Orem Library

The Prophet Joseph Smith observed that death and the spirit world are subjects "we ought to study more than any other....If we have claim on our Heavenly Father for anything, it is for knowledge on this important subject." Brent Top, a professor of Church History and Doctrine at BYU, highlights the wealth of information the scriptures and latter-day prophets and apostles have provided to us about death and the spirit world—its location and

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"Noted Latter-day Saint author Gerald N. Lund examines Restoration and earlier prophecies about the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ"--

"So much more than a simple book full of stories, songs and pictures; it can be used all year long whenever we want a way to revisit the power and majesty of the Savior fulfilling his mission and ponder our place in it as well."

—Beth W. Roach for the Association for Mormon Letters

"There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter," taught President Gordon B. Hinckley. "The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another

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Illustrations of a family of three bears who fish, paint Easter eggs, and have a campout highlight the lyrics to the children's Bible hymn "Jesus loves me."

"I am very anxious that you should know something about the history of Jesus Christ. For everyone ought to know about him. No one ever lived who was so good, so kind, so gentle, and so sorry for all people who did wrong or were in any way ill or miserable, as He was."

— Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord around the same time he was finishing David Copperfield, but to listeners raised on a diet

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Paintings and text show children how the Savior loves us and always looks over us.

Discusses the personality of Jesus Christ and how it affected how his contemporaries viewed him as well as how his actions in the Bible should be interpreted, arguing that his humanity, not his divinity, helps better understand his life.

"The Atonement of Jesus Christ is our hope that life can get better ... that we can get better. To find strength in our struggles, it is vital to look to the One who understands our pains and afflictions, the One who never forsakes us. Christ atoned for our sins, but what does that really mean, and how can we harness the relief He provides? The answer to this question and many others is made simple in When the Atonement Becomes Personal. As one who...

John H. Groberg was only twenty years old when he was called to the distant lands of Tonga to be a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was a call that would change his life.