Weekly Newsletter

“Jehovah of Hosts [spoke this] in my hearing: Surely many buildings shall lie desolate, large and fine [houses] unoccupied.” (Isaiah 5:9) “Poor wretch, tempest-tossed and disconsolate! I will lay antimony for your building stones and sapphires for your foundations; I will make your skylights of jacinth, your gates of carbuncle, and your entire boundary of […]

In a day when searching and understanding the scriptures and prophecies of our day becomes a life-or-death issue—when the times become such that it is all men can do to separate the truth from an ever mounting onslaught of falsehoods—why are people still ensconced in worldly pastimes and trust in human institutions as sources of

The Lord, in the scriptures, comes down hard on those who put other men on pedestals—as if somehow they are more than human—worthy not just of respect as with all men, but of adulation and kowtowing. Says he to these benighted souls, “Let no man glory in man, but rather let him glory in God,

“The sinners in Zion are struck with fear; the godless are in the grip of trembling: Who among us can live through the devouring fire? Who among us can abide eternal burning?” (Isaiah 33:14) “Because the women of Zion are haughty and put on airs, painting their eyes, ever flirting when they walk and clacking

If “by their fruits ye shall know them” (Matthew 7:16, 20), it may be time to take a look at what kinds of fruits we are yielding. Are we bringing forth “fruit meet for repentance” (Matthew 3:8; Alma 13:13)—“fruit meet for their Father’s kingdom,” which, if not, “there remaineth a scourge and judgment to be

“Go forth out of Babylon, flee from Chaldea! Make this announcement with resounding voice; broadcast it to the end of the earth. Say, Jehovah has redeemed his servant Jacob. They thirsted not when he led them through arid places: he caused water to flow for them from the rock; he cleaved the rock and water

Of the many functions the Holy Ghost performs, the one he is known by is the Comforter. His role of comforting, however, is most prominent in the scriptural context of relieving distress, as when men “despise” and “reproach” you, or “shame” and “exclude” you from the congregation for being valiant in the testimony of the

“Hear me, you who know righteousness, O people in whose heart is my law: Do not fear the reproach of men; be undaunted by their ridicule. For the moth shall consume them like a garment; moths shall devour them like wool. But my righteousness shall endure forever, my salvation through endless generations.” (Isaiah 51:7–8) “Because

Is anyone paying attention to the fact that so far we have received only “a lesser part of the things which he [Jesus] taught the people”—that since the prophet Joseph Smith we have been on trial to see if we will believe the things that have been extended to us (3 Nephi 26:6–11)? If not,

“The path of the righteous is straight; you pave an undeviating course for the upright. In the very passage of your ordinances we anticipate you, O Jehovah; the soul’s desire is to contemplate your name. My soul yearns for you in the night; at daybreak my spirit within me seeks after you. For when your

Given that end-time scriptures define the house of Israel as the Jews, Ten Tribes, and Lamanites, and Latter-day Saints as “the Gentiles” or “fulness of the Gentiles” (melo’ haggoyim), it is no surprise that millennial prophecies reserve the blessings of God’s covenants specifically for the house of Israel and those affiliated with them such as

“This is to me as in the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would no more flood the earth. So I swear to have no more anger toward you, never again to rebuke you. For the mountains shall be removed and the hills collapse with shaking, but my charity toward