Today's podcast is taken from a 2006 BYU Campus Education Week devotional by brother John Bytheway, a relious studies instructor at BYU. Brother Bytheway is an American author and academic, who is well known as a comic motivational speaker for youth within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this BYU campus address Brother Bytheway looks at the war chapters in the Book of Mormon and how every one of them have spiritual lessons. When the children of Lehi are successful, it’s because they make covenants first and swords later. They pray mightily for help from God; then they go to work and fortify their cities. They fail only when they allow themselves to be enticed, decoyed, and distracted from what they should have been doing.  Brother Bytheway shows that the stratagems of warfare are frighteningly similar to the stratagems Satan uses to ensnare God’s children today.