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Last week I was asked by our bishop to present a 10-15 minute portion of a lesson today on the importance of temple work in our combined priesthood/relief society meeting.
Our stake is preparing [...]
(Continued from Part 1)
One of the common misconceptions concerning the law of consecration is that it is often conflated with the United Order. When we think that these two are one in the same thing we run into difficulties understanding them. When we don’t properly understand the law, we can’t live it. When we don’t [...]
There is an article this morning in the Mormon Times about the symbolism in the architecture of the Salt Lake Temple. It is written by Lynn Arave who used as a reference Dean R. Zimmerman’s article in the New Era entitled “The Salt Lake Temple” from June 1978.
The article cites a brief description and explanation [...]
I came across a new word today in my inbox - hypaethral (\hye-PEETH-rul\). Webster defines this adjective as:
1 : having a roofless central space
2 : open to the sky
What caught my interest was that this word is applied mostly to ancient temples. The example sentence that was given was:
During our tour of Egypt, we visited [...]
The last of the lectures given at the SANE Symposium have been made available online. They are all listed at this link:
http://www.templestudy.com/2008/11/11/videos-of-sane-symposium-lectures-on-temples-and-ritual-in-antiquity/
Some of the lectures are only currently available on YouTube, but will be also be made available uncut on Google Video in the coming days.
“Some day we will live the law of consecration again, but until then we must be ‘willing’ to live it.”
“It is Church doctrine that the full Law of Consecration was suspended by the Lord through the Prophet in 1834.”
“My belief is that things will get progressively worse until the actual Second Coming when Christ will [...]
Grandpa Enoch once again points us to some great material, a video showing how Solomon’s Temple may have looked originally. The below video is a short behind the scenes of a 2-hour Nova program that will air on Tuesday, November 18th, on PBS entitled “The Bible’s Buried Secrets.” Looks like it will be an interesting [...]
I came across a talk today by Elder Neal A. Maxwell which he gave at a BYU devotional on October 10, 1978, entitled “Meeting the Challenges of Today.” Some of the things he said are especially relevant “today,” particularly in the midst of all the turmoil over Proposition 8. Here is some of his talk:
Discipleship [...]
Last Friday I was able to attend the symposium entitled “Temples and Ritual in Antiquity,” sponsored by The Students of the Ancient Near East (SANE) and the Religious Studies Center at Brigham Young University. It was an excellent symposium about the temple, with a wide range of topics related to the temple presented by students [...]
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