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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 Celestial, not the Terrestrial, Inherit the Earth?

7 Nov 20193 Mar 2022

"Also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial, and bodies telestial; but the glory of the celestial, one; and the terrestrial, another; and the telestial, another."There is one glory of the sun,…

Doctrinal Expositions

The Tongue of Angels: The Necessity of the Holy Ghost in the Fulness of the Gospel

2 May 20185 Nov 2019

The introduction to the Book of Mormon gives the following interesting detail as to its contents: “The Book of Mormon…is a record of God’s dealings…and contains the fulness of the…

Daily Devotional…

Classic Truth: The Light of Christ

14 Apr 20183 Mar 2022

The following address was delivered by Marion G. Romney in the April 1977 session of General Conference: My brethren, I pray, and ask you to join in that prayer, that…

Doctrinal Expositions

Not My Will, But Thine: The Calling and Election

5 Nov 20175 Nov 2019

“There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundations of this   world, upon which all blessings are predicated—and when we obtain any blessing from God, it is…

Poetry

How Many Times, Dear Brother?

18 Dec 20165 Nov 2019

How many times, dear brother? Have I heard you utter the plea: “If I didn’t have the Atonement, “I don’t know where I’d be.” “Maybe in a half-way house,” You’d…

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.