Plan of Salvation and What Christianity is Missing

Outside of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, what does Christianity believe about the after-life? Generally speaking, Christianity believes that we are born on earth, live our lives, die, are judged, and assigned to either heaven or hell. I heard something on an awesome podcast called Unshaken Saints recently that I’d never realized.

November 2023 Israel-Palestine Conflict

I wrote about the Israel-Palestine conflict earlier this year. Here we are 10 months later. I encourage anyone to go read my original post. I just did. It helped me refresh in my mind the complexity of this issue. This issue clearly isn’t going away in our lifetimes. I think it’s only a matter of

Mike Leach

In the Spring of 2009 Uncle Mike helped fund a trip for my entire family to go to a Club Med to celebrate my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. I was an extremely moody teenager at the time. It was still a memorable experience. That’s the kind of trip you never forget. Participating in trapeze acts,

The Life Beyond

The Life Beyond by Robert L. Millett and Joseph Fielding McConkie Copyright 1986. I recently was asked by two friends who have different religious beliefs from me, what do you believe happens to a person when they die? This is the great question right?  One of the 3 great questions. Where did I come from?

Grandma, I will see you soon

I believe Sandra Leach was in her early 30s when she accepted the message of the missionaries of Jesus Christ. I have thanked her for that choice every day of my entire life. I love you Grandma. Thank you. The greatest gift my grandmother gave me was the gift of a gospel household and a

TRUTH about Heaven

On November 19, 1823, a young man named Alvin Smith died.  The Smith family asked a Presbyterian minister to officiate at Alvin’s funeral.  “As Alvin had not been a member of the minister’s congregation, the clergyman asserted in his sermon that Alvin could not be saved.  William Smith…recalled: ‘[The minister]… intimated very strongly that [Alvin]

Sidney Rigdon Miracle

21 August, 1842.  Apparently, it had been thought that Sidney Rigdon meant “to renounce his faith in Mormonism” when he took the stand on 21 August 1842.  Instead, he “appeared to bear his testimony of its truth, and add another to the many miraculous evidences of the power of God.” I stumbled upon this story

100th Post

100 posts!  I thought it warranted a special post.  You never know when you start something like a blog if you’ll actually stick to it.  Here I am a year and a half and 100 posts later, with hundreds still to go. I figured as part of my first 100 posts I could mention the

Never Forget

It was a normal day for fifth grade Brayden.  My fifth-grade teacher was one of those memorable educators.  Mr. Adams was equal parts kind and disciplinarian, stern and patient.  To this day, still one of my favorite teachers. I remember little else from that day.  What I do remember was this: In class that day,

RIP Coach

I often think about the people God put around me in my life.  I’m obviously not the center of the universe, but sometimes, when I think about all those who have looked out for me throughout my life, it’s hard not to feel like that. There’s an individual in my life who played a critical