by kdm | Feb 18, 2021 | Today's Post
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in October 2020 general conference: “. . . . tests in the school of mortality are a vital element of our eternal progression. Interestingly, however, the word test is not found even one time in the...
by kdm | Feb 17, 2021 | Today's Post
From Timothy Keller’s book ‘The Reason for God,’ He asks the above question: In Is There a God? Oxford philosopher Richard Swinburne argues powerfully that belief in God can be tested and justified (but not proven). . .[xii] The view that there is a...
by kdm | Feb 16, 2021 | Today's Post
Continuing from Neal A. Maxwell’s “Things as They Really Are:” The living Church can, to a great extent, provide us with growth experiences we would not otherwise have through added friendships. It is true, for instance, that the Latter-day Saint has...
by kdm | Feb 15, 2021 | Today's Post
Neal A. Maxwell wrote: People who despise plainness are apt to despise the prophet because prophets speak plainly. People can become absorbed in sophisticated and complex things just so long before they become blind to simple things. People who are looking beyond the...
by kdm | Feb 14, 2021 | Today's Post
Tad R. Callister wrote: Elder Marion G. Romney [taught]: “Jesus then went into the Garden of Gethsemane. There he suffered most. He suffered greatly on the cross, of course, but other men had died by crucifixion. . . . But no man, nor set of men, nor all men put...
by kdm | Feb 13, 2021 | Today's Post
Wow! I have spent too much time on this. It is what it is. . . Stopping as a Radical Act To start, we might ironically first need to stop. But immersed in nonstop news and entertainment, many find it a lost art to be able to pause and deeply rest. Have you noticed how...
by kdm | Feb 12, 2021 | Today's Post
President Bonnie H. Cordon, Young Women General President, said: “. . . . Some of you may be thinking, “I have prayed, but the Lord doesn’t answer.” I too have questions and concerns that I repeatedly bring to God. At some point we will have to...
by kdm | Feb 11, 2021 | Today's Post
Bishop W. Christopher Waddell, First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric said in October 2020 conference: “. . . . Today we are blessed to be led by prophets who understand the need for us to prepare against the calamities “which should come”[iv] and who also...
by kdm | Feb 10, 2021 | Today's Post
“When a load of bricks dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied onto a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least,...
by kdm | Feb 9, 2021 | Today's Post
Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in October 2020 general conference: Blessings Come from Hardship Every dispensation has faced its times of trial and hardship. Enoch and his people lived in a time of wickedness, wars, and bloodshed....