Explanations of doctrine, beliefs, and general information about the LDS Church
Scheduled for study Dec. 2-8, 2019. Try to understand love this week. It is what makes God, God. God is love. We will also talk about the power of light and darkness and how Christ is the source of all [...]
Scheduled for study Nov. 11-17, 2019. This week's theme is all about our faith in Christ. We have a lesson on Christ as the great High Priest, as the author and finisher of our faith, and on trusting in his [...]
Faith has historically been a difficult principle to describe with any clarity. Sure, we all have the stock definitions of faith, but for many those stock definitions haven't made faith any easier to understand. After reading the New Testament Come, [...]
This is a written musing caused by my going to Church today. The topic in Priesthood meeting was repentance. What I was feeling was not matching up with my knowledge of repentance. That is what got me thinking. Why do [...]
Scheduled for study Oct 28-Nov 3, 2019. To be an "example of the believers" isn't always an easy task. We must learn to have confidence in what the Lord expects of us, to forgive others, and to learn to navigate [...]
Moral agency is sometimes thought of as an inert, passive ability that lies dormant much of the time. It is thought of as something we only trott out to use occasionally when we have a big decision to make. Nothing [...]
Scheduled for study Oct. 14-20, 2019. When Paul says, "I can do all things through Christ ..." he isn't talking about superhuman feats of strength. Becoming a follower of Christ means our life has to change dramatically, and Paul says [...]
Light and truth are synonyms for the enlightenment and knowledge we can receive from the Holy Ghost. Do we understand some of the characteristics of light and truth, the properties that govern their behavior? This article talks about six aspects [...]
Scheduled for study Sept. 30-Oct. 13 (two weeks). The perfecting of the Saints is a many-step process. As taught by the living prophet, the restoration is a process, not an event. The same was true in Paul's day. The people [...]
Several years ago I wrote an article about the gift of the Holy Ghost. While preparing to repost it I reread it and had some insights I hadn't seen before. This article takes off from where that one left off [...]