Friday, November 13

Church News · 4 min

Former BYU star Jimmer Fredette told BYU–Hawaii students at a Nov. 10 devotional how a rough NBA rookie season and a call from Elder M. Russell Ballard changed his "Plan A" from basketball to Jesus Christ.

BYU Speeches · 26 min

Elder Joni L. Koch of the Seventy, a former BYU custodian in the 1980s, tells students that spiritual intelligence, light and truth received through the Holy Ghost, matters more than any other kind of intelligence they'll develop at BYU.

Church News · 5 min

A Veterans Day write-up of retired Marine Col. Jason S.D. Perry's Church News podcast interview: a chaplain's helicopter visit in Afghanistan, advice for wards with military families, and the gospel as an operational plan.

Church Newsroom · 4 min

The Newsroom's release on the revised illustrated *New Testament Stories*, which closes out the Scripture Stories rewrite, with a section on how the animated videos were scored.

Christian Homestead · 19 min

Jared reads the opening of Elder Ezra Taft Benson's 1980 BYU devotional "Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet," where he told students they were "a generation which might well witness the return of our Lord," and lines it up with Benson's other rising-generation quotes and President Nelson's later echoes of them.

Jesus Christ in Scripture · 16 min

Tammy Uzelac Hall and Dr. Donald W. Parry draw three lessons on prayer from Daniel 6: praying toward the temple, praying three times a day, and the protection of innocence.

Unshaken · 33 min

A verse-by-verse devotional on Daniel 3, where Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego refuse to bow to Nebuchadnezzar's golden image, built around the "if it be so... but if not" pairing as a model of faith in God's power and trust in His will.