Tag: Moroni

At first as I read I felt as though Mormon was speaking to us in our day, in the end of times before the second coming of Christ. Suddenly my perspective shifted and I received the words as if they were spoken to the people of his day. I realize of course that the words…

Heavenly Father wants His children to return and so He ensures that His plan is taught among them. The work of angels is no more it less than to call men to repentance and do that which brings to pass the plan of salvation.

Mormon teaches that the way to judge between good and evil is completely clear cut. He suggests these definitions: Good = “every thing which inviteth to do good, and to persuade to believe in Christ” Evil = “whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do evil, and believe not in Christ, and deny him, and serve not…

Mormon addresses the truth behind bad people doing good things. He explains that when those who aren’t striving to be good do things which are supposedly good (giving good gifts) they do it with a heart that rejects the intent behind the good action. Without that intent the good actions fail to change the deceitful…

Lest we forget and think that making covenants is the end of the conversion process, Moroni has reminded us here that once people were received by baptism the church worked consistently to continue nourishing their souls.

The second part of the sacrament ordinance is an assertion on the part of the person that they are doing the remembering of Christ that fuels the obedience that they have promised a willingness to do. It is the good faith effort or we might say the down payment on the full obedience they are…

The first part of the sacrament ordinance is an indication of willingness to remember Christ and follow His commandments. I think it is important to recognize that it is a covenant of will and willingness.

The fact that beyond the name of the office both priests and teachers were ordained with the same charge makes it clear that all priesthood offices have a unified purpose. It is to preach repentance and remission of sins through Christ by enduring with faith in Him. There is no more succint expression of the…

If the multitude didn’t hear the words of Christ his did Moroni know them to write them down? It could have been revealed him or he may have heard them from one of the three Nephites (he indicated that they had visited him) or they may have been recorded in an earlier record that he…

I wonder what Moroni thought for years of living alone and in mortal danger after he thought he had finished his work. Obviously he was not giving up his life but thinking that his earthly work was done, how did he direct his attention? What goals did he say for himself? Seeing the Lamanites as…