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The First American Founding - 92 B.C., Part 2: An Experiment in Liberty
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 29 - Alma 1-4) "It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country,...
Laureen Simper
Jun 5, 20243 min read
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The First American Founding - 92 B.C., Part 1: Setting the Stage
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 29, Alma 1-4) Anyone reading this who knows me well won't be surprised to see this post coming. Chapter 29 of...
Laureen Simper
Jun 3, 20244 min read
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Walking Each Other Home
This painting by Greg Olsen hangs in my front hall. There's more than the proverbial thousand words in this one for me - sermon upon...
Laureen Simper
May 26, 20244 min read
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Road Map to Destruction
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 11-17) The Book of Mosiah has some of the most brilliant commentary about government in the entire Book of Mormon...
Laureen Simper
May 16, 20244 min read
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You're Not the Boss of Me
We've got to talk about the most incredulous irony of the universe. All things were created by God. He is the King of the universe, and...
Laureen Simper
May 13, 20245 min read
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After the Miracle
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 4-6) Conversion is a miracle - the biggest, really. I mean, think about it. The Red Sea? It had no choice but to...
Laureen Simper
Apr 29, 20245 min read
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Would You Vote for This Man?
Come Follow Me (Mosiah 1-3) Mosiah 2:17 is almost iconic in its universal recognition and application: “And behold, I tell you these...
Laureen Simper
Apr 25, 20243 min read
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Ten Virgins, Time Travel, and Trajectories
(Originally published in Millennial Instructor, Volume 3, 2018) The Savior gave His disciples the parable of the ten virgins at the end...
Laureen Simper
Mar 26, 20246 min read
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Holy is the Goal
(From talk given in sacrament meeting March 10, 2024) God's plan for our salvation is absolutely yummy. The technical scriptural term is...
Laureen Simper
Mar 22, 20247 min read
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Three-Sided Coin
Come Follow Me (2 Nephi 2) I’m forever indebted to David A. Bednar for expounding the importance of being agents to act rather than...
Laureen Simper
Feb 10, 20243 min read
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Cracking the Code
Come Follow Me - 2 Nephi 1-2 I love 2 Nephi with all my little girl heart. I think of it as headwaters in the Book of Mormon; the purest...
Laureen Simper
Feb 9, 20244 min read
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What Are You Practicing?
A sleeper scripture tucked into 1 Nephi 14 became ‘new writing’ for me when BYU chose it for the theme for their women’s conference...
Laureen Simper
Feb 1, 20244 min read
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Getting Through the Wilderness
Come Follow Me (1 Nephi 16-22) I love that God teaches in patterns. A free associating brain like mine has a much easier time connecting...
Laureen Simper
Jan 28, 20243 min read
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Two Churches
Come Follow Me (1 Nephi 11-15 Part 2) The panorama of Nephi’s vision continues in 1 Nephi 13 - amazing prophecy where Nephi is shown many...
Laureen Simper
Jan 23, 20244 min read
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The Gulf of Ideologies
Come Follow Me (1 Nephi 11-15) I love 1st Nephi chapter 8 - Lehi’s dream of the Tree of Life. There’s so much to study and dissect and...
Laureen Simper
Jan 22, 20243 min read
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Forgetting Angels
Come Follow Me - 1 Nephi 7-10 It seems hard to imagine that a few days could go by, and you could forget you’d seen an angel who kind of...
Laureen Simper
Jan 17, 20244 min read
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What If Ya Just Don't Wanna?
Come Follow Me - 1 Nephi 1-5 I remember a day when my children were still at home and I was experiencing a powerful episode of cheerful,...
Laureen Simper
Jan 15, 20245 min read
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The Book of Mormon - So Much More Than First Nephi
You know the problem with the Book of Mormon? It’s over 500 pages. In a world that has perfected and glorified the sound byte, nurturing...
Laureen Simper
Jan 8, 20244 min read
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Fighting Lost Causes
"The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle-and not lose it." G.K....
Laureen Simper
Dec 30, 20232 min read
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Waiting for the Christmas Miracle
Can you imagine having a government so corrupt, that it has set up ways of knowing your personal religious beliefs and criminalizing...
Laureen Simper
Dec 27, 20232 min read
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