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Scripture Study Using the I.O.W.A. Method

How do you study the scriptures? I’m sure there are as many ways as there are scripture readers.Here’s the quick, dollar-store version of how this Mormon Nerd reads and studies. Yes, it is in the form of an acronym.

Dave Says: How Much Am I Really Liable For?

By Dave Ramsey

Dear Dave,

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What a Small Evergreen Branch in a Jail Taught Me About the Savior's Love

By Jason F. Wright

Editor's note: This article originally ran in December 2016. The young man mentioned in this article passed away this year. We are sharing this story again in his memory.

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2 Scriptures That Changed My Perspective on Being a Single Latter-day Saint

By Ashli Kristine Hansen

Typically you don’t think of the scriptures as a “how-to” manual when it comes to being single. But some of the best advice I’ve heard about being single and dating comes from the Doctrine and Covenants.

SOM Transcript - S5E35

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Do I Wish My Missionary Home? Nah

I understand now that when my son was called to serve a mission, I was too. My mission is to offer support, send uplifting and positive messages from home, and pray for my missionary, his companion, and those he is teaching.

Mormon temple garments -- they're not magic

Nobody really likes to talk about their underwear, and Mormons probably have better reason than most to be reticent. They don't even call it "underwear." The term they prefer is "garments," which is taken from the King James Bible, and gives these scraps of white cloth a formal name to go along with the vaguely talismanic character they hold in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They don't look like anything special: a white T-shirt and boxer briefs, slightly longer than average, distinctive in nothing much but their color and the fact that all adult, devout Mormons, men and women, wear them.

Defending the faith: A shallow Joseph Smith wouldn't have been up to the task

Those who reject the claims of Joseph Smith often dismiss him as merely a shallow fraud who lurched from one crisis or opportunity for exploitation to another, improvising as he went. His unbelieving 1945 biographer, Fawn Brodie, set the tone with her depiction of him as (in Hugh Nibley’s summary of her position), a “chuckle-headed, pipe-dreaming, glory-mongering” charlatan. . . . The notion of Joseph Smith as a lazy, scheming, yarn-spinning ne’er-do-well without a single serious idea in his head simply can’t withstand scrutiny. He was anything but that.

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When Evil Spirits Attacked Early Missionaries in England (+ Joseph Smith's Surprising Response)

By Casey Paul Griffiths, Susan Easton Black, and Mary Jane Woodger; Adapted from "What You Don't Know About the 100 Most Important Events in Church History"

Whether you’re a history buff or simply curious, you have probably collected a decent store of knowledge about important events in Church history. But no matter how well you thought you knew these stories, there are a surprising number of fascinating facts that you might have overlooked. Here is an interesting story from a time when evil spirits tried to scare missionaries in Great Britain in the early days of the Church.

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Watch: When President Nelson Saved a Woman and Her Unborn Babies During a One-Handed Surgery

By LDS Living

Thanks to thirdhour.com for making us aware of this video.