Roping the Bear

Each Friday morning we four siblings get together to walk and visit. Today Ellen repeated a story about our father that, surprisingly, neither Tim nor Mac had ever heard.

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Old Testament Observations

Today, 27 December 2020, I completed a reading of the Old Testament. It has taken a long time. I read the Old Testament in the left-over days between scheduled readings of the Book of Mormon. On numerous occasions I have undertaken other readings of the Old Testament, have gotten halfway through, and have had to quit because my spirit wasn’t being fed. This time I stopped and started many times, but always resumed where I’d left off.

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Hearts of Flesh

I read in Ezekiel 11:19 that the Lord “will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh.” That set me to thinking about hearts, specifically about Kerns hearts.

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That Which Has Been

It is said, “That which has been is that which shall be,” or that “history repeats itself.”
It occurs to me that two of the world’s most momentous and significant events are going to be repeated, and we’d better be ready for them.

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Make Your Decision Just Once

Some important choices for fulfillment and happiness should be made only once and then, having been made, never have to be made again.

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The Motorcycle Ride

I think back just a few years when I was sixteen years old and a printing apprentice. A fellow apprentice was totally engrossed in motorcycles. In those days, we rode British motorcycles, and he had an AJS-350.

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Hidden Treasures of Knowledge

How would you like to go on a treasure hunt?
Yes? Well, then here’s your own personal treasure map. (Handed all three children a set of scriptures open to D&C 89:18-19). Now you follow the underlined verses while I quote them.

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Keep Your Covenants

This is the talk that I gave at Samuel’s baptism. It isn’t an exact transcription of what was actually said, but it is the official message of what I want Samuel (and the rest of my posterity) to have, to remember, and to keep.—Saturday 11 December 2010

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Too Many Accidents

In Missouri, Mac Kerns was in charge of overseeing the work of 240 young adults in the Youth Conservation Corps.

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Tricks and Temptations

Today I am to teach the boys in my 11-year-old Primary class the account of Alma and Amulek as they taught the people in the city of Ammonihah.

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Hidden Treasures of Knowledge

Last evening at institute I asked the Young Single Adults if they had found any of the “great treasures of knowledge, even hidden treasures” that are promised in the Word of Wisdom.

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The Need for The Commandments

We need to be grateful for commandments. Commandments are put into place to protect us. A person without commandments is a person without boundaries.

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