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I always forget that July 1st is the birthday of the oneClimbs blog, but I’ll remember and post one of these a few days after. A retrospective post is fun to do. Reflecting on the journey is a valuable part…
My dad contacted me today about a quote that mentioned something about the atonement not being a part of the gospel but the gospel itself. I Googled the phrase and found this talk by Elder Madsen. Now I had first…
I have been working off and on since Sept. 2015 with a particular way of analyzing Isaiah in the Book of Mormon using a couple of spreadsheets. Using this method, I discovered some patterns that reveal some impressive things about…
Forgiveness
I really enjoyed this quote from George MacDonald about forgiveness: “…unforgivingness to our neighbour; the shutting of him out from our mercies, from our love—so from the universe, as far as we are a portion of it—the murdering therefore of…
The “Conversion Spectrum” in the Book of Mormon
Saved by Grace, Judged by Works?
Willing to give up
Perhaps most of us throw around the word “symbolism” without understanding the various nuances of the subject. I created ldsSymbols.com with reference to the word “symbols’ because that is what most people understand. Alonzo Gaskill’s book “The Lost Language of Symbolism” defines…
Plato, The Allegory of the…Living Room
The Mountain and the Climb
Symbols of the Sacrament
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“It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe.” – Robert W. Service
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We have all probably heard some variation of the idea that the constitution will one day “hang by a thread”. What is that last thread and how will we know if it has snapped or not? Here is something to consider…
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This is a cool video from the Messages of Christ YouTube channel where the garments of the high priest are explored in their connection to Jesus Christ. This guy made this whole thing from scratch which is pretty cool.
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