I Shall Send Means for Your Deliverance (Paperback or Softback)

The third volume in a series on the Kirtland-era revelations, this book contextualizes the sections of the Doctrine and Covenants received while Joseph and Emma Smith lived in the Whitney Store and their nearby Kirtland home. Authors Damon Bahr and Thomas Aardema weave together historical accounts, firsthand journals, and scripture to illuminate revelations on priesthood, the Word of Wisdom, the redemption of Zion, temple building, the missions to Canada and England, and more. Perfect for a Latter-day Saint studying the Doctrine and Covenants who wants the historical and geographical backstory behind the Kirtland-era revelations.

Thomas P. Aardema is a Regional Director of Seminaries and Institutes with his office near the Historic Johnson Home in Hiram, Ohio. He has taught seminary and institute for more than twenty years and has lived and taught in the Kirtland area for more than ten years.

He received a BA in History from Weber State University, an MBA from the University of Utah, and a PhD in Education from Utah State University. He and his wife, Emilee, are the parents of five sons.

He loves Church history and feels blessed to live, teach, and serve near sacred Church sites.

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Damon L. Bahr is a retired faculty member of Brigham Young University, where he taught Doctrine and Covenants, Book of Mormon, and mathematics education courses. He also taught Book of Mormon at the Orem Institute. He teaches courses on the Kirtland era of the Church at Education Week and provides tours of Church historic sites.

He is the author of twenty-five journal articles and five books on Kirtland Church history. He served a mission at the historic sites in Kirtland and Hiram, Ohio, along with his wife of forty-four years, Kim, and they also served a Seminaries and Institutes mission in North Carolina. In addition, they were invited by Community of Christ to conduct tours of the Kirtland Temple several times prior to the temple's acquisition by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

They are the parents of four children and eighteen grandchildren. He has served as a full-time missionary three times, a Primary and Sunday School teacher, a bishop, a high councilor, a ward mission leader, a stake president, a member of two MTC branch presidencies, and a service missionary teaching institute in the BYU Pathway program.

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