Ostling reports on the latest news of evangelical and LDS togetherness in Christianity Today.

And Aquinas is the first to provide a review.

Pornography is a troublesome issue in Southeastern Idaho.

Dr. Donald L. Hilton, Jr. is speaking in a Citizens for Decency community conference – Visual Addiction:  Pornography and the Brain – with the Idaho Falls segment at Taylorview Jr. High School Auditorium, 12:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m., November 14, 2009.  He and his wife, Jana, currently serve as LDS Family Services PASG (pornography addiction support group) Program Coordinators for San Antonio, Texas for those who struggle with pornography and sexual addiction and their spouses.  They are the parents of five children and two grandchildren.  Dr. Hilton is a renowned neurosurgeon and the author of the LDS book, He Restoreth My Soul. 

You can pick up a free ticket at www.cfdec.org or any Southeast Idaho Deseret Book Store.

I plan on dropping in to hear what Don has to say.

 

Read this.

Uh oh.

They are getting a Baptist in there . . . Dr. Travis Kerns.

Do conservative Mormons and conservative Baptists dialogue?

Actually, I just found this out today.

I wonder what the topic will be.

We are two Baptist pastors.

But the Reverend Henry Lyons is not seeing what I am seeing in Scripture.

Someday I am going to die.  I don’t know when.  But when there is my funeral in Idaho Falls, sing “Amazing Grace”.  I will need the Henry’s Fork Pipes and Drums.

Tears are on my cheeks as I listen tonight to this song, performed by IL DIVO in this Roman Coliseum concert (Make sure you listen to the song, “Hallelujah (Alelujah)” as well, too). 

When my wife and I were standing within the pagan Coliseum years ago, I wish I could have taken in the power of this music.

Jacob J. is right.  This hymn needs to be sung.

Did you all see these quotes in Christianity Today (Sept. 2009)?

Pseudo-Dionysius on God –

Trinity!  Higher than any being . . . Where the mysteries of God’s Logos / Lie simple, absolute, and unchangeable / In the brilliant darkness of a hidden silence.

Gregory of Nyssa on God –

How can one arrive at the boundary sought for when there is no boundary?

True satisfaction of the soul’s desire consists in constantly going on with this quest and never ceasing in the ascent to God.

Which statements do you consider true?  Which statements do you consider false? 

1.  God as three is to be emphasized more than as one.

2.  God as one is to be emphasized more than as three.

3.  God is three in one.

4.  God is one in three.

5.  The Holy Spirit is Jehovah.

6.  The Son is Jehovah.

7.  The Father is Jehovah.

8.  The Son is the Father.

9.  The Son is not the Father.

10.  To see Jesus is to see the Father.

11.  Only the Father is the one true God.

12.  The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are three separate Beings.

13.  The Father sends the Spirit.

14.  The Son sends the Spirit.

15.  The Spirit glorifies the Son.

16.  The Son glorifies the Spirit.

17.  The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are just one Person.

18.  The Son dwells in the Father.

19.  The Father dwells in the Son.

20.  The Father sent the Son.

21.  The Son is not Most High.

22.  God is just like a created egg:  yolk, white, and shell.

23.  God is just like the created H2O molecules:  water, ice, and steam

24.  God is just like you, the creature:  body, soul, and spirit

25.  The Spirit proceeds from the Father.

26.  The Spirit proceeds from Jesus.

27.  Jesus is glorified by the Father and the Spirit.

28.  The Son glorifies the Father.

29.  The Father glorifies the Spirit.

30.  The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are not equal.

31.  God has three natures.

32.  God has three wills.

33.  God has three heads.

34.  God is three Persons.

35.  There is only one, true God.

John 17:3 is a very important verse for “restorationists”, like Jehovah’s Witnesses.  Debunking the Trinity is one of the key purposes of this blog, Jesus and His God.

How comfortable are LDS friends with the interpretation by Jehovah’s Witnesses on John 17:3?

It is the humorous new quote in a book review written by the king of evangelical, Calvinistic bloggers, Tim Challies.

American Evangelicals might not be listening to LDS General Conference, but they certainly are reading and listening to Beck.  And it is often with a smile.  A friendly smile.

Beck is #3 on the American radio airwaves.  Through his humor, determined will, and hard work, we shall see if he will make it to the top tier, the highest golden level of influence, in our capitalistic country.