Vacation Notes (Part 2) – Letters of An Apostate Mormon

1.  We arrived in Prineville, Oregon on Thursday of last week for our Wood family reunion.  Guess who were the first two people I saw on the main street?  Two young Mormon elders in their white shirts and ties.  2.  As I was looking through my grandfather’s library, my uncle, Tom Wilson, handed me a book:  The […]

Vacation Notes

1.  Cookies and Cream Dippin’ Dots at the Roaring Springs Water Park is heavenly. 2.  Treasure Valley Baptist Church is ground zero for the Independent Baptist KJV movement in Idaho.  Yesterday, they began their pastor’s school.  I visited the church complex this morning.

Bible Belt Blogger on Mormonism’s future success

He is very positive as he thinks of the recent Slate article. But as I sit here hanging out at a Holiday Inn in Meridian, Idaho, I yawn over the stereotype post.

D.A. Carson, John 16:12, and LDS

D.A. Carson is a research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.  And Andy Naselli has been a helpful research assistant.  He compiled all Carson’s writings, here.  Andy’s blog has been very useful to me. The words of Jesus in John 16:12 are extremely encouraging, but they have been interpreted differently in the I-15 Corridor. […]

Another Idaho Falls Pastor on the Trinity

I just read this article by Rick Lum of Christ Community Church on the Trinity. Friends, check out what he notes on page 15 about John 17.

Theology in a Hostile World

On this Friday afternoon, I am thrilled by the words of Jesus in John 16. Gerald Borchert shares an interesting thought on John 16:14-15, To be authentically Christian in a hostile world, according to John, is not to be pneumatically centered nor Christocentric but theocentric.  The Spirit serves the mission of Jesus, just as Jesus served the will […]

Radical Life Transformation

Life transformation is beautiful thing to see. One man had sold his brother into slavery. Amazingly, the same man, twenty plus years later, decided to place his own life in permanent slavery rather than see his youngest brother taken into slavery. It’s Judah. Because of a deep work of gracious repentance, how many American Christians […]

Google ‘Lachish Letters’ & I get 3 LDS

Why is that when I google topics, I often get LDS posts on the first page? (chuckling) On Wednesday evening, our church family is tackling Jeremiah 34.  Verse seven in the chapter triggered for me memories of Lachish ostraca that I remember discussing in seminary.  It is a fascinating archaeological study.  (When in England, go […]

Vacation Bible School “Dino Detectives”

We are digging for God’s truths in our Dino Detectives Vacation Bible School this week. Monday-Thursday, 10:00am-noon, kindergarten through 6th grade:  Come join us! In my 6th grade class, there our 15 of us packed in my church office.  I see so much potential in these young people being used for the glory of God. […]