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Wise Hawaiian Father
In the early 1900s, a young father and his family joined the Church in Hawaii. He was enthused about his new-found religion, and after two years of membership both he and his eldest son held the priesthood.
Read MoreParable of the Dead Arm
There was once a man who was asked to speak to the men of his stake. His assignment was to wake the priesthood brethren up to the performance of their duty. How to do it was the question that weighed on his mind day after day.
Read MoreThe Yoke of Christ
My piano-playing wife has a new, favorite composer. Through all of our married life she has daily been at the piano playing Bach, Beethoven, Handel, Scott Joplin, and the like.
Read MoreThe Full Keyboard
My path recently has crossed those of several Seventh-day Adventists. Comparing the doctrines of the SDA and LDS Churches has been interesting.
Read MoreSuspended
Yesterday I had to deliver letters to two 18-year-old students informing them that the Church had been unable to pay the school fees for their third terms due to their lack of attendance at church and at institute.
Read MoreComplacency
Inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land; but inasmuch as ye will not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from my presence. (2 Nephi 1:20).
This is a theme that runs throughout the Book of Mormon. This principle and promise was given to Nephi at the beginning of his odyssey (1 Ne. 2:20-21), is repeated two dozen times in the Book of Mormon, and carries through to the end. It is a principle and promise within the book that is demonstrated in both of its extremes many, many times. The Lord means what He says, and keeps His promises.