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The Women and Children Burned with Fire | The Nature of God

And they brought their wives and their children together, and whosever believed or had been taught to believe in the word of God they caused that t...

Center Your Life on the Savior

  During the late 1980s, we lived in Boise, Idaho, next to a wonderful family who were devout members of another Christian religion. One afternoon...

37 Discourses on the Atonement of Christ Found in the Book of Mormon

  There are at least thirty-seven discourses in the Book of Mormon on the Savior and the plan of salvation. Sixteen of them are in the first half ...

Doubt Not: The Book of Mormon’s Unmatched Witness of Christ

A twin roadblock to not reading the Book of Mormon is reading it with the intent to find evidence against it. This disingenuous approach will not y...

What if Isabel WASN'T a HARLOT?

What if Isabel WASN'T a harlot? You know, the Isabel that had sexual relations with Alma the Younger's son Corianton. What if she wasn't even a r...

“It Is Safe to Sin in Secret”

We will now uncover some of Satan’s major strategies on the battleground of temptation. One of the ways Satan persuades people to yield to temptati...

How Two Men Changed the Face of American History

More books have been written about Abraham Lincoln than about any other except Jesus Christ himself. What is it about this man that has captivated ...

Insights into the First Vision

Joseph had no doubt that an answer would come. As he entered the grove, the earth was soft beneath his feet. In a few hours, if the sun had its way...

Joseph Smith Gave African Men the Priesthood - The Story of Elijah Abel

"At the heart of a well-known controversy is the memory of a man that most people will never know."     Elijah Abel was, the first documented blac...

Joseph Freeman: The First man of black African descent to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood

Joseph Freeman was the first black African man to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood after the announcement of the 1978 Revelation on Priesthood, w...

8 Ways to Help Internalize the Atonement

Set aside some time for additional pondering and meditation. This can be done indoors in a quiet room or outdoors in nature. On one occasion, Presi...

Leaving Jerusalem

Among the Israelites there was still another group which left the Middle East in the area of 600 BC. Along with Lehi’s party and those who banded t...