BEWARE OF FAITH-SHAKERS! Faith-shakers take on many forms. In today’s reading Sherem is the personification of a faith-shaker. Jacob describes meeting the faith-shaker Sherem with these words…
THE GREAT CONFERENCE OF 124 B.C. I like to compare this part of the Book of Mormon to our modern-day general conference of the church. Each time that I read this account I imagine what it would hav…
Something that stands out to me in these pages is how to prosper in the Promised Land. The Lord provided prophets and plates to preserve and prosper His people in the Promised Land (that is my atte…
#BOMTC Day 69, June 14~3 Nephi 14-16 or Pages 435-440: To Judge, or Not to Judge
#BOMTC Day 57, June 2~Alma 62-63 or Pages 363-368: “All These Things Were Done”
President Boyd K. Packer taught: “True doctrine, understood, changes attitudes and behavior” (“Little Children,” Ensign, Nov. 1986) As Alma warned his son Corianton about the consequences of sin (A…
Something that stands out to me in these pages is how to prosper in the Promised Land. The Lord provided prophets and plates to preserve and prosper His people in the Promised Land (that is my atte…
These chapters are filled with new beginnings that can teach us great lessons. Consider some of the principles that can be learned from the following events: Having been converted, the sons of King…
#BOMTC Day 18, April 24~2 Nephi 27-28 or Pages 103-108: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder
IT BEGINS WITH A FAMILY! It seems that God has a pattern, and it involves families. The Old Testament begins with the first family of Adam and Eve. The New Testament begins with the family of Jesus…
You may remember a general conference address in which Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles compared the process of conversion to the process of pickling a cucumber (Referred …
Something that stands out to me in these pages is how to prosper in the Promised Land. The Lord provided prophets and plates to preserve and prosper His people in the Promised Land (that is my atte…
It is somewhat surprising and interesting that the book of Ether does not introduce the prophet Ether until chapter 12 (of 15). It is only after recounting many years of Jaredite history that Moron…
#BOMTC Day 68, June 13~3 Nephi 11-13 or Pages 429-434: The Return of the LIGHT!
THE GREAT CONFERENCE OF 124 B.C. I like to compare this part of the Book of Mormon to our modern-day general conference of the church. Each time that I read this account I imagine what it would hav…
What do John Wooden and the prophet Abinadi have in common? Well, not much, but one thing that they do have in common is somewhat uncommon. They were men who understood that success on the court (w…
Conversion includes a conscious decision to give up one’s former ways and change to become a disciple of Christ. It requires a change in behavior, but it goes beyond behavior; it is a change in our…
#BOMTC Day 35, May 11~Alma 2-4 or Pages 210-216: Avoiding the MARK of the World
The first thing we read after the separation of the righteous Nephites from the wicked Lamanites is a discourse by Jacob, the brother of Nephi (2 Nephi 6:1-3). What will be his text? Isaiah 49:22-5…
#BOMTC Day 54, May 30~Alma 53-55 or Pages 343-349: Follow the Prophet!
Today’s message from the Book of Mormon (Jacob 2-4) is a clarion call for a “RETURN TO VIRTUE”. What a timely message for your day! Virtue means “strength”, and because our streng…
#BOMTC Day 33, May 9~Mosiah 26-27 or Pages 196-202: “O Who Will Exchange Old Lamps for New?”
#BOMTC Day 30, May 6~Mosiah 14-17 or Pages 175-181: Don’t Burn Your Abinadi’s or You’ll Get Burned!
The Youth Theme for 2013, “Stand Ye In Holy Places, and Be Not Moved” (D&C 87:8), seems to be illustrated very well in these chapters of the Book of Mormon. After Helaman died, the …
Because most people read the Book of Mormon by starting at the beginning with 1 Nephi 1 and finishing with Moroni 10, I have set up the Book of Mormon Translation Challenge to follow the same study…
Today’s post is a video post. The following three segments are a visual overview of what we studied in Helaman 8-10. Nephi Prays for His People The prophet Nephi prophesied that if the Nephit…
It is somewhat surprising and interesting that the book of Ether does not introduce the prophet Ether until chapter 12 (of 15). It is only after recounting many years of Jaredite history that Moron…
What do John Wooden and the prophet Abinadi have in common? Well, not much, but one thing that they do have in common is somewhat uncommon. They were men who understood that success on the court (w…
2 Nephi 28 exposes the “false and vain and foolish doctrines” of the devil (v.9). Pride seems to be the main reason for people embracing Satan’s system of justification (vv. 12,13,14,15). Unlike Ne…
#BOMTC Day 58, June 3~Helaman 1-3 or Pages 369-374: The Beginning of the End
After King Benjamin’s stirring words, his son, Mosiah, reigns. Mosiah sends a search party after a group of Nephites who had left many years earlier and were never heard from again. They had …
What do John Wooden and the prophet Abinadi have in common? Well, not much, but one thing that they do have in common is somewhat uncommon. They were men who understood that success on the court (w…
Limhi’s people came into Lamanite bondage as a result of their wickedness (see Mosiah 20:21); they were humbled and turned to God as a result of their bondage. Alma’s people were brought into bonda…
As Jacob concludes his invitation to come unto Jesus Christ (2 Nephi 10), Nephi validates his words by letting us know that Jacob has seen the promised Messiah (2 Nephi 11:3). Nephi invokes the Law…
You may remember a general conference address in which Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles compared the process of conversion to the process of pickling a cucumber (Referred …
Soon after the people saw the signs of Jesus Christ’s birth, they began to forget the witnesses they had received, and they hardened their hearts. Many of the Nephites and Lamanites rejected furthe…
We start off with good ol’ Laman and Lemuel in their usual “state of complaint”. Nephi quickly diagnoses their problem as a hard heart (spiritual heart disease), “therefore …
You may remember a general conference address in which Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles compared the process of conversion to the process of pickling a cucumber (Referred …
#BOMTC Day 21, April 27~Jacob 2-4 or Pages 121-126: A Return to Virtue–A Return to Christ
#BOMTC Day 20, April 26~2 Nephi 32-Jacob 1 or Pages 115-120: A Transition from Nephi to Jacob
The Youth Theme for 2013, “Stand Ye In Holy Places, and Be Not Moved” (D&C 87:8), seems to be illustrated very well in these chapters of the Book of Mormon. After Helaman died, the …
