is one lesson from the past that the defenders of CCM continue to either be ignorant of or don't really want pointed out: the Church, very early on within its history, banned instruments as part of the divine service. Now, why would the Church put such a restriction upon its people? It's because the instruments had very specific religious functions in the pagan rituals of the Greeks and Romans. The Early Christians understood that to bring instruments into the church was also to bring the pagan gods into the church, which was an obvious violation of the First Commandment. It was understood that the culture would invade the Church. The Church had enough problems with its members falling back into their old habits without having music tempting them. So now, the defenders of CCM need to explain themselves and tell us why we need to begin using "modern" music in our worship. How is it that by using the badly misnamed "contemporary" styles we don't import pagan culture into our churches? The burden of proof is on them, and I haven't heard one good explanation of how that isn't happening yet.

I rarely if ever go off on rants and just completely let my composure go. It does happen, however, and it is about to happen again. The reason I put this up is because I'm going to warn you that what I am about to say has the potential to be as bad as one French rant I made quite a while ago. This is me saying there will be foul language ahead. If you have kids around, get them away from the computer. Even better, wait until they are in bed before even reading the next paragraph.



















WARNING: RESULTS OF A DECAPTIATION AHEAD. DO NOT LOOK UNLESS YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE IT. DO NOT LOOK EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE IT

Fucking terrorist dipshits. At least one of them has their brains scattered across the desert of Saudi Arabia. I am now in a mood for what I would call proportional responses. They behead someone, we take ten prisoners from Guantanamo and begin castrating them. Ten heads for one. They kill one of our soldiers, we kill ten prisoners. Violence is the only thing these fucking assholes understand; that and threats to their manhood. What if we chopped the dick off every convicted terrorist? Why not? They want death, so that will not do any good. The threat of a man named Bubba saying his mouth sure looks pretty isn't something these numbnuts are ready for. Put these guys in the regular population of prisoners and see how long they last with a bunch of gangbangers and skinheads ready for some action. These guys don't need death: they need sex changes. Let's see if they are willing to endure rape for Allah. Shitheads.

I often don't talk about it much, but I do have a love for Jazz. My collection isn't anywhere near as big as my classical collection or do I know anywhere near as much about jazz as I do classical, but I have listened to jazz longer than I have classical. My listening is just much more sporadic. Right now, I'm listening to the sax styling of John Coltrane. Jazz is such a break from everything I've listened to recently. It's nice to hear some excellent musicians playing American music. Jazz is the only style of music that can actually claim to be purely American and, quite unfortunately, popular everywhere else but America. Most Jazz musicians have more talent than many of the people who end up making all the money in music. Jazz, like classical, takes a lot of energy to enjoy. Jazz, however, seems to be a little more accessible to the little guy. Because of the improvisation involved, every time a piece is performed by a performer, you'll get a different performance. The song never sounds quite the same.

Consensus has put its new newsletter up on its webpage. Take a look and see what's going on and what role politics are playing in dictating doctrine.