Engineering and Shoe Shopping

120 Episode – Engineering and Shoe Shopping

Faith is not making choices knowing how things will turn out. It’s trying things out to see if they get us closer to God, and changing course if they do not.

Scripture References

Ether 12:6
“Faith,” Topics and Questions
1 Nephi 3-4
Alma 21-22
Exodus 7-12
Alma 60-62

The Mediator

119 Episode – The Mediator

Jesus Christ does more than just advocate for us before the judgement bar of God. He makes all that is unfair right.

Scripture References

Doctrine & Covenants 45:3-5
1 Timothy 2:5-6
2 Nephi 2:27
Alma 45:16
Infuriating Unfairness, Elder Dale G. Renlund. General Conference, April 2021.
Doctrine & Covenants 123:17

My Work – What is it?

118 Episode – My Work – What is it?

If God’s work is to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man, what’s mine?

Scripture References

Doctrine & Covenants 4:3
Moses 1:39
2 Timothy 1:8-10
Doctrine and Covenants 11:20-21
2 Nephi 25:26
Mosiah 4:26 

To Be Unshaken

117 Episode – To Be Unshaken

Jacob, a prophet in The Book of Mormon, has to deal with a man teaching people there is no Christ. How did he prepare to hear from someone who wanted to shake him?

Scripture References

Jacob 7
Lord, I Believe, Elder Jeffery R. Holland. General Conference, April 2013.
John 14:26
An Evening With A General Authority, Elder David A. Bednar.
The Spirit of Revelation, Elder David A. Bednar. General Conference, April 2011.

Cycle of Hope

116 Episode – Cycle of Hope

Imagine it’s your first time ever reading the Book or Mormon. Nephi begins his story about his family. You have no idea that Nephi will eventually flee for his life from his brothers. Why did Nephi write it that way? Why not just tell us at the beginning that his brothers were going to be like that?

Scripture References

2 Nephi 5
Lifelong Conversion, Dale G. Renlund. BYU Speeches, September 14, 2021.
2 Nephi 33:4

Captain Moroni and Integrity

103 Episode – Captain Moroni and Integrity

I talked in episode 77 about Captain Moroni and charity. He had integrity too. It’s more than just telling the truth about the past. It’s telling the truth about the future. And it shows up throughout the many years he leads the Nephite armies.

Scripture References

Alma 43-44
Alma 48:17
Alma 48:13

Not Too Late

102 Episode – Not Too Late

Helaman leads a band of 2000 young men into battle during the war chapters in the Book of Mormon. But 60 others show up later. What does he do with them? What does that mean for us?

Scripture References

Alma 56:56
Alma 57:25
Alma 57:6
Alma 57:19-21