Tag Archives: psalms

Children Are An Heritage of the Lord

If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!My wife and I had our second child, a baby boy, this last Sunday - 7lbs, 6oz., 20 inches.  Mom and Baby are all doing great!  We couldn’t be more happy.  Here are [...]

Preview: “The Sermon on the Mount in the Light of the Temple,” by John Welch

Last night at the Third Nephi conference held at BYU, Professor John W. Welch gave the keynote address.  His topic was “New Insights Into the Temple Setting of the Sermon on the Mount in Reference to the Sermon at the Temple.”  It was an excellent address, after which Paul Y. Hoskisson, the director of the [...]

Job’s Covenant: Hebrew Tav and “Behold my sign!” in Job 31

A few days ago I wrote about a post I read over at Lehi’s Library which quoted a paper by Kevin Christensen in which he referenced Margaret Barker.  The subject was the use of the Hebrew word/letter tau or tav, translated as “mark” in Ezekiel 9:4-6, and what it meant in Ezekiel’s day, and what [...]

Blowing out Birthday Candles

As most people know, it is a tradition in many parts of the world to bake up a birthday cake for a friend or family member celebrating a birthday.  Typically this cake is decorated nicely and topped with birthday candles, one for every year of the celebrant’s life.  When the time comes to eat the [...]

Sacrificing our will to the will of our Father

I had contemplated entitling this post “A Change in Temple Sacrifice Following Christ,” but since today is Father’s Day, I thought this title was more appropriate.
From the time they left Jerusalem until the time of Christ’s ministry among his descendants in the Americas 600 years later, Lehi and his family offered sacrifice and burnt offerings [...]

King David’s cry in Psalm 54:2

“Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth” (Psalm 54:2).
Dr. Nibley indicates that this type of prayer or “cry of distress” by David is similar in tone to the words of the Lord on the cross when He said, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my [...]