In this sobering address, The Quiet Dissident recounts a hard-won gift of the Spirit and the divine correction that taught him its true source. What follows is a prophetic message not of his own choosing, but of the Lord’s: a scriptural witness of impending judgment upon a rebellious world and a lukewarm church.

Drawing from Nahum, Habakkuk, and Doctrine & Covenants, this episode testifies that President Nelson’s labor of heart preparation has reached its close, and that President Oaks may now stand as a sign of prophetic judgement in a day of decision.

The time for smooth things has passed. What remains is how we might still, even now, through repentance and humility, apply the atoning blood of Christ that the wrath may pass over us. And experience the piercing joy of His amazing grace. 

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Many find temple ordinances bewildering at first — rich in symbolism, but low in explanation. This episode is for those who want to press further.

Building on the idea that scripture can be read in temple context, we trace the pattern of light and ascent embedded in the endowment. Why does the Lord use such density of symbol? Why are some things withheld? And what can faithful study do to help us see what we’ve missed?

We explore tools like the PaRDeS framework and show how careful definition — even of a single phrase — can open new scriptural vistas. But the deepest things are spiritually discerned. Study alone is insufficient. We will need faith, and action born of faith, if we hope to come fully into the light.

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What do you do when God goes quiet? When scripture no longer speaks and prayer echoes back with nothing but silence? In this deeply personal episode, The Quiet Dissident departs from doctrinal exposition, to recount his own wrestle with doubt, divine absence, and the perilous beauty of choosing faith anyway. From spiritual drought to a flood of revelation, this testimony traces a return to the Father, to Christ, and to the Book of Mormon. 

If you've known the ache of spiritual dryness or feared that your best days of discipleship are behind you, this episode may challenge you. But hopefully, it will comfort you also. It points us not to easy answers, but to an enduring truth: that the Lord does not forsake His covenant people. And even in our ignorance, even in our peasantry, He still calls us back.

You'll find the full essay, scriptural citations, and referenced sources at: https://hopeinchrist.substack.com/p/this-ignorant-peasant

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The signs are multiplying. The calls to readiness are no longer subtle. In this episode, drawn from a sacrament address delivered on 12 January 2025, The Quiet Dissident walks us through the escalating urgency with which President Russell M. Nelson and other prophets have declared that “time is running out.”

But what does readiness look like? And how can ordinary disciples prepare in a world so steeped in idolatry, distraction, and decline?

Anchored in scripture and the living witness of apostles and prophets, this message outlines three temple covenants—obedience, sacrifice, and the gospel of Jesus Christ—as successive stages in the process of alignment between our will and God’s. It calls listeners not merely to avoid breaking these covenants, but to fulfil them. Not just to be bound by covenant, but to be transformed by it.

Using vivid metaphor and scriptural exposition, this episode confronts us with the hard, hopeful truth that to prepare for the Lord’s return is to be remade. Not in abstraction, but in ritual, sacrifice, and Spirit-sealed ascent.

This is not a sermon of scolding or alarm—it is a call to rise. A call to become the kind of people who could survive—and abide—the presence of the Holy One.

Come prepared to rethink what it means to keep a covenant. And to remember that the power is not in the rite alone, but in the fulfilment, sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise.

You'll find the full essay, scriptural citations, and referenced sources at the following link: https://hopeinchrist.substack.com/p/preparing-for-the-lords-return

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In this penetrating sermon, originally delivered in a Latter-day Saint sacrament meeting, The Quiet Dissident turns our attention from dramatic last-days events to something even more sobering—last-days conditions. Rather than speculating about comets or calamities, this episode centres on the spiritual diseases prophesied to spread across the earth before the Lord's return.

Drawing heavily from Isaiah and the Book of Mormon, this sermon excavates the ancient gods that ensnared Israel—Baal, Ashtoreth, and Molech—and reintroduces them as very modern idols: prosperity, pleasure, and power. These are not abstract threats. They are pervasive spirits, influencing personal choices, public policy, and even global norms.

The episode opens with Isaiah 2:8 and D&C 1:16, not as antiquated relics, but as piercing diagnoses: “Their land is full of idols… they walk every man in his own way.” These idols are no longer statues but ideologies—self-made identities, self-referential truths, and self-worshipping systems.

You'll hear a stirring unpacking of how Baal’s materialism, Ashtoreth’s moral relativism, and Molech’s disdain for life are echoed today—in advertising, legislation, and even in what passes for progress. With prophetic citations from Ezra Taft Benson, Neal A. Maxwell, and Russell M. Nelson, this episode challenges listeners not just to recognise these gods—but to renounce them.

If you’ve felt unsettled by the shifting sands of modern morality, or if you’ve wondered how best to “stand as witnesses of God at all times,” this episode is both a wake-up call and a comfort. It frames the last days not as something merely to survive, but as a season that demands spiritual discernment, covenantal clarity, and unwavering discipleship.

It ends where all true warnings should—with an invitation: to repent, to align, to prepare, and to hope in Christ.

You'll find the full essay, scriptural citations, and referenced sources at the following link: https://hopeinchrist.substack.com/p/conditions-of-the-last-days

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