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Waking Up Zion — The Book

Waking Up Zion --- The Book

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INTRODUCTION Not a Faith Crisis — A Truth Awakening This isn’t a book about walking away. It’s a book about walking deeper. Deeper into Jesus. Deeper into His voice, His light, and His truth. For years, I loved my faith. I still do. The Church gave me structure. It gave me good people. It taught me to honor prophets and scriptures. To seek the Holy Ghost. To follow Christ. But somewhere along the way, I started asking quiet questions— Not to tear down, but to understand more. Where is the power of the Book of Mormon? Where is the fire of the early Saints? Where is the Jesus who speaks face to face? This book isn’t here to fight the Church. It’s here to reach the hearts of those in it — Especially those who feel something is missing, but don’t yet have words for it. I believe God is still working. But I also believe He is calling many of His children out of comfort and into courage. Out of tradition and into truth. Out of a system and into a personal walk with His Son. If you love the C...
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🕊️ About This Blog — The True Remnant: Waking Up Zion

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🕊️ About This Blog —  The True Remnant: Waking Up Zion The True Remnant still isn’t a ministry. It’s not a movement. And it’s sure not a place to send money. 😄 It’s a  witness  — born from the same awakening that began in the pages of my first book, 👉  Waking Up Zion That book was never meant to launch anything. It was simply a testimony — one man’s wrestle to remember what Zion was  really  supposed to be. This blog is the continuation of that remembering. 🔥 The Heart of It All If you’ve read  Waking Up Zion , you already know the fire behind it: That Jesus never came to build an empire — He came to build a family. That temples weren’t meant to be monuments — they were meant to be hearts on fire. And that Zion was never supposed to be a brand — it was meant to be a bond between heaven and earth. That same heartbeat runs through every post here. 🧡 A Note to My Fellow Latter-day Saints (and Everyone Listening) If you’re a member of the Church of Je...
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✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 45 ✨ Oh Say, What Is Church?

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✨  Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 45  ✨ Oh Say, What Is Church? 📖  “He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”  — Ecclesiastes 3:11 📝  Their Message (Summary) Elder Eyring recently gave a talk called  “ The Power of Sustaining Faith .”  In it, he warned that not sustaining church leaders would bring “sorrow to you and to those you love—and even losses beyond your power to imagine.” He urged members not only to sustain leaders, but even to  examine their own thoughts  to see if they had  thought or spoken  of any weakness in those leaders. That’s a heavy burden. And it raises a haunting question:  what is church? 🔥  The Contrast Think of Joseph Smith . The Doctrine and Covenants is filled with rebukes to him personally. God repeatedly corrected Joseph—sometimes sharply—and Joseph didn’t hide it. He published his failings to the world. Paul did the...
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🌿 The Child of God Within (Mosiah 3:19 — The Fingerprint of the Savior)

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🌿 The Child of God Within (Mosiah 3:19 — The Fingerprint of the Savior) 📖 The Scripture “For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.” —  Mosiah 3:19 🕎 The Chiasm Hidden in Plain Sight This verse isn’t just wisdom — it’s  structured revelation . The Spirit guided King Benjamin to speak in  chiasmus , an ancient Hebrew form where truths mirror each other around a center point. Each layer reflects and reverses like light in a diamond, until the center gleams — the  core truth the Savior wants you to see. Let’s trace it: Section Text / Concept Mirror A The natural man ...
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🌿 The Message I’ve Been Trying to Say All Along

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🌿  The Message I’ve Been Trying to Say All Along I just finished reading my own first book again. And I’ll be honest with you — it stunned me. Not because of clever words or some fancy polish… but because it  finally says  what I’ve been trying to say to you, to my family, to anyone who’s ever wondered what the Lord’s been whispering in this old heart of mine. Every page carries the same thing I’ve been writing, praying, and wrestling to put into words across all these posts: that the Savior is real, that He walks with us still, and that Zion isn’t built by hands, but by hearts. This book —  Waking Up Zion  — feels like the seed that everything else has grown from. If you’ve ever read my posts and felt a stirring, a quiet “yes” deep down…  go read the book . 👉  Read  Waking Up Zion  now It’s not about me. It’s about the message the Lord planted long before I ever typed a word — the same message He’s planting in you: “Come unto Me. Learn to ...
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✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 44 ✨ Sleep Walking

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✨  Those Who Walk With Jesus — Part 44  ✨ Sleep Walking 📝  Their Message (Summary) Something heartbreaking is happening in our day: when people leave the LDS Church , many leave Jesus too. Because their faith was tied to polished narratives and institutional promises, when they discover deception, instead of wrestling it out with God, they throw the entire bundle into the fire. The Author of truth is blamed for the mess, and they walk away not only from the church — but from Christ Himself. This is why the greatest gift we can give our children is not loyalty to an institution, but intimacy with Jesus. If they learn how to have His Spirit with them always, they will never walk alone, even if all else fails. But what is missing in so much of our modern religious life is power. A.W. Tozer warned that without the miraculous element of the Spirit, the church becomes an organization, not a living body. The early Saints moved with fire, signs, wonders, and conversion. Today,...
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🌤️ How to Get Close to the Spirit, the Kingdom of God, and the Savior “Unless you become as little children…” — Matthew 18:3

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🌤️ How to Get Close to the Spirit, the Kingdom of God, and the Savior “Unless you become as little children…” — Matthew 18:3 There’s a tenderness in those words that cuts through centuries. Not a command of fear or duty — but an  invitation  back to innocence. Jesus was saying: “Come home. Let go of the armor you built to survive this world. Be small again. Be open again. Be believing again.” 🕊️ “Jesus, I Give Everyone and Everything to You” Say it slowly — “Jesus, I give everyone and everything to You.” That’s not a slogan. It’s surrender. It’s the un-clenching of a weary heart. We’ve carried so much — people, disappointments, fears, endless scrolling thoughts. When we hand it all back to Him, we make space for the  Spirit  to breathe again. 📱 The Internet’s Counter-Discipleship We live in an age of instant answers. Type a question, and three million results appear in half a second. Our souls have been  trained to impatience . If God doesn’t respond like a s...
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👔 The Next Prophet and the Real Question: Who’s Truly Called by Him?

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👔 The Next Prophet and the Real Question: Who’s Truly Called by Him? There’s a quiet hum under everything in LDS life — a kind of background assumption most members never question. It sounds like this: 👉 “When the prophet dies, the Lord automatically calls the next one by seniority. It’s revelation. Always has been.” But is it? Or is it just a habit that’s worn a prophet’s robe so long we can’t tell the difference anymore? 🏀 My Court-Side Memories with President Oaks I’ve known  Dallin H. Oaks  for a long time — not personally close, but close enough to get elbowed by him under the rim. Back when he was president of BYU, a few of us used to play pickup basketball with him on Wednesday afternoons. He was a fierce defender — disciplined, sharp, and tough as nails. I respected that. Later I learned my dad actually grew up in Provo around the same time. He told me once that his sister used to walk to school with “little Dallon,” and she’d tease,  “Oh, that boy will never a...
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