Seven of Everything

I find it interesting how different the same intro can lead only four months apart. In November, I wrote the blog post " Master, What Shall I Do To Be Saved? (Luke 10:25) ." Here I duplicated the first two paragraphs and it naturally took a different direction. Eternal life and salvation, or being saved, are synonymous terms. You cannot have one without the other and you cannot loose one without loosing the other. Another term also synonymous with these is inheriting or entering the kingdom of God. Some people believe that to be saved the only thing that must be done is "confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and ... believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead" ( Romans 10:9 ); that is enough, it is as good as done, the final judgement of salvation has been declared upon their soul, they are saved. However, this is not what Jesus taught. In fact this scripture, which is true and written in future tense, cannot be taken out of the context of ev...

Partaking of the sacrament is clearly without question to renew our baptismal covenants. This is repeated over and over in General Conference. But is it limited to that? There are many quotes where Prophets and Apostles state that with the sacrament we renew our covenants, without reference to baptismal covenants specifically. Also, there are a few quotes that directly refer to temple covenants being included as we partake of the sacrament to renew our covenants. Here are three links that I found that refer to the sacrament as having a purpose of renewing all our covenants not just baptismal covenants: I have a question? As Now We Take The Sacrament? Understanding Our Covenants with God? The first one uses quotes that can be interpreted both ways (baptismal covenants only or all covenants). It also uses quotes from sources that are not printed by the church as doctrine. The second one has the most obvious and original quote which is from Delbert L. Stapley (in Conference Report...

This is an email that I sent to my elders quorum president in Georgia in the middle of 2016. For context this ward was very recently reorganized and consisted of sections of three or four wards previous to the boundary change and leadership reorganization. I had just been called as the secretary: Hello [EQP], After last night’s meeting I have had several thoughts I want to share with you. One is about home teaching assignments and the other I’ll call cleansing the inner vessel. I remember once while I was on my mission we went to the mission office and while there we were given a tour or a walk around the office. In the mission president’s office, I remember seeing a board with pictures of all the missionaries in their location assignments and in companionships. This is the one thing I still remember, the mission president explained the process he went through to assign companions and locations. He said each transfer period he would go through all the missionaries, each missiona...