In 2019, I answered 365 questions—1 per day. Here is a list of the questions I studied, organized by category:
Doctrinal Questions (120)
Names and Titles of Jesus Christ (21)
- What Is the Significance of the Names and Titles of Jesus in the Book of Mormon?
- What Is the Meaning of the Title “Lord of Hosts?”
- Why Is Jesus Called “Alpha and Omega?”
- Why Is Jesus Called “the Author and the Finisher of Our Faith?”
- What Is the Significance of the Title “the Lamb of God?”
- Why Is Jesus Called “the Holy One of Israel?”
- What Is the Significance of the Name “Jehovah?”
- What Does It Mean for Jesus to Be Our “Redeemer?”
- How Do Book of Mormon Prophets Use the Title “Savior?”
- What Is the Significance of the Title “the Mighty One of Jacob?”
- What Is the Significance of the Title “the Lord Omnipotent?”
- Why Is Jesus Called “the Good Shepherd?”
- What Is the Significance of the Name “Immanuel?”
- What Is the Significance of the Name “Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace?”
- How Is Jesus Christ “the Light and the Life of the World?”
- How Is Jesus Both “the Father and the Son?”
- How Is Christ the “Messenger of the Covenant?”
- Why Is Jesus Called the Great Mediator?
- What Does It Mean for Jesus to Be Our Advocate?
- How Is Christ Like a “Refiner’s Fire” and “Fuller’s Soap?”
- What Is the Significance of the Name “Jesus?”
The Atonement of Jesus Christ (18)
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Grace?
- What Does It Mean to Be Saved by Grace “After All We Can Do?”
- How Is the Word “Atonement” Used in the Book of Mormon?
- What Does It Mean to “Apply the Atoning Blood of Christ?”
- What Does It Mean for Our Garments to Be “Washed White Through the Blood of the Lamb?”
- What Does It Mean That the Savior Is “Full of Grace and Truth?”
- What Is the Significance of the Savior Bleeding “from Every Pore?”
- What Is a “Preparatory Redemption?”
- Why Is It Important to Know That God’s Grace Is Sufficient?
- How Does the Lord Strengthen Us?
- What Do We Need to Do to Be Saved by Grace?
- What Is “the Immediate Goodness of God?”
- What Does It Mean to “Work Out Your Own Salvation?”
- What Does It Mean to “See Him as He Is?”
- What Does It Mean to Become the Sons and Daughters of Christ?
- What Does It Mean to Be Saved “In and Through” the Grace of God?
- How Can I Be Healed?
- How Does the Savior Bring Us Peace?
The Plan of Salvation (30)
- What Is the Plan of Redemption?
- What Is the “Natural Man?”
- What Is the Significance of the Phrase “a Tabernacle of Clay?”
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About the Fall of Adam and Eve?
- What Are the Two “Provocations” Discussed by Alma?
- What Is the Tree of Life?
- What Is a “Probationary State?”
- Which Fruit in the Garden of Eden Was Bitter, and Which Was Sweet?
- Why Did God Prevent Adam and Eve from Partaking of the Tree of Life?
- What Is the Purpose of Suffering?
- What Happens After We Die?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About the Resurrection?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Add to Our Understanding of the Resurrection?
- What Is the First Resurrection?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About the Second Coming of Jesus Christ?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About the Millennium?
- Will We Be Judged by the Apostles?
- How Much Power Does the Devil Have?
- What Does It Mean to “Cast Out Devils?”
- Would God Lead Us Into Temptation?
- What Is the “Resurrection of Damnation?”
- How Is Christ the Judge of “Both Quick and Dead?”
- What Is “Awful Woundedness?”
- What Is Foreordination?
- What Do We Know About God’s Love for Us?
- Why Would God “Inflict” Things on Us?
- What Are the Roles of Persuasion and Punishment in Motivating Good Behavior?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About the Creation of the Earth?
- Why Is Light an Appropriate Symbol for the Birth of Christ?
- How Does the Birth of Jesus Christ Help Us Understand the Love of God?
The First Principles and Ordinances of the Gospel (28)
- Why Are Some Blessings Conditional on Our Faith?
- What Is the Relationship Between Faith and Knowledge?
- What is the Relationship Between Faith and Humility?
- What Are Some Examples of Faith in the Book of Mormon?
- What Is the Relationship Between Faith and Patience?
- What’s Wrong with Seeking Signs?
- What Is the Appropriate Balance Between Hard Work and Faith?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Repentance?
- What Is A Contrite Spirit?
- What Is “Fruit Meet for Repentance?”
- How Can I Know If I’ve Been Forgiven?
- Why Is It Important Not to Procrastinate Repentance?
- What Does It Mean to Be “Ripe in Iniquity?”
