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  • The Role of Ordinances in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    from Salvation in Christ: Comparative Christian Views
  • Christ, Covenants and the Caph
    from The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament
  • Purposes and Functions of The Temple
    from Nauvoo Temple: A Story of Faith
  • Stigmata
    from Finding Christ in the Covenant Path: Ancient Insights for Modern Life
  • “Endowed with Power”
    from Religious Educator Vol. 13 No. 1 · 2012
  • Spiritual Blessings
    from Nauvoo Temple: A Story of Faith
  • "We are a Covenant-Making People": Gospel Principles and Ordinances in Marriage
    from Commitment to the Covenant: Strengthening the Me, We, and Thee of Marriage
  • Prophets and Priesthood in the Old Testament
    from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament
  • The Sanctifying Power of True Ritual Worship
    from The Gospel of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament
  • What Is a Temple?
    from Foundations of the Restoration: Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes
  • The Temple in Operation
    from A Beacon on a Hill: The Los Angeles Temple
  • “Proper Order”—A Powerful Precept of the Book of Mormon
    from Living the Book of Mormon: Abiding by Its Precepts: The Thirty-sixth Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
  • Joseph Smith and the Restitution of All Things
    from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
  • Endowed with Power
    from Religious Educator Vol. 5 No. 2 · 2004
  • Joseph Smith's Articles of Faith
    from Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith: Nineteenth-Century Restorationists
  • Authority, Power, and the "Government of the Church of Christ," 1835
    from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
  • The Temple as a Source of Blessing
    from A Beacon on a Hill: The Los Angeles Temple
  • Joseph Smith's Expansive Eternalism
    from Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith: Nineteenth-Century Restorationists
  • Culture, Cohesion, and Conceptualizing the Sacred
    from By Our Rites of Worship: Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice
  • Solomon’s Temple Compared to the Salt Lake Temple
    from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
  • Sacramental Living: Reflections on Latter-day Saint Ritual
    from By Our Rites of Worship: Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice
  • Ritual and the Quest for Meaning
    from By Our Rites of Worship: Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice
  • Aide To The Apostles
    from We'll Sing and We'll Shout: The Life and Times of W. W. Phelps
  • “Pouring in Oil”: The Development of the Modern Mormon Healing Ritual
    from By Our Rites of Worship: Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice
  • The Doctrine of Baptism: Immersions at Qumran and the Baptisms of John, the Earliest Christians, and Book of Mormon Peoples
    from By Our Rites of Worship: Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice
  • Salt Lake City: Founded upon the Doctrine and Covenants
    from Salt Lake City: The Place Which God Prepared
  • What Old Testament Temples Can Teach Us about Our Own Temple Activity
    from Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament
  • Freemasonry and the Latter-day Saint Temple Endowment Ceremony
    from A Reason for Faith: Navigating LDS Doctrine & Church History
  • Interior Features
    from Nauvoo Temple: A Story of Faith
  • Latter-day Saint Liturgical Practice: The Psalms and the Day of Atonement
    from Understanding Covenants and Communities: Jews and Latter-day Saints in Dialogue
  • Christianity
    from Light and Truth: A Latter-day Saint Guide to World Religions
  • Family History: An Interview with Elder D. Todd Christofferson
    from Religious Educator Vol. 6 No. 2 · 2005
  • Peter, the Priesthood, the Temple, and Christ’s Atonement
    from Religious Educator Vol. 16 No. 2 · 2015
  • The dead alive, or the ancient religion anew
    from Defending the Faith: Early Welsh Missionary Publications
  • The Strait and Narrow Path: The Covenant Path of Discipleship Leading to the Tree of Life
    from The Things Which My Father Saw: Approaches to Lehi's Dream and Nephi's Vision
  • The Twelve: A Light unto This People
    from The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 9–30, This Is My Gospel
  • The Temple Goes into Service
    from The Colonia Juárez Temple: A Prophet’s Inspiration
  • The Law of Moses and the Law of Christ
    from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament
  • The Kirtland Temple And Endowment of Power
    from We'll Sing and We'll Shout: The Life and Times of W. W. Phelps
  • Exploring Medieval Images
    from Finding Christ in the Covenant Path: Ancient Insights for Modern Life
  • Peter and the Restored Priesthood
    from The Ministry of Peter, the Chief Apostle
  • “This Is My Gospel”
    from The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 9–30, This Is My Gospel
  • “This is My Gospel”
    from A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators
  • “Those Who Receive You Not”: The Rite of Wiping Dust Off the Feet
    from By Our Rites of Worship: Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice
  • New and Everlasting: The Relationship between Gospel Covenants in History
    from Religious Educator Vol. 21 No. 2 · 2020
  • Introductory Essay: The Temple and the Restoration
    from The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives
  • The dead raised to life!
