As simple as it sounds it can be difficult to sell evil from good and good from evil. In podcast I give my own rubric on how to discern the nuances between shades of gray.

With the availability and even common place nature of ordinances, sometimes we forget that they are an integral and vital part of becoming more like th Savior.

Do we really understand the meaning of the word Faith? Is faith a level of righteousness someone has achieved based on their level of obedience to the commandments? Or is it something deeper than mere compliance?

Too many times we want to avoid suffering - most obviously our own suffering but almost harder, the suffering of those we love. How do we learn to be long suffering?

We all know the pride cycle, the only problem is we don’t know when I get out of it. In this episode we examine how the brother of Jared was self-aware enough and humble enough to listen to the Lord and avoid the pride cycle.

It’s so hard to be self-aware, but how can we see ourselves how others or even God sees us to avoid the pitfalls of this life.

It’s easy to paint Laman and Lemuel as the bad guys, but perhaps if we compare them to our own lives and examples, we’d be shocked how much we can relate with Nephi’s erstwhile siblings.

For the longest time I saw Alma’s personal development remain static after his miraculous conversion, but after thinking more about his life and teachings, there’s more to Alma than meets the eye.

People that recognize and act on good patterns have a greater quality of life and spiritually. One of the patterns is recording and acting on promptings of the Spirit. What can we do to establish a pattern of acting on spiritual promptings.

In an effort to spend my time on Sunday anxiously engaged in a good cause, this podcast is my take on weekly gospel lessons.