- Did Alma Baptize Himself?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About the Baptism of Jesus?
- What Is the Relationship Between Baptism and Membership in the Church?
- What Does It Mean to Be “Baptized Unto Repentance?”
- What Does It Mean to Be “Baptized with Fire?”
- What Can We Learn from the Words of the Baptismal Ordinance?
- What Can We Learn from the Baptisms of the Twelve Disciples?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About the Holy Ghost?
- What Is the Liahona?
- What Are the Gifts of the Spirit?
- What Is the Gift of Tongues?
- What Are “Gifts and Callings of God?”
- How Can I Fully Receive the Forgiveness of God?
- What Does It Mean to Endure to the End?
- Why Did Ammon Consider Himself Unworthy to Baptize?
The Church and the Priesthood (15)
- Why Is It Important for Us to Gather with Other Believers?
- How Are We “All Alike Unto God?”
- What Is Priestcraft?
- What Is Authority?
- What Is a Priest?
- What Is the Priesthood?
- What Is a High Priest?
- What Does It Mean to Be Ordained?
- Why Are Ordinances Important?
- What Is an Elder?
- What Is the Sealing Power?
- What Are the “Vessels of the Lord?”
- What Is the Role of Music in the Gospel?
- What Is a Covenant?
- How Do Our Covenants with God Affect Our Relationships with Each Other?
The Sacrament (8)
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About the Sacrament?
- What Does It Mean to Eat and Drink the Bread and Water to Our Souls?
- What Can We Learn from the Sacrament Prayers?
- What Can We Learn from the Differences Between the Sacrament Prayers?
- How Do I Know If I’m Worthy to Take the Sacrament?
- How Can I Participate More Meaningfully in the Sacrament?
- Where Did the Sacrament Prayers Come From?
- What Are the Bread and the Waters of Life?
Practical Questions (186)
Acquiring Spiritual Knowledge (35)
- Why Is It Important to Ask Questions?
- What Are the Characteristics of a Good Question?
- Why Is It Important to Prioritize Our Questions?
- What Does It Mean to Search the Scriptures?
- What Should I Do When There Are Questions I Can’t Answer?
- How Can We Overcome Our Doubts?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Education?
- How Can I Prepare to Hear the Words of Prophets?
- Why Is Firsthand Spiritual Knowledge Important?
- Why Do We Need Prophets?
- How Does God Communicate with Us?
- Why Is It Important to Record the Fulfillment of Prophecies?
- What Is the Spirit of Prophecy?
- How Can I Learn to Recognize the Holy Ghost?
- How Can I Tell the Difference Between Promptings from the Holy Ghost and My Own Thoughts?
- How Do Different Forms of Revelation Support One Another?
- What Should I Do When Prophetic Teachings Are Difficult to Understand or Accept?
- What Should I Do After I Hear the Words of Prophets?
- What Can We Learn About Prayer From Nephi?
- What Does It Mean to Pray in Your Closet?
- What Can We Learn from the Prayers Recorded in the Book of Mormon?
- What Lessons Can We Learn from the Prayer on the Rameumptom?
- What Should I Do When My Prayers Aren’t Answered?
- What Does It Mean to “Counsel with the Lord?”
- Why Are Some Prayers Fixed (the Sacrament Prayers, for Example) in Contrast to Our Normal Prayers?
- What Does It Mean to “Watch and Pray?”
- What Are “Vain Repetitions,” and Why Should We Avoid Them?
- What Can We Learn from the Lord’s Prayer?
- What Does It Mean to Pour Out Your Soul to God?
- Is It Possible to Know Something but Not to Know That You Know It?
- Why Did Mormon Say That Captain Moroni Had a “Perfect Understanding?”
- What Does It Mean to Ponder?
- What Is Truth?
- What Are “Plain and Precious” Things?
- What Is Wisdom?
Christlike Attributes (30)
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Kindness?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Patience?
- What Does It Mean to Be “Easy to Be Entreated?”
- Why Is It Good to Be Submissive?
- What Does It Mean to Be Sober?
- What Is a Saint?
- What Does It Mean to Be Steadfast?
- How Can We Be Open to Change While Being “Steadfast and Immovable?”
- How Can I Be More Humble?
- What Does It Mean to Be “Temperate in All Things?”
- How Can I Be More Hopeful?
- How Can I Be More Patient?
- How Can I Be More Patient with Myself?
- How Will the Meek Inherit the Earth?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Diligence?
- Why Did Jesus Tell Us to Be Perfect?
- What Is the Relationship Between “Idolatry” and “Idleness?”
- Why Are “Envyings” Associated with “Strife?”
- Is It Wrong to Complain?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Say About Complacency?
- What Does It Mean to Be “Temperate in All Things?”
- Why Is Steadiness Important?
