{"title":"McNiven Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks by Michael McNiven\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"atonement-the-organizing-principle","title":"OUR LORD OF WHOLENESS","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOUR LORD OF WHOLENESS - The Atonement of Jesus Christ, as \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e Organizing Principle.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6x9; B\/W; 402 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eI urge you to devote time each week—for the rest of your life—to increase your understanding of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.\u003c\/em\u003e\" (President Nelson Oct 2024)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Work of Our Lord Jesus Christ is an undertaking so vast\u003c\/b\u003e, so all-encompassing, that it transcends human comprehension. It is not merely a theological construct that we call the Atonement as an event in time. It also includes the foundational mechanism of eternal union and unity upon which all existence stands. His ministry of mercy includes the grand organizing principle that weaves together the physical, spiritual, and moral fabric of the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAt its most elemental core, the Lord’s atoning work is the supreme force that lifts all creation back into the eternal embrace of God. It is the universal counterforce to entropy, the force that binds together all things in heaven and on earth, transforming dust into glory and mortality into immortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWithout the Savior's work and sacrifice, the word \"Atonement\" has no real meaning. He is the centerpiece of all reality, radiating outwardly with love, justice, mercy, and divine majesty—eternal, unfathomable, and infinite. He indeed is mighty to save. Come unto Him, \u003cem\u003eOur Lord of Wholeness. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author has been a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, served a full-time mission, married in the temple, and graduated from Brigham Young University in Provo twice. He has also served as a bishop, a high priest group leader, an elders quorum president, on a Stake high council, and has fulfilled most of the other callings available at the ward and stake level for many decades. This book reflects some of his own journey of faith, questioning, repentance, doctrinal understanding, forgiveness, and reconciliation experienced over the last two decades. His most recent calling is in the nursery where he seeks to become more like a little child. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 105%;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 105%;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Digital Legend Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40659252183075,"sku":"7897","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40659252150307,"sku":"7896","price":29.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/9625\/0403\/files\/3D_Hard_cover_OLOW_08d3a82a-2e63-4e5f-9bd1-a6950a85d47a.png?v=1744083352"},{"product_id":"removing-unbelief","title":"Removing Unbelief","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRemoving Unbelief\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 90%; margin-top: 8.5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; font-weight: bold; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eUnderstanding and Applying the Personal Message \u003cbr\u003eof the Book of Mormon\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 90%; margin-top: 8.5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal; text-align: left;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy Michael McNiven\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eauthor of \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Lord of Wholeness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-US; line-height: 90%; margin-top: 8.5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe Book of Mormon was revealed at the very outset of the Restoration through the Prophet Joseph Smith by the gift and power of God. Delivered by an authorized messenger, it carries with it the divine promise of restored knowledge, authority, and covenant blessings—an urgent and personal summons to come unto Christ in our day.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-US; line-height: 90%; margin-top: 8.5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eWithin its pages, the Lord warns of a hidden danger: to “dwindle in unbelief.” This is not a sudden fall but a gradual descent—a quiet erosion of faith that occurs when we cling to partial truths, inherited traditions, or mistaken principles that obscure the fulness of His gospel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-US; line-height: 90%; margin-top: 8.5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe record warns against pride, a theme reaffirmed by President Ezra Taft Benson. Yet alongside this warning lies another equally vital call: to identify and cast-off unbelief. Only in doing so can we fully claim the blessings God has promised. Removing unbelief clears the way for revelation, strengthens our discipleship, and unlocks the fulness of Christ’s redeeming power in our lives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-US; line-height: 90%; margin-top: 8.5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eThe Book of Mormon is addressed to each of us personally—not to an institution or collective body, but to individuals living in the last days. Its prophets were not writing to a Church organization; they wrote for readers who would one day find and search its pages, seeking divine guidance for their own lives. The Book of Mormon is truly God’s gift to a fallen world, designed to lift us—individually and personally—from whatever spiritual state in which we find ourselves.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"language: en-US; line-height: 90%; margin-top: 8.5pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-indent: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; mso-line-break-override: none; word-break: normal; punctuation-wrap: hanging;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: +mn-ea; mso-bidi-font-family: +mn-cs; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: black; mso-color-index: 1; mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt; language: en-US; mso-style-textfill-type: solid; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: text1; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: black; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%;\"\u003eIt proclaims a sobering truth: the book will come forth in a time of widespread disbelief, in an age when the world, priding itself on sophistication, wages open war on faith and belief in unseen powers. 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