Category Archives: Grace

Why Grace Can Be So Hard to Receive

Posted on February 24, 2011 by Eric Johnson

I was driving by a car wash near our Utah home for the fiftieth or sixtieth time and once again saw the sign hanging there. It read, “Free vacuum.” Part of me had been avoiding this for the past three … Continue reading →

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How Good is Good Enough?

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Sharon Lindbloom

This is the Christian message of how sinful man is graciously and mercifully reconciled to God. How well does this line up with the messages presented last weekend at the LDS General Conference? “From now on, therefore, we regard no … Continue reading →

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What is grace?

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Sharon Lindbloom

A recent visitor to Mormon Coffee asked if the Mormons here could help him/her understand the LDS doctrine of grace. The visitor wondered, “Where [in Mormonism] is the idea of grace being unmerited favor?” This got me to thinking about … Continue reading →

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Never Enough

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Sharon Lindbloom

What follows is a noteworthy article from Tabletalk magazine, January 2009: For the Love of Slavery? by John P. Sartelle “Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in — who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have … Continue reading →

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Heartbreak of the Mormon Gospel

Posted on August 18, 2008 by Sharon Lindbloom

In a recent article on Mormon Times, LDS author Orson Scott Card wrote a column about books. Books he’s seen, books he’s read, and “Mormon books [he’ll] do without.” Much of the article was written a bit tongue-in-cheek, but Mr. … Continue reading →

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“The Heaven We Get Will be the Heaven We Earn”

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Aaron Shafovaloff

The following are the words of Joseph S. Peery, published in Improvement Era (Vol. XVII. September 1914 No. 11): We will receive the salvation we earn and no more. Now one would think that the good Christian editors of Improvement … Continue reading →

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Amazing Grace

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Sharon Lindbloom

Last Saturday’s Salt Lake Tribune (27 April) contained “A call to grace” written by Tribune journalist Peggy Fletcher Stack. It’s the story of Jonathan Hays, a newly ordained Christian minister serving in New Song Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Salt Lake … Continue reading →

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Personal Worthiness Required

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Sharon Lindbloom

At the LDS Church’s most recent General Conference held in Salt Lake City a little over a week ago, Elaine Dalton took the stand. Directing her remarks to the general membership of the Church, Mrs. Dalton delivered a talk she … Continue reading →

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Commandment-keeping and God’s Grace

Posted on September 26, 2006 by Bill McKeever

My October, 2006 edition of Ensign just arrived. I wish more of my Christian friends who think Mormonism is abandoning its heretical past would take closer notice of what the LDS Church is still teaching; for instance, in an article … Continue reading →

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After All We Can Do

Posted on March 13, 2006 by Sharon Lindbloom

Last week I wrote about “Trevor,” a man who took issue with a comment I left at a news web site (see Searching for Salvation: The Bible or TV Guide? My comment set Ephesians 2:8-10 (“For by grace you have … Continue reading →

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