Explanations of doctrine, beliefs, and general information about the LDS Church
Listening to the Holy Ghost is kind of a play on words. You don't really listen with your ears, you feel with your heart. This might best be demonstrated with a Bible story and a modern-day story. Elijah The Old [...]
The Holy Ghost is the key to all gospel/spiritual knowledge. Without Him our memories would fade what even our eyes beheld, and we would forget. I was reading lesson six in the Gospel Principles manual for the umpteenth time [...]
Let me just say up front that I, like everyone else in the world, am incapable of understanding the true measure of the Fall of Adam and the Atonement of Christ as parts of one large event. Exactly how it was [...]
I was surprised to watch a show the other night where the mayor of the town announced that he was going to perform a vicarious wedding ceremony. One of his duties was to perform marriages for military personnel who [...]
Yes, I'm going to talk about pure religion, but first I need to discuss a matter of semantics or words we use when we talk about religion. Most people belong to one kind of social club or another. Social clubs [...]
In the Church we often hear statements that include the phrase "time and eternity." Aren't they really the same thing? Well, yes and no. First let's look at what this life is like then we'll look at each term to [...]
This is Lesson 1 in the Gospel Doctrine Manual for the Old Testament. I have placed it in a two-column format with the original text on the left and my comments on the right. My comments are only meant [...]
Image by nir_design from Pixabay Most Christians think of Heaven or Hell as an either/or proposition. Not so. Latter-day Saint scripture reveals that there is a lot more to Heaven, and a lot more to Hell than one [...]
I once read a great post by Kevin Martin who made this comment about perfection. If there is one critical thing that I have learned about the gospel of Jesus Christ, it is that God does not ask that you [...]
Testimonies are powerful things. They are your own personal witness of something. The trouble with testimonies is that sometimes they need to be vetted or fact-checked. It is possible to receive witnesses of things that go against the revealed word [...]