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"Add to their faith, virtue" As stated by Peter: Heather Chestnut in Counsel Please Rise
Peter stated: "add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity." (2 Peter 1:5-7)
Heather Chestnut discusses the significance of these verses in her life and in her newly release book, Counsel Please Rise, being a new addition to the Living Faith Series.
Heather Chesnut is the author of our latest Living Faith book, Counsel, Please Rise. As a trial attorney, Chesnut has put many people under oath to testify. Counsel, Please Rise is her chance to testify of Christ.
Video about the author of Counsel, Please Rise.
Shortly after I started my PhD program at the University of Edinburgh, my parents came to visit us in Scotland. Walking along the busy Princes Street, my dad couldn’t take his eyes off of the iconic Edinburgh Castle, which sits atop an extinct volcano in the center of the city.
Corianton was not the only soul to be disturbed by the scriptural language of punishment, misery, and retribution. What Christian has not been troubled by the prevalence of images of anger and doom that await the wicked?
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Join us for a reception to honor the winners and participants of the 2024 Book of Mormon Art Contest. Listen to Dr. Mark Ellison from Religious Education, and Rose Datoc Dall, a well-known Latter-day Saint artist talk about the importance of art in spirituality.
Alma the Younger’s conversion is one of the more memorable stories in the Book of Mormon-- not only because it is recounted three times (first in Mosiah 27, then to his sons Helaman and Shiblon in Alma chapters 36 and 38) but because of its tenebristic drama.
Scripture does not read itself; no text does. It takes a reader to come along and make sense of the language on the page for it to have meaning that persists in the world. Scripture is a particularly rich site of meaning-making because of all the ways that we, as a community of faith, invest it with authority.
We often focus on Korihor’s worldview. We zoom in on his shift between agnosticism and atheism. Another way to approach this text is to examine how Korihor frames the church. Paul taught that the wisdom of God is foolishness to the world (see 1 Corinthians 2:14).
