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February 2016

February 05, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 6: 2 Nephi 1-2

A post up before Saturday night! Wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles... Today we enter...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

Book Notes and Thoughts on Tradition and “Doctrine Creep”

Two of my most-read posts have dealt with the flood in Genesis 6-9. This one looks...

January 31, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 5: 1 Nephi 16-18

Not a lot of time for more than anything but some rough notes this week....

January 23, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 4: 1 Nephi 13-14

School has begun, and I'm swamped. Buckets of reading and writing, and trying to finish...

January 16, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 3: 1 Nephi 8-12, 15

First, although this lesson terminates in chapter 15, next week's Lesson 4 doubles back to cover...

January 02, 2016

BoM Gospel Doctrine Lesson 2: 1 Nephi 1-7

These are the most familiar chapters to any Mormon, and I've literally spent weeks on...

January 02, 2016

Me, the Blog, and Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Lesson 1: Changes!

In the coming year, I plan to put up a Gospel Doctrine post each week as...

December 2015

December 19, 2015

Gospel Doctrine 2016- Recommended Resources for the Book of Mormon

I promised, so here they are. Go read and comment on my post at TimesandSeasons....

December 13, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 46: Revelation 5-6, 19-22 (draft)

Well, the end is upon us. It's the end of the world/New Testament as we...

December 05, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 45: Revelation 1-2, 12

The final book! We’ve almost made it through! The end is nigh! First, a note...

December 05, 2015

NT Gospel Doctrine Lesson 44: 1-3 John

1 John opens reminiscent of both the Gospel of John (thematically) and Luke/Acts (in contrast). That is, the...

November 2015

November 29, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 43: 1-2 Peter, Jude

These three epistles are usually grouped with James and the three epistles of John, together...

November 08, 2015

Gospel Doctrine Lesson 42- James (updated)

I assume James gets his own Gospel Doctrine lesson because... Joseph Smith and James 1:5? Not sure,...

November 07, 2015

Gospel Doctrine Lesson 41- 1&2 Timothy, Titus

These letters are known as the Pastoral Letters. (Pastor came into English from Latin pastor, "shepherd.") They are...

October 2015

October 28, 2015

Gospel Doctrine Lesson 40: Colossians and Philippians, but mostly Philemon

I've got a new feature here. Bible verses now have a NRSV pop-up when you...

October 25, 2015

Gospel Doctrine Lesson 39: Ephesians (updated)

I've got a new feature here. Bible verses now have a NRSV pop-up when you...

October 22, 2015

Gospel Doctrine Lesson 38: Acts 21-28

First of all, I've made a Facebook page for Benjamin the Scribe. I'm not sure...

October 09, 2015

SMPT Conference at BYU: Alma 32

I'll be speaking tomorrow morning on BYU campus, as part of the conference of the...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 37: Hebrews

Hebrews is fun and different. Note that it comes at the end of Paul's letters,...

September 19, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 36: Romans

Paul's letter to Romans "has been the most studied of the apostle's writings -- indisputably...

September 12, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 35: 2 Corinthians (updated)

2 Corinthians constitutes the first preserved "sequel" in Paul's letters. In fact, Paul wrote three or...

September 12, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 34: 1 Corinthians 11-16

The latter half of Paul’s letter to the Corinthians has a definite flow and organization...

August 2015

August 28, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 33: 1 Corinthians 1-10

This week, we're all in one place, 1 Corinthians, which is a smorgasbord of interesting...

August 23, 2015

Necessary background on grace, faith, works, law, justification for the coming LDS Gospel Doctrine discussions (updated)

[Please see my newer version of this post here.] Let me open by saying, this...

August 22, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 32: Acts 18:23-20:38, Galatians

(Some mysterious formatting issues in today's post, though I'm told it looks fine on mobile...

August 17, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 31: Acts 15-18, 1-2 Thessalonians.

We're moving into very very dense historical, textual, and doctrinal territory today. Today I lean...

August 09, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 30: Acts 10-15

Since I am posting this and the last lesson two nights apart, I'm going to...

August 07, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 29: Acts 6-9

We're about half way through the year, and I felt it appropriate to repost some...

July 2015

July 23, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 28: Acts 1-5

Today we begin something new that is neither here nor there. Acts is not a...

July 19, 2015

New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 27: Matt. 28:1-20, Luke 24, John 20-21, Mark 16.

Apologies for a short post on such an important section. I don't get out to...

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