Monday, March 29, 2010

Heart scriptures

In Church today, our High Council speaker, Rulon Gardner, asked a question that seemed to me to be worthy of serious consideration and introspection. He said: “What are your 'heart' scriptures?” He defined heart scriptures as those that touch your heart in a personal way. He said that they are probably scriptures that struck you spiritually the first time you read them.

The Savior's Testimony of the Book of Mormon

At the afternoon session of our Stake Conference on the 13th of January 2008, our Mission President’s wife, Sister Joyce, pointed out to us that none other than Jesus Christ himself bore powerful testimony of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon. The Lord said, speaking of the prophet Joseph:

Gates and branches

There is a very interesting structure to be found in many passages of scripture. Being an old retired computer geek, I recognize these patterns as gates and branches. Gates allow choices to be made and alternate paths can be taken based on the information given to the computer program. The path taken is called a branch.