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Bondage and Deliverance Announcement: I am going to make these Sunday thoughts shorter. If you appreciate the simple shorter format let me know. If you prefer a more in-depth discussion, I will start working on much longer focused articles that I will make available in a subscription-based section on Substack. The cost will not be […]

How to Transform Reality What constitutes reality? There are several theories about what constitutes reality or what it can be reduced to. These include only things that can be observed or measured or that reality is primarily spiritual or mental in nature. Dualism suggests that both mind and matter constitute reality. Others suggest that reality

What’s In A Name? In Mosiah, chapters 1-3, King Benjamin has his son Mosiah gather the people at the temple so that he may confer the kingdom to his son. Still, more importantly, he gives the people a name to distinguish them from all other people. He did it because “they have been a diligent

What Would You Write? This week, we have studied the shortest books in the Book of Mormon. There are a few reasons the messages of these books are so short. Among them are the limited space on the plates, everything has already been said, or the authors were preoccupied with other things or considered themselves

Personalizing The Allegory of the Olive Tree For many of us, the Prophecy of Zenos in Jacob 5 has been one of the most fascinating chapters in the Book of Mormon. To others, it is one to endure because it is so long and repetitive. The symbolic language is straightforward, and its interpretive language is

Blessings For the Pure In Heart Happy Easter! Today is not the typical Easter Day you envision when considering this memorable holiday. There are few Spring flowers, no sunshine, and it is cold. But that does not dampen the spirit of Easter because the promise of better days comes out of days like this. My

The Words of Christ At the end of the Second Book of Nephi, the prophet says, “…all ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words and believe in Christ; and if ye believe not in these words believe in Christ. And if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for

Our Marvelous Work We live in marvelous times when God is revealing truth from heaven at a rate that boggles the mind. To access this truth, we have tools to quickly search entire libraries in the blink of an eye if we know the right questions to ask. These massive databases contain many false ideas

A Deeper Look Into Faith, Works, and Judgment Many of my thoughts and purposes of writing the messages I publish each week have their genesis in defending or explaining the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and rebutting the criticisms leveled at the church and its teachings. These treatises address the

…And the Glory of His Majesty Shall Smite Them In Isaiah chapter 2 or 2 Nephi 12, the prophet explains how the wicked will react at the Second Coming of Christ, and the phrase mentioned in the title of this message is reiterated three times. Usually, when something is repeated three times in scripture, it