Ensign

April 2000

Volume 30 Number 4

Contents

• The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Jesus the Christ: Our Master and More

  Elder Russell M. Nelson

• “Remember How Merciful the Lord Hath Been”

  W. Jeffrey Marsh

• I Needed Him That Very Hour

  Don Roundy

• My House Is on Fire!

  Judy Smith

• The Truth of Consequences

  Carol McAdoo Rehme

• Two Faiths, One Purpose

  Beverly A. Qualheim

• We Hope They Call Us on a Mission

• Winning the Pinewood Derby

  Randy Clawson

• Living the Law of Sacrifice

  Elder Monte J. Brough

• Providing the Blessing of Employment

  Neil K. Newell

• More Than a Manicure

  Beth Duering

• Family History Together

• I Have a Question
  Helping children get the most out of Primary Achievement Days

  Johnette Fowler

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • I Knew My Baby Would Be OK

    Kathleen Ann Denhof

  • My Spiritual Journal

    Janet Schiller

  • “Haven’t We Forgotten to Thank Someone?”

    Melvin Leon Jeppson

  • Slow but Sure

    Santiago Márquez Pérez

  • Praying My Way to Church

    Reginald Wannamaker

• Random Sampler

• The Visiting Teacher: Feasting upon the Words of Christ

• Portraits

• News of the Church

On the covers: Front and back: Beside Still Waters, by Simon Dewey, acrylic on canvas, 30″ x 45″, 1999. Courtesy of Altus Fine Art.

Inside front: Sacred Grove, by Frank Magleby, oil on gesso panel, 36″ x 48″, 1995. Located near Palmyra, New York, in Manchester Township, the Sacred Grove is part of the forested area that covered the 100-acre Joseph Smith Sr. farm. There the 14-year-old Joseph went to pray: “After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God” (JS—H 1:15).

Inside back: Christ Changing Water to Wine, by Robert T. Barrett, oil on board, 12″ x 12″, 1997. At a wedding festivity in Cana of Galilee, Mary saw the need for more wine and turned to Jesus for help. He respectfully replied, “Woman, what wilt thou have me to do for thee? that will I do; for mine hour is not yet come” (JST, John 2:4, footnote a). The Lord then turned water into wine.