The other day, the Blogger of Jared, instigated my thinking about beer.
And today’s front page headlines of our local paper, the Post Register, had everybody in the community thinking about bars. (more…)
LDS
LDS Responses to the anti-LDS DVD
This is a wild thought, suggested to me by a good friend, yesterday. Have ex-Mormon evangelicals ever got together and produced a DVD that is simply two hours of heart-felt testimony, one personal story after another? And would the LDS Church think it relevant to listen to such a production, if professionally and kindly crafted? In all my years here in Mormon country, I have respectfully read and heard hundreds of LDS testimonies through BoM’s given to me, LDS videos, movies, live meetings, and the many historical LDS sites that I have visited. But how many LDS in the corridor would be interested in listening to loving but “exclusive” testimonies of evangelicals. Do authentic testimonies matter? (more…)
Andrew Skinner – Live tonight in Idaho Falls!
Turn off CNN where you are watching “What is a Christian?” tonight. This is ten times better!!!
Andrew Skinner, dean of religious education at BYU in Provo, in connection to the Ink & Blood exhibit, addressed a full house tonight at the Trinity United Methodist Church next to the Museum of Idaho.
As a distinguished scholar, he lectured on the topic of “A Special Heritage – The Story of the English Bible”. Though I have many questions about his devotion in 2006 presented on the nature of God; tonight, I was spell-bound. Absolutely captivated! He powerfully articulated in vivid color the same story I have been sharing with the groups that I have been bringing to the museum these past two months. Truth is . . . Andrew speaks with scholarly flair. (more…)
Politics on the LDS I-15 corridor
I don’t quite understand this.
World magazine, “Building a city” (March 24/31 2007) listed the 10 most conservative U.S. cities on page 29: (more…)
Jesus Christ / Joseph Smith DVD Rewind . . . A week later
The newest DVD, Jesus Christ / Joseph Smith, begins very nicely:
This video has been produced out of love for our Lord Jesus Christ and love for our Mormon and Christian friends. We pray that it will touch the hearts of all who watch through the grace and truth of Christ Jesus. (more…)
LDS Annual General Conference
I have experienced my first Annual General Conference. My LDS friends would be proud of me. I have lived in the corridor for almost all my life but not until the age of 37 have I truly tasted that which is a fundamental component to the LDS faith. (more…)
LDS General Conference – 177th
In the latter part of this second session, I just couldn’t resist in writing notes and saying hi.
I won’t blog these sessions live today or tomorrow, lest I lapse into any knee-jerk responses. Yet I admit, I have never heard of pickles in connection with new birth theology. 🙂 (more…)
Jesus Christ versus Joseph Smith DVD
Rolling back into the states, I am sitting in the Days Inn in Salt Lake City, just about ready to catch the Express van transportation back to Idaho Falls.
Today’s Salt Lake newspaper carries a front page article on the DVD, Jesus Christ versus Joseph Smith. (more…)
A Crucial Conversation in the Night
Do you believe Jesus’ words of conversation in John 3:13?
“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” (more…)
Joseph Smith Translation
Bible Corrected by Joseph Smith. I cross those words out. That was the name in 1999. Today, Kenneth and Lyndell Lutes title their book, Joseph Smith Translation: Every Revision in the Old & New Testaments (Orem: Granite Publishing and Distribution, LLC, 2006).
In 2006, Kenneth and Lyndell write in the preface of this volume:
Joseph Smith considered the translation to be “part of his divine calling as a prophet of God.” He accomplished it in about three years, during 1830-1833, and spent the remaining eleven years of his life making improvements. Although he went through the entire Bible, he did not correct everything, nor was he permitted by God to restore some parts. However, he did intend to publish what he had done and in fact did print extracts from the translation (vii).
The popular idea that the JST corrects the KJV Bible is alive and prolific in the I-15 corridor.
I am sure that with unflinching confidence, Kenneth will tell you that the JST is the Inspired Version (IV) not the KJV. And he backs this up with a whopper statement by Bruce R. McConkie:
The Joseph Smith Translation, or Inspired Version, is a thousand times over the best Bible now existing on earth.
And I doubt that any General Authority in 2007 would publicly disagree with this.
Jesus in Idaho Falls 