What God has done for me

  I’m Gonna Need More Revelation .. and desperately so… Thursday, March 14, 2024 What do the following phrases from scripture have in common? Always Remember Him ( Moroni 4:3 ) Pray Always, that you enter not into temptation ( Matt 26:41 ) Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept ( 2 Ne 28:30 ) From them that say, We have enough, From them shall be taken away even that which they have ( 2 Ne 28:30 ) Always have His Spirit to be With Them ( Moroni 4:3 ) To help illustrate how this is, I turn to my distant memories of Linear Algebra (the study of matrices). In Linear Algebra, there exists a series of equivalent statements , each of which implies the other.   There is power in this: the moment you know that just one of these is true, you automatically can depend on the others being true. Here is one set of equivalent statements in Linear Algebra: A is invertible. A is row-equivalent to the identity matrix. A can be factored as a product of elementary matrices. The system Ax=b has exa...

He is Risen! Here’s how to learn the parts for this wonderful Easter Hymn. Arrangement The arrangement is from Hymnplicity Easter, where you can  hear a brief sample . As with all Hymnplicity arrangements, your parts come straight from the hymn book ( click here to view the parts on a webpage ). The only thing that change is when  you sing melody, when you're quiet, and when you sing parts, as follows ( download this for printing ): Parts Soprano No need as it's melody. Alto Bass Tenor

 The Jews were killed and scattered not because they were bad and knew they were bad, but because they were bad and thought they were good. In 2 Nephi 12 , the prophet Nephi -- a man who had left Jerusalem many years earlier -- copies the words of Isaiah the prophet, from Isaiah 2, into the Book of Mormon. In this chapter, Isaiah talks about how "lofty" the people are by using the imagery of tall cedars, oaks, mountains, hills, towers, walls and ships. This is what I wrote about this section: Trees and mountains are metaphors for pride and being haughty. Because they were proud, the Jews were killed and scattered and Jerusalem destroyed.  Because they thought they were too good to be destroyed, they killed the prophets.  The interesting thing is that their downfall was not that they were bad and knew it but that they were bad and thought they were good and were unwilling to acknowledge that they might need to change.  And when I say Jews, I mean all the houses of Isr...