Spiritual North

Pactical advice about marriage This is one of those lessons to think about, put it in the back of your mind and return to it often. Ta...

Read - 1 Nephi 1:1-3 (Nephi starts his own journal) - Alma 37:8-9 (journals help us remember) - Moses 6:5, 45-46 (books of remembrances) ...

The Good Samaritan Good morning!  Here it is - today is Sunday April 30, 2017.  We are on the cusp of summer; the school year is beginni...

Giampietrinio - The Last Supper (from wikimedia) preparing for and participating in the sacrament is one of the best ways to find balanc...

this last week, a phrase from my patriarchal blessing has been rattling around in my head and i've been thinking about it a lot. the p...

on sunday september 27, a new domain was registered at godaddy.com. the name of the domain: www.ponderize.us a week later, on sunday o...

taking a cue from elder oaks' talk " why do we serve? " i wanted to apply the same reasons for service to reasons to obey god...

Lok'-laj k'oj - yin; re cha-bi-lal. Jun li yaj aj isk quichal Xco sa' jun tu-la-nil o-choch-nal Qui-yo'-la jun lix ch...

On December 14, I gave a talk to the Spanish branch. Buenos dias hermanos y hermanas.  Estoy muy agradecido de estar aqui con ustedes est...

A Midsummer's Night Lecture Let me begin by telling a very bizarre story; I call it "A Midsummer's Night Lecture."  I was...

10,000 bednar: come and see 9,700 holland: are we not all beggars? 8,100 uchtdorf: "lord, is it i?" (priesthood) 5,100 oaks: lo...

Jesus taught, "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love they neighbour, and hate thine enemy.  But I say unto you, Love yo...

7,900+ uchtdorf: grateful in any circumstances 4,400+ holland: the cost and blessings of discipleship 2,900+ oaks: the keys and authority ...

in the history of the earth, there is one commandment that is older than all other commandments: that of keeping the sabbath day holy.  in f...

I've reviewed the major accounts of the First Vision.  There are other accounts, but for the most part, they repeat the accounts I revie...

I've copied below the text from the Orson Pratt 1840 account. When somewhere about fourteen or fifteen years old, he began seriously ...

I've copied below the text of the 1842 account in order to more easily reference it and apply highlights. When about fourteen years o...

The 1838 version is the the official, canonized version of the the First Vision.  This is the version I was taught as a child as well as the...

I've copied below the text of the 1835 account in order to more easily reference it and apply highlights. being wrought up in my mind...

I've copied below the text of the 1832 account in order to more easily reference it and apply highlights. At about the age of twelve y...