Recommended Reading

This is my all-time favorite book about spiritual growth and its divine pattern. Yorgason has laid it out sequentially  to help us know right where we are in the process and what comes next so that we can look forward in anticipation to the blessings to come. 

This is the prequel to Spiritual Progression in the Last Days and is the milk that supports the meat of its successor.

In Spiritual Lightening, the author shows how the Gospel of Jesus Christ can enlighten the mind and lighten the burdens of mortality. Through spiritual understanding, we are able to not only change what we experience, but how we experience it.

This book was inspired by the movie “War Room” and is an enlightening and detailed manual on how to increase in the power of prayer. If your prayers seem lacking, give this one a try. You won’t be sorry!

We all have had times when the actions of others have hurt or distressed us. In this insightful book, you will learn how to turn these “ashes” into beauty with the help of the Lord. 

This classic by the late apostle James E Talmage was written entirely in the Salt Lake Temple. The insights into the details of the life of Jesus Christ will help you to know Him better and appreciate Him more than you ever have.

Our quest to become more like the Savior is easier when we can learn to see His attributes in His actions as recorded in scriptures. It becomes even easier when we see those attributes reflected in modern-day examples. Come drink from the well of living water and be perfected through following His example.

This volume from the late apostle Bruce R. McConkie’s “Messiah Series” will open your eyes to what is soon to come when the Lord returns to rule and reign during the Millenium. O may it come soon!

At the 50th anniversary of the publication of Lund’s Coming of the Lord, he expanded that work to include more recent current events and church leaders. This book is a treasure that will help you better understand what is going on in the news and how it relates to the fulfillment of prophecy leading up to the Second Coming of the Savior.

This fictional novel, which spans premortal, mortal, and post-mortal life just may give you clues as to why at times you may have felt like you should have been born in a different era. So now that you’re here in this time, what is being expected of you?

This fictional novel, set in Scandinavia begins with the premortal experiences of the characters and extends through their mortal lives and on into the Millenium. Anderson’s depiction of the New Jerusalem (written in 1898) is nothing short of inspiringly spectacular.

Set in the Kansas City area, this story keeps the reader guessing about the meaning of its title until the very end. Mrs. Kip is an engaging character whose last days on earth are spent helping a green newspaper reporter learn that there are certain things that make life truly meaningful — and worth living.

Through this allegorical story, which in some ways is similar to Pilgrim’s Progress, the author shows the different way people relate to God such as for Him, from Him, under Him, and over Him. In the end the reader is brought to understand what it means to live WITH God and create with God. He portrays God as not just an observer of your life, but an active and present collaborator who you can associate with and create with — if you will.

While chaos is unavoidable in this mortal world, it doesn’t have the power to define, control, or ultimately defeat us IF we are anchored in God. True resilience comes from partnering with Him in midst of confusion and not giving into fear or simply waiting for chaos to disappear before moving forward.

This amazing book was published in 1838 and is both a writing guide and a declaration of the importance of creative freedom. The author argues that everyone has unique creativity, and that the greatest obstacles to writing are fear, self-consciousness, perfectionism, and concern for others’ approval. She champions the idea that creativity is a natural human gift and that writing is most powerful when it emerges from one’s true self.