Opposition in All Things
Sometimes people wonder why God allows bad things to happen. This is sometimes even used as an excuse for not believing in God. Some people will suggest that if there is a God and He loves us, He will make everything pleasant and happy all the time. This subject will...
Who is Satan?
Who is Satan? There are many debates on that subject in the world. Some don’t believe he is real. Others believe in him, but can’t figure out where he came from. The Bible tells us God created all living. Did God, then, create Satan? If he didn’t, then why does the...
Adam and Eve
The scriptures of the restoration offer new insights into the history of Adam and Eve. Many have held them accountable for all the suffering in the world, due to a single decision made in the Garden of Eden. In reality, we learn that we owe them our very existence. 22...
What is Joy?
We are here on earth because God chose for us to be here and because we agreed to come here on His terms. We’re here because Adam and Eve made the unselfish choice to leave the garden of Eden and start a family. We’re even here because Noah was willing to build an...
Choose Eternal Life
God planned our lives on earth to be filled with choices. While there are always going to be some things beyond our control, the things of eternal significance are always ours to choose or to reject. The world might have some control over our bodies, our actions, and...
What Scriptures Did Nephi Have?
There was a time when we could hear God the Father’s teachings at His knee. We lived in His presence and had regular opportunities to receive training, counsel, and comfort directly from Him. Then we agreed, at His request, to come here to earth to live for a time....
Teens: Be a Missionary Now
It is a well-known story among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, nicknamed the Mormons. Ammon and his brothers were the sons of a Nephite King. The Nephites were God’s people who lived in the Americas starting 600 years before Christ was...
A Grateful Heart is a Happy Heart
I have a friend who makes me smile every time I see her. She always gives me a big hug and sincerely asks how I am. Often, I forget to ask how she is because she makes me feel like I am the most important thing—me, and my life. And because she radiates love and joy, I...
The Great Apostasy
20 And the Gentiles are lifted up in the pride of their eyes, and have stumbled, because of the greatness of their stumbling block, that they have built up many churches; nevertheless, they put down the power and miracles of God, and preach up unto themselves their...
Secret Combinations and Today’s Teens
22 And there are also secret combinations, even as in times of old, according to the combinations of the devil, for he is the founder of all these things; yea, the founder of murder, and works of darkness; yea, and he leadeth them by the neck with a flaxen cord, until...
Moroni–More Than a Statue
Moroni is most often known to people outside the church as the figure on the statue topping most of the Mormon temples. Have you ever wondered who he is and why he’s on our temples? Moroni was a prophet who lived in the time when the events of the Book of Mormon...
What Should Jesus’ Church Be Named?
The Book of Mormon tells of the Savior’s visit to a group of people who lived on the American continent during Jesus’ lifetime. This visit was made just after His crucifixion. While there, He organized His church among them. The Nephites disagreed about what the...
Is the Book of Mormon More Important Than the Bible?
Recently, a push poll informed people that the church considered the Book of Mormon to be more important than the Bible. Is this true? The belief stems from one of the Thirteen Articles of Faith. These are thirteen statements of belief written by Joseph Smith to...
The Book of Mormon–a Familiar Spirit
Nephi was the second prophet of the Book of Mormon. He foresaw in visions that the time would come when his people would disappear from the earth through their own wickedness. He also knew the record he started, which would come to be known as the Book of Mormon,...
Saved After All We Can Do
23 For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do. (2 Nephi 25) This particular scripture, found in the Book...
We Talk of Christ
26 And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins. (2 Nephi 25) This is one of my favorite...
How to Study the Gospel
The Book of Mormon frequently quotes Isaiah, beloved by a number of Book of Mormon writers. In the following verse, found in 2 Nephi 16 of the Book of Mormon, and quoted from Isaiah 6, we find a clue as to how God wants us to study the gospel and to make spiritual...
Seraphim and Angels
Anyone who has seen a temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (incorrectly known as the Mormon Church) has seen the impressive statue of a man with a trumpet that tops most temples. This man is actually an angel named Moroni. A close-up view of the...
The Book of Mormon and Modesty
Does this sound familiar to you? “Moreover, the Lord saith: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet—“ This certainly seems to describe the...
The Lessons of Prophets
I've had good occasion of late to spend a lot of time considering the value of being a powerful example of Jesus Christ in these last days. On some days it brings huge rewards, and others, not so much. It brings to mind the struggles and trials many prophets, through...
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