Brother Jerry Valenti

Similar to the Book of Enos, the Book of Jarom is also only a single chapter as Jarom, the son of Enos, continues the Nephite record. Jarom records that during his lifetime the...

At the end of his life, Jacob, the brother of Nephi, turns over the Nephite records to his son, Enos. Enos would only add one chapter of information to the record, but that one...

One of my favorite movies from years ago is “Fiddler on the Roof,” a story about Tevye, the milkman, struggling to hang onto old traditions in the face of a changing...

In Jacob 6, after providing some brief explanation of the parable presented in the previous chapter, Jacob encourages the people in three consecutive verses to not “harden...

The New Testament records many parables related by Jesus. The Lord stated that He used this method — in which people or objects in a story represent other things — to...

If asked to name great military commanders in history, you might think of names in American history such as George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant or George Patton. Perhaps you...

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God (Matthew 5:8) These words were spoken by Jesus Christ as part of His famous Sermon on the Mount. The statement is one of a...

Polygamy — the practice of being married to more than one person at the same time — is something that was practiced and even encouraged by a particular church in the...

With the death of Nephi, Jacob (Nephi’s brother) takes over the responsibility of maintaining the history of the Nephite people. In the first chapter of Jacob’s...