Section 137 Soteriology (so·te·ri·ol·o·gy) is theology about salvation. Christianity’s  soteriological problem is based on three...

Section 115 Revelation, 26 April 1838 [D&C 115]. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org. In December 1836, the Missouri state...

Section 106 Warren Cowdery, Oliver’s older brother, ledged and fed Joseph and his companions when the were recruiting for the Camp of...

Section 102 Joseph Smith convened councils to arbitrate and adjudicate church decisions, especially disciplinary decisions. These...

Section 98 Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson County, Missouri, 18 August 1833. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org In the summer of...

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 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 30 Section 28 resolved the tension Joseph felt between him and Oliver Cowdery and the Whitmers. The second quarterly conference...

Section 20 Section 20 is the founding document of the restored Church of Jesus Christ. Joseph’s history says it came “by the Spirit of...

Section 18 The Lord revealed section 18 because Joseph, Oliver Cowdery, and David Whitmer desired to know how to build the Church of...

Sections 14, 15, 16 Oliver Cowdery kept his acquaintance, David Whitmer, informed about the translation of the Book of Mormon. When...

Section 12 A revelation given to Joseph Knight Sr. in Harmony, Pennsylvania, May 1829. Image courtesy of josephsmithpapers.org. In the...