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October 2023

October 11, 2023
Walking by faith does not ensure  that everything will be easy or work out in...
October 04, 2023
Jesus of Nazareth is always our ultimate model for living peaceably together. And loving one...

September 2023

September 28, 2023
  Prophets through the ages have taught God’s children to stand steadfast in holy places,...
September 20, 2023
“Jesus wept”—the shortest verse in the New Testament—charged with emotion we should recognize. When Jesus...
September 13, 2023
My health issues often make me dizzy or light headed—I bump into walls, doors, furniture,...
September 06, 2023
About 70 years after Babylon destroyed Jerusalem, Persia took over Babylon and allowed the Jews...

August 2023

August 30, 2023
  “He would have walked right here,” I tell those with me. I’ve been blessed...
August 23, 2023
It is hard to choose a favorite scripture, but if I had to it would...
August 16, 2023
At 3:31 a.m. on February 27, 2010, our Santiago, Chile world was in turmoil, shaken...
August 09, 2023
I have a large wooden sign in my bedroom, which continually reminds me,  “Just enough...
August 02, 2023
Many wonder how the Sea of Galilee, a lake one can see across, produces storms...

July 2023

July 26, 2023
Amid life’s journeys we might sometimes find ourselves trusting in God, whereas other times we...
July 19, 2023
  My wife and I were blessed to go with our 17-year-old son, Jordan, on...
July 12, 2023
Christ was exhausted from Roman/Jewish persecution—in addition to suffering for the sins, sicknesses, and sorrows...
July 05, 2023
“Touch is my reality,”  wrote the adult Helen Keller, who had lost her vision and...

June 2023

June 28, 2023
A Canaanite woman traveled to see Jesus, pleading, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son...
June 21, 2023
“The ship was . . . tossed with waves: for the wind was contrary.” As...
June 14, 2023
Jesus Christ’s suffering in Gethsemane is sacred to Christians all over the world. In 2018...
June 07, 2023
Fig trees were a common and popular food source in Christ’s Israel. The fruitbuds develop...

May 2023

May 31, 2023
Judas came  to Christ  with “a band of men and officers . . . with lanterns and...
May 24, 2023
“Girls, let’s try something different,” the activity days leader suggested to her 9-11-year-olds. Gossip-giggling sessions...
May 17, 2023
  As a newly minted first grader, I soon learned that in Virginia schools we...
May 10, 2023
  Elder Gerrit W. Gong introduced the term “covenant belonging,” meaning “to belong with God...
May 03, 2023
When I was called as a mission president to Chile, I was thrilled because I...

April 2023

April 26, 2023
Abraham and his nephew Lot, with households and possessions, left Egypt for God’s promised land....
April 19, 2023
As we walked out of the arena after an amazing victory, everyone felt the excitement...
April 12, 2023
“I feel it rolling in . . . It feels black as night/stealing all...
April 05, 2023
Mary came to Jesus during a meal and anointed His head with spikenard, a “very...

March 2023

March 29, 2023
Concluding the Sermon on the Mount, after warning about “corrupt” trees, Christ explained, “Many will...
March 22, 2023
Cinderella married the prince. So did Snow White, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty. They had some...
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