Ensign

April 1982

Volume 12 Number 4

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “God So Loved the World”
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• “I Know That My Redeemer Lives”
  Elder Thomas S. Monson

• Discovering God’s Love
  Maureen Derrick Keeler

• Family Easter Traditions
  Ann H. Banks

• Teaching Teens Self-Discipline
  Ron and Sherri Zirker

• Reducing Stress: Welcome Thoughts for the Over-Involved
  Eric Stephan

• Mario Aranda: Caring for the Individual
  Berniece Rabe

• “We Will Go”: The Robertson Response
  Muriel Jenkins Heal

• Sharing the Gospel with Friends: A Group Approach
  Robert L. Hamblin

• Unexpected Harvest
  Gladys C. Farmer

• How the Bible Came to Be: Part 4, The Canon Becomes an Unread Relic
  Lenet H. Read

• Five Empires of the Ancient Near East: A Historical Backdrop of 1 Kings to Matthew
  John A. Tvedtnes

• The Confederate Officer and “That Mormon Girl”: A Nineteenth-Century Romance
  William G. Hartley

• When Your Wife Has a Church Calling …
  Gerald R. Schiefer

• Saved by Blackberries
  Marty Smith

• Laura’s Advocate
  Sarah E. Hinze

• The Microfilm Mission of Archibald F. Bennett
  Kahlile Mehr

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  Continuity Florence Boutwell
  There Comes a Time Donnell Hunter
  Unnamed Disciple Margaret Green

• I Have a Question
  Robert C. Patch
  Ruth Gardner

• Sharing

• Random Sampler

• Mirthright: Enduring to the End (of the Row)
  Jean A. Moultrie

• News of the Church

On the cover: The Resurrected Christ in Galilee, by Gary Smith, 27″ by 36″, oil on canvas, 1982.

Inside front cover: The Resurrected Lord Prays with Nephites at Bountiful, by Ted Henninger, 24″ by 36″, oil on canvas, 1980. Located in the Church Historical Department.

Inside back cover: Pioneers Entering Cache Valley, 1856, by Everett Thorpe, 82″ by 40″, oil on canvas 1952. Located in the Church Historical Department.