Author Archives: Aaron Shafovaloff

Christian Messages – I Am A Family Man

The song is from Andrew Peterson’s “Love And Thunder” album. I love his original Christmas album and his children’s music album. Consider it our Protestant version of burning in the bosom material. 🙂 No delegated priesthood authority required. To those who are afraid to … Continue reading

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Ex-Mormon Steve Kay’s Wife is An Added Bonus

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2009 Gospel Principles criticizes the “pagan beliefs” of those “called Christians” in “false Christianity”

The Gospel Principles 2009 manual essentially calls classical Christianity “false Christianity” and its theology of God “pagan” and its adherents those who are “called” Christian. If we talked about Mormon beliefs and Mormonism and Mormon members this way, we’d get … Continue reading

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SING WITH US

If you haven’t sung “How Great is Our God” with 5,000+ brothers and sisters in the Christ, full of the Holy Spirit, enraptured by the intrinsic glory and holiness and majesty of God (the one who never sinned), then you … Continue reading

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The promise to Abraham came by grace through faith, not by personal righteousness

“Because of Abraham’s righteousness, the Lord made a covenant with him and his descendants.” (Gospel Principles, ch. 15) Paul disagrees: “For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through … Continue reading

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Chapter 3 of Gospel Principles reviewed by IRR

You can follow IRR’s reviews of Gospel Principles at Gospel Principles: A Scripture Study Guide to the LDS Teaching Manual. And just as a reminder, MRM has a list of salient changes to the 2009 manual.

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With Him it’s impossible to exaggerate

“You should have seen it! It will go down as epic in Church ball.” “I was THERE and it was pedestrian, man.” “WHAT?! No way. Everyone had the jaw on the ground!” “You’re full of exaggerations today.” “If there’s anything … Continue reading

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Correlation Matters

Bill McKeever and I discuss the recent LDS Church News article on using “proper” sources and other related issues on LDS Church “correlation”. Link to MP3

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Evangelical Christians Could Be Wrong

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What is the function of good works at final judgment for the forgiven?

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