[Note: This post was inspired by an insightful text from my brother who wrote to me—“It’s all about looking at the serpent on the staff. It may not solve everything, but we did get the miracle we needed…we’re just not accepting it. And good people are passing because of it.”] After Moses led the people…
Category: Book of Mormon
The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Lose and Election
[NOTE: THIS IS INTENDED TO BE AN APOLITICAL POST] I have always marveled at, and been grateful for, the peaceful transition of power that occurs within in our country and in many other countries around the world. Generally, people accept when the majority of their fellow citizens speak, even if they are on the losing…
“You Will Be Found”
(PART 2 OF 2 REGRADING HELAMAN CHAPTER 3:33-35. For Part 1, click here.) If you have ever felt marginalized, it is lonely and demoralizing. If you have ever felt marginalized by someone or a group that was supposed to be safe, it is devastating and destructive. While I felt marginalized at one point in my…
“A Great Evil”
(Part 1 of 2 regrading Helaman Chapter 3:33-35. FOR PART 2, CLICK HERE.) I read a passage this week that really makes me angry. Before I go into any detail and you decide to read no further, I will summarize it this way: we must create places of refuge for the marginalized. It is what…
Embodying Charity: The Path to Eternal Life with God
I began studying the basic doctrines as outline by the Church. The first is the Godhead and the first sub-category under that is God the Father. As I studied, I followed this train of thought– Life eternal is to know God. (John 17:3) God’s work and glory is to help us reach eternal life or…
“Faith, Hope, and Charity, These three”
Today, as I was waiting in the chapel of the Denver Temple, I read this verse: “And see that ye have faith, hope, and charity, and then ye will always abound in good works” (Alma 7:24). There is a clear formula here that I never noticed before… Faith x Hope x Charity = Good Works If…
I can remember my _____ no more.
When We Don’t Know How to Let Go Sometimes when I counsel people who are in pain, they ask how to lay their burden on the Lord. I’ve always found it difficult to describe how to do this. Yet I know it is real and powerful because I’ve experienced it myself. Recently, I asked a…
Digging Up the Past
The sons of Mosiah were powerful missionaries. These brothers brought thousands “to the knowledge of the Lord” (Alma 23:5). The Lamanites who converted to the truth were called the people of Ammon or the Anti-Nephi-Lehies. Their leader, Lamoni’s brother named Anti-Nephi-Lehi, spoke about their repentance and conversion: “And now behold, my brethren, since it has…
Distort. Turn from truth. Twist. Pervert.
Context is important. I was intrigued by a recent article that accused someone of “quote mining”. A new term to me, it basically means to purposefully take “quotes out of context in order to make them seemingly agree with the point of view you are trying to get across.”1 I thought of the quote mining article…
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