<2022-01-10T00:32:44.000Z> TheAssadfather: S
<2022-01-10T00:33:45.000Z> TheAssadfather: Super! Did the Godcast move or change RSS feeds? Or are you boys on a break? Pax Christi! 
<2022-01-10T03:14:39.000Z> SuperLutheran: It should be coming up tomorrow hopefully. We had an editor problem 
<2022-02-27T20:38:09.000Z> TheAssadfather: I would like to share my story with you and Myles about how flat earth brought me back to church and led me to be baptized in my new LCMS church home. It is a long story and also a very funny one, I think. That’s how God got my attention, with hilarious serendipity, he rescued me and called me his own. Is this platform ok to send you my full testimony or should I email you? Your ministry is fabulous and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the work you are doing saving souls. 
<2022-02-27T20:40:24.000Z> TheAssadfather: Either way I will do my best to keep it as brief as I can! ICXC
<2022-02-27T23:21:29.000Z> SuperLutheran: Sounds like an interesting story! You should definitely email Myles and see what he'd like to do. I'm down tho
<2022-02-27T23:21:37.000Z> SuperLutheran: (As in, down to see it)
<2022-02-28T17:22:47.000Z> TheAssadfather: Thanks Pastor, will do. You and Bryan Wolfmuller are my favorite online pastors. Thanks for encouraging me to get a wreath of Christ. I got a lovely handmade one on Etsy and I love it 
<2022-02-28T19:19:31.000Z> SuperLutheran: Awesome! It's been a massive blessing for me in my devotions, and I hope you have the same experience :)
<2022-04-03T11:49:20.000Z> TheAssadfather: Hey Super, here is my finished letter. Thanks for being a great teacher of Bible and for your friend simulator podcast. Thanks for posting your excellent series on Daniel as well. Here is my story. I emailed it to Myles as well. 
<2022-04-03T11:49:45.000Z> TheAssadfather: Dear Myles and Super, my friends and fellow Saints of God, 	You can call me James. I have quite the story to tell you about how flat earth lead me from the brink of despair and hopelessness to coming back to the faith and being baptized in my new LCMS church home. First of all, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your ministry. The fruit of your evangelism among the very-online dissident right speaks for itself, and God be praised for the souls that have been brought to the faith by the work of the holy spirit through you.  	I will try to keep this short. I was brought up in a fairly standard midwestern Christian family and attended a Christian and Missionary Alliance church with my parents who were members and very connected with the church until I left home for college. I have fond memories of going to church as a child and have a few very good friends from my time there. However, as many do, I fell away from the faith even while attending a Christian college and started to consider myself an atheist. I got into experimenting with drugs and tried to sleep with as many women as possible. The fallout from this was that I developed a strong marijuana dependence and probably permanent brain damage from the amount I was smoking. And by my very nature I would not shut up about why I thought everyone at my small Christian college should be an atheist, and to my great shame one of my closest friends left the faith because of my constant preaching at him. We later had a falling out and I haven’t heard from him in a few years.  	After college I moved in with my then girlfriend and her family and continued smoking insane amounts of weed until she finally dumped me and kicked me out. Having no money, plenty of debt and nowhere to go my family graciously welcomed me home. I kicked the weed habit by the grace of God alone, and haven’t had the urge to smoke in about five years. And I also realized atheism is stupid and gay and wrong and started going back to church with my family, and prayed to God for faith.  	Around the time when I came home I discovered TRS through watching edgy libertarian videos on youtube, including Stephan Molyneux. As many before me, I went down the usual rabbit hole and became a regular listener to many TRS podcasts including the Paranormies. They had an episode around December of 2021 with a guest named Dave Weiss who talked about how the earth is flat. I was not convinced by his arguments at the time but I was intrigued to look into it. I downloaded his app, the Flat Earth Sun, Moon and Zodiac Clock App, and within a few weeks I found out that the earth is indeed, flat. But more importantly, Dave Weiss included a new feature in an update about seven months ago called the flat earth friend finder, where you could message people in your area who also had the app. I messaged everyone within a 10 kilometer radius of me and started chatting with a new friend who lives near me. I started griping about how annoyed I was with the church I was attending with my family, and how they had put up a “black lives matter” sign outside the front door, and how I decided I had had enough. He responded that I should check out his LCMS church, because it was all Bible and no politics at all from the pulpit. So I attended for the first time on September 12, 2021 and because I had no experience at all with high church liturgical worship, I had no idea what was happening, why there was incense and bells and chanting, but I knew that I loved it and that I was home. I talked with an associate pastor after the service and he gave me an ESV Bible and a small catechism, and told me to keep coming to the services. I was baptized on Reformation Sunday of that year and got to go through adult catechumenate classes, where I have made many new friends. Additionally, after I was baptized, I started to develop a deep desire to do almost nothing except read my Bible and the works of Martin Luther, and dive deep into Lutheran Doctrine. And I am even prayerfully considering if the Holy Spirit is preparing my heart for ministry, but I will be patient and pray about it for a few years before deciding. I used to listen to TDS all the time and get mad, but now I listen to the Godcast, Bryan Wolfmuller and Jordan B. Cooper, and listen to TDS occasionally so I remember to pray for them.  I apologize for the essay, I tried to cut out as much as I could, but thanks again for the work you do for Christ and his kingdom.  Peace of Christ, James (Assadfather) 
<2022-04-03T12:02:45.000Z> TheAssadfather: What I love most about our doctrine, Super, is that it is correct, and gives me profound joy and comfort. I am reading Walther’s Law and Gospel as well as working through my Lutheran Study Bible and The Doctrine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Heinrich Schmid. Thanks for all you do. I love being Lutheran. God be praised! 
