Sometime around the turn of the century when I was serving as a full-time missionary, I discovered something that I’ve…
Browsing: Book of Mormon
In 1 Nephi 17, Lehi’s party arrives at a beautiful paradise they name “Bountiful” at the end of a very…
Imagine going through life thinking that all is well concerning your relationship with God. You feel the Spirit, you may…
I don’t know that there is anything else more important and timely that I can talk about than this. This…
Whenever Nephi found himself in difficult situations, he drew upon the knowledge of what God did for others who were…
And whoso knocketh, to him will he open; and the wise, and the learned, and they that are rich, who are puffed…
The following may be controversial to some; it deals with a controversial subject. This is a flow of ideas with…
Some thoughts about how we can tend to thing the scriptures apply to “others” and not us. If we see…
I kind of read the Book of Mormon on a loop. I get to the end and immediately start over…
Something I’ve wondered for a while was what the original order of content on the gold plates was. We had…
Anyone writing a history will have a certain amount of bias, but I was thinking about the unique position Mormon…
One topic I never tire of is how the act of recording spiritually sensitive information invites further light and helps…
Well, here we go again, this is the second post in a row about Book of Mormon stories paralleling modern…
Right, they didn’t actually have social media back then, but it sounds a lot like something that takes place constantly…
A recent speaker at stake conference told a story of a person who said, “I have faith, but what if…
Just a casual observation, nothing mind-blowing, but as I read through D&C 20 I was enjoying how much the order…
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?
The public is warned to not attempt jumping a buggy on the moon in an Allstate ad, but there are no warnings under scenes of sex and violence in the media. The mask slips a little, but are we willing to stop our ears and shut our eyes to their “entertainment”?
If the brother of Jared followed God’s instructions without question, he and his people may have likely suffocated in the…
Jesus spoke of two great commandments and the focus of my recent thoughts was the second commandment which is like…
Wow, time got away from me; it’s been a while since my last post, but here I am at post…