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Category Archives: Grace
A Gift of Grace?
At general conference in April, 2015, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, a member of the LDS First Presidency, gave a message called “The Gift of Grace.” In it he said “salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience.” How is one … Continue reading
Commandment-keeping and God’s Grace
It’s Throwback Thursday! The following blog article originally posted at Mormon Coffee on September 26, 2006. —— My October, 2006 edition of Ensign just arrived. I wish more of my Christian friends who think Mormonism is abandoning its heretical past … Continue reading
The Grace Club
My daughter took The Not Even Once Club book off my shelf and wanted me to read it as a bedtime story. I can’t blame her: it has fun and inviting pictures. I told her it was not a book I … Continue reading
Two Views of Eternal Life
Former Mormons who are now Christians say that this 21 minute video has been instrumental in helping them recognize the differences between the biblical view of salvation and the Mormon view of eternal life. It helped them understand what God has … Continue reading
“Utter Nonsense” Presented at the April 2015 Mormon General Conference
It’s like an April Fools joke, but nobody’s laughing. Instead, people are scratching their heads. During the April 2015 Sunday morning General Conference session, Mormon Apostle Dieter F. Uchtdorf (of the First Presidency) gave a talk that just a few … Continue reading
Posted in General Conference, Grace, Salvation
Tagged Bruce R. McConkie, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dallin Oaks, David O. McKay, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, Ezra Taft Benson, General Conference, Grace, Harold B. Lee, James Talmage, Joseph Fielding Smith, LDS Church, Marion G. Romney, Mormon Church, Mormon Salvation, Mormonism, Spencer W. Kimball
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Jesus Came to Save Sinners
While reading the October 2014 General Conference addresses, I was interested to read that Mormon apostle D. Todd Christofferson said, “So God does not save us ‘just as we are,’ first, because ‘just as we are’ we are unclean, and … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Forgiveness, General Conference, Gospel, Grace, Repentance, Salvation, Worthiness
Tagged Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, D. Todd Christofferson, Forgiveness, General Conference, Impossible Gospel, Jesus Christ, LDS Church, Mormon Church, Mormon Salvation, Salvation, Worthiness
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Flee to Refuge in Christ
“My heart was already full as John Piper began his message that would close the recent Together for the Gospel conference. I prayed that God would use his message to implant a passion within our hearts that would shape our … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Friendship, Interaction, and Evangelism, Grace, Jesus Christ, Salvation
Tagged Christianity, Grace, Jesus Christ, John Piper, Salvation
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Is it really a gift?
One of the most remarkable things about the Mormon religion is how its leaders can so badly misinterpret the basic meaning of certain words. Take “gift,” for example. When I think of a “gift,” I think of something given to … Continue reading
‘After All You Can Do’ to Screw Up Your Life
All You’ll Ever Need By Andrew Peterson The blood of Jesus, it is like the widow’s oil It’s enough to pay the price to set you free It can fill up every jar and every heart that ever beat When … Continue reading
Twenty-four elders cast their crowns before the throne.
In this two-minute video Dr. Stephen Lawson, preaching on Worshiping the Triune God, explains why the twenty-four elders in Revelation 4:10-11 cast their crowns before the throne of God. May we all live throughout the new year with a deep … Continue reading