As members of the Church we all get new callings. Here are posts to help us learn how to do things at church.
I confess, this is a thinking-out-loud exercise for me. As I have been recording the Book of Mormon (mormonbasics@podbean.com), I have discovered that reading the whole thing aloud changes what you see and focus on. As I arrived at the [...]
In this final part of our three-part series on how to read your scriptures, we will look at how to read for doctrine, for history, for topic, and how to search for personal answers. Read for Doctrine Learning the stories [...]
In this second part of the series on how to read your scriptures, we’ll look at study methods. In the first part we looked at the physical scriptures and all the study aids provided by the Church to help us [...]
How you read your scriptures depends on what you want to get out of them. Scriptures are the word of God. They are the recorded dealings and communications of God with His children. Scriptures are a source of comfort, revelation, [...]
I want to make a point, but making that point requires your patience as you read what follows. There are those who feel salvation is almost an accidental thing. They act as though they can be saved without having to [...]
The first two scripture study tips were covered in Part 1. We talked about using the footnotes and the importance of knowing where sentences start and stop. In this part of the series we'll consider looking for context, learning new [...]
Reading the scriptures is like walking through someone's home. You get a general impression, take in a few details, but don't leave with much else. Searching the scriptures is like ransacking someone's home to find their valuables. When you search [...]
The professed goal of every Latter-day Saint is to become a god someday. We want to be like our heavenly parents, complete, whole, and perfect in every way. This process of perfection started before we came to mortality, and it [...]
This talk was given at a Priesthood Leadership meeting on September 6, 2014 by Kelly Merrill. It has been altered slightly to make it more applicable to the Auxiliaries. Leadership in the world is done through administration. Administering the gospel [...]
The best cures usually follow the best diagnoses of the ailment. In the first of this two-part series I talk about the forms of testimony sickness, the sickness that comes when our testimony is attacked or falls ill from neglect. [...]