Every scripture reflection and discipleship note David has published on LDS Daily Path. Showing older entries, page 14.
Mark 1 moves urgently from John the Baptist to the calling of disciples, healings in Capernaum, and the touch of a leper, all driven by the word straightway.
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2 Nephi 1 records Lehi's final words to his sons, emphasizing that the Promised Land is a land of liberty only when the people keep God's commandments.
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D&C 23 gives five personalized revelations to Oliver Cowdery, Hyrum Smith, Samuel Smith, Joseph Smith Sr., and Joseph Knight Sr., showing that callings are custom made.
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Genesis 23 is the quiet purchase of a burial plot that becomes Abraham's first legal claim to the Promised Land and an anchor for the covenant.
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Mark 2 shows Jesus healing a paralytic through a roof, calling Levi, and redefining the Sabbath as a gift for man, not a trap.
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Genesis 22 is the ultimate test of faith: Abraham asked to sacrifice Isaac and the ram provided in his place. A story of trust, provision, and the God who provides.
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1 Nephi 22 interprets Isaiah's prophecies about the scattering and gathering of Israel, with the promise that the Holy One will ultimately reign.
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D&C 22 establishes baptism as a new and everlasting covenant and clarifies why those who were baptized in other faiths must be baptized again by proper authority.
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Matthew 27 follows Jesus from Pilate's judgment seat to Golgotha, through darkness and death, to the sealed tomb that cannot contain what is coming.
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Matthew 28 moves from the empty tomb to the Great Commission, showing that the resurrection is both the end of the story and the beginning of ours.
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