After being led out of Egypt by Moses, the Israelites crossed the Red Sea and then found themselves in a wilderness with no source of food for such a large group. However, God provided for them by sending down a kind of bread from heaven. It began appearing one...
How would you respond if you were asked what it means for someone to be ordained? Perhaps you would say it means that someone is becoming a minister. That’s partly right, although people can also be ordained into other positions such as Teacher, Deacon, or...
When you give your life to the Lord at the waters of baptism, you answer two questions. First, you affirm that you repent of all the sins you’ve committed up to that point. Second, you promise to serve God for the remainder of your life. The repentance process...
As we begin the final part of The Book of Mormon, I want to express thanks to two of the men who made it all possible. Mormon, for whom the book is named, spent a good part of his life going through thousands of pages of Nephite history to produce a readable history...
Some years ago, there was a popular book called “The Prayer of Jabez” that focused on the short prayer recorded in 1 Chronicles 4:10: “And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and...
In Alma 62, Moroni and Pahoran take back the city of Zarahemla. The united Nephites then defeat the Lamanites in a war. At the end of the war, the writer reflects on how different people were affected in different ways by the war: “Many had become hardened,...
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