If you prefer to listen over reading an article, keep an eye on A Balanced Saint of Mind on YouTube. I post video versions of my blog posts on my channel. The video versions are often posted a little later than the written blog posts. In chapters 17-22, we see Ammon and the sons of … Continue reading Softening Hearts

June 15-21 If you prefer to listen over reading an article, keep an eye on A Balanced Saint of Mind on YouTube. I post video versions of my blog posts on my channel. The video versions are often posted a little later than the written blog posts. I want to switch things up juuuuuust a … Continue reading Rockets and the Atonement

June 15-21 If you prefer listening to reading, please check out A Balanced Saint of Mind on YouTube. I post video versions of my blog posts. The video versions are often posted a little later than the written blog posts. In Alma 15, I want to take a very specific look at two characters and … Continue reading Turning mistakes into victories

June 8-14 If you prefer listening to reading, please check out A Balanced Saint of Mind on YouTube. I post video versions of my blog posts. The video versions are often posted a little later than the written blog posts. As I begin this post, I plead for personal and internal reverence on the part … Continue reading The Mysteries of God

June 1-7 If you prefer listening to reading, please check out A Balanced Saint of Mind on YouTube. I post video versions of my blog posts. The video versions are often posted a little later than the written blog posts. For a little bit of background for these chapters, we have just seen Alma leave … Continue reading Light of the Everlasting Gospel

May 25-31 If you prefer to listen over reading an article, keep an eye on A Balanced Saint of Mind on YouTube. I post video versions of my blog posts on my channel. The video versions are often posted a little later than the written blog posts. Politics. I’ve got a love-hate relationship with the … Continue reading Approaching politics like Mosiah

May 18-24 If you prefer to listen over reading an article, keep an eye on A Balanced Saint of Mind on YouTube. I post video versions of my blog posts on my channel. The video versions are often posted a little later than the written blog posts. So Mosiah 25-28. We see churches created in … Continue reading To Freely Forgive

May 11-17 If you prefer to listen over reading an article, keep an eye on A Balanced Saint of Mind on YouTube. I post video versions of my blog posts on my channel. The video versions are often posted a little later than the written blog posts. The stripling warriors is a favorite story of … Continue reading The stripling warriors no one talks about

May 11-17 So. Personal story first before I jump right into it.  I was a sophomore in college at BYU. I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out what I wanted to do in school. I was obsessed with music but had never been classically trained so a music program at BYU was probably … Continue reading King Limhi and Alma

May 4-10 Abinadi words changed one person. One. We don’t even know whether Abinadi knew about Alma. For all we know, Abinadi died thinking that nobody changed.  Meanwhile, (Alma 26:4) Ammon and his brethren baptized thousands.  So who was more righteous? Who was more righteous: Ammon or Abinadi? Ridiculous question, right? So why do we … Continue reading Does my contribution actually matter?