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Laureen Simper
Dec 126 min read
Touching Jesus
Come Follow Me (Ether, Part 2) Ether chapter 12 recounts another face-to-face conversation between an ordinary mortal - Moroni - and the...
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Laureen Simper
Dec 83 min read
Warning: Remove Shoes; Sacred Ground Ahead
Come Follow Me (Ether, Part 1) Generally speaking, I'm not a huge fan of much of the Book of Ether. It's like a flip-book version of the...
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Laureen Simper
Oct 285 min read
Invest in Utopia Today
Come Follow Me (4 Nephi) The idea of a perfect society has eluded humanity since our first parents left the original Garden. The Fall...
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Laureen Simper
Oct 185 min read
What Everlasting Kindness Looks Like
Come Follow Me (3 Nephi 20-26) I had one of those rare days this week when the 3D picture came into view, and I more fully understood...
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Laureen Simper
Oct 134 min read
What Matters to Jesus
Come Follow Me (3 Nephi 11-17) You learn a lot about someone by watching them. Listening to what they say is instructive, but what they...
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Laureen Simper
Aug 285 min read
Landing Our Souls - God Math
Come Follow Me (Helaman 1-6) One of my very favorite scriptures - even when I'm not reading it - is Helaman 3:29-30. It explains the...
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Laureen Simper
Aug 264 min read
Take the Kingman Test! You Might be a Kingman if...
Come Follow Me (Alma 51 & 60) Those kingmen, though. They sure knew how to bury the lead story of their true motives when their cause...
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Laureen Simper
Aug 204 min read
A Tale of Two Leaders
Come Follow Me (Alma 43-52) The beginning war chapters of Alma rival any film about intrigue, treachery, patriotism and heroism you might...
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Laureen Simper
Aug 104 min read
Heaven: Earth’s Original Factory Reset
Come Follow Me (Alma 39-42) I find myself quoting Mark Twain often with this characteristically pithy wisdom: “Good judgment comes from...
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Laureen Simper
Aug 44 min read
Prison of Choices - and On Coming Late
Today the Primary children got to ask our bishop what his favorite parable was. He briefly told them why he likes the Good Samaritan....
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Laureen Simper
Jul 304 min read
Political Correctness Book of Mormon Style
Come Follow Me (Alma 32-35) The cancel culture seems terribly au courant because it hit so fast and almost feels like it came out of...
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Laureen Simper
Jul 253 min read
Faith: The Ultimate Plant Food
Come Follow Me (Alma 32-35) Once upon a time, there were two trees. One tree, if chosen, would be a problem. Make that ALL the problems....
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Laureen Simper
Jul 183 min read
Careful What You Wish For
Come Follow Me (Alma 30-31) We've already talked about spotting the counterfeit doctrines of the world which compete with Jesus Christ...
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Laureen Simper
Jul 113 min read
Expediency Versus Covenants
Come Follow Me (Alma 23-29) Alma chapter 24 makes me cry every time I read it. I'm in complete awe of the miraculous missionary efforts...
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Laureen Simper
Jul 64 min read
The Good News of 'No Do Overs'
You've probably done it at least once in your life - ruefully considered a past event in your life, and thought, "If I could go back and...
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Laureen Simper
Jun 194 min read
Predictable Madness
Come Follow Me (Alma 8-12) Alma's mission to Ammonihah makes for some thrilling reading; it runs the gamut of beauty and quite literally...
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Laureen Simper
Jun 53 min read
The First American Founding - 92 B.C., Part 2: An Experiment in Liberty
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 29 - Alma 1-4) "It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country,...
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Laureen Simper
Jun 34 min read
The First American Founding - 92 B.C., Part 1: Setting the Stage
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 29, Alma 1-4) Anyone reading this who knows me well won't be surprised to see this post coming. Chapter 29 of...
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Laureen Simper
May 264 min read
Walking Each Other Home
This painting by Greg Olsen hangs in my front hall. There's more than the proverbial thousand words in this one for me - sermon upon...
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Laureen Simper
May 164 min read
Road Map to Destruction
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 11-17) The Book of Mosiah has some of the most brilliant commentary about government in the entire Book of Mormon...
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