Abortion sheds that innocent blood. Now, as a servant of the Lord, I dutifully warn those who advocate and practice abortion that they incur the wrath of Almighty God, who declared, "If men... hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her . . . he shall be surely punished."

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

Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary?

The scriptures provide one of the best ways to find our course and stay on it. Scriptural knowledge also provides precious protection. For example, throughout history, infections like “childbirth fever” claimed the lives of many innocent mothers and babies. Yet the Old Testament had the correct principles for the handling of infected patients, written more than 3,000 years ago! Many people perished because man’s quest for knowledge had failed to heed the word of the Lord!

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

Faith is the antidote for fear.

When we realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God expects of us.