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 …
We worship a God of order. For every crime there is a punishment. For every sin a condemnation. There is a cosmic scale which is held in balance. We call this balance justice. For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. Newton’s third law Today is Palm Sunday. Roughly 2000 years ago Jesus …
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 …
In John chapter 5 we read of the man at the pool of Bethesda. I’ve written on this a number of times but today I want to talk about it in a bit of a different way. But first I would have you reread the story if you have not recently done so. Next, we …
In the scriptures there is at least 5 people who have the exact same vision. These 5 people are Jerimiah, Lehi, Nephi, John, and Joseph Smith 1 Nephi 8 1 Nephi 11 Jeremiah 51 Revelation 17-18 D&C 133 With each retelling more information is gleaned of what happens in this vision. In 1 Nephi 8 …
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 …
A few weeks back I was reading a book in the category of Christian Eschatological realistic fiction, I know right on brand for me lol. One of the characters in the book had done a 3-year study on every messianic verse in the Old Testament showing how only Jesus fulfills all of them. Being the …
So I was reading in the Journal of Biblical Literature the other day and came across an interesting article entitled “The Gospel of John and the Five Senses” I naturally was excited about this as the Gospel of John is by far my favorite Gospel and the idea of seeing how he employed the five …
So I had planned on writing up a post about my trip to Palmyra, and I still will, but this has been what has set my heart a fire the last few days. I also had the opportunity to talk with my father about it, as he does not read here much and I knew …
I was reading in the book of Ether the other day and came across a section I would like to talk about this day. It consists of a small parts of Ether 2, 3, 4, and 5 and much of Ether chapter 6. As you know the people of Jared are asked to build some …