I will be soon placing all these categories with their links in the sidebar of HI4LDS. 

Fundamentalist LDS:  Various sects

Reorganized Church LDS:  Community of Christ

Church LDS:  Official website, Newsroom, Deseret News, LDS Today, Meridian

Scripture focus for LDS:  Feast on the Word

Media LDS:  Michael Otterson

Scholarship LDS: FARMS Research

Apologetics LDS: FAIR, SHIELDS

Doctrinal Exploration among LDS:  Dialogue

Internet LDS: Mormon Archipelago, LDSelect, LDS Blogs, Planet LDS, About,

Sarcastic LDS scourge: SnarkerNackle

Catholic focus on LDS: Defensor Veritatis

Ecumenical evangelical conversation with LDS:  Mormon and Evangelical Conversations, Morehead’s Musings

Cultural LDS:  Sunstone

Post-LDS:  postMormon

Ex-LDS upholding evangelical doctrine:  The Reformed Baptist Thinker

Evangelical counterpoint to LDS:  Mormon Coffee

Yesterday’s front page of the Post Register carried the picture and news.

The caption under the front page picture says, “We are not anti-Mormon.  It is not our intent to belittle others,”  says Jeff Ricks of PostMormon.org, seen in front of one of his organization’s billboards on the north edge of Idaho Falls along U.S. Highway 20 on Tuesday. (more…)

For our fifteenth wedding anniversary, Kristie made reservations last week for one night at The Cutthroat Inn situated at the base of the Heise foothills alongside the South Fork of the Snake River.

The place is a paradise. Our friendly hostess, Kathy, tucked us away in the Moose Cabin, decorated with cozy moose décor – little stuffed moose on a nook, iron moose coat hanger, moose wall border, and moose lamp shades. I felt right at home. A famous, oak framed print of “A Walk In the Woods” by Steven Lyman hung on the walls.

Plopping down and laying back on one of the pine beds, I stared up at the vaulted tongue and groove ceiling and then glanced over at the walls, made of twelve-inch diameter logs. Wow. The owners even had a clock made out of stone slate anchored to the wall. (more…)

“Oh how much we make of ourselves in the culture in which we now live, and yet how little do we know either of ourselves or, surely far, far less, of God. What should be hitting us with the force of a sledge hammer by this point in our study is how the doctrine of God and his providence, at every turn, extols God’s magnificence and glory and supremacy, and yet how the very human extolling of these truths—or better, of the God of whom they are true—results not in our diminished worth or weakened happiness, but in just the opposite. Our pretense of self-esteem is replaced with the infinitely full treasure store of God’s worth, accessed through God-esteem. Our dead-end routes of self-directedness are replaced with unsurpassable wisdom and knowledge that leads unfailingly to life and goodness and peace and joy. So, when we turn from the deceptive emptiness of self-satisfaction and God-empowered attainment, we realize that by acknowledging our bankruptcy and God’s endless riches, we now trade in our poverty for never-ending wealth. Yes, indeed, God’s glory is our good. We praise and honor him who alone is worthy, for granting us the unspeakable privilege of this relationship with him. We do so with deep and sincere gratitude, respect, love, awe, and wonder. How great is our God, and how wondrous it is to be in relationship with him” (160).

– God’s Greater Glory by Bruce Ware

 

As usual, Jacob shares some LDS interpretation over at New Cool Thang about God that I totally disagree with.  Yet you must admit, he is always challenging your thinking.  Thanks also to LDS apologist, Blake Ostler.

I thought I would insert a few things by Bruce A. Ware from his book, God’s Greater Glory.  I like him because he is seeing some of the rich paradoxes that I am beginning to see in scripture about the God of all glory . . . ontological immutability but also relational mutability . . . timelessly eternal but also omnitemporal. (more…)

Coming to the end, here are some final quotes (included with a little bit of my commentary) from Vern’s book, Dynasty of the Holy Grail (2006).  These quotes fully caught my attention: (more…)

The Twin Falls, Idaho paper, Time-News (May 31, 2007), showed on the front page headlines—Moroni being put in place on the new construction of the Twin Falls LDS temple. (more…)

Here are some more quotes from Swanson’s book, Dynasty of the Holy Grail (2006) for your consideration.  The final part 5 will be tomorrow.

 

I had no idea that Luther believed Jesus had sexual affairs.  I would like to get to the bottom of this accusation.  Are there any other sources?  I will be sharing John 4:27 this Sunday morning with the church family. (more…)

– Taken straight from the first page in Bruce A. Ware’s book, God’s Greater Glory: The Exalted God of Scripture and the Christian Faith(Wheaton: Crossway Books, 2004):

Whether we behold, and believe, and adore, and trust, and honor, and love the true and living God, or whether we belittle, and distort, and minimize, and diminish God as we conceive him in order to magnify and enlarge and overextend the significance of “us” — this, at bottom, is what is at stake. In a culture saturated with the esteem of the “self” and marred by the decline of Deity, we stand in need of beholding God for who he is. We need desperately to be humbled and amazed at the infinite splendor of his unrivaled Greatness and the unspeakable wealth of his lavish Goodness. We must marvel at his blinding Glory and fall astonished at his benevolent Grace. If we are to escape the culf of self and find, instead, the true meaning of life and the path of true satisfaction, if we are to give God the glory rightly and exclusively owed to him–that is, if we are to know what truly promotes both our good and his glory–we must behold God for who he is.