Serving a mission can be hard…especially when you’re getting rejected at every door. But buried within the Book of Abraham is something that can help missionaries become effective in whatever culture they’ve been called to take the gospel to. Abraham was called on a mission to the Middle Eastern, Egypt mission. Talk about a tough mission…
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If you’re a Mormon, you’ve most likely had another Christian say or insinuate something to the effect of, “You Mormons think you can work your way to heaven.” It’s just bound to happen. Many times, the person saying this to you is either quoting their pastor, or something they might have read in a book somewhere. If you’re…
Some people believe that you can’t be an intellectual and a Mormon at the same time. They might say that Mormons are “all heart and no brains.” I think that’s horribly wrong. There have been many notable intellectuals in the church. Neal A. Maxwell, Jeffrey R. Holland, David A. Bednar, Hugh Nibley, or Joseph Smith for that…
The Bible is an amazing book…as long as you see it for what it is and what it’s not. The Bible is certainly not ‘infallible’ and it’s definitely not ‘complete’. Anyone who tells you that, just doesn’t understand where the Bible came from and what it went through in order to reach us. The Bible has…
How would you like to be known for the next 2,000 years as “doubting Thomas?” Tradition has it that the guy preached the gospel for the rest of his life until he was speared to death in India. The only thanks he gets for his contribution to the Lord’s kingdom is for everyone to refer…
April 3rd 2016 Dear Missionaries – Six months ago, almost the entire Church wanted to reach their arms through the TV screen to hold President Monson as he stood at that pulpit. Today, conference Sunday…with all the turmoil going on in the world, I can’t help but want to reach out to each of you,…
Without Christ…we have no hope. We have nothing. Nowhere to turn and nowhere to go. No future. Nothing. This is not some cliche that we need to tell ourselves to make Christ seem important. It is truth…and no other person/god/angel or anything else on this earth has ever given us a solution to mankind’s greatest…
If you’ve been going to church long enough…you have surely heard someone tell a variation of a story about how just after they paid their tithing, there appeared an extra five hundred bucks in their back pocket. In many of these similar stories, the person telling the story feels that they are been rewarded financially because…
Some of my friends and I used to go to McDonalds a lot when I was in college. At this McDonalds, there was an item on the menu that was free: “Smiles are Free!” It said it right there on the menu. It cracked us up! Generally we’d get to the window and the person…
Have you ever looked forward to a general conference because you were certain in your mind that the apostles were going to address some of the crazy issues that are taking place in the world? “There’s got to be some big announcement this time” we might say. “Maybe this is the year we’ll be asked to…