What did it mean when the Lord told Oliver to not run faster than his strength and means provided? What does that mean for us and is there a deeper message?

Some claim that the United States was founded by secularists, others claim that all of the founders were Christians that founded a Christian nation. Well what does all this mean? Are both these claims just opposite extremes?

We go through the slaying of Laban, and how pondering enabled Nephi to make a very tough decision and a mission story about a string of events that led to a bloody encounter.