- What Does It Mean to “Refrain from Idleness?”
- How Can I Avoid Being an “Unholy Temple?”
- What Should I Be Thankful For?
- When Should I Express Gratitude?
- How Can I “Always Abound in Good Works?”
- How Should I Express Gratitude?
- What Does It Mean to “Render” Thanks?
- What Is Meekness?
Charity and Ministering (21)
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Racism?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Inclusiveness?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Forgiving Others?
- How Can I Be More Forgiving?
- What Is the Meaning of the Phrase “Vengeance Is Mine?”
- What Does It Mean to “Succor” Someone?
- What Are “Bowels of Mercy?”
- What Does It Mean to Be “Long-Suffering?”
- What Are the “Tender Mercies of the Lord?”
- What Does It Mean to Believe, Hope, and Endure All Things?
- What Does It Mean to Bear One Another’s Burdens?
- What Does It Mean to Serve Others “According to Their Wants?”
- What Does It Mean to Minister?
- What Is the Ministering of Angels?
- What Can I Learn from Jesus Christ’s Ministry on the American Continent?
- What Can I Learn About Ministering from Alma?
- How Can I Be a Better Listener?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Serving Others?
- Should We Always Give to Beggars?
- What Should I Do About Economic Inequality?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Refugees?
Consecration and Discipleship (24)
- What Does It Mean to “Come Unto Christ?”
- How Does the Savior Invite Us to Come Unto Him?
- What Do Book of Mormon Prophets Teach Us About Coming Unto the Savior?
- What Are Some Examples of People Coming Unto Christ?
- What Can We Learn About Coming Unto Christ from the Brother of Jared?
- What Does It Mean to Be a Disciple of Jesus Christ?
- What Does It Mean to Seek the Kingdom of God?
- How Can I Follow the Savior with “Full Purpose of Heart?”
- What Does It Mean to Consecrate Something?
- Why Does God Command Us to Pay Tithing?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Obedience?
- What Does It Mean to “Keep” God’s Commandments?
- What Is the Relationship Between Obedience and Agency?
- Does Obedience Diminish Freedom?
- What Does It Mean to “Stand Fast in the Liberty Wherewith God Hath Made Us Free?”
- What Does It Mean to “Fulfill” God’s Commandments?
- What Does It Mean to Have the Commandments Written in Our Hearts?
- What Does It Mean to Serve God “with All Diligence of Mind?”
- What Does It Mean to “Hearken?”
- How Can I Have More Experiences with God?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach about Sacrifice?
- What Are the Purposes of Fasting?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Tithing?
- How Can I Recognize the Temptations of the Devil?
- Why Are We Blessed When We Are Reviled?
Family and Relationships (20)
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Being an Effective Parent?
- How Should We Respond When Others Threaten or Attack Us?
- Was Captain Moroni Right to Chastise Pahoran so Harshly?
- How Should I Respond to an Emotional Outburst?
- How Can I Heal a Broken Relationship?
- How Can I Heal a Relationship with Someone Who Doesn’t Want the Relationship Healed?
- How Can I Be a Better Father?
- What Should I Teach My Children?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Say About Teaching the Gospel in Families?
- Why Is Family History Important?
- How Can I Teach the Gospel More Effectively in My Home?
- What Is the Relationship Between the Family and the Church?
- How Can I Teach My Children to Be Resilient?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Family Prayer?
- How Can I Be a More Effective Leader?
- How Can I Be a Better Employee?
- How Can I Delegate More Effectively?
- What Are Some Things That I Can’t Delegate?
- Why Are Reunions Important?
- What Can We Learn about Children from the Savior?
Managing Emotions (28)
- What Does It Mean to “Bridle All Your Passions?”
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Happiness?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Sadness?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Fear?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Anger?
- What Does It Mean to Be “Past Feeling?”
- How Can I Avoid Overzealousness?
- How Should I Deal with Anxiety?
- What Should I Do When I’m Worn Out?
- What Should I Do When I Feel Inadequate?
- What Should I Do When I Have Doubts?
- Why Were Laman and Lemuel Unable to Overcome Their Negativity?
- How Can I Find Peace?
- Why Is It Important to Lift Up Our Heads?
- What Is Joy?
- What Does It Mean for a Soul to Rest?
- What Does It Mean to Harden Your Heart?
- What Does It Mean to Do Something with “Real Intent?”
- What Should I Do When I Feel Guilty?
- What Can I Do to Feel More Joy?
- How Does the Gospel Bring Us Joy?
- What Is Pride?
- What Is Haughtiness?
- What Is “Stoutness of Heart?”
- Is It Wrong to Boast?
- What Does It Mean to Be “Puffed Up?”
- What’s Wrong with “Costly Apparel?”
- What Is Lust?
