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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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Video 45 🌿 GOING UPON THE WAY ----------- What the Temple Was Always Meant to Prepare Us For

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  🌿 GOING UPON THE WAY What the Temple Was Always Meant to Prepare Us For There is an ancient understanding found across scripture and lived spiritual experience: God intends to be known. Not only believed in. Not only spoken about. But   encountered . Again and again, sacred language returns to the same idea — sometimes plainly, sometimes quietly: “Going upon the way.” Not attending a building. Not passing a ritual. Not learning the right responses. But walking a   path of preparation   — one that leads a person toward God   face to face . Not symbolically. Not someday. But personally. 🕊️ ORDINANCES WERE NEVER THE DESTINATION Ordinances were never meant to replace encounter. They were meant to   prepare a person to endure it . At their best, sacred teachings calm fear, clarify truth, and loosen the heart’s grip on control. They are not about performance — they are about readiness. When that purpose is remembered, ordinances serve life. When it is forgott...
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🌿 One Voice After the Resurrection Why the Ethiopian Records Matter — and Why They Sound So Familiar

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  🌿 One Voice After the Resurrection Why the Ethiopian Records Matter — and Why They Sound So Familiar I want to share something that has quietly settled my heart. Over the last while, as I’ve slowed down, healed, and listened more carefully to the Savior, I came across a set of ancient Christian writings preserved in   Ethiopia . These records describe the   forty days after Jesus rose from the dead and before He ascended to the Father —the time when He taught His disciples privately. What struck me wasn’t how   different   these teachings were. It was how   familiar   they sounded. 📜 How Were These Records Preserved? Here’s the simple version. When Christianity became tied to empire and institution in the Roman world, many early Christian writings were lost, edited, or suppressed. But Christianity also took root   outside Rome —especially in Ethiopia. Ethiopia became Christian very early (Acts 8 even mentions the Ethiopian eunuch), and over ce...
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🌿 The Forty Days We Almost Lost. How Christ’s Own Words Survived in Ethiopia — and Why They Matter Now

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  4 🌿 The Forty Days We Almost Lost How Christ’s Own Words Survived in Ethiopia — and Why They Matter Now I want to write this plainly. Not as a scholar. Not as a preacher. Just as an old man from the sticks who loves Jesus and listens carefully when He speaks. What I’m about to share isn’t meant to tear anything down. It’s meant to   lift something up   that has been quietly preserved for a very long time. 🕊️ First — What Are These Ethiopian Records? After Jesus rose from the dead, the Bible tells us He spent   forty days   teaching His disciples before He ascended to heaven. Most Christians know that verse. What most people   don’t   know is this: Some early Christians   wrote down teachings attributed to Christ during those forty days   — teachings about the Kingdom of God, about watchfulness, about humility, about deception, about how His followers should live after He was gone. Many of these early writings were: suppressed lost destroy...
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Video 44 🌿 WHY MORONI DIDN’T SAY MORE

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  🌿   WHY MORONI DIDN’T SAY MORE And Why That Silence Might Be the Most Important Part of His Message Hello friends. There’s something I’ve been sitting with quietly. It isn’t about Moroni’s lineage. It isn’t about who he was connected to. It isn’t about proving anything. It’s about a much simpler — and heavier — question: Why did Moroni say so little, when he clearly knew so much? 🕊️ 🌿 Silence Can Be a Form of Mercy We often assume that if a prophet knows something, he should say it. But scripture doesn’t actually teach that. Sometimes heaven speaks loudly. And sometimes heaven   withholds words   — not because truth is absent, but because hearts are no longer prepared to receive it. Moroni lived in that space. He walked among a people who: could sense strength could recognize talent could admire leadership But who had lost the ability to   hear the Spirit . In that condition, more words would not have healed them. They would have been trampled. So Moroni be...
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🌿 When DNA Speaks — and Ancient Voices Answer

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5 🌿   When DNA Speaks — and Ancient Voices Answer I want to slow this down and talk plainly. Because this isn’t just about science. And it isn’t just about history. It’s about people — real people — who walked away from faith because the story they were given didn’t hold together anymore. I’ve watched it happen up close. And now, quietly, the ground is shifting again. 🧬   What the Video Is Really Saying The video you watched wasn’t making wild claims. It was pointing out something honest and increasingly unavoidable: Cherokee DNA — and the DNA of other Eastern tribes — does   not   fit a simple “Siberia-only” migration story. Instead, researchers are finding: Mediterranean-linked haplogroups Middle Eastern markers North African lineages Genetic diversity that points to   multiple migrations   and long-term mixing This doesn’t erase the Bering land bridge. It just means it wasn’t the   only   story. And that matters. Because for decades, people w...
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Video 43 🌿 WHAT MORONI WAS REALLY TRYING TO DO

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  🌿   WHAT MORONI WAS REALLY TRYING TO DO Why His Final Words Matter More Than His Story Hello friends. This morning, as I walked quietly, Moroni stayed with me again. Not as a historical figure. Not as a man to analyze. Not as someone to argue about. But as a witness. And the thought that kept returning was simple: Moroni wasn’t trying to explain himself. He was trying to prepare us. 🕊️ 🌿 Moroni Wrote From the End — Not the Middle Moroni did not write while things were going well. He wrote after: the nation had collapsed the people had fallen the church had failed and the future looked uncertain He was not recording success. He was preserving   what survives failure . That matters, because advice given at the end of something carries a different weight than advice given at the beginning. When someone has seen everything break, they stop speaking casually. 🌿 What Moroni Did   Not   Leave Us Moroni did not leave us: a program a system a hierarchy a plan to re...
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🌿 When Science Changes Its Mind — and Faith Is Still Standing

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4 🌿   When Science Changes Its Mind — and Faith Is Still Standing This post is personal. I have a son who left the Church years ago. Not out of rebellion. Not because he didn’t care. But because he was trying to be honest. At the time, the story sounded settled. Scientists said Native Americans came   only   from Siberia, crossing the Bering land bridge. And critics said the Book of Mormon couldn’t possibly be true because the DNA didn’t match. On top of that, my son was taught — confidently — that Joseph Smith was a pedophile. Those two things together were enough to shake him loose. And I don’t blame him. 🧬   What Science Said Then… and What It’s Saying Now For years, the academic world pushed a single, clean explanation: One migration One route One origin Siberia → Bering Strait → Americas Case closed. Anyone who questioned it was labeled fringe. But science has a funny habit of doing this thing called   learning . Today, DNA research — especially among Eas...
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