<2022-04-03T12:05:15.000Z> TheAssadfather: Last thing I forgot to add! I got my my friend and also sponsor in baptism to start listening to your shows! He emailed you a few weeks ago and asked to have Corey Mahler back on the show. He used the name “JT” 
<2022-04-03T18:11:28.000Z> TheAssadfather: B
<2022-04-03T18:11:48.000Z> TheAssadfather: to add yet another thing
<2022-04-03T18:13:49.000Z> TheAssadfather: My mom was a pastor at my C&MA church. But she resigned bc of a long complicated thing that came to light right after I left and found my new church home
<2022-04-03T18:16:17.000Z> TheAssadfather: Imagine being me, and thinking that women can’t be pastors, and yet you live at home (willingly, bc I adore my family 
<2022-04-03T18:17:11.000Z> TheAssadfather: and my mom is a pastor. The Lord is good and confounds everything we do and think 
<2022-04-03T22:22:53.000Z> SuperLutheran: Wow! That is quite the witness, brother
<2022-04-03T22:24:24.000Z> SuperLutheran: I appreciate you taking the time to write all this out. I sincerely hope our Lird continues to bless and keep you in you catechesis and help your journey. Also here's hoping your mom comes around and decides to table her pastorate
<2022-04-06T15:48:32.000Z> TheAssadfather: Thanks Super. I’m learning so much about how the power of the Word creates faith. I am blessed to be a new member of a church that holds daily morning Eucharist. And centering my life around our altar is changing everything for me, in ways I can’t articulate properly. I love how much you love Bible. I love Bible too. Happy passiontide brother. Much love. James, Assadfather 
<2022-04-06T15:54:49.000Z> TheAssadfather: My mom actually did leave the ministry. It’s all so wild. My old church went through an upheaval a few months after I decided to strike out and find another church. The Holy Spirit dropped me home. And that actually helped my mom feel comfortable leaving. If you are familiar with the Christian and Missionary Alliance situation with Robbie Zaccharius 
<2022-04-06T15:55:31.000Z> TheAssadfather: Sorry Ravi* Zacharius 
<2022-04-06T16:00:04.000Z> TheAssadfather: There was a recent big story about The CNMA from a scandal at a church in Champaign Illinois involving my former congregation and also Christianity Today. The editor went to my church until around this time. And honestly it’s just a huge mess. The Lord dropped me off at home at it is all because of his love and mercy. He saved me from this garbage 
<2022-04-06T16:02:40.000Z> TheAssadfather: My mom is still big on the women in ministry thing. It’s honestly insufferable. But I love her to death and I don’t know what to do. Except pray and love her and hold my tongue 
<2022-04-06T18:13:39.000Z> SuperLutheran: Praying for her and being a good son will do wonders for turning her around, especially if you're loving and civil (but still firm) when the disagreement comes up.
<2022-04-08T21:54:51.000Z> TheAssadfather: She doesn’t know that I’m against it. She knows that I firmly hold to our confession but I only tell her what I think about things that she asks about. And she’s never asked me about the office of the holy ministry. I have hurt my family very much with being a huge dickhead in the past so I don’t feel like it’s my place to be giving moral opinions on what they’re doing. But they definitely see the change in me. And that’s because I no longer live but that Christ lives in me
<2022-04-09T00:00:41.000Z> TheAssadfather: I listened to your new Very Lutheran episode on CT and not to get too doxy but my mother knows the current editor very well. She and his wife are close personal friends. And from my view, what you reported on is just the tip of the iceberg. 
<2022-04-12T19:16:41.000Z> SuperLutheran: I imagine they'll be in deeper crap soon enough
<2022-04-13T22:37:10.000Z> TheAssadfather: I’m glad my mom is on the outside looking in now. 
<2022-04-27T04:28:56.000Z> TheAssadfather: Hey super! Did Myles receive my email? Seems like you need some content for the email segment and I’d love it if you read what happened to me. But  if you decided against reading it on air I would understand. Again, thanks for everything. Especially your VLP episodes on Romans. I love being a baby Lutheran. 
<2022-04-27T13:31:41.000Z> SuperLutheran: I'm assuming he got it,
<2022-04-27T13:32:01.000Z> SuperLutheran: but we record each episode for the next week, so it might take a bit for us to get to it.
