Doctrinal Expositions Progression & Probations 28 Feb 202228 Feb 2022 Dedicated to CS On a warm summer day in 1888, a 32-year-old Orson F. Whitney sat down in Heber, Utah, to enjoy the company of the then-Apostle, Lorenzo Snow. Snow…
Doctrinal Expositions Protology: Sinai and the Pre-Earth Council 21 Jan 202222 Jan 2022 The events of this transitory life can only be correctly understood with a knowledge of what transpired before this world and what will transpire after. This notion has been likened…
Commentary… Jehovah and Inheritance 26 Oct 20214 Apr 2022 To this point in my series of posts about Jehovah, it has been taken for granted that the word is a proper name belonging to one individual. Certainly, if there…
Daily Devotional… The Second Adam (is probably not Jesus) 14 Oct 20217 Jan 2022 There is a passage in the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 15 that has always been interpreted in the light of continuing a contrast between two people: Adam and Jesus.…
Commentary… Who Is Like God? Michael 28 Aug 20214 Mar 2022 A being named Michael is named in the scriptures fifteen times: three in the Old Testament, two in the New Testament, and ten in the Doctrine and Covenants. In Hebrew…
Commentary… 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…
Commentary… 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,…
Poetry Of the Morning 8 Apr 20185 Nov 2019 New and rising light of Morn, Thou the bands of night hath shorn, And taking up thy path again, Shall through the bright'ning Heavens wend. "When a person dies, will…
Replies to Thomas The Seed Must Die: Creation in His Image 18 Feb 201624 Mar 2020 Dear Joseph, I like what you've written to me about the need for faith, but I still find myself surrounded by evidences that God, as a supreme controller of all…
Poetry The Holly and The Ivy 16 Dec 20145 Nov 2019 In olden times, a Christmas tradition was a song competition between the men and women of a given town. The contest was to see who could sing the highest praise…