Tag: Doctrine and Covenants

Behold, I say unto you, David, that you have feared man and have not relied on me for strength as you ought. But your mind has been on the things of the earth more than on the things of me, your Maker, and the ministry whereunto you have been called Doctrine & Covenants 30:1-2 I…

I have a feeling that the Millennium won’t look the way we imagine it or play out the way we expect. Even so, it will be a paradise for humanity for centuries and I look forward to seeing it. It will be the complementary bookend to the Garden of Eden.

The Lord knew how much of an emotional burden Martin was carrying because of the mortgage on his farm. I feel that burden.

I realized that the things we suffer in life that aren’t a direct result of our own sins are not a shadow of the suffering that awaits if we will not repent. I feel there is a quantitative difference between the suffering that arises from the vicissitudes of life and the suffering that comes to…

5 …The hour cometh that I will drink of the fruit of the vine with you on the earth, and with Moroni, whom I have sent unto you to reveal the Book of Mormon, …6 And also with Elias, to whom I have committed the keys of bringing to pass the restoration of all things…

Cleave unto the covenants which thou hast made. Doctrine & Covenants 25:13 Sometimes the way forward isn’t clear to us but we can always have clarity that cleaving unto the covenants we have already made will be the correct course.

I knew that the three witnesses were tasked with identifying the twelve apostles but I never previously put together the timeline that Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer were told they would have this task even before they had become the witnesses and years before they or Joseph Smith had met any of the Twelve besides…

2 Behold, I have manifested unto you, by my Spirit in many instances, that the things which you have written are true; wherefore you know that they are true.3 And if you know that they are true, behold, I give unto you a commandment, that you rely upon the things which are written; Doctrine &…

It was important that the restored church not recognize the authority of those churches which drew their authority from the philosophies of men mingled with scripture. Although Manny of their practitioners are honest in heart it is impossible to believe in the necessity and reality of a divine restoration of authority while holding that restored…