January 27, 2010 – 4:00 pm
I received an email today of this interesting video clip. It is a news story from earlier this month of store owner Marian Chadwick from Frisco, Texas, who encountered a hooded robber that entered her store with a gun. The gunman walked up to the store counter and demanded money. The store owner pointed at [...]
November 19, 2009 – 10:59 pm
My father is on the High Council in the Riverton Utah Stake, and this past Sunday he was asked to speak in a ward about the temple and family history work. He sent me his talk, and I thought it was good and thought provoking. I thought you might like it too. -Bryce By Mark [...]
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Posted in Church History, Temples Today
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Also tagged ancestors, baptism for the dead, baptismal font, elijah, family, family history, familysearch, genealogy, hearts, joseph smith, kirtland, nauvoo, nauvoo temple, ordinance work, ordinances, promises, restoration, technology, temple worship
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November 2, 2009 – 10:11 am
My friend David Larsen has some great notes at Heavenly Ascents on the presentation given by Dr. Margaret Barker at the Temple Studies Symposium III in London this past weekend. Her words were an introduction to the symposium which focused on the topic of “The Holy Anointing Oil”: Anointing with myrrh oil was the most [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Practices, Scholarship
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Also tagged anointing, christian, david, david larsen, heavenly ascents, margaret barker, oil, priest, rite, symposium, temple studies
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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, exaltation, farms, holy of holies, hugh nibley, joseph smith, margaret barker, maxwell institute, presence, restoration, resurrection, scholar, seal, temple studies, throne, veil
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September 27, 2009 – 7:02 pm
It is my honor and pleasure to introduce a new guest blogger to TempleStudy.com, Matthew B. Brown. Many of you may already be familiar with the great work of this historian, scholar, and author. If you are not, I heartily recommend his work to you. One of my favorite books on the temple is by [...]
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Posted in Scholarship, Texts
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Also tagged ancients, building, commandments, construction, greek, hebrew, israelites, Matthew B. Brown, nauvoo, ordinances, pattern, restoration, revelations, saints, scholar
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