This past Sunday (3/17) I taught on 2nd Nephi 26-30 and had some few things I wanted to share that I learned in my study with some assistance from an institute teacher. In 2 Nephi 27, which is also Isaiah there is much mentioning about a sealed book. “And behold the book shall be sealed” v.7 …
There are many hard to understand sections in the scriptures. I’ve always seen these sections as time and places where we have the opertunity to wrestle with God’s word much like Jacob wrestled with the Angel of the Lord. And like Jacob of we try with out might having faith in God then we will …
Looks like today we are getting a double feature. Last Sunday (über letzte Sontag) I was teaching Gospel Doctrine in my family ward to adults and they made fun of my pronunciation of the name Zacchaeus. I have always said it was Zah-kay-us which is how google told me to pronounce it, but one of …
I was reading in the book of Luke a few weeks ago and came across a bit that I wanted to share. Ive actually been trying to find the time to type this up for a bit but it kept slipping my mind. But this past week it has been on my mind a lot …
I was reading through John chapter 1 a few weeks ago with my younger brother and just wanted to share a bit from our study. We were bouncing between John 1 and Genesis chapters 1-4 as those chapter are strongly related. I don’t know if I have done a post of the Divine Logos or …
I was reading in Malachi today, as I’m sure many of you did as well. And a part of chapter 3 and 4 stood out to me and so I thought I would share them. In chapter 3 towards the end the messenger finishes up his word of the Lord and the text breaks style …
The acceptable year of the Lord, that is said 3 times in scripture. In Isaiah 61, Luke 4 (which is a rereading of Isaiah 61), and D&C 93. To understand what this phrase means and why it should be proclaimed we need to understand a bit about Biblical Hebrew living. We all understand the importance …
Been a bit of a doozy this past week has been, at least for me anyhow. I won’t get into it as some of it is confidential work stuff, but it has been kinda non-stop stress for me, but the thing that has really helped me get though it is our friend and brother Job. …
I was reading through Ezra this past week for come follow me and found something interesting. I have know for a long while that Ezra is who wrote the Chronicles and that there is a theory that he acted like Mormon did for the book of Mormon and compiled and abridged the 5 books of …
In the early days of March 2015 I was serving in a city called Ansbach on my mission. The work was not hopping even by European mission standards, but I had a companion I got along well enough with and could feel that the work was starting to pick up there. I was excited to …