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Picture in your mind’s eye a beautiful stained glass window where light from the sun passes through a collection of colored panes that transform the light into something wonderful. Church is like the window and we are like those colored panes. When we come…

A little taste of our experience at Rootstech this year. You’ll see Nick Jones, my business partner and I’m in there too! Check out JRNL.com if you’re looking for a great journaling solution. Keep your eye out in the next…

These four words—“Receive the Holy Ghost”—are not a passive pronouncement; rather, they constitute a priesthood injunction—an authoritative admonition to act and not simply to be acted upon.

I’ve been thinking about how we refer to the sacrament as an ordinance that “renews” our baptismal covenants, but is that all there is to it or is there more? Of course there is more! The more I learn about any gospel topic or doctrine, the more I find incredible depth and richness.

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The Lord Almighty chose the weak things of this world. He could handle them. He therefore chose Joseph Smith because he was weak and he had sense enough to know it. – Wilford Woodruff

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  • Steve Reed on Prove me: “Yeah, good question. This post is a reflection of a particular thought I had on the topic at the time.…” Nov 6, 10:43
  • Joseph on Prove me: “Steve Reed, Have you individually seeked for the evidence in which is spoken about in Malachi 3:10, or are they…” Nov 6, 10:37
  • Steve Reed on God’s Intentionally Incomplete Instructions: “Appreciate your words Joel, you said some great things and I was especially amused with your swapping of “finding keys”…” Nov 1, 12:19
  • Joel on God’s Intentionally Incomplete Instructions: “Yup. I have come to a very similar conclusion that you have about the Gift of the Holy Ghost. Not…” Nov 1, 11:24

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.James Madison

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…