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Author: Boyd K. Packer
About Product: Enhance both your gospel study and your personal journaling efforts. For the first time, this beloved gospel classic is available in a new journal edition, providing you large, faintly lined margins to use as a canvas to express your thoughts, document insights you’ve received, or create your own visual art, illuminations, or calligraphy. Deepen your understanding and testimony of timeless gospel topics.
The concept of priesthood in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is unique. A portion of God's power is delegated to "individuals who He knows perfectly well are imperfect." How does that work? As authors Dale and Ruth Renlund ask, "How is it conceivable that His awesome, delicate power could be used by both an illiterate farmer and a rocket scientist—to equal effect—in the salvation of humankind?"
This helpful book "has arisen in large part from questions we have asked each other over the years," write Elder and Sister Renlund. "The quest for an understanding of the priesthood and its proper application has continued through our respective medical and legal training and our careers outside of the home. A fuller understanding and application of the priesthood power has required both of us to work together inside our home."
Understanding the doctrine of the priesthood and the principles that govern its use is a pursuit worth of any member of the Church, but one that should be of special concern to those who hold or are preparing to hold the Melchizedek Priesthood. This careful explanation offers a perfect way to enhance your knowledge and appreciation of priesthood power and how to use it.
About Authors: Dale G. Renlund was sustained as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on October 3, 2015, after having served as a General Authority Seventy since April 2009. He receive B.A. and M.D. degrees from the University of Utah and went on to receive further medical and research training at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Before entering full-time Church service, he was a professor of medicine at the University of Utah and specialized in heart failure and heart transplantation. He is the author of more than 200 scientific articles in his field of medicine.
Ruth Lybbert Renlund received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Utah and taught high school for three years. She then earned her J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law while her husband was a medical resident and cardiology fellow. During this busy time, her husband also served as a bishop. She practiced at the Utah attorney general's office for three years and then became a highly successful plaintiff civil litigation attorney for twenty years. She also served in various community and law-related committees and boards. She and Elder Renlund are the parents of one daughter.
Pages: 208
Deseret Book
