Section 94 Section 94 may make more sense after you have studied sections 95 and 96 and 97, because it was actually revealed right after...

Section 93 In his inimitable way, BYU philosophy professor Truman Madsen related an anecdote during a presentation he gave at the Yale...

Section 89 Most everyone drank in the 1820s and 1830s, Joseph Smith included. [1]  Distillers in his upstate New York neighborhood made...

Section 88 Samuel H. Smith, Journal entry describing Section 88, Church History Library, Salt Lake City. Three months after receiving...

Section 85 The leaders of the church in Missouri grew troubled. Saints were gathering there by the hundreds. Relatively few of them were...

Section 84 In section 57 the Lord identified the site for his temple in Zion. That was the first reference to a specific Latter-day...

Section 81 Revelation, 15 March 1832. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org. It is very good to have your sins blotted out. It is not...

Section 77 Having been treated to section 76 in February 1832 for his efforts to understand and revise the Bible, Joseph continued his...

Section 76 Various people love Joseph Smith or object to him for the same reason: he revealed “realms of doctrine unimagined in...

Sections 71 & 73 Ezra Booth was a talented Methodist preacher who visited Joseph Smith at his home in Kirtland in 1831 with his wife,...

Section 67 In November 1831, Joseph convened a council at the Johnson home in Hiram, Ohio and laid the manuscript Book of Commandments...

Section 64 Various people who observe the same facts interpret the facts differently. The elders’ trip to Missouri in the summer of 1831...

Section 63 “The land of Zion,” says Joseph’s history, “was now the most important temporal object in view.” Satan hates Zion and works to...

Section 60 Having dedicated western Missouri as Zion and a spot near the courthouse in Independence as the site for the temple centered...

Section 58 Joseph Smith, Bishop Edward Partridge and others were disappointed when they arrived in Independence, Missouri. They...

Section 51 In the spring of 1831, Bishop Edward Partridge had a problem. It was his job to organize and settle the saints who were...

Section 49 Ann Lee and her family were early Shakers, or members of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, as they...

Section 46 Like several other revelations Joseph received shortly after relocating to Kirtland, Ohio, section 46 fights deception. The...

Section 45 Joseph Smith bought a King James Version of the Bible at Egbert Grandin’s Palmyra, New York bookstore while the Book of Mormon...

Section 41 License for Edward Partridge, circa 4 August 1831–circa 5 January 1832. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org. “Joseph the...