"Sponsored: The Jesus Dilemma, Faith and History"
A book by a former atheist lays out what history, doctrine and world religions say about Jesus, and says the views are his own.
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Daily scripture reflections
Short scripture reflections and practical discipleship notes by David Whitaker. The slow, steady work of faith and the kind of life that has to be built on purpose.
LDS Daily Path publishes short scripture reflections and practical discipleship notes. Each entry takes one passage of scripture and works out one clear, honest takeaway a reader can carry into a day of work, family life, and prayer.
I write the way I build a table: slowly, square if I can manage it, and honest about the parts that took more work than I thought they would. No hot takes. No shouting. Just one idea at a time.
— D.
Most of what I care about falls into the durable category. A table that stays square. A habit that holds in a hard season. A sentence that does not come apart when you lean on it.
A book by a former atheist lays out what history, doctrine and world religions say about Jesus, and says the views are his own.
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Leviticus 23 sets the Lord's feasts by date and by count, and the oddest line is a pair of loaves baked with leaven. Here's what the chapter says and doesn't.
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The tidy reading of D&C 111 says the real treasure was people. I think the chapter names money too, and says there is more than one kind.
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Melissa asked who said God couldn't destroy Ammonihah. The answer is seven chapters back, and Alma 16 is quieter about it than I expected.
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Paul's list for bishops and deacons is mostly about temper, appetite and money, and verse 15 says who it was written for.
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Leviticus 22:23 lets an animal with an extra or missing part be given freely but refuses it as a vow. I think that one verse is the key to the chapter.
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The first ten verses of D&C 110 are the Lord forgiving two men and accepting a house. The keys get the last six, and verse 8 carries an if.
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Zeezrom begs to be healed and Alma answers with a question. What Alma 15 says about the fever, the prayer and the town of Sidom.
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Paul asks for prayer for kings in verse 2, and the women-in-worship verses come nine verses later. I start with verse 3 and end on verse 15.
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A man in a class once told me Leviticus 21 shuts out the imperfect. Verse 22 says the priest with a blemish still eats the bread of his God.
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