Improving Our Time

Not all blessings given by the authority of the Priesthood are for the same purpose, or have the same result, though all manifest the...

In my family, we occasionally enjoy watching a television program showing old, unusual or rare items being brought before appraisers who...

(The following is an expanded version of an address given in a sacrament meeting of the Independence 1st Ward, Independence MO, on March...

In reading the records of the Nephites in the Book of Mormon, we see the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ by Jesus Himself...

“How beautiful are the noble children! … Indeed, indeed, I might have remembered that the children of kings are men from the beginning.”...

I wonder if the circular illustration included with the Book of Abraham, presumably taken from an ancient Egyptian hypocephalus (an...

Among the greatest teachings given through Joseph Smith, the Prophet, Seer, and Revelator, is a contribution to theology that effects an...

Imagine the hardest thing you've overcome. Maybe you don't consider yourself as having actually "overcome" this trial. Perhaps you just...

While a missionary in California, I knocked on more than a few doors. I quickly learned to knock firmly enough to be heard. Sheepishly...

Joseph Smith taught that the American Civil War (1861-1865) would open the commencement of the wars and plagues that would culminate in...

“Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” Amos 3: 7 ----- Prophetic teachings...

Surrounding the place I live are many people with a keen interest in the latter-day building up of the Kingdom of God. Jackson County,...

Think of the beauty of a simple circle, easily visualized. Now draw a line across the circle, passing through the center. There is...

"Important principles may and must be inflexible." "A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit....

While working with a colleague I’ll call “John,” I had a great opportunity to clarify and articulate my understanding of some basic...

Isaiah wrote that in the latter days, God would work a mighty work , "even a marvellous work and a wonder" which would confound the...

The prophet Jeremiah wrote of our time, "Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord...

Listen, children, to a story That was written long ago About a kingdom on a mountain And the valley folk below On the mountain was a...

In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it...

"I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help...