Lecture Five of the Lectures on Faith is often brushed aside today as an “early” or “incomplete” attempt to define…
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Alma wrote this to his son, Helaman about the brass plates: And these plates of brass, which contain these engravings,…
This isn’t a deep dive, just a couple of recent observations from Ammon’s mission to the Lamanites starting with his…
I was invited to come onto The Stick of Joseph show recently and presented some ideas from an old post…
I was reading Alma 15 and came across this verse: …the people were checked as to the pride of their…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints published a Gospel Topics essay on “Plural Marriage” which states: Latter-day Saints…
Ok, here is part 2 and I highly recommend watching part 1 first because there is no introduction here, we…
Ok, this episode is not going to be for everybody. I’m diving into an entire sermon without any preparation or…
Stoning was one of the ways that people were put to death according to the law of Moses, if they…
In Mosiah 18:20 and 25:22 what did it mean that the preached nothing save/except it were repentance? I have some…
Jarom, the son of Enos, didn’t write much in the record concerning his own prophesying or revelations because he felt…
There is a group of patterns that I found in the Book of Enos that I think give some insights…
Some thoughts about the unique phrase “eye of faith” that only appears in three places in the Book of Mormon…
In Jacob chapter 2, the condemnation of multiplying wives, concubines, and riches highlights the violation of multiple commandments simultaneously. Jacob…
Sometime around the turn of the century when I was serving as a full-time missionary, I discovered something that I’ve…
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…