Sperry Symposium Classics

Now you can have the best Sperry Symposium articles about the New Testament gathered in one outstanding volume! Containing many of the most instructive and inspirational commentaries ever written on the subject, this book features such authors as President James E. Faust, Elders Jay E. Jensen, L. Aldin Porter, Gerald N. Lund, and many others. The fourth and final volume in the Sperry Symposium Classics series, this collection is sure to serve as a precious resource as we focus on the New Testament in the coming year. Topics include Christs ministry, atonement, and resurrection as well as chapters on the apostles writings and on vital doctrines taught in this standard work.Additional contributors include Elder John K. Carmack, Dennis Largey, Andrew Skinner, Robert Matthews, Richard Anderson, Wilfred Griggs, Richard Holzapfel, Monte Nyman, Catherine Thomas, Robert Millet, Matthew Richardson, Richard Draper, Gaye Strathearn, Kent Brown, and others.

Selected addresses originally delivered at the 15th annual Sperry Symposium at Brigham Young University in 1987.

For use in schools and libraries only. Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his people.

This volume brings together scholars from New Testament studies and classics, whose fields of study have much in common but are not often in in conversation. The contributors explore how the ancient works they study can be resources for thinking critically and creatively about issues that matter today. The essays address our obligation to take positive moral stands on divisive issues of both the past and the present, including empire, racial/ethnic and religious difference, economic inequality, gender and sexuality, slavery, and disability. Contributors include Douglas Boin, Denise Kimber Buell, Gay L. Byron, Allen Dwight Callahan, Joy Connolly, Jennifer A. Glancy, Shelley P. Haley, Caroline Johnson Hodge, Katherine Lu Hsu, Timothy Joseph, Tat-siong Benny Liew, Yii-Jan Lin, Dominic Machado, Joseph A. Marchal, Thomas R. Martin, Candida R. Moss, Laura Salah Nasrallah, Jorunn Økland, and Abraham Smith.

This inspiring book from popular CES speaker Ryan Sharp demonstrates how your favorite scriptural heroes were able to connect with the Divine and can help you in your own spiritual journey. Be inspired by Nephi’s steadfastness Alma the Elder’s and Alma the Younger’s conversion The conviction of King Lamoni, his father, and the Anti-Nephi-Lehis Captain Moroni’s obedience Mahonri Moriancumer’s faith Along with many others This book shows how mortal men came to know the Savior. Learn to meet Him as they did by following in their footsteps and discovering Christ in new and profound ways.