SKU: 808453 Scripture Power

Hank Smith

Description

Hank Smith is on a mission to help youth and their families get more out of their scripture study. Too often, Hank Smith says,people think they can get by without daily scripture study if they just read once a week for a really long time. That would be like brushing your teeth with seven times the amount of toothpaste on Sunday! It just doesnt work out too well. In Scripture Power, Hank compares scripture study to gold mining. He says that miners look for veins of gold in the rockand then they follow the veins. In the scriptures, the stories are the rock and the principles we extract from them are the gold. He teaches the concept ofRead it,Find it, andUse it to help listeners find the gold and apply the life,saving principles mined in their scripture study. With entertaining stories, examples from the scriptures, and inspiring quotes from Church leaders, Hank drives home his points in a powerful way. He closes with this testimony of the Savior:My hope is that you will read about Him in the Book of Mormon, that you will find Him and a relationship with Him in that book, and that you will use His Atonementthe gift He has given usbecause of what you read and find in the Book of Mormon.

About the Author

Hank R. Smith grew up in St. George, Utah. He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Dixie State University (2002), his MBA (2005) from Utah State University, and his PhD in educational leadership (2014) from Brigham Young University. His studies focused on the development of high trust educational organizations and their impact on student achievement. Before joining the religion faculty at BYU, he worked for fourteen years with Seminaries and Institutes of Religion as an instructor. He loves to teach from the scriptures, especially to the youth and young adults of the Church. He also enjoys consulting work with school districts and corporations centered on creating a high trust culture. He has addressed audiences in almost every state through seminars and keynote speaking engagements. His outside interests include marathons, history books, and hiking with his family. He and his incredible wife, Sara, are the parents of five children and reside in Mapleton, Utah.