I am almost a week behind the times in Bloggernacle. 

Joseph put me in the LDS bloggernacle spotlight for 2007 awards.

niblet nominee:

Worst comment – “Todd Wood’s entire oeuvre”

Honestly, I can empathize with this.  I know some people truly believe:  to allow a fundamentalist Baptist pastor in S.E. Idaho post comments on LDS blogs is akin to spreading a deadly potato virus throughout the whole network of storage cellars.

For others, it is like a stray eyelash irritation that won’t go away. 

Undoubtedly, I am the discordant, unorthodox note that just doesn’t sing well with all the LDS choirs. 

But guys, I just get too excited to sit back and remain ho-hum and not sing any song.  You are stuck with me, unless you ban me, which I don’t think any LDS blog has.  As a Southeastern Idahoan, I am just content to not be banned.

I end this short note with an invitation.  Since it has been over a year of me invading your internet turf community, feel free to share any miscellaneous thoughts or perceptions or frustrations about who I am or what I am doing. 

On this thread, I will just listen and not say a word.  Promise.  Unless you cuss at me.  🙂

Are you surprised that He is? (Isaiah 46:3-4)

There are others like this “Georgia girl“. 

Is this kind of community growing?

HT:  Society bro. Champ Thornton

Good morning, heavenly Father;Good morning, Lord Jesus;Good morning, Holy Spirit.

Heavenly Father, I worship you as the Creator and Sustainer of the universe.

Lord Jesus, I worship you, Savior and Lord of the world.

Holy Spirit, I worship you, Sanctifier of the people of God.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Heavenly Father, I pray that I may live this day in your presence and please you more and more.

Lord Jesus, I pray that this day I may take up my cross and follow you.

Holy Spirit, I pray that this day you will fill me with yourself and cause your fruit to ripen in my life: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, three persons in one God, have mercy upon me. Amen.

– John Stott

Friends, I make this prayer my own, today.

Clark Goble just started interacting with some of the Trinity papers collected by Nick, referenced in the “2008 Trinity Blogging Summit” post.  I am pleased.  For all readers, please venture through some of these papers and tell me what you think.

Chiefly, for this thread, I am interested in all sorts of questions that both evangelicals and LDS might ask one another in their respective belief in the Trinity.

May I start with these questions?

I think I would enjoy an overnight campout at Big Trinity Lake, Idaho, chatting with Dr. Peter Leithart on the Trinity, and worshiping our glorious Triune God, the Creator and Holy One who rules over Idaho.  The Triune God provides Trinity Mountain and the more majestic, cathedral triad of Tetons as a fun playground for his earthly creatures in Idaho.

What a God!

What fools we are for not giving this God all the glory!

HT:  Ben Wright

I owe him on this Saturday morning for producing hearty laughter within Elon Todd Wood out here in Southeastern Idaho.  I didn’t realize there was a colorful mascot attached to my ancestral name.

Would my LDS friends think this fitting?

Should I make this picture my wordpress signature to bring comic relief for all?

GO ELON!!!!!!!!!

Nick pulled together some fascinating papers by various authors on this fundamental doctrine.

I am curious to see how LDS philosophers like Jim Faulconer, Blake Ostler, Clark Goble, Ben Huff, or Dan Peterson would give assent to the Trinitarian themes in articles #2, #4, #5, #6, and #8.

And did Blake Ostler really reject social trinitarianism, believing in monarchial monotheism back in 2005?  Dynamic monarchianism? 

I wonder if these guys are seeing some of the same things that I am learning in my study of John’s Gospel.

Bruce tackles the topic.

Calvinism versus Arminianism.