<2022-04-27T13:32:28.000Z> SuperLutheran: Also, happy to be of service. So long as the Lord permits, I'll keep doing this my whole life
<2022-05-04T11:36:02.000Z> TheAssadfather: That’s fine man! Honestly I don’t care if you read it on air, just wanted to make sure Myles got it. Thanks again brother. I appreciate the VLP and all your work very much. The Lord bless you and keep you, the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord look upon you with favor and give you peace +
<2022-05-04T13:53:38.000Z> SuperLutheran: Amen!
<2022-05-14T14:22:59.000Z> TheAssadfather: The Lord looks at us and he smiles. Not because of anything we have done but because of what Christ has done for us. I’m honestly a big softie and reading that Numbers 6 blessing and understanding what it meant and the context made me tear up a little bit. God the Father looks at us morons and he smiles. Amazing 
<2022-05-14T14:24:34.000Z> TheAssadfather: All the glory given to God means all the comfort is given to us. It’s the best thing about being a Lutheran. 
<2022-06-13T02:10:29.000Z> TheAssadfather: If you do re
<2022-06-13T02:11:04.000Z> TheAssadfather: Read* my dumb thing 
<2022-06-13T02:11:55.000Z> TheAssadfather: lmk bc I’m too nervous to listen to emails on TGC 
<2022-06-13T03:33:33.000Z> SuperLutheran: What was it about?
<2022-06-29T17:46:02.000Z> TheAssadfather: Flat earth made me a Lutheran 
<2022-06-29T22:25:56.000Z> SuperLutheran: I remember! How's church been?
<2022-07-21T16:58:14.000Z> TheAssadfather: It’s the best thing
<2022-07-21T16:59:49.000Z> TheAssadfather: I joined our garden club and attend adult Bible study with all the senior folk. I am free early in the morning bc I work night shift.
<2022-07-21T17:00:27.000Z> TheAssadfather: Thanks for asking brother. It means everything to me. My church is my life now 
<2023-02-26T20:19:53.000Z> TheAssadfather: Super. I read Corey Mahler’s article about you and Jordan Cooper and the AALC. And I’m gutted because I really like his stuff, but I feel more loyal to you. Any chance you could give me a brief account of the events from your perspective? As a self admitted Internet racist and edgelord, and also Baptized, forgiven friend of Jesus, and LCMS member, I am very concerned about everything that’s been going on. But I’m trying to relax and remember that Jesus is the boss. Love you brother. Hope all is well for you. 
<2023-02-26T23:36:48.000Z> SuperLutheran: There's a lot that goes into that that I can't really talk about in detail. Kind of an agreement between me and the aalc that Corey doesn't see as binding on him- and he's correct on that.
<2023-02-26T23:38:00.000Z> SuperLutheran: But suffice it to say that cooper decided I'm his enemy without me having said or done anything against him. You could say he decided to be antagonistic toward me on account of people that he didn't like. It was a way to get back at then.
<2023-02-26T23:38:27.000Z> SuperLutheran: As in, I was friendly with them, so I had to be "dealt with."
<2023-05-20T09:32:38.000Z> TheAssadfather: I’m decidedly in your camp with Corey and the Stone Choir boys. And yet I absolutely love my LCMS church and I’m not going to leave. My church is my home. And my pastors are just fabulous. They “get it”. But how can I remain in our synod and be in your camp? It’s tough because I have an altar that is more home than home. If this makes sense. Feel free to read/answer on TGC. Love you brother! 
<2023-05-20T13:31:12.000Z> SuperLutheran: Glad to hear it and love you too dude!
<2023-05-20T13:32:11.000Z> SuperLutheran: As for remaining in "our camp" so to speak, pls keep praying for us and supporting the projects. Also, it'd be wise to still download the materials from the VLP site in case things go south at your church.
<2023-05-22T02:17:09.000Z> TheAssadfather: Our church is a rare 1000+ me
<2023-05-22T02:17:38.000Z> SuperLutheran: Oh yeah?
<2023-05-22T02:18:13.000Z> TheAssadfather: Member church so I don’t think that is likely but I will anyway 
<2023-05-22T02:18:45.000Z> SuperLutheran: By 1000+, you mean more than a thousand members?
<2023-05-22T02:19:50.000Z> TheAssadfather: Yes sir. St. John Lutheran in Wheaton IL
<2023-05-22T02:19:59.000Z> SuperLutheran: Noice
<2023-05-22T02:21:49.000Z> TheAssadfather: Indeed my friend 
<2023-05-22T02:26:13.000Z> TheAssadfather: I see the big gay subverting my church as much as the next. So the SLP and stone choir have been valuable resources. You guys are fighting the fight till r
<2023-05-22T02:26:33.000Z> TheAssadfather: For real*
<2023-05-22T02:33:20.000Z> SuperLutheran: Glad to hear you're pushing back man. Not enough people have been, and honestly that's been one of the reasons the LCMS is in the mess it's in today