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Embracing God in Unmet Expectations with Camille Fronk Olson

It’s common for many of us to unconsciously subscribe to a prosperity gospel. That if we follow with exactness God’s commands, we’ll receive a life void of strife. One where there is no unpleasantness or unmet expectations. Yet this is not taught anywhere in the gospel, and it’s actually an incorrect interpretation of what God’s love and mercy looks like.

CHAPTERS: Learning to Listen by Dale G. Renlund

In his brand-new book, Learning to Listen, Elder Dale G. Renlund compares hearing the Holy Ghost to the delicate art of listening through a stethoscope. We are diving into Chapter 12: Feeling the Savior's Love.

Elder and Sister Meredith: Blooming Where You're Planted

President Alvin F. Meredith and his wife, Sister Jennifer Meredith, have lived all over the world so when the call came to move their young family to Rexburg, Idaho, to lead BYU-Idaho, they did what they’ve always done: They prepared themselves to love a new place and new people. On this week’s episode, the Merediths share their thoughts, at the beginning of a new school year, on how to bloom where you’re planted.

Sharon Eubank: The good we can do today! Making a lasting impact through our service

We all want to help be God's hands, but with so much need in the world it can be hard to know where to begin, and even harder to know if what we do makes a difference. Sharon Eubank is here to help guide our efforts! She offers up a perspective shift to help us do the most good in the world through our individual service, and it doesn't involve donating a huge amount of money or trekking the globe. She also shares how to get to the heart of humanitarian work in our own communities, and the immeasurable good we can do in the world when we genuinely connect with each other as Christ would.

The Holy Invitation by Anthony Sweat

The Latter-day temple experience may seem abstract and hard to grasp, but author and professor Anthony Sweat offers a different way in—making the temple endowment more vivid and tangible.

D&C 102-105: After Much Tribulation

Doctrine and Covenants 102–105 contains instructions for the Camp of Israel, later referred to as Zion’s Camp. In the summer of 1834, Zion’s Camp marched from Michigan, Ohio, and New York to assist the persecuted Saints in Missouri. Their volunteer numbers were few, but those who went learned a valuable lesson about trials and blessings. And the ending revelation to this armed march was a message to “sue for peace … to all people” (Doctrine and Covenants 105:38)

Rose Datoc Dall: Seeing Yourself in the Story of Salvation

Rose Datoc Dall found comfort in the story of salvation taught within the restored gospel of Jesus Christ as a young woman. She began painting religious art and observed through her artistic success how God prevails in our lives. In the new book she shepherded me, Expressions of Jesus, Rose invites others to not only see Christ more clearly, but to see themselves in His story. In this interview, she shares how art can become a form of testimony, how creative expression deepens faith, and why she hopes everyone—artist or not—can find their reflection in the Savior’s life and love.

Finding the Many Joyful Messages in the Parable of the Ten Virgins

When President Camille Johnson spoke about the parable of the ten virgins, she highlighted how it teaches that "each of us is a steward of our own conversion." With so many mentions of this parable in recent remarks, we're diving in to gain deeper understanding of Jesus's words so we can carefully tend our testimonies and have enough oil for our lamps.

Doing Small Things With Great Love by Sharon Eubank

The world's suffering can feel overwhelming: wars, natural disasters, and cities stricken with poverty. And in the face of it all, it's easy to wonder how we can possibly chip away at such enormous problems.

D&C 106-108: Melchizedek

In 2019, President Russell M. Nelson encouraged all of us—but especially the women of the Church—to study the truths of priesthood power found in sections 84 and 107 of the Doctrine and Covenants. The Come, Follow Me study this week falls on that second scripture section, and we are going to take the prophet’s counsel seriously by learning all we can about the two priesthoods, their duties and responsibilities, and councils in the Church. Sections 106–108 truly testify that the blessings of the priesthood are readily available to all of God’s children.