The setting was a garden outside Jerusalem.  Not the one known as Gethsemane which just two days prior had become the focal point of...

The setting was Jerusalem on a spring morning which broke warm and clear.  The season was Passover, a time when the entirety of Judaism...

One of the most impactful non-scriptural Christmas classics is surely"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.  Each year thousands relive...

In the book of Luke we read of an occasion when the Savior's passing caused something of a commotion from the throng of eager onlookers....

One of the aspects of the Savior's birth which too often is left unmentioned is the tremendous amount of preparation and anticipation...

Few discourses are as timeless or doctrinally saturated as the final address of King Benjamin to his people. These chapters of the Book...

In his autobiography entitled "Surprised by Joy" C.S. Lewis recounts his own journey from hardened atheist to one of the most celebrated...

Among the many feasts and celebrations the early children of Israel were asked to honor, perhaps none is so well known as the feast of...

In 1 Nephi 17 there is a verse which at first may seem repetitive or redundant. Verse three says, in part, "And if it so be that the...

At the close of the Old Testament, Jehovah gave instructions to ancient Israel concerning the law of tithing. After explaining his...

When reading The Book of Mormon one of the first exposures we have to the Nephite general Moroni is an epistle written by him to the...

The nature of the fallen world in which we live is that our existence will inevitably be fraught with upheaval and insecurity. Such...

Few discourses are as timeless or doctrinally saturated as the final address of King Benjamin to his people. These chapters of the Book...

There are certain days throughout history that will always and forever become immortalized as they live on in the hearts and minds of...

Among the many essential and irreplaceable purposes of scripture is to teach the sincere reader how to follow our Savior, what he values,...

Perhaps no other man is more deserving to be called by the scriptural title of “a visionary man” than the prophet Joseph Smith. The...