April 29, 2011 – 11:26 am
A couple months ago I received an email from someone who stumbled onto TempleStudy.com. It read in part, [The Bible] is purely a creation of man to placate the ego’s fear of death and nothing more. All religion was invented to buffer the ego against the fear of death. That’s certainly one way to think [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Also tagged covenant, dead, death, eternal life, family, harold bloom, monks, physical, plan of salvation, poem, preoccupation, ray kurzweil, relationships, resurrection, science, sealing, temples
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November 9, 2009 – 10:56 am
Occasionally you encounter a talk or book or article that is a classic. Elder John A. Widtsoe‘s talk on “Temple Worship” given at a meeting of the Genealogical Society of Utah at the Assembly Hall in Salt Lake on October 12, 1920, is one of those talks. There are portions of this talk that many [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities, Temples Today
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Also tagged covenant, D&C, endowment, history, john a. widtsoe, ordinances, plan of salvation, preparation, principles, restoration, salvation, symbols, temple worship
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October 19, 2009 – 4:46 pm
The use of those two words together, resurrection in mortality, appears to be perfectly incongruous at first glance. In our common parlance in the Church we understand resurrection to be something that can only happen after mortality. The resurrection “consists in the uniting of a spirit body with a body of flesh and bones, never [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Scholarship, Temples Today, Texts
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Also tagged anointing, atonement, calling and election, embrace, eternal life, farms, holy of holies, hugh nibley, joseph smith, margaret barker, maxwell institute, presence, priesthood, restoration, resurrection, scholar, seal, temple studies, throne, veil
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I watched an interesting show last night, Secret America on Discovery, and learned some interesting things. One of them was that there is a large fresco painted on the inside of the dome of the rotunda of the United States Capitol Building. It is called “The Apotheosis of Washington” and was painted by an Italian [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Also tagged art, building, celestial, fathers, government, hands, heaven, immortality, ordinances, president, signs, vicarious
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November 30, 2008 – 5:20 pm
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 for a “temple month” theme for January, and our meeting today was meant to inspire us to be thinking about family [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in General Authorities, Temples Today
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Also tagged altar, ancestors, boyd k. packer, brigham young, bruce r. mcconkie, creation, elijah, eternal, family, family history, genealogy, general conference, gordon b. hinckley, joseph smith, ordinance work, ordinances, organization, priesthood, seal, sealing
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