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Lessons Learned from the Lost Manuscript
Latter-day Saints are familiar with the story of Martin Harris’s loss of the first 116 manuscript pages containing the translation of the...
Stephen Fluckiger
Mar 317 min read
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Temples in the Book of Mormon—Part 1
Joseph commences translating the Book of Lehi. Upon returning to Harmony, Pennsylvania from his February 1828 trip to show the “learned”...
Stephen Fluckiger
Mar 1733 min read
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Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery—Translation and the “Spirit of Revelation”
No doubt that the promise my maternal grandfather made to me in my patriarchal blessing when I was 13—that I would have “a pure knowledge...
Stephen Fluckiger
Feb 2829 min read
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Joseph Smith and the Restoration of Temple Doctrine and Ordinances—The First Visions, Part 2
Elijah Restores the Power to Seal Families for Eternity, by Gary E. Smith c. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints In contemplating...
Stephen Fluckiger
Feb 1425 min read
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Joseph Smith and the Restoration of Temple Doctrine and Ordinances—The First Visions, Part 1
Nothing focuses the mind upon your mortality (and the ultimate purposes of life as taught us in the temple) quite like attending a...
Stephen Fluckiger
Jan 3019 min read
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Temples and Resolutions—The Power of Divine Identities, Foreordinations and Celestial Desires
Like many of you, I find myself at this point in the new year taking one last look over a pile of Christmas cards and letters...
Stephen Fluckiger
Jan 1013 min read
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Christ in the Temple
At this writing the Christmas season is on full display, so naturally the film “Mary,” released December 6, 2024 and reportedly “one of...
Stephen Fluckiger
Dec 25, 202415 min read
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The Brother of Jared “Within the Veil”—Parallels to the LDS Temple Endowment
In May 2019, President Nelson boldly declared that “Adam and Eve, Noah and his wife, Abraham and Sarah, Lehi and Sariah, and all other...
Stephen Fluckiger
Dec 8, 202412 min read
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It is (Not?) Well with My Soul
During another fitful early morning, wrestling with unwanted anxious thoughts, the refrain from the hymn “It Is Well with My Soul” came...
Stephen Fluckiger
Nov 23, 20248 min read
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AI and other telestial tools vs. drawing upon God’s power to move the mountains in my life
NEWSFLASH : Elder Bednar reminds us that the latest “new thing,” advances in artificial intelligence or AI (like other technological...
Stephen Fluckiger
Nov 8, 20249 min read
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Temples, Raptures and Second Coming Preparations
The Book of Mormon is full of prophecies and parallels to the Second Coming, including predictions of the time of the Lord’s first coming.
Stephen Fluckiger
Oct 25, 20248 min read
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The Spiritual Treasure of “Small and Simple” Covenant-Keeping Acts
From the perspective of a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ, all of these requirements are, indeed, easy. (Matthew 11:30)
Stephen Fluckiger
Oct 7, 20248 min read
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The Spiritual Treasure of Seeing Things as they “Really Are”
One of the greatest spiritual treasures we receive through our temple covenants and worship is the power and ability to see things as...
Stephen Fluckiger
Sep 26, 20245 min read
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What do members of “eternal families” do in heaven and how do they qualify or prepare to do it?
It seems that families are highly valued in every nation and culture in the world. But how do families factor into eternity?
Stephen Fluckiger
Sep 11, 20248 min read
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The “Glory of the world” vs. “Eternal glory”
It is not so much about the “what”—money or material things in themselves not being intrinsically evil—but the “who,” or whose influence we
Stephen Fluckiger
Sep 3, 20248 min read
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Audiobook is Available
Exciting news! Drawing Upon the Spiritual Treasures of the Temple is now available as an audiobook! Immerse yourself in a captivating...
Stephen Fluckiger
Aug 22, 20241 min read
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Do you have an invitation?
As we drove into our chapel’s parking lot last weekend to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Austin Texas Temple, we were...
Stephen Fluckiger
Aug 20, 20246 min read
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Why are the Keys Moses Restored Relevant to Me?
Only through the lens of the Restoration can we begin to truly appreciate Moses’ life,[2] mission and ministry, and their importance to each
Stephen Fluckiger
Aug 9, 20245 min read
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The Spiritual Treasure of God’s Divine Love
One of the most important and comforting lessons I have taken away from many of the testimonies these witnesses bear confirms what the scrip
Stephen Fluckiger
Jul 31, 20244 min read
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Why it Matters that God is an “Unchangeable Being”
God’s unchangeable goodness (Mormon 9:19; Moroni 8:18) is why all created things “honor” and obey Him (Abraham 4: 10, 12, 18, 21)
Stephen Fluckiger
Jul 25, 20244 min read
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