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Author Archives: Sharon Lindbloom
Defilements and Pollutions
Some of you may have already seen this reading by Charles Spurgeon. It was posted on Of First Importance a little while ago, but it bears repeating — and discussing. ———————————- Away with your tools If you make me an … Continue reading
Joseph Smith’s Powerful Influence
“It is by no means improbable that some future textbook… will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by … Continue reading
Posted in Joseph Smith, Nauvoo
Tagged Charles Francis Adams, Figures of the Past, Josiah Quincy
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Coats of Skin
Yet another interesting difference between Mormonism and evangelical Christianity has caught my attention recently. The July 2009 issue of the Ensign magazine includes an article about modesty written by Silvia Allred, First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency. As … Continue reading
Mormon Church Showcases Statement, “The Church does not stand or fall on the Book of Abraham”
On Tuesday, August 11th (2009) the “Authorized news web site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” (Church News) showcased a lecture given by John Gee, “an associate research professor of Egyptology at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute … Continue reading
Keeping the Word of Wisdom on the Internet
This is a bit of silliness. Google is working on an indexing and infrastructure update it has named “Caffeine Update.” A forum discussion on the tool included this comment: “So Google is developing an updated search tool called ‘Caffeine’ “I’m … Continue reading
The ‘Careful Finagling’ of Repentance
I read an article about repentance in the August 2009 Ensign magazine. “Mending Quilts, Mending Lives” illustrates the idea of repentance in a story about a damaged quilt. While making a quilt, one of the quilters accidentally put a hole … Continue reading
Posted in Forgiveness, Repentance
Tagged Impossible Gospel, Miracle of Forgiveness, Spencer W. Kimball
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Keeping Up with the Mormons
In the Mormon Coffee discussion regarding recent changes to Gospel Principles, one commenter wrote, ” The Church started out and was against something, and in a few years, they were for the thing they were against, a few years later … Continue reading
Posted in LDS Church
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Summer 1844: Sorrowful Times in Nauvoo
Latter-day Saints Isaac and Sarah Scott were married in Massachusetts in 1843. They moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, where they became eyewitnesses to the events surrounding the deaths of Joseph and Hyrum Smith. Sarah wrote to her in-laws beginning on July … Continue reading