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The Order of God

A trilogy on the sequence God's covenants keep — obedience before understanding, sacrifice before explanation, the Spirit after the offering: what Cain got wrong, what the fire actually does, the rock the Lord builds on, and what makes a place holy.

3 essays

  1. 1The Order of GodObedience before understanding, sacrifice before explanation, the Spirit after the offering — why God's commandments come in a sequence, what Cain did to the sequence, why trust in God must outrank trust in every man, and how the house of the Lord still teaches the whole order in the same three opening movements it taught our first parents
  2. 2Upon This RockThe follow-up to The Order of God — what the fire actually does: the rock the Lord builds on, the gates that cannot prevail against it, Nephi's psalm with its astonishing because-clause, the Book of Mormon as another testament of the Holy Ghost, and the same book read as what it quietly is — an instruction manual for receiving the Spirit and being carried away in it
  3. 3From Footstool to ThroneA supplemental to the trilogy — the question underneath Stand Ye in Holy Places: what makes a place holy, and what is the standing soul doing there? The answer is the first commandment ever given after Eden: worship — the whole-souled love of God that invites the presence that constitutes holiness — and the astonishing destiny it is building: an earth the scriptures call his footstool, being converted, one dedicated place at a time, into his throne.