My feelings about the Church’s new Come Follow Me plan for families has been a little mixed. I’ve gone back and…
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I’m not sure if anyone has made this connection before, but in studying Matthew 4, I noticed that there were…
Lehi obtained an explicit promise from the Lord (2 Nephi 1:9) concerning his people, and in its concise form it…
Bishop Dean M. Davies begins by sharing a story that involved the selection of a temple site with Gordon B.…
This past weekend I attended a conference at the Alamodome in San Antonio, TX where President Nelson and others spoke.…
https://youtu.be/x5RCW8LqgM0 Elder D. Todd Christofferson is someone that I look forward to hearing from and his talks always seem to…
https://youtu.be/N5Ky2ozQ1i4 I really loved this talk. I like most talks from Dallin H. Oaks because he doesn’t share a lot…
“Please do not focus primarily upon the logistical aspects of what has been announced. We must not allow procedural details…
https://youtu.be/_8_vmu_da-s “Some years ago, one of our young married daughters and her husband asked Sister Rasband and me a very…
There is an ideology today that I hear quite often and it is poor in principle and flawed in doctrine.…
https://youtu.be/XM0ym6KN7og This year our grandchildren wrote the topic of their message on stones and then, one by one, buried them…
Frequently, our first reaction to hard things is “Why me? This is true, but why? Hard things happen to everyone…
Elder Quentin L. Cook expanded on the details of the new changes to the Sunday Schedule and numerous ways that…
In keeping with the purpose of this blog as my personal study journal, I’m going to be doing something new.…
Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer…
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I have compiled a list of parallel themes between Moses’ serpent and Lehi’s Liahona that occur in Alma 33:19-23 and…
Nephi prophesied that in the last day groups would contend with one another and that they would be built up…
Where does that idea come from? It is a question that doesn’t get asked often enough. Someone proclaims something and…
Good works are not substitutes for grace, they are expressions of obedience that foreshadow the disposition of the converted. “Therefore…
“Knowest thou the condescension of God?” This question was posed to Nephi in a vision by one he refers to as the…