Prejudices are an interesting mindset based primarily, I believe, on a less than healthy personal self concept by those who feel the emotion. If a person feels good about themselves and feel that life has treated them fairly and that they have progressed as well as they had expected, they usually have an absence of…
On False Teachers
There was an article I read some time ago, written for the ‘Raleigh News and Observer’, titled, “Gospel Myths Claimed”. The article described a meeting sponsored by Duke University at Chapel Hill, N.C., it was a meeting of the world’s most renowned group of Jesus scholars. These seven internationally known experts drew a conference crowd…
On Reason
Reason, as defined by the world, will often exclude spiritual truths. Those who have tried to convince another of the truthfulness of the restored Gospel often find the world view of reason a hindrance. A person describing their spiritual feelings is often viewed as a person who is not down to earth, a person without…
On Nobility
When I have thoughts of nobility it is usually associated with royalty or more particularly with Kings and Queens of long ago and from far off lands. I remember, as a youth, hearing a family story that my mother had descended from an Indian ‘princess’ and I thought, at the time, that we were somehow…
On Hearts
Hearts are amazing organs. Have you ever thought about the seemingly endless list of attributes ascribed to the heart? A heart can be good, kind, big, evil, broken, mended, pure, understanding, cheerful, and loving. We can even be heavy- or light-hearted. In another sense we are led to either righteous or evil acts according to…
On Malachi, The Messenger
A modern dictionary describes Malachi as “One Minor Prophet of the 5th century BC” Malachi was the last of the twelve prophets whose writings were included in the Old Testament. In Hebrew the name Mal’akhi means literally “my messenger,” others have translated it to mean “My Angel”. Malachi was hardly a minor prophet, from my…
On Revelation
There is a saying that, ‘It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness’. Yet mankind, generally, has cursed the darkness for centuries, refusing to seek light and inspiration as the scriptures have been instructing them from the very beginning. “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth…
On Tongues
There has been a lot said about the tongue and justifiably so. Though the tongue is a part of the human anatomy that has many muscles, they never appear to tire as others do. It is obvious that what the tongue speaks has to have first been formed in the brain as a thought. Many…
On Sacrifice
Animal sacrifice was one of the first commandments given to Adam and Eve. Adam offered up sacrifices without evening knowing why he was doing it—except that the Lord had commanded him. An angel explained, saying, “This thing is a similitude of the sacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of grace…
On We Are Christians
In a recent Associated Press release, a prominent protestant church declared, as policy, that the doctrines of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by self-definition, do notfit within the bounds of the historic, apostolic traditions of the Christian faith. As a result they declared that LDS who convert to that particular church (and…