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Also, he's been very helpful in my family, my kids that have gone to the temple. I got this form, the Holy Invitation and recently he just wrote a follow-up called the Holy Covenants. And another one we've got, Christ in Every Hour. So he's a great author and a good friend and we're glad to have Anthony back.

So if you want to see some of Anthony's art, there's a book he wrote called Repicturing the Restoration.

We highly recommend anything from Tony's art, but it was the book that he printed last year called Repicturing the Restoration.

We used that a couple of times last year.

Recently Tony had this book published re-picturing the restoration. Beautiful watercolor thrilled that you were doing this and that you're letting people see your art about the restoration.

What I want to find are strategies that help me just to hold on.

And he has a new book out called Holding On, a really timely book.

I am still waiting for the notification from the Salt Lake County library to go pick up.

from darkness until light Joseph Smith translation and publication of the book of Mormon published by religious studies center at BYU and desert book in 2015.

The book that got me really hooked on Dr. McKay was a book called From Darkness until light. He wrote that with Dr. Garrett Durkman, who's also going to be one of our guests soon.

I wrote a book on happiness. It sold dozens of copies.

But one thing I learned is something very similar to what you just said, Janet, that happiness and social circle are almost twins.

And that ward family creates a social circle.

I wrote a book on happiness. It sold dozens of copies.

Isaiah often, you'll find a lot of phrases in Isaiah that actually appeared first in the Psalms.

And so we get Psalms and Isaiah though, just barely finished Psalms and now we're in the middle of Isaiah.

This is going to be a verse that is particularly powerful and it's Psalms 82.

Look, yeah, in Luke chapter 9 James and John get offended by some merit in village and the first thing they want to do is blow it up, right? Lord, we command fire to come from heaven and consume them and the Lord, no, no, that's not why I came.

Lord of the Rings trilogy, 12 years.

I don't know if either of you've read Lord of the Rings, but I turn into this golem creature who wants to protect my money. I will spurred at anything that gets close to my riches.

If you read things like The Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, you have visitations to the spirit world and the spirits are dismal, great heroes caught in the spirit world.

You've written a book about happiness, too. What's the title of that? It was called Be Happy.

You are a lot more positive than mine.

When you have the Book of Mormon, when you have the Old Testament, and you have the Bible. Not even I could have messed this up.

It's a foreign country. One, it's massive compared to all the other scriptures. It's intimidating because it's a big book.

We're talking big time, far away. It's a foreign country.

All we know the servant of Jehovah is his name. And we're told that he has a message from the Lord against Edom, which is again, one of Israel's neighbors.

And Mount Zion is the Mount where the temple was in Jerusalem. Mount Zion is a place where God is, where his presence is.

And so they're going to return back to those days when God will deliver them and he will be their king.

the name Obadiah means servant of the Lord?

John, we are in the books of Amos and Obadiah today.

Probably not books that I would say our audience is super familiar with.

There's another covenant here. This language seems to be drawing upon Jeremiah 31. All right, remember Jeremiah had this idea that there would be a new covenant one day.

It says, Thus says the Lord, Cursed are those who trust in mere mortals, and make mere flesh their strength, whose hearts turn away from the Lord.

That's probably worth unpacking for a minute. What does this mean in your life to really trust in the Lord versus trusting in mere mortals?

He's like the energizer bunny fully knowing they're not going to, he's still teaching the doctrine, but knowing full well, they're not going to take it.

He preaches for decades and we've already seen some of this in Jeremiah. He uses these very creative metaphors and object lessons.

And then God gives an interpretation. He says, this is verse six of Jeremiah 18. Can I not do with you? Oh, house of Israel, just as this potter has done, just like the clay and the potter's hand. So are you in my hand? Oh, house of Israel.

And I hope that I can be that way in my life.

I quit. I'm done. I will not make mention of him nor speak of him anymore in his name.

But his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones. And I was weary with forbearing. I could not stay.

I know the plans I have for you, plans for your welfare and not for harm to give you a future with hope.

I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm to give you a future with hope.

Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you.

And it's helping us, I think, get to know Jesus Christ better.

And your life will mean something for generations, for millennia for people, because we will get to read your story.

I don't know if the average Latter-day Saint goes, you know what? What I was reading the other day was the book of 2 Kings, but yet it's got some fantastic stories, really faith promoting and beautiful.

The second book of Kings commonly called the fourth book of Kings.

It's interesting because Elijah and Elisha are meant to remind us of Moses and Joshua, even more than everything that comes in between Joshua and Elijah.

They kind of follow in these footsteps and some of the miracles that they do as well. We're meant to kind of think back, way back to the Exodus and the conquest and connect them with that time when things were good right at the beginning.

It's easy to tie that in and say, this is what we're doing. This is our job right now. And depending on what tribe you're from, you have different responsibilities in the gathering.

Proverbs is followed by the book of Ecclesiastes, which seems to say it's not that simple.

The preacher quoted in Ecclesiastes observed that he gave his heart to no wisdom, but still found vexation of spirit and much grief.

There are a couple of passages in *The Brothers Karamazov* that really kind of connect with that.

One of the greatest novels in the history of the world is by a Dostoevsky called The Brothers Karamazov.

And in that, the most Christ-like fictional character ever created is introduced to us. It's an Eastern Orthodox, a Russian Orthodox novice. He's studying in a monastery. His name is Alyosha.

He represents the good spirit in all of us. He is the spirit of Christianity, beautiful, beautiful individual. And he just goes around doing good. And he is trained by an old father named Zosima, who's also a delight for you. Love these two characters.

Yes, him, him did he approach the little wise and old man with fine wrinkles on his face joyful and quietly laughing. He's eyes shown. He too was at the feast. Had also been called to the wedding in Cana of Galilee. I too, dear fellow have been called.

Called in summoned the quiet voice said clearly above him. You too must come and be with us. Let us be Mary and gay. The little wise and old man continued.

If you read things like the Iliad, The Odyssey, the Aeneid, you have visitations to the spirit world and the spirits are dismal, great heroes caught in the spirit world.

There's a good work by Dieter Bonhoeffer. He was a German theologian who was actually put to death under the Nazis. And he wrote a book called The Cost of Discipleship.

There's a good work by Dieter Bonhoeffer. He was a German theologian who was actually put to death under the Nazis. And he wrote a book called The Cost of Discipleship.

And she has a PhD from the University of Houston, and is a historian and writer and specialist in women's history at the Church History Department.

She is a volume editor and historical reviewer on Saints, book you all have, and is working on a team to write a history of the young women's organization, which will be published in a couple of years.

It's in the gospel library. The the Saints book and I am on page if you use pages page 80 well I'll just read it I'll use my most interesting voice that fall while the printers made steady progress on the book of Mormon a former judge named apenir Cole began publishing a newspaper on grandnets press so we remember the book of Mormon was being printed that the e-be grand impress building in Palmyra.

That's the whole thing from saints.

And I'm actually looking at one of his most recent books, Holding On, Impulses to Leave and Strategies to Stay.

This was published in 2021.