I don’t know about you, but I regularly move between states of positivity and negativity. I often feel discouraged, and sometimes quite hopeless and despairing. On the other hand, I often feel wonderful – safe in the peace of spiritual rest, inspired by Heaven, open to the light, and confident that things will turn out. … Continue reading Light and dark
Our Saviour endured and overcame His hardest thing, and through it, gained the power to help us overcome our hardest things. We, too, must go through our own Gethsemane experiences, and with the power that Christ gained from His Gethsemane, ours, too, will become our beautiful triumph and not our shame. Continue reading The paradox of hard things
But what others see as failure for Jesus Christ was His triumph. He has chosen to retain the marks of that seeming failure, because He is not ashamed of it. By it, He completed the work His Father gave Him to do. He knows that it is extreme comfort to us; that it testifies of His infinite love towards us; that it reassures us He is to be depended upon. Continue reading Marks of triumph, not failure
People often question the usefulness of these chapters – why did Mormon include so much about this period, and what relevance do they have to today? – but their relevance is clearly apparent to me. Even before that, they’re just so entertaining to read – enagaging like a great movie. Continue reading Why I love the ‘war chapters’ in the Book of Mormon, and why we need them now
In The Book of Mormon, we meet three anti-Christ preachers: Sherem, Nehor, and Korihor. We also read of two groups of disaffected Nephites who took on similar beliefs: the people at Ammonihah (Alma 9-12) and the Zoramites (Alma 31-35). As I read about Korihor in Alma 30 last week, I wanted to compare the arguments … Continue reading The philosophies of Satan versus the Word of God
Peaceable Treasures 