Editors Note: This blog entry is converted from a personal study effort which I called the Topical Guide Compendium started in 2002 in which I studied a chosen topic in the Topical Guide of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints scriptures, and attempted to outline all the aspects of the topic into a coherent … Continue reading Topic Study: Abrahamic Covenant
Topical Guide Compendium
Holy Ghost, Gift of and the Liahona
(January 2003 TG Entry: Holy Ghost, Gift of TG Entry: Patriarchal Blessings) Elder Robert D. Hales has written: The compass on the instrument panel of an airplane gives us our relationship to true north, allowing for the effects of magnetic deviation and prevailing winds that will take us off our intended course. The Holy Ghost … Continue reading Holy Ghost, Gift of and the Liahona
Topic Study: Time
(January 2003 TG Entry: Time See also God, Eternal Nature of) I Measurement of Time Alma taught that time is only measured unto men. …all is as one day with God, and time only is measured unto men. Alma 40:8 But other scriptures teach that the “Lord’s time” is not the same as man’s time. … Continue reading Topic Study: Time
Topic Study: Generosity
(December 2002 TG Entry: Generosity. Thoughts given in Sacrament Meeting, Woodridge II Ward, December 15, 2002.) I Tithing Tithing is one key to developing generosity. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will … Continue reading Topic Study: Generosity
Topic Study: Adoption
(December 2002. TG Entry: Adoption, BD Adoption) Continued From This topic can be inserted in the middle of a talk on Abrahamic Covenant: Adoption Overview We are “adopted” into the family of God in two ways: (1) As members of the House of Israel, and (2) As children of Christ. God used the law of … Continue reading Topic Study: Adoption
Topic Study: Book of Mormon and Signs of the Times
(December 2002 TG Entry: Book of Mormon, BD Ephraim, Stick of) Overview To introduce it, I decided I would use the following. After teaching 4th Nephi, I would read a couple of verses from the D&C sections that are pretty explicit about the signs of the times. I would then say, “Well, now the Book … Continue reading Topic Study: Book of Mormon and Signs of the Times
Topic Study: Agency
December 2002 TG Entry: Agency (A portion of this is from a 2 Nephi seminary lesson October 12, 1994. The charts are from March 2004 Priest’s Quorum lesson) I Prerequisites for Agency There are four things necessary for agency. They are Opposition in all things Knowledge of good and evil Laws The power to … Continue reading Topic Study: Agency
Topic Study: Body, Sanctity of
(November 2002 TG Entry: Body, Sanctity of. Given as a youth fireside in the Woodridge II ward. Given again November 2006. ) Overview We are temple, wherein the Spirit of God dwells. But we are temples in more than just that one way. We are sacred places, and should treat ourselves as we treat the … Continue reading Topic Study: Body, Sanctity of
Elder [Joseph T.] Hicken [of the Seventy] told the story of the bishop with a cyst on his spinal column, and that it was not a tragedy as it destroyed his ability to move. “What about the blessings that we aren’t thankful for?”
Topic Guide: Priesthood, Keys of
(November 2002 TG Entry: Priesthood Keys of Given as a Sacrament Meeting Talk, May, 2005, Woodridge Second Ward, Joliet Stake) Continued From Priesthood Authority Overview Priesthood keys are the means by which the Lord controls the use of the priesthood upon the earth. I President of The Church Holds All Keys Elder Boyd K. Packer … Continue reading Topic Guide: Priesthood, Keys of
Kip on Character 