Eastern Orthodox Church prohibits cremation because it as a departure from the belief in resurrection. Mormons, or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), strongly supportburialover cremation, although the church allows cremation in cultures where it's customary. The importance and ...
“it was not Amalickiah’s intention to give them battle according to the commandments of the king; but behold, it was his intention to gain favor with the armies of the Lamanites, that he might place himself at their head and dethrone the king and take possession of the king...
who was like “We’re doing a show on mixed orientation marriage we want you to be on it blah blah blah” and I was in the car being driven home from the sexual addiction conference I went to and I was like “WOW. I just got asked to be on Ricki Lake. What does that evenmean?
Jesus was speaking matters of eternal life or death (condemnation) and it is hard to imagine, and you will have a hard time convincing others, that when he said believeth in me, he really meant do or “obey” the “whole plan of salvation” which is “hear, repent of sin, believe, ...
“And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan,who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.” –Revelation 12:9 This verse doesn’t say that the ...
Something that always rubbed me the wrong way while I was involved with church was this idea that the church should only serve its community in order to “convert” non-believers or get people into the seats on Sunday morning. This always felt so gross and manipulative. Jesus freely gave to...
Because Jesus began to fulfill his mission in the Garden and then completed it when he was resurrected, you would think that Easter would be given much more emphasis in our church meetings. There are only three hymns in our hymnal dedicated specifically to Easter. To the larger Christian ...
When his mother finally opened the door, he explained where he had been for the past six months and his mother wept. She told him the rebels had shot his two brothers while he was gone. Their bodies were not yet buried. “You cannot stay here,” she said. ...
“And there was not any man who could do a miracle in the name of Jesus save he were cleansed every whit from his iniquity.” 3 Nephi 8:1 The Know In his first interview with the angel Moroni, Joseph Smith was told that his “name should be had for good and evil among all nation...
By the time the group’s widespread abuse was exposed, Warren had 78 wives, many of them girls no more than 12 or 13 years old. In the documentary, Rachel Jeffs, one of Warren’s oldest daughters, recalled sneaking away to read an entry her father had written in a journal: “He sai...