Let me share this current email note from my friend, Bob. (more…)

As I hope to listen to much of the spring LDS conference, I am curious to see what the LDS prophet and apostles say about the Lord Jesus Christ and Yahweh, the all consuming Subject of scriptures.  Everything else, including us, is backdrop. (more…)

Yesterday, this article, Rich Profit at the Shepherd’s Conference 2008” was posted at the well-known Christian fundamentalist website, SharperIron (SI).  It underscores or skims the surface of some of the foundational rumblings in my heart.  Please take the time to read this, recopied below the line.  As a Christian fundamentalist (fundamentalistic evangelical, evangelical fundamentalist, conservative Christian, or whatever you want to call me), I am concerned that my communication (1) glorifies God, (2) exalts Christ, (3) obeys the Spirit, (4) misrepresents no one intentionally, (5) defends truth, (6) reflects light, (7) shares love, and (7) displays humility.  (more…)

Being the third volume in his trilogy, one of the leading authorities on Judaism during the age of Jesus, Geza Vermes, pontificates in his book, The Resurrection (Doubleday, 2008): (more…)

I have looked at two books:

1.  Jesus (Thomas Nelson, 2008) by Chuck Swindoll

2.  The Third Jesus (Harmony Books, 2008) by Deepak Chopra

Deepak offers to you not the (1) historical Jesus of the biblical scholars, nor (2) the Jesus defined by orthodox religion, but (3) a third Jesus.

Which Jesus in the two books do you have the most affinity with?

It’s Monday.

I have been studying Isaiah 48 for Wednesday night’s inductive study.

Oh my.  Oh my.  My fingers trembled with excitement tracing the words of verse 16 – the beautiful and clear Triad in the work of salvation.

Come ye near unto me, hear ye this, I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I:  and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

I bow down in joy.

This Monday encounter with the Triune God (one eternal Light) of Isaiah breaking through the gross darkness makes me question Joseph’s visitation with his Gods (separate lights).

In Joseph’s visitation from his Gods, which one of them makes the Isaianic claim, “There is no God beside me”?  Does one of the gods point to the other as the more authoritative Light?

We must all give glory and worship and pray only to the One who points to Himself for the hope of mankind’s salvation and who proclaims emphatically, unequivocally, and universally to all, “There is none else.”

This God is my only hope as a sinner, as “a transgressor from the womb” (Isaiah 48:8).

Here is the latest news from the Vatican.  Muslims have now outranked Roman Catholics in numbers of people.

I am curious.

As a Latter-day Saint, would you find more affinity in your religious perspectives with a Muslim than a Roman Catholic?

HT:  Joe Roof

Hey, our church website has stepped it up a notch.

We now have a picture presence in Ammon, Idaho!  😉

Hmm.  How often have you heard those words? 

I lifted the title from chapter seven in Tim Keller’s book, The Reason for God:  Belief in an Age of Skepticism (Dutton, 2008).

In New York urban style, Keller seeks to challenge your thinking: (more…)

HT:  Mormon Apologetics

David E. Bokovoy, “Invoking the Council as Witness in Amos 3:13,”  Journal of Biblical Literature 127/1 (2008): 37-51.

I first heard David lecture last year.