Temple Worship

Temple Worship: 20 Truths That Will Bless Your Life by Andrew C. Skinner


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really was amazed by this book. I read it in just a little over a week. It was simply amazing. The way that Andrew C. Skinner quickly and succinctly relates specific stories, scriptural references, and historical information to explain doctrines related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Each chapter highlights a different philosophical idea related to the Temple. Two of the most powerful ideas for me were the idea that the same power that Christ and his apostles and the prophets have used to control the physical world is the same power that activates the ordinances in the Temple. This means that in a very real way we can be physically changed by the covenants we make in the temple. This book gave me a whole new vision and idea of the temple. I can't wait to get back to the Temple again after reading this.

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The Future

What will the future bring? It is inherently impossible to tell. Michael Crichton in his book Congo stated that apes consider the future as behind them! Hebrew philosophy has included the concept that we walk backward into the future. We can only infer what we are walking into as new scenes come into our peripheral view. Anyone who has ridden in an old station wagon with the backward facing rear seat should sense the accuracy of my own personal "Gumpism" "Life is like riding in the back of a station wagon it's easier to see where you been than where you're going."

With that said the peripheral views and what we can see of the past out in front of us allows us to predict if not the weather on a particular day at least the climate (I know, there are many that are arguing about that as well). The climate of the future is beautifully predicted in a book of essays published in 2002 The Next Fifty Years *Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century Check it out for a truly interesting picture of the world behind us!