Searching for Truth
Note: continuation of April 2016 General Conference (1 of 2) To keep focused yesterday and today, I took elaborate notes and attempted to keep an attitude of praise and prayer throughout the sessions. I was serious about trying to have the Spirit with me to testify of those things that were said. The bottom line? > > Read More …
In a prior post (see: Just Shut Up) I mused about feeling the Spirit at the upcoming General Conference (emphasis added; this is odd, one generally doesn’t quote oneself): I have come to love and crave worshiping with the Messianic Jewish Fellowship. The Spirit there feels omnipresent; it feels expansive. Please don’t misunderstand, I also > > Read More …
Why hasn’t even one person during my 40 years in the church challenged me by saying, “since the Spirit clearly isn’t present, why don’t you just (sit down and) shut up?” Okay, this would be received better if done in a more kind and diplomatic way. But, in our passive-aggressive church, we don’t exactly have > > Read More …
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Students of science and engineering are schooled to appreciate the wonder of independent variables, where the change in one variable does not affect any other. If we were unable to model the world in this way, humanity would have made little scientific or technical progress. All those calculations would have been too difficult, too > > Read More …
Praise is something that the Messianic Jews do a lot and Latter Day Saints do hardly ever; why is that?
God blessing man – V – man blessing God
We have learned a great deal about LDS doctrine and ultimately about ourselves from our experiences worshiping with the Messianic Jews.
Introduction to some key lessons we have learned about the gospel of Jesus Christ from the Messianic Jews.
The atonement is about more than Christ’s gifts to us; it teaches much about Jesus’ character.
The question of “Faith versus Works” is bogus at best and more likely a conscientious deception. No matter what else, it is an example of artificial dissonance.