My wife and I took the Salt Lake Express down the I-15 corridor to SLC.
We just found out our flight to NYC-Kennedy had been cancelled. We can catch a flight tomorrow at 4:50 to NYC, but our international flights will all have to be changed.
I told my wife if Turkish Air can get us sometime to Istanbul, I will rent a car for our own Turkish adventure. She didn’t laugh.
I suppose for now, Salt Lake City is a nice place to be stuck. 🙂
Late last night, I watched Mitt on Larry King Live from one of the eating tables at McDonald’s. The guy certainly articulated level answers to King’s questions on the Middle East quagmire.
Today, my wife and I are headed to the country of Turkey. So I have been mentally preparing myself for leaving Mormon country to experience the exotic lands of Muslim country. Where I am able to have Internet access, I will keep you posted over the next week and a half.
Again tonight, I try to bring for you in a somewhat summarized, limited, and fallible form the concluding lecture by Peter Flint at Trinity United Methodist Church here in Idaho Falls, Idaho. (more…)
Last night, the executive director, David P., of the Museum of Idaho introduced Peter Flint (originally from South Africa) of Trinity Western, an internationally known Dead Sea Scroll scholar and the third distinguished speaker connected with the Ink & Blood Exhibit in Idaho Falls.
I have tried to capture as much as I could on this blog the essence of his presentation. (more…)
Since the Ink & Blood exhibit, showcasing Dead Sea Scroll fragments, is in Idaho Falls, let me introduce you to some of the books at the Idaho Falls Public Library that will better acquaint you to the topic buzzing around our community.
1. Amazing Dead Sea Scrolls and The Christian Faith (Chicago: Moody Press, revised edition, 1959) by William Sanford LaSor.
Brief Overview
Lasor’s goal was to answer questions for the evangelical community on historical background of the discovery, the content of manuscripts and fragments, scroll dating, the Qumran community and their religious teachings, and the relationships of Qumran to Christianity and Judaism. (more…)
1. Blakes’ exchange here on the nature of God . . . and why he believes God is not a unique species, different than man.
2. The two best pics that I have recently seen in bloggernacle, red rocks and family. Fantastic.
3. Outside of bloggernacle, the contrast is picturesque banality.
4. One of the most powerful verses posted on the internet, and with English transliteration of the Greek, too.
5. An interesting blogger name. As I have been working my way through Isaiah slowly and purposefully for the very first time, I am in awe of Isaiah’s God.
6. No new can of worms here. Disbelief has been around for a long time. If I had time, I would love to sit down with LxxLuthor and discuss the worldwide flood.
7. Evangelical and Mormon debate over Christ.
8. I just read this. But it makes me want to write a post for just the general public on the topic, “Why do people who refuse to believe the Bible, still study it?” There are religious scholars who devote their whole lives to the study of Scripture and yet refuse to believe.
9. This gives me insight into a controversy that I see continually popping up. Thanks.
10. The number one political question for evangelicals living in the corridor.
Beginning last fall, I have for the first time begun to seriously, personally grapple with the divinely inspired text of John’s Gospel. I can hardly express to you the wide array of emotions that I have been experiencing in feasting upon the dazzling presentation of Triune theology revealed in these pages. The activity simply intoxicates one with joy. (more…)
Gary has written some beautiful words:
John 3:22-36 is all about fragmentation that results in the kingdom of God when Jesus is made to compete with human vessels in this world. No one will admit that they are competing with Jesus. No one will say that they are impeding the kingdom’s growth. Words like envy, jealousy, and rivalry are never admitted. But just as the Baptist’s followers were interested in making him into an institution, so too the Christian church can become a human institution built on the foundation of human enterprise and personality.
At the core of the Baptist’s argument against his followers’ views is an understanding of Jesus that sets him apart from every other human being. Jesus Christ is superior to any other person on earth. He has “come from above,” he has been sent by God, and God has given him the Spirit without limit. The Baptist cannot rival these credentials. Therefore every form of human wisdom, every form of religious expression, must be seen as secondary to the revelation that we possess in Jesus Christ. Indeed, every charismatic teacher and every gifted teacher must decrease so that Jesus alone is seen as preeminent.
Is this the fundamental cry of your heart faith?
Do you see any connection between Isaiah 8:12-13 with I Peter 3:14-15?
Isaiah 8:14 with Matthew 21:44, Luke 2:34, Romans 9:33, I Corinthian 1:23, and I Peter 2:8?
Isaiah 8:18 with Hebrews 2:13? (more…)
Who has not heard of the famous words in this chapter?
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.” (more…)
Jesus in Idaho Falls 