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After the Manner of Chemish

Daily thoughts about the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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December 30, 2025

Cain Loved Satan More Than God

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August 18, 2025

A Well of Water Springing Up

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Prepared to Receive the Glory

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Their Wives and Their Children

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They Would

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To Our Great Sorrow

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Choose to Return Home to Him

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Free According to the Flesh

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February 15, 2024

Destroy the Agency of Man

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December 01, 2023

Begin With the End in Mind

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October 20, 2023

It Really Matters

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August 24, 2023

Choose Ye

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January 30, 2023

Free to Act

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August 08, 2022

All Your Choices Have Been Your Own

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September 18, 2021

The Most Satisfying Course in Life

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It Mattereth Not

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Agency in the Doctrine and Covenants

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December 24, 2020

They Would Not

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Feed the Good Wolf

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August 21, 2019

Come, Follow Me

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Why This Blog

The little-known Nephite writer Chemish left us one verse in the Book of Mormon (Omni 1:9) with no profound testimony given or great doctrine expounded. But in his short paragraph the verb "write" appears five times in one of its forms, and he witnessed simply of his brother's words and the Nephite need to write: "After this manner we keep the records, for it is according to the commandments of our fathers." So after the manner of Chemish I venture to keep my own record here of my journey through the scriptures. My hope is that it will encourage any who pass this way to spend more of their own time with the word of God.

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Abraham16
Agency31
Allegory of the Olive Tree3
America11
Angels8
Anger9
Apostles6
Atonement86
Baptism14
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The Best Books

The Lord encouraged us twice in modern revelation to “seek… out of the best books words of wisdom” (Doctrine and Covenants 88:118, 109:7). The very best books are the holy scriptures, and this blog is focused on those. I also occasionally reference other books that inspire me to be better and point my thoughts and feelings heavenward. Below is a list of some of these. Search this blog on the book name to see the most meaningful passages for me.

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
L'Aventure ambiguë by Cheikh Hamidou Kane
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy