Scripture Study Techniques , Study Topics , Tutorials
Asking questions is a key to getting revelation. Without asking, we can’t receive. John 16:24. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. While serving on my mission, I remember one night pondering what it meant to be endowed. I had only been able […]
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About twenty years ago, the Lord led me to an old conference talk by then Elder Ezra Taft Benson. It changed my life. It was from April 1965 entitled, “Not Commanded In All Things.” It struck me at a time when I really needed that message to look beyond myself and get anxiously engaged in […]
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Years ago while serving on my mission I recall one night in companion prayer asking the Lord to let us have broken hearts and contrite spirits. When I finished the prayer my companion said, “what is a broken heart and a contrite spirit.” I did my best as a 19 year old to suggest what […]
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One of the great blessings of the pandemic lockdown for many families has been the direction to have church at home. This hasn’t diminished the desire to be with others, but it has created new opportunities for family closeness in ways I hadn’t foreseen. A friend recently reminded me of President Nelson’s talk announcing home-centered […]
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Have you ever been emotionally charged about something? A good, vigorous indignation, maybe over someone folding your laundry wrong or burning the green beans and setting off the fire alarm? Well who hasn’t gotten upset about something trivial and meaningless? It’s human nature (the natural man) to do so. The purpose of mortality in a […]
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Jesus called his followers the “children of light” (Luke 16:8). Using this phrase, the apostle Paul wrote (1 Thessalonians 5): 5. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us […]
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https://youtu.be/Lcqfj_VND1I Have you ever noticed how many lists there are in the scriptures? Sometimes a list is just a few items in a single verse. Other lists have many items scattered throughout the scriptures which require searching them out to create the list. I inherited a book from my father called Wilmington’s Book of Bible […]
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Scripture Study Techniques , Study Topics
This is part 10 of our continuing series on scripture study techniques. Watch or read for information on the deductive and inductive methods of studying the scriptures. https://youtu.be/UbEkzkOvCQ8 Some years ago, I attended a church meeting where a Sunday School teacher said, “now nobody quote me on this, but I think baptism is required for […]
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Have you ever heard someone ask why a certain doctrine isn’t mentioned in the Book of Mormon? Sometimes the question is sincere, but sometimes I’ve heard it as a criticism of the Book of Mormon like “if it’s the most correct of any book, why doesn’t it have ‘XYZ’ in it?” First of all, we […]
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Do the Chains of Hell Bind You? Over and over in the scriptures we see instances where a single verse sheds extra light on all the other verses that share a word or phrase. I like to call these scriptural Easter eggs because they are a delight to find and often hidden in plain sight. […]
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