Tag: Alma

It must have been s relief for Alma to find the people in Gideon walking in the parts of righteousness after all the wickedness Alma had been seeing in Zerahemla.

After prompting the people to reflect on their reasoned for judgement Alma follows up by telling them that the Lord is openly inviting them to follow Him and bring forth the fruits of righteousness. Any who felt they were not prepared were met with gentleness rather than condemnation.

The message of Alma is an invitation for self reflection.

While Alma was serving as chief judge for 8 years he was largely confined to a reactive role where he could teach relative the the cars that came before him but he did not have the time to go out and proactively address the wickedness if various people in various places. That is what he…

The Amlicites marked themselves for war but i realized that people naturally tend to mark themselves in various ways—often not conscious of the full significance of what they are doing just as the Amlicites we’re not aware of the full significance—and it made me consider how we mark ourselves, how I mark myself, and how…

Earlier in my life the concept of our nation breaking apart politically was unthinkable but now a rational person would have to conclude that we are capable of doing that. I would not say that it was either imminent or inevitable but it is no longer inconceivable in my lifetime.

A key to peace and prosperity among the Nephites was that they enforced the law. If they did not enforce the law anarchy would grow no matter how good the laws were. We need to be careful not to enact laws that we are unwilling or unable to enforce.

Moroni had noted that the Lamanites we’re able to begin prosecuting this war because the neighbors were fighting along themselves at that time. I’m sure everything made sense to him when he was told that there was again an internal war between Nephites that was preventing his armies from getting the story they needed to…

Both Helaman and Moroni we’re laboring faithfully with insufficient temporal support to accomplish the task set before them. In the case of Helaman they were miraculously able to recapture all the lands in their quarter. In the car of Moroni they were unable to recapture everything. This is a reminder to us that the results…

The retaking of Antiparah should remind us to think carefully about our options. When Ammoron offered the city in exchange for prisoners we have reason to believe the offer was made because he knew that they were not strong enough to maintain the city anyway and figured he would try to get something in return…