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I was speaking recently with Todd McLaughlin, who introduced me to the work of Robert Kay and his YouTube channel and blog “Mormon Yeshiva.” If you like my content here on oneClimbs about symbolism, you’ll love Robert Kay’s stuff. Here…
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…
As part of our ongoing experimentation with the Come Follow Me initiative as it pertains to home study as a family, I had a nugget of inspiration that bore some good fruit. We had been trying to fit in a…
Cut a Covenant
We usually think of the word ‘covenant’ as simply meaning ‘a promise’ or ‘a promise between two people’, but a deeper study of the word reveals that there is much more happening when we speak of covenants and their implications.
…And Say Unto You, ‘Receive the Mind of God’
His Grace Is Sufficient
“If it hasn’t happened to you—it should.”
There are several similarities between the the parable of the sower, Nephi’s vision of the tree of life and the LDS doctrine of the degrees of glory, I’d like to point out a few.
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