Expository Lutheran: About the BOM posts

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

About the BOM posts

I want to say something in general about these Book of Mormon posts. I have taken it upon myself to read the Book of Mormon, I try to slog through five chapters in a working day. It is work. I find absolutely no pleasure in it whatsoever. I jot notes in the margins. When I have time to Blog on it, I go back and look up the notes. Sometimes I will check to see how FAIR has addressed my questions sometimes not. If there are Mormons who are reading this, go ahead, leave your comment, let me know if I am drawing the wrong conclusion from what I am reading. Most of this is from my gut. I don’t really have time to go read commentaries on this. It is hard enough for me to read it in the first place.

1 comment:

Steve Martin said...: I tried reading it one night (it was in a Marriott hotel we were atying in).

It was tough. Every substantive line of doctrine that I came across was antithetical to Holy Scripture.

Other than that, it was terribly disjointed and boring.

I never went back for more.

Thanks for your efforts, Bror.; May 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM

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My Morning Devotions, or Justification for a Pastor's Blog

I decided I need, maybe to post more often. My last year in seminary, I took a life saver of a class from Prof. Pless called the “Pastor’s Devotional Life.” In this class he suggested that a pastor’s devotions ought to be creative, in that something should be created out of them.I spend every morning in prayer and devotion, study. And I normally don’t look at the day to day of the office, Sermons, Bible Studies, visits, etc. until at the earliest mid morning. I find after spending time feeding myself from the green pasture of God’s word, I have a lot more with which to feed the sheep entrusted to me. These posts on this blog will be the fruits of my morning study, my breakfast from which I get my nourishment. I don’t want this to get complicated, it's breakfast not dinner. But I am willing to share my breakfast with you. Just thoughts that I have here and there as I read through the Greek New Testament, or the Book of Concord in German, or whatever else I happen to read in my morning devotions. Expect the musings to be eclectic.