Video[1] Transcript for Agents of God’s Image and Likeness [pdf copy] Greetings, and welcome to this presentation[2] about agents of God’s image and likeness. In the beginning, God created us in His own image and likeness![3] By creating us after this manner, God made us: agents or stewards of His image and likeness,[4] and[…]
Category: Kingdom of God
Why We Live in an Open Enrollment
[Printable pdf copy] Open enrollment is a term familiar to most people with health insurance policies. During a specified window of time, the insured are given an opportunity to select their coverage plan for the coming term. By analogy, it may be said that we are living in an open enrollment period, one in which[…]
Why We Must Believe on the Given Name of Jesus Christ
[pdf version] What is the name of our Savior, the Anointed One spoken of by the prophets and apostles?[1] Does it matter what we call Him? When calling upon the Father, does it matter what name we use for Him? The Lord answered all such questions when restoring His latter-day church. He said our heavenly[…]
Learning From Jaredites in the Days of COVID-19
By Gary R. Whiting March 25, 2020 And it came to pass that when they had done all these things, they got aboard of their vessels or barges, and set forth into the sea, commending themselves unto the Lord their God. And it came to pass that the Lord God caused that there should a[…]
Why Three Glories: Part 3 – Called To Glory
By creating us in His image God created us for glory, His glory. And, as Peter has testified, in these last days God has renewed this call to glory through the intercession and advocacy of Jesus Christ. I Peter 5:8-11 IV (KJV) – Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring[…]
An Introduction to Faith
The 2016 theme for Zion’s Outpost Restoration Branch is on faith. By studying the principles of faith and learning to live by faith, it is hoped that we can grow into a more Christ-like people. We have a calendar for 2016 with a series of monthly themes. These themes are designed to help the members[…]
Why divisions – Part 2
Why divisions – Part 2: “There must be also divisions among you” (Updated February 14, 2016) The underlying source of divisions in the church was introduced in its scriptural context in the first part of this series, Why Divisions – Part 1. The matter was summed up by Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ, when[…]
Why divisions – Part 1
Why divisions – Part 1: “Are Ye Not Carnal?” (Updated February 14, 2016) Why are there so many divisions in the church? Is it not because we are yet carnal? This was the reason Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ, identified for the divisions in the church at Corinth (cf. I Corinthians 1:10). For ye are[…]
An Appointment with the Woman I Would Marry
Upon arriving at Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, in the fall of 1978 I had a dream of the woman I would marry someday that continues to increase my understanding and appreciation of marriage. Most importantly, it continues to focus my attention on our Lord’s commitment to marriage and His personal involvement in this sacred[…]
Why no little children are lost
Jesus said that it is not the will of our heavenly Father that little children should perish. How think ye? If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains and seeketh that which is gone astray? And[…]
