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Sin Made Simple

"Change your thinking... and participate in the purification ceremony [baptism] that is done in the name of Creator Sets Free (Jesus), the Chosen One, representing him and initiating you into…

Doctrinal Expositions

Priesthood Keys Made Simple

"A man never has half so much fuss to unlock a door, if he has a key, as though he had not and had to cut it open with his…

The Safety of Simple Prayers

28 Sep 202131 May 2023

Jesus in mortality railed most of all against hypocrites, or what me might term actors or pretenders (the Greek word from which hypocrite is derived means just that: an actor!).…

Joseph Taught Rebaptism

27 Sep 202131 May 2023

An early practice of the LDS was that of rebaptism, or the baptism of person who had already been baptized (and this for themselves, not proxy for the dead). Brigham…

Brother Joseph: Seeing vs. Entering the Kingdom

26 Sep 202131 May 2023

Elder Daniel Tyler, who now resides at Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, has furnished us with a number of items concerning the Prophet Joseph—not only incidents in his life, but some…

The Rope Ladder

30 Jul 20219 Jan 2022

A boat is sinking. It is a steamboat that drew too near a rock outcropping where a lighthouse had been built high on a cliff and broke its hull against…

Going Through the Motions

28 Jul 20217 Jan 2022

Fake it until you make it. That saying has many worthy applications. Sometimes you just have to grit your teeth until the situation gets better. But the scriptures teach us…

Jesus Takes it Personally

25 Jul 20217 Jan 2022

Shortly after the death of Christ, an up-and-coming Pharisee, Saul, was dutifully persecuting Jewish apostates. While on the way to the city of Damascus, his next target for executing his…

God Quenches the Thirsty

23 Jul 20217 Jan 2022

"Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him" (Heb. 11:6…

Resurrection: Born in the Wind

22 Jul 20217 Jan 2022

The Native Americans call God the Great Spirit and the Bible too says "God is a Spirit" (John 4:24). Though other scriptures teach that God's spirit is tabernacled in a…

The Key to the Science of Theology is a book written by the Apostle Parley P. Pratt, published in 1855, two years before his martyrdom. The author of this site, Joseph, has studied the Gospel of Jesus Christ as restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr. in great depth for over a decade. It is his conviction that the writing of Parley P. Pratt most accurately conveys in succinct form what Joseph Smith Jr. had been piecing together all his life. This blog is an ode to that triumphant work and the glorious future it prophetically envisions.