    from Defending the Faith: Early Welsh Missionary Publications
  • “I Will Write My Law in Their Hearts”
    from Prophets and Prophecies of the Old Testament: 46th Annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
  • Gathering to the Temple: Teachings of the Second Day
    from The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 9–30, This Is My Gospel
  • First Principles and Ordinances of the Gospel
    from Latter-day Saint Essentials: Readings from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism
  • Articles of Faith
    from Latter-day Saint Essentials: Readings from the Encyclopedia of Mormonism
  • From Obscurity to Scripture: Joseph F. Smith's Vision of the Redemption of the Dead
    from You Shall Have My Word: Exploring the Text of the Doctrine and Covenants
  • The Morning Breaks: The Glorious Light of Restoration
    from Foundations of the Restoration: Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes
  • “I Mean to Be Baptized for Scores More”: Baptisms for the Dead among the Latter-day Saints, 1846–67
    from An Eye of Faith: Essays in Honor Richard O. Cowan
  • Redemption for the Dead (D&C 2)
    from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Doctrine and Covenants
  • Acceptance of the Lord
    from The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context
  • Elijah’s Mission, Message, and Milestones of Development in Family History and Temple Work
    from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
  • 11 June 1843 (Sunday Morning). Temple Stand
    from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
  • The Restoration as Covenant Renewal
    from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament
  • Wilford Woodruff and the Rise of Temple Consciousness among the Latter-day Saints, 1877-84
    from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
  • The Pearl of Great Price and the Conversion Process
    from The Pearl of Great Price: Revelations from God
  • How Has God Intervened in History?
    from Window of Faith: Latter-day Saint Perspectives on World History
  • “This Is My Gospel”: Jesus’ Discourse in 3 Nephi
    from Religious Educator Vol. 11 No. 3 · 2010
  • What Is a Temple?
    from The Temple in Antiquity: Ancient Records and Modern Perspectives
  • Reply to the objections 
    from Defending the Faith: Early Welsh Missionary Publications
  • Traditional Christian Sacraments and Covenants
    from Prelude to the Restoration: Apostasy to the Restored Church
  • “Line upon Line”: Joseph Smith’s Growing Understanding of the Eternal Family
    from Religious Educator Vol. 20 No. 1 · 2019
  • “We Shall Have Temples Built”: Joseph F. Smith and a New Era of Temple Building
    from Joseph F. Smith: Reflections on the Man and His Times
  • The State of the Soul between Death and the Resurrection
    from The Book of Mormon: Alma, the Testimony of the Word
  • The Holy Order of God
    from The Book of Mormon: Alma, the Testimony of the Word
  • Our Identity and Our Destiny
    from Religious Educator Vol. 14 No. 1 · 2013
  • "The Established Order of the Kingdom of God"
    from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
  • "Line upon Line": Joseph Smith's Growing Understanding of the Eternal Family
    from Raising the Standard of Truth: Exploring the History and Teachings of the Early Restoration
  • The Articles of Faith: Answering the Doctrinal Questions of the “Second Great Awakening”
    from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
  • Epilogue: Hastening the Work of Salvation and Facing the Future with Faith (2015 and Beyond)
    from Voice of the Saints in Taiwan: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Taiwan
  • Covenants and the True Vine
    from Finding Christ in the Covenant Path: Ancient Insights for Modern Life
  • Elijah's Mission: His Keys, Powers, and Blessings from the Old Testament to the Latter Days
    from Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament
  • Joseph Smith’s Restoration of the Eternal Roles of Husband and Father
    from Joseph Smith and the Doctrinal Restoration
  • Initiation to the School of the Prophets
    from Repicturing the Restoration: New Art to Expand Our Understanding
  • Scenes in Nauvoo, and Incidents from H. C. Kimball’s Journal
    from A Woman's View: Helen Mar Whitney's Reminiscences of Early Church History
  • Establishing the Work—1920s
    from The Lā'ie Hawai'i Temple: A Century of Aloha
  • The Prophet's Final Charge to the Twelve, 1844
    from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
  • The Psalms Sung: The Power of Music in Sacred Worship
    from Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament
  • 5 October 1840 (Monday Morning).
    from The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
  • Seeking “Power to Protect the Innocent”
    from Storming the Nation: The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries
  • Images of Wilford Woodruff's Life: A Photographic Journey
    from Banner of the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff
  • What is "saving grace"?
    from Defending the Faith: Early Welsh Missionary Publications
  • “Come, Follow Me”: The Imitation of Christ in the Later Middle Ages
    from Prelude to the Restoration: Apostasy to the Restored Church
  • The House of the Lord: The Taipei Temple and Church Administration Building (1984–89)
    from Voice of the Saints in Taiwan: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Taiwan
  • President Hickley's Inspiration
    from The Colonia Juárez Temple: A Prophet’s Inspiration
  • One by One: The Fifth Gospel’s M​odel of Service
    from A Book of Mormon Treasury: Gospel Insights from General Authorities and Religious Educators
  • Swine’s Blood and Broken Serpents: The Rejection and Rehabilitation of Worship in the Old Testament
    from Ascending the Mountain of the Lord: Temple, Praise, and Worship in the Old Testament
  • Was it God who sent Joseph Smith?
    from Defending the Faith: Early Welsh Missionary Publications
  • Lehi’s Last Will and Testament: A Legal Approach
    from The Book of Mormon: Second Nephi, the Doctrinal Structure
  • A Six-Year Building Program
    from Nauvoo Temple: A Story of Faith
  • Forerunners and Foundation Stones of the Restoration
    from Prelude to the Restoration: Apostasy to the Restored Church
  • Jeffrey R. Holland with Andrew Teal
    from Inspiring Service: Interfaith Remarks with Elder Jeffrey R. Holland at Oxford
  • Joseph Smith and the New Testament
    from How the New Testament Came to Be
  • One by One: The Fifth Gospel’s Model of Service
    from The Book of Mormon: 3 Nephi 9–30, This Is My Gospel
  • The Nauvoo Temple, 1841
    from Joseph Smith, the Prophet and Seer
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