Gospel Study

Valiant people are clear, as pure water is clear. The valiant person’s life echoes Shakespeare’s words, “I love the name of honor more than I fear death.”

Few of us will ever experience the extremes of face to face encounters with God and the adversary, but the principle is the same even in our less dramatic dealings with good and evil: the more frequent our experiences with light and truth, the greater our

If we take a literalist view on everything that we read in the scriptures we set ourselves up for potential testimony damage if we come to realize that the best scholarship argues that a strictly literal reading is untenable.

Why would a perfectly wise, powerful, and loving God devise a plan that rescues only a small fraction of His children while abandoning the bulk of humanity without even a chance at glory?

I want to emphasize how basically inherent the Church is to me. For it is the Church that stands uniquely revealed in the Doctrine and Covenants. Our theological personal reflections presuppose the very important fact that our membership in the Church is

From time to time, I mourn the weaknesses that linger with me like an unwelcome guest. Just when I feel I have gained an advantage, a trigger awakens them and they assault me more. Sometimes I feel that I will never be rid of them. What can be done?

My mother was probably a lot like yours. She loved people, and she went about doing good. In fact, she lived a life devoted to doing good and being good. Because of her, I have a desire to praise all mothers for who they are and what they do.

It's estimated that by the year 2020 the total Christian population in the Middle East will decline from about 12M to 6M. Whether the Christians are killed, driven away, or leave on their own, the impact on Middle Eastern nations is the same: devastating.

If truth really is truth, then the end of all truth must harmonize.