November 17, 2008 – 9:07 pm
If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!“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 [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Church History, Scholarship, Temples Today
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Also tagged bruce r. mcconkie, BYU, consecration, conversation, covenant, gordon b. hinckley, hugh nibley, neal a. maxwell, obedience, sacrifice, scholar, symposium
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A member of another faith asked me the following question:
In the [LDS] service that I attended, the speaker said that service to the Temple is the most important service that we can provide. Is this opinion common across members of the LDS church? Why is service to the Temple held in higher regard than, say, [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Temples Today
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Also tagged atonement, blessing, church, death, exaltation, mortality, offerings, ordinances, presence, redemption, revelation, salvation, service, sin, vicarious, visit
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February 8, 2008 – 8:01 am
An exhibition back in 2000 at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, which was curated by Yael Israeli and David Mevorah, shows artifacts from the early years of the Christian church. The exhibition was entitled “The Cradle of Christianity“:
The exhibition attempts to synthesize the literary sources with finds that have been excavated in this country, particularly [...]
By Bryce Haymond
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Posted in Artifacts
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Also tagged altar, anointing, architecture, baptism, early christian, eucharist, garments, liturgy, penalty, prayer, uplifted hands
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