Nurturing Faith and Spiritual Growth

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The chapter explores the analogy of planting a seed of faith, nurturing it with care, and observing its growth to understand how faith and knowledge develop over time. It emphasizes the importance of continuously nurturing one's faith and relationship with God, comparing it to tending a tree to receive desired fruits of happiness and fulfillment in life. Through verses from Alma and references to the fruit of the tree of life, the chapter conveys messages of finding inner goodness, developing a testimony, and resisting worldly distractions to strengthen one's spiritual journey.

Can we approach gaining and keeping a testimony using the Scientific Method? Dr. S. Michael Wilcox weaves science, faith, and testimony together while examining Alma’s treatise on faith.

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00:00 Part I - Dr. Michael Wilcox
00:53 What to expect
03:08 Dr. Michael Wilcox’s bio
05:45 Pyramid of faith
07:12 Why societies fall
10:33 Evidence, substance, and assurance
12:43 Experience, authority, and reason
15:33 Building faith
17:50 Alma 32:27 - Scientific method
19:41 Alma 31:1-21 - Humility
23:50 Alma 32:21 - Remember God’s mercy
27:16 Testimony is a living thing
30:34 Alma 32:28 - Letting testimony grow
32:43 Alma 32:33-4 - Testing our hypothesis
39:33 Making conclusions
40:49 Swellings, burning, and enlightenments
44:30 Burning in the bosom
46:08 Alma issues warnings
48:17 Alma 32:29 - Our hypothesis: Jesus Christ lives
51:55 Alma 32: 25-7 -The Book of Mormon is brilliantly constructed
55:03 How testimony becomes a law instead of hypothesis
59:0 Alma 32:40 - What the tree is
1:04:36 “Weed Your Brain, Grow Your Testimony”
1:07:50 When silence is required
1:11:05 What seed did Alma ask them to plant?
1:24:54 - End of Part 1 - Dr. Michael Wilcox

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