Leave it to senior reporter Corey Taule from the Post Register to fill me in on what is going on in Southeast Idaho.  I have been in the dark about this.  Maybe someone told me, but I can’t remember.  Cory is sharing about the Lincoln exhibit in Rexburg, Idaho.  He declares three fine traits of Abraham Lincoln:

kindness, empathy, and inclusion

But then he notes,

This is a sensitive topic in these parts because the greater Rexburg area recently took a worldwide pounding after three 9-year-olds famously chanted, “Assassinate Obama,” on a school bus.

So I googled “three girls in Madison County chanting ‘Assassinate Obama’ “.

Wow.

Here are some thoughts on the incident:  The Political Carnival, Crooks and Liars, WowOwow, Jackie May of the Times, Eagle Rock Talks, New West, and The American Spectator.

My question to liberal friends and conservative friends:  What is the answer to the righteous moralism in my life and the thousands  upon thousands of others in Southeastern Idaho?

Awaiting your response . . .

(p.s. – Wondering what the gang from Rexburbia would say . . . )

You guys all know Wilson up in Northern Idaho?

I agree with him in this post. (HT: SharperIron)

My question:  Would the LDS prophet pray on the same platform with Robinson in seeking some sort of divine guidance for President-elect Obama and the United States of America?

Jeremiah.  Look for yourself here.

Brent L. Top authored When You Can’t Do It Alone (Deseret, 2008).

He quotes C.S. Lewis:

You must realise from the outset that the goal towards which He is beginning to guide you is absolute perfection; and no power in the whole universe, except you yourself, can prevent Him taking you to that goal. . . .

 

The command Be ye perfect is not idealistic gas.  Nor is it a command to do the impossible.  He is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command.  He said (in the Bible) that we were “gods” and He is going to make good His words.  If we let Him—for we can prevent Him, if we choose—he will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly . . . His own boundless power and delight and goodness.  The process will be long and in parts very painful, but that is what we are in for.  Nothing less (Mere Christianity, 203, 205-6; emphasis added)

These are beautiful words and my confident expectation.  I am in union with Christ.  His atoning work brings absolute assurance.  But I don’t quite detect this assurance in Brent, especially with how he emphasizes the words of Lewis.

Ray taps into the Fundamental Evangelistic Association.

This is the very first time that I have seen bloggernacle link into a Christian fundamentalist website beyond my stripe of Christian fundamentalism.

Tonight, we are studying Jeremiah 7.  I wish you all could join in on the discussion. (more…)

This is interesting.

I have never read anything by Hank Hanegraaff on Mormonism.

 Back to Marsh’s Christmas book of 2008, what should I make of these quotes on the Restoration, the Joseph Smith Translation, and Martin Luther. (more…)

Here.

Michael Heiser is among the ranks for LDS perusal.

HT: Nick Norelli