Taylor Halverson

November 18, 2022 11:24 AM MST
“Perhaps the longest-lived celebration of gratitude and thanksgiving is Passover. What’s the origin of Passover and what’s its connection to modern day Thanksgiving and our covenants with God?”
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September 22, 2022 01:41 PM MDT
“How has the Church changed recently? What do those changes mean for you and why?” I had two immediate thoughts when I heard these questions.
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February 17, 2022 09:21 AM MST
We all have difficult, challenging, painful experiences in life. Though never pleasant, these experiences can teach us perspective, love, humility, endurance, patience, and ultimately how to be more like God.
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April 08, 2020 12:06 PM MDT
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November 26, 2019 07:36 PM MST
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November 18, 2019 04:19 PM MST
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November 12, 2019 07:12 PM MST
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October 28, 2019 02:57 PM MDT
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October 22, 2019 12:21 PM MDT
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September 30, 2019 01:51 PM MDT
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September 27, 2019 01:19 PM MDT
In the January 2017 Ensign, then-President Uchtdorf lovingly prepared a message for members of the Church: “Aiming at the Center.” This message shares a compelling metaphor for how we should focus our lives.
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September 10, 2019 12:00 PM MDT
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September 05, 2019 03:00 PM MDT
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August 29, 2019 02:14 PM MDT
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August 20, 2019 12:12 PM MDT
Savior of the World
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August 12, 2019 01:50 PM MDT
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July 30, 2019 12:20 PM MDT
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July 15, 2019 08:51 PM MDT
I think I’m a rather typical human. I don’t like change.
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Fun
December 19, 2017 01:00 PM MST
Santa Claus is, perhaps unfortunately, the most recognizable character during the Christmas season. But did you know that for all that he commercially represents, Santa Claus is surprisingly rooted in ancient Christianity?
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December 09, 2017 03:00 PM MST
The 12 Days of Christmas is a beloved tradition in the Christian world. But because we live in the Christian west, we may not be as familiar with Eastern Christianity, its religious traditions, and how those traditions connect to the 12 Days of Christmas.
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November 25, 2017 05:01 PM MST
Jesus, the Master Teacher, taught in unexpected ways, capturing the attention of His audience to draw their minds to significant truths that they may have otherwise missed.
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November 13, 2017 10:20 PM MST
Mark Twain famously quipped that if Joseph Smith would have left out the phrase “it came to pass,” the Book of Mormon would have only been a short pamphlet (Roughing It, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Co., 1901, p. 133).
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October 25, 2017 09:00 AM MDT
In October 2017 general conference, Elder Christofferson gave a talk entitled “The Living Bread Which Came Down from Heaven" where he discusses how Jesus’s disciples were perplexed when He taught. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day” (John 6:53-54).
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October 14, 2017 08:57 AM MDT
Ancient scripture writers often used the literary pattern of paronomasia (word plays and word puns) to convey significant theological messages (see hereand here). Bible and Book of Mormon authors used names of individuals as a means to teach core principles. If we could read the original Hebrew and Egyptian texts of the Book of Mormon, we’d find names repeated thematically throughout the text. Just as a modern persuasive writer today will repeat their thesis statement in multiple ways throughout their writing, so too, ancient prophets used names and derivatives of names to reinforce in meaningful ways the major idea they wished for readers to see in the text.
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