Ensign

January 1996

Volume 26 Number 1

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon
  President James E. Faust

• Finding Truth in the Book of Mormon

• “For a Wise Purpose”
  Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

• In Search of the Restoration
  Angelo Scarpulla

• The Fall and Infinite Atonement
  Elder Spencer J. Condie

• A Shield against Evil
  Clyde J. Williams

• “After This Manner … Pray Ye”
  Donald W. Parry

• “Behold, I Am Jesus Christ”

• Mormon Journal
  Fighting Fire with Faith Tim Schildknecht
  “Let Me See That Book” Coke Newell
  Guided through My Grief Shyrlene Baum
  “Find Me a Mormon” Linda J. H. Taylor
  I Had Read This Book Before! Salvatore Flore, as told to Wolfgang Hiemer

• Journey to the Temple
  Kellene Ricks Adams

• I Have a Question
  Balancing responsibilities at home and church Ann Woodbury Moore
  Meaning of “kingdom of God” and “kingdom of heaven” Douglas Brinley

• Grandma Chris’s Rye Bread
  Mary Ellen Bramwell

• Power in Their Pages
  Jay M. Todd

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: Faith to Follow Jesus Christ

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church