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Can your choices affect God’s plans? Are there times when being “acted upon” is a good thing? Does following a covenant path make you less “authentic”? If you are born with a particular nature and disposition, just how free are you? And how responsible are you for the choices you make?
While many view law as a harsh standard leading to judgment and punishment, the Doctrine and Covenants presents it as a divine blessing. It describes law as a ladder of grace, helping the faithful draw closer to their Heavenly Parents and receive abundant blessings.
A volume on time may seem a puzzling inclusion in a series exploring themes in the Doctrine and Covenants. However, some refrains remain invisible until we conceive and name them, which allows us to probe. The Doctrine and Covenants has enough to say about time, once we know how to look for it, that it might well change how we engage the gospel and our lives.
In this introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants, Media Studies scholar Mason Kamana Allred focuses our vision on practices and principles of seeing. He looks at how looking itself is a unique devotional mode in Latter-day Saint belief.
At the beginning of 3 Nephi 27, Jesus has completed his visit to the Nephites, and his ordained disciples have begun to preach his gospel throughout the land.
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Join BYU Religious Education and the Maxwell Institute next week for a first look at Saints Volume 4: Sounded in Every Ear! This event is open to the public.
The Saints series is coming to a close with this very special last volume. Speakers at the book release will be the general editors of the series, Jed Woodworth, Lisa Olsen Tait, & Scott Hales.
The Saints series is coming to a close with this very special last volume. Speakers at the book release will be the general editors of the series, Jed Woodworth, Lisa Olsen Tait, & Scott Hales.
Next week is an exciting one for our family: my nephew will leave the Mission Training Center and travel to the country in eastern Europe where he’s been called to serve.
Jesus spends much of 3 Nephi 18 passing out gifts to an assembled multitude, usually by giving them first to his disciples.
