Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

Focusing on the Lord and everlasting life can help us not only at Christmas, but through all the challenges of mortality.

A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

If the restoration did anything it shattered the age-old myth that God has stopped talking to his children.

Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections are fulfilled when we are linked to our ancestors.