Improving Our Time

I think God loves farming. He seems to enjoy working on plants, carefully tending and cultivating to raise up a good crop of delicious...

I completed a brief study of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities during my English undergraduate training. The central theme drawn over...

Imagine feeling overwhelmed with all that is required of you: all the demands on your time, energy, and attention. Perhaps you don't have...

Just because something is true, doesn't mean it is the governing truth of a matter. One example: It is true that we are to love our...

At age 18, I was contemplating the right course to take in life. As a child, I had always seemed to assume I'd serve as a full-time...

(The following was taken from an address I gave in a conference of the Olathe, Kansas Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...

What is required to take advantage of the saving work done by the Savior? What must we do to receive a fullness of salvation? What then,...

Following the great Flood, we know of three independent nations that have made covenants with the Lord regarding the land we call...

My life has been greatly enhanced since I became acquainted with these wise words: "For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in...

Just because something has been told doesn't mean it has been taught. Likewise, it's possible to teach without ever telling anything. I...

In my experience learning and sharing the Gospel, a patterned cycle has clearly emerged. This cycle is something of a holy trinity, and...

One of the great latter-day scriptures of the restoration given through Joseph Smith, is when the Lord tells us His purpose. "For behold,...

We have little idea of the impact we can make by our simple obedience to the command to take the gospel into all the world, and preach it...

In the world today, there is no shortage of causes clamoring for attention. Many seek to alleviate or end human suffering. Many seek...

The following is a recording of a talk given in a sacrament meeting in the East Mill Creek Ward, near Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1978. It...

Here is a PDF available for download, containing the Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1-26. As is this website of mine, the Journal is not an...

These two tracks, compilations of quotes from sermons set to music, have blessed me immensely. I found them on a compact disc that had...

What is it about Jesus that shows His mighty power? When did He display His godly strength most clearly? Why do billions believe in Him...

Early in the first Book of Nephi, within The Book of Mormon, we read of a great and important vision, first recorded by Lehi, and later...

Sacrificing Isaac was a test, to prove whether Abraham would obey God at any cost. This test was not to prove Abraham's faith in God to...

What follows is a summary of Jacob, chapter 5, from the Book of Mormon. This allegory, or extended parable, deals with the scattering and...

I wonder if déjà vu is a spiritual experience, like a kind of stretching, up and out of our limited mortal consciousness, allowing a...

I wonder how differently people would think and feel about COVID-19, had it not been in a U.S. presidential election year. ----- In the...

Music was much better, back when "ugly" people were allowed to make it. ----- (Popular) Music used to be all about the sound, not the...