Tag: insights
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A pinch of perspective
Over the last three days at Old Pinery (plus getting ready to go and unpacking after getting home) I have walked tens of thousands of steps without having to try to reach a goal. (13.5k, 22.6k, & 9.7k) Along with that, I thought about how little we were trying to accomplish during those days (it…
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Intention beats precision
I have always sought to be precise when performing priesthood ordinances and I’m sure the Lord appreciates that but what the Lord desires much more than precision is pure intention. The Lord requires the heart and a willing mind. It is those with clean hands and a pure heart who honestly strive to make and…
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Recycled earth
In the temple this morning I realized a possible mechanism for explaining the gap between the scientific age of the earth including discoveries of ancient humanity and the scriptural account of mankind which only stretches back a few thousand years. It is conceivable that God could reuse the same terrestrial sphere for multiple cohorts of…
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Reduced to one word
In the temple this morning I realized that if you wanted to summarize the gospel of Jesus Christ in a single word that word would have to be repentance. The whole summary of the gospel is that Christ made repentance possible for the rest of us. In fact, the mission of Christ summarized in a…
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Agency and consecration
In the temple this morning I caught on to the significance of the words “for your sake” as Heavenly Father placed a curse on the earth so that it would bring forth thorns, thistles, briars, and noxious weeds after Adam and Eve choose to take the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and…
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Thou shalt surely die
Adam and Eve were warned that if they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil they would surely die. We instinctively interpret death as referring to physical death—the separation of our body and our spirit—but it also applies to spiritual death—the separation of us from our Heavenly Father. Lucifer contended…
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A sacred trust
I never really thought about modern contributions to the Book of Mormon but it was modern members of the church who have worked to bring corrections ensuring consistency with the original manuscript and it was modern people who broke things into chapter and verse (not always correctly in my opinion) and who provided the chapter…
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The faulty implications of “after”
Laura really wanted to go to the Festival of Trees today (last day) and so we went this afternoon. Unfortunately after we arrived there I realized I didn’t have my wallet and we weren’t able to find another way to pay so we just had to go home. The greatest part of that is that…
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What’s in a name?
As I read the words of Christ regarding the name of His church it made me think of how we have referred to the church in these latter days and I realized how getting people to use a different name for the church is a subtle attack by the devil to undermine the church. It…
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Adam’s actual choice
I’ve always looked at the voice Adam made in the garden as a choice between two commandments but I realized that it was actually larger than that. A choice between two commandments would be a coin flip, neither choice is ideal but either choice leads to keeping one of two. Adam’s choice was not so…