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Richard L. Evans wrote: In days of deepening disappointment we react in many ways, depending upon our teaching and temperament, upon our outlook and understanding, and upon the faith and foundations on which our feet are fixed. To sudden and shocking news, depression...“My Yoke is Easy II”
Continuing from a previous post ‘My Yoke is Easy’: Some people reject the idea of grace because it seems too easy. They want being saved to be harder than it is. There is a certain comfort in saying, “Salvation is so hard that I just couldn’t...Modern Liahonas II
Continuing from ‘Modern Liahonas,’ quoting form “All Things New” by Fiona and Terryl Givens: We do have at least one revealed litmus test for truth; it comes from the greatest of Joseph Smith’s revelations, Moses 7. There we encounter the...* God’s Mercy
Neal A. Maxwell wrote: The Mercy of God is so personalized. Aaron’s behavior in the golden calf episode was not his finest hour, yet later a priesthood was named after him (Exodus 32:1-6, 21, 24, 26). There are so many ways in which God demonstrates His...Spiritual Estrangement
From the book ‘The Gift of the Atonement’, Brent L.Top writes of the Atonement: President Harold B. Lee once stated, “The heaviest burden that anyone can carry is the burden of sin.” Each of us has borne and continues to bear that to some...My Yoke is Easy
From Stephen E. Robinson (deceased), his book ‘Believing Christ’: Those who plan to enter the Kingdom of God on their own merits do not understand how perfection comes or where the credit of it must go. They glory in their own efforts and attribute...Modern Liahonas
Quoting form “All Things New” by Fiona and Terryl Givens: It is an observable fact that we are not, in general, approaching scriptural reading in the light of core Restoration teachings that advise us to be cautious in our assumptions about scriptural...The Creation of This World
From the book ‘The Essential Nibley’, Dr. Hugh Nibley wrote: The official definition of creation accepted by conventional Christianity and Judaism and by their scientific opponents alike requires a creation that . . . must be (1) instantaneous and (2)...* Principle 5, A Much Bigger Plan II
(From a previous post. . .* Principle 5, A Much Bigger Plan ) The painful consequences of sin were purposely put in His plan by a compassionate Father in Heaven so that you need not follow that tragic path in life. A sinner will not only suffer in this life, but sins...
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