Teaching the Gospel (7)
- What Is the Fulness of the Gospel?
- Why Is It Important for People to Hear the Gospel in Their Own Language?
- How Can I Be Bold Without Being Overbearing?
- Why Do We “Bear” Witness?
- What Does It Mean to “Publish Peace?”
- Was It a Sin for Alma to Wish He Were an Angel?
- How Can I Be a Better Missionary?
Living Wisely (14)
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Self-Reliance?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Provident Living?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Finances?
- How Can I Make Better Decisions?
- What Should I Think About?
- How Can I Manage Time More Effectively?
- How Can I Avoid Distractions?
- How Can I Tell When Authority Is Being Used Improperly?
- When Is Violence Justified?
- How Can I Be a Both a Defender of Truth and a Peacemaker?
- How Can I Become More Holy?
- How Can I Recognize the Hand of the Lord in My Life?
- How Can I Manage Stress More Effectively?
- What Does It Mean to Cleanse the Inward Vessel?
Government (7)
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About the United States of America?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Impeachment?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About the Relationship Between Church and State?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Corruption?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Taxes?
- What Was the Title of Liberty?
- What Are Secret Combinations?
Questions About the Book of Mormon (59)
Questions Recommended by President Russell M. Nelson (6)
- What Is the Book of Mormon?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Affirm?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Refute?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Fulfill?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Clarify?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Reveal?
The Translation of the Book of Mormon (10)
- How Did Joseph Smith Translate the Book of Mormon?
- What Is the Urim and Thummim?
- Why Is the Book of Mormon Written in King James English?
- Who Wrote the Title Page of the Book of Mormon?
- What Is the Book of Lehi?
- In What Order Did Joseph Smith Translate the Book of Mormon?
- Who Were the Three Witnesses of the Book of Mormon?
- What Is the Sealed Portion of the Book of Mormon?
- What Do We Know About the Jaredite Plates?
- Why Do Quotes from the King James Version Appear in the Book of Mormon, Even Ones that Joseph Smith Later Altered in his Translation of the Bible ?
The Bible (20)
- How Does the Book of Mormon Complement the Bible?
- Why Does the Book of Mormon Quote from the Bible?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Abraham?
- What Does the Book of Mormon Teach About Jacob (Israel)?
- Why Were the Children of Israel Scattered?
- What Is the Gathering of Israel?
- Who Is the House of Israel?
- Who Are the Lost Tribes of Israel?
- What Offering Will the Sons of Levi Make in Righteousness?
- What Is the “Book of Remembrance” Mentioned by Malachi?
- What Is the Day of Burning Spoken of by Malachi?
- How Did Elijah Turn the Hearts of Fathers and Children Toward Each Other?
- Who Is the “Prophet” that Moses Promised Would Come?
- What Can We Learn from the Brass Serpent?
- Why Did the Nephites Keep the Law of Moses?
- What Can We Learn from the Crossing of the Red Sea?
- How Will the Remnant of Jacob Be Like a Lion Among Sheep?
- What Is Zion?
- What Is the New Jerusalem?
- Who Was Melchizedek?
Isaiah (7)
- Why Is Isaiah Quoted So Much in the Book of Mormon?
- Why Is Isaiah So Difficult to Understand?
- How Can Recognizing Parallelisms Help Me Understand Isaiah?
- What Is the Historical Context for the Book of Isaiah?
- Which of Isaiah’s Writings Are Quoted in the Book of Mormon?
- How Does Isaiah Point Us Toward Christ?
- What Is the Role of Isaiah’s “Servant Songs” in the Book of Mormon?
Unusual Verbiage in the Book of Mormon (10)
- What Are “Goodly Parents?”
- What Does It Mean to Be “an Hungered?”
- Why Do the Scriptures Use the Phrase “Your Father, Which,” Instead of “Your Father, Who?”
- What Is the Significance of the Phrase, “It Came to Pass?”
- What Is the Meaning of the Phrase “Sufficient Is the Day Unto the Evil Thereof?”
- Why Did Mormon Say That Captain Moroni Had a “Perfect Understanding?”
- What Does the “Great and Spacious Building” Represent?
- What Is the “Great and Abominable Church?”
- What Does It Mean to Be “Ripe in Iniquity?”
- What Does It Mean to Be “Caught with Guile?”
Specific Events in the Book of Mormon (6)
- Why Did God Command Nephi to Kill Laban?
- What Can We Learn from Teancum’s Assassinations of Two Lamanite Kings?
- What Can We Learn from the Women in the Book of Mormon?
- What Is the Significance of God’s Promise to Nephi?
- Why Did Jared Ask His Brother to Pray Instead of Praying Himself?
- Why Did the Disciples Pray to Jesus in 3 Nephi 19?
Book of Mormon Study Notes 