All those involved in evangelical and LDS conversation should read this latest article, “Facing Islam” by Marvin Olasky in World magazine (December 13/20, 2008).

Marvin quotes Mark D. Siljander and highlights Siljander’s latest book, A Deadly Misunderstanding: A Congressman’s Quest to Bridge the Muslim-Christian Divide.

Here are a just a few quotes from the article to spark your interest:

Thus Siljander believes it’s fine for a Christian, one who has surrendered to God, to call himself a Muslim (55).

And this . . .

Siljander defended his exegesis by telling WORLD that he’s trying to start among evangelicals “not a theological discussion but a strategic one. . . . Facing massive cultural differences, how do you present Jesus in a way that will open minds and hearts?”  He argues that the primary goal of evangelicals should not be to convert Muslims to Christianity, but to awaken in them the desire to follow Jesus that Siljander says is embedded in Islam (56).

Would you recognize similar discussion over the same heart issues pertaining to the I-15 LDS Corridor in America?

For this month, Today’s Pentecostal Evangel magazine (World Missions edition, dec-07-08) has the theme, “The Missionary”.

They also gave a sneak peak for next week’s theme: 

Sometimes a warm cup of coffee is a church’s best outreach tool.

(Chuckling)  It really depends . . .

Live from Hua’s Mongolian Grill . . .

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My first testing. 

Tell me what you think.

The CD is sitting here in my home office.  These three hymns are remarkable.

1. In the Bleak Midwinter
2. Mitt hjerte alltid vanker
3. Vitae lux

Sample them.

Beautiful.

Here.

Ye are pathetic.

Spoof on you

Ye stupid stone and stock in complementary wretchedness.

Though America loves ye in all her cravings for your fertility and sex, I do laugh at ye this Christmas season, ye big-bellied rolls of god and goddess fat.

Glorification involves the cross

Last Sunday, we meditated on the words of Jesus:

Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.

There is so much we learn about the Son and so much we learn about the Father.  But we haven’t even begun to plummet the depths of God’s glory.

“O when we view God’s grand design,

To save rebellious worms,

How vengeance and compassion join

In their sublimest forms.

Our thoughts are lost in rev’rent awe–

We love and we adore;

The first archangel never saw

So much of God before!

Here each Divine perfection joins,

And thought can never trace,

Which of the glories brightest shines–

The justice or the grace.”

His article displays misconceptions.

Jesus Christ, the living Word, is the encompassing treasure of the written Word.  Of course, the LORD’s word, written by Spirit-controlled men, glorifies the living Word.  The Bible’s main subject is not us.  It is God.  It is His voice, and not simply man’s voice.  It is an authoritative voice.  A life-transforming voice.

But what modern prophet is there today who is giving a regular message from God on par with scripture that must be recognized as canon for all ages?