2 Nephi 3-5

What can we learn from Nephi about grief, personal weakness, and having faith through even the hardest of times? Discover practical family advice and the keys to true happiness as John unpacks Nephi’s reflections on his own struggles, and Lehi’s counsel to his sons.

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Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Can faith be a source of peace in your journey through life? Artist Eva Timothy uses the symbolism of opening curtains to let the light in as a parallel to inviting Jesus int our lives. She shares how faith and trusting God can dispel the darkness and bring lasting peace, especially through the hard times.

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A Cartoonist Uses AI and a Pencil to Rediscover Lost Grandparents

New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil's efforts to connect to people in her own past led her to write and illustrate two graphic family histories. The first tells the story of her mother's mother, who escaped the Holocaust without any photos or personal records, only her memories—many still fresh in her now-97-year-old head. Her father's father, profiled in Kurzweil's latest book, left an abundance of records and writings but died long before the cartoonist was born. Two very different lives to reconstruct. Two very different challenges in storytelling.

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Can God Be Disappointed in You?

This is a rebroadcast. The episode originally ran in September 2019. In this episode, Leading Saints Executive Director Kurt Francom, shares his closing session from the Liberating Saints Virtual Summit. He approaches the subject of supporting and mentoring someone through a difficult struggle with pornography, from a doctrinal standpoint. This concept eventually became Kurt’s book, Is God Disappointed In Me? Links

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