Every scripture reflection and discipleship note David has published on LDS Daily Path. Showing older entries, page 4.
Paul can't visit Thessalonica, so he sends Timothy to check on them, and the one who comes out comforted is Paul. Notes on 1 Thessalonians 3.
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The priest doesn't start the cleansing in Leviticus 14 until the leprosy is already healed. Birds, oil and the house all come after.
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Section 102 is minutes from one February afternoon in 1834, and the part that stuck with me is how it decides who speaks for the accused: a lot, not a friend.
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Alma 7 opens by listing what kept him away, and verse 8 lists what he does not know. He states both limits plainly and then gets on with it.
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Paul's defense in 1 Thessalonians 2 rests on what the Thessalonians saw for themselves. Six of the first twelve verses send them back to their own memory.
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Paul's thanks in 1 Thessalonians 1 rests on a report other churches were already giving about the Thessalonians, and he says he need not speak any thing.
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Leviticus 13 reads like a skin-disease manual, but the priest mostly looks and waits. Here's what caught me, and the part I still don't like.
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Verse 2 of section 101 blames their transgressions, and verse 41 says many but not all. The parable is a tower they stopped to debate.
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Study outlines hurry past Alma 6 to reach Alma 7. I read all eight verses and found a church roll, a prayer assignment and a valley named for an old man.
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A coworker asked me a yes-or-no question and got ninety seconds on section 89. Colossians 4:6 is about answering the question that was actually asked.
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