Daniel C. Peterson's Blog, page 1139

Χριστός ἀνέστη!

    “If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus’ fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered [Read More...]

Are we suffering a mass apostasy from the Church?

    I was pleased this afternoon to hear Elder Quentin L. Cook directly address — and flatly deny — the assertion that the Church is hemorrhaging members at a record rate.   I see and hear this claim quite often, particularly from militant apostates.   Heck, I heard something like it from the feminist Gloria Steinem, [Read More...]

“34,000 Black Churches Break Ties with Presbyterian Church USA”

    The wedge issue is “gay marriage”:   http://www.charismanews.com/us/48944-...  

New Testament 120

    Matthew 12:43-45 Compare Luke 11:24-26   One of the things that this passage says to me, sadly, is that the condition of someone who’s once been converted but then abandons his or her covenants and relapses into “worldly” ways is very likely to be worse than it was before that first conversion.   [Read More...]

An LDS-themed movie set (and filmed) in Ghana

    This looks potentially really interesting.  And I’m delighted to see stories being told from well beyond the Wasatch Front:   http://www.deseretnews.com/article/76...    

An interim comment on General Conference

    I’ve enjoyed conference thus far.   I liked hearing Elder L. Tom Perry cite Pope Francis in conference, and hearing Elder D. Todd Christofferson cite the German Protestant martyr-theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.  My wife and I have also, apparently like Elder Christofferson, stood admiringly before those new sculptures of modern Christian martyrs on the front [Read More...]

If I had wanted to make Islam look repulsive, I couldn’t have done it more effectively myself.

    These people, and those like them elsewhere, are the enemies of Islam and of faithful Muslims:   http://www.nationalreview.com/article...    

Who are you?

    Life isn’t about finding yourself.  Life is about creating yourself.  (George Bernard Shaw)    

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New Testament 119

    Matthew 12:38-42 Compare Matthew 16:1-2, 4; Mark 8:11-12; Luke 11:16, 29-32; John 6:30   The use of marriage as a metaphor for the relationship between God and his people runs throughout the Bible.  And, unfortunately, the image of adultery is just about as common, representing the infidelity of Israel to its covenant with [Read More...]