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This story is from September 2015 As I went to announce to my kids that it was bedtime I noticed that two out of the three were fast asleep on the couch. I was tired too and decided to just…
Well, here we go again, this is the second post in a row about Book of Mormon stories paralleling modern life. I was just walking around the neighborhood when this one popped into my head so here we go. This…
Most people today associate the pentagram with evil, but why? The truth may cause you to see this ancient symbol in a totally new light.
The Power of Doctrine
In his book Increase in Learning, Elder Bednar teaches that principles arise from doctrines. If we take any principle of the gospel such as faith, repentance, obedience, etc and ask the question, “Why is this necessary?” the answer will always…
“Have You Been Saved?” by Dallin H. Oaks
Forgiveness
Willing to give up
LDSSymbols.com is now live!
LDSSymbols.com is a new site that I just launched today to help anyone become more literate in the alphabet of LDS symbology. While not exhaustive, it provides a starting place to begin to identify potential meanings in some of the…
Sacrament: The Witness of the Willing
A diamond sun and celestial worlds
Symbolism on my mind.
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Forgiveness can never be indifference. Forgiveness is love towards the unlovely. – George MacDonald
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A talk given at a meeting of the Genealogical Society of Utah at the Assembly Hall in Salt Lake on October 12, 1920. By far one of my favorite talks on the temple. The whole thing is great, but the last third is really priceless information.
Profane
Consider the origins of the word “profane”: Profane: late 14c., from L. profanare “to desecrate,” from profanus “unholy, not consecrated,” from pro fano “not admitted into the temple (with the initiates),” lit. “out in front of the temple,” from pro- “before” (see pro-) + fano, ablative of fanum “temple” (see feast). Related: Profaned; profaning. The…
President David O. McKay once said that he was “disappointed” when he first went through the Temple and he explains why. I think this could be helpful to any who are preparing for the temple, or who are still trying to…
Was 9/11 our Mormon 3:10?
The wickedness of the Nephites proved their destruction, that we know. Part of this wickedness was a dramatic shift in their policy of war, a policy that we have adopted here in our day.
There are two consequences in history…
The Book of Mormon Condemns the New World Order
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Virtue in the people
A trailer for a new movie called “Soul” dropped recently about a movie where the main character goes to a “spirit world” awaiting the “great beyond” and accidentally wanders into an area that isn’t heaven but is a kind of…
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