E. Richard Packham, “My Maturing Views of Grace” Ensign, Aug. 2005, 22-25
What is the relationship between grace and works? The answer to this question has taken me a lifetime to appreciate.
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Have You Been Saved?
Dallin H. Oaks, “Have You Been Saved?,” Ensign, May 1998, 55
As Latter-day Saints use the words saved and salvation, there are at least six different meanings.
Dallin H. Oaks
What do we say when someone asks us, “Have you been saved?” This question, so common in the conversation of some Christians, can be puzzling to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because it is not our usual way of speaking. We tend to speak of “saved” or “salvation” as a future event rather than something that has already been realized.
Michael De Groote, “Joseph Smith becoming the seer stone” Deseret News, Aug. 30, 2009
Richard Neitzel Holzapfel was amazed at how often Joseph Smith was identified as “the Seer” in John Whitmer’s record of the early history of the LDS Church. Whitmer wrote the record from 1831 to 1838. Holzapfel read the book to prepare for a class he was teaching at BYU’s Campus Education Week.
H. Wallace Goddard, “Surrender in order to Conquer” Meridian Magazine
H. Wallace Goddard is a son, a husband, a dad, and a grandpa. He works as a Family Life Specialist for the University of Arkansas Extension Service in Little Rock and has written several books and programs including The Frightful and Joyous Journey of Family Life (Bookcraft) and Principles of Parenting (Alabama Cooperative Extension System). He claims to be living proof that a person who makes lots of mistakes can still be blessed with joy beyond any deserving.