Enjoy the Journey!
Bringing the Inspiring Story of
Joseph Smith to Everyone!
Enjoy the Journey!
Bringing the Inspiring Story of
Joseph Smith to Everyone!
What We're About
Who I Am
Why Joseph Smith?
Our Goals
I am a believer.
My wife and I joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints together. I joined on my testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Since joining, I have spent an enormous amount of time studying the life of the Prophet which has only strengthen my belief that he was everything he claimed to be, and saw everything he c
I am a believer.
My wife and I joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints together. I joined on my testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Since joining, I have spent an enormous amount of time studying the life of the Prophet which has only strengthen my belief that he was everything he claimed to be, and saw everything he claimed to have seen. I also believe that Jesus Christ did not qualify his promise when he stated, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”[1]. In other words, no matter what you believe today, if you seek to find reasons to believe, you will find them; contrariwise, if you seek to find reasons to not believe, you will find those as well.
For me and my wife it simply boils down to this: in living the precepts of the Gospel as revealed through Joseph Smith, our lives are infinitely better and happier than they were before we joined the church. We choose to believe and as we seek to draw our souls nearer to the Lord, we seek and find more and more reasons to continue to believe.
I feel my Savior’s love everyday and I am grateful to Joseph Smith for suffering through all of his afflictions so that I could come to experience the joy of knowing Jesus Christ through His restored gospel.
[1] Matthew 7:7,8; KJV
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Our Goals
Why Joseph Smith?
Our Goals
To bring the inspiring story of Joseph Smith and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ to as many souls as possible through the vehicle of a new musical experience.
But why embark on such an endeavor?
Because words make you think, music makes you feel, but a song makes you feel thoughts. That space between the notes and the word
To bring the inspiring story of Joseph Smith and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ to as many souls as possible through the vehicle of a new musical experience.
But why embark on such an endeavor?
Because words make you think, music makes you feel, but a song makes you feel thoughts. That space between the notes and the words allows us to feel the meaning of those words on a deeper level, facilitating a connection that cannot be made by either one independently. Words alone can be beautiful, but music delivers those words directly to the soul.
So, while the many testimonies of the divine mission of the Prophet Joseph Smith are beautiful, I feel compelled to present his story in an ambitious new musical to deliver the promise of the restoration to many people as are willing to sit and listen with an open and honest heart.
Writing and producing the songs has been an emotional and sublime spiritual experience for me. I hope it will touch the hearts of many people and help them discover the truthfulness of the restoration in the process.
Victor Hugo said, “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent.”
I cannot remain silent.
So the next step is to publish a concept album of the work and acquire funding for a stage production.
Stay tuned!
Why Joseph Smith?
Why Joseph Smith?
Why Joseph Smith?
Born in 1805, Joseph Smith, Jr. is clearly the most controversial religious figure to have ever graced the American stage. Claiming to have been visited by God the Eternal Father and his son, Jesus Christ, when he was just 14 years old, Joseph’s contemporaries fell squarely and passionately into one of only two camps: Joseph Smith was a p
Born in 1805, Joseph Smith, Jr. is clearly the most controversial religious figure to have ever graced the American stage. Claiming to have been visited by God the Eternal Father and his son, Jesus Christ, when he was just 14 years old, Joseph’s contemporaries fell squarely and passionately into one of only two camps: Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and the mouthpiece of the Lord – or he was a dangerous charlatan who needed to be locked in prison or, better yet, killed. When it came to Joseph Smith, there were no fence-sitters. In the end, the latter camp eventually succeeded in effectuating his murdered. Joseph Smith was killed for his testimony of Jesus Christ when he was just 38 years old.
Nevertheless, in those intervening 24 years between his first vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ and his martyrdom, Joseph was able to establish the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He restored many doctrines to the faith, many of them controversial to mainstream Christian believers, such as: Christ’s “Plan of Salvation” which is so merciful that it provides salvation even to those who are non-believers; the belief in Heavenly Parents, both a Heavenly Mother and a Heavenly Father; and the doctrine of eternal progression. Today, the Book of Mormon is published in 115 languages and, in 2021, the church Joseph established provided nearly one billion dollars in humanitarian aid to projects in over 180 countries.
In his lifetime, Joseph was continually persecuted for his beliefs and teachings. He was tarred and feathered, repeatedly beaten, illegally thrown into a dungeon for five months, had all his personal possessions stolen by mobs (more than once) and saw one of his children die after he was attacked in his own home one winter night. By the time Joseph himself was killed, he had already outlived six of his nine children. One can only imagine the pain and suffering his wife, Emma, endured as well.
Joseph led an epic life. Poor and barely educated, the odds against Joseph doing anything worth remembering were substantial. Yet, from the time he was 14 years old, hardly a day passed that something remarkable did not happen. His journey is one worth remembering and is one that is eminently applicable to our day.
This is why we work to tell his story.
I love Joseph Smith!
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