by kdm | Feb 13, 2022 | Today's Post
Melvin J. Ballard wrote: After the fall of Adam . . . there [was] no way nor means by which man could be raised from the grave except through the death of the Divine One. A great and eternal law had been violated, and it required the death of a God, really, to...
by kdm | Feb 12, 2022 | Today's Post
Bradley R. Wilcox of the Young Men General Presidency said in October 2021 general conference: When you feel like you have failed too many times to keep trying, remember Christ’s Atonement and the grace it makes possible are real. I once sent a message to my daughter...
by kdm | Feb 11, 2022 | Today's Post
Richard L. Evans wrote: We recall once more the mathematical maxim that “a straight line is the shortest distance between two points.” In a day when so many people find themselves paying a price for forgetting it, this rule of life would well be...
by kdm | Feb 10, 2022 | Today's Post
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in October 2021 general conference: Continuing his instruction to Joseph, Moroni next quoted from the book of Malachi in the Old Testament, with a little variation in the language used in the King James...
by kdm | Feb 8, 2022 | Today's Post
I was in a men’s combined class Sunday in a discussion, the theme of which I had heard many times before… and agreed with. Then I realized that the idea discussed, developing * line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little’...
by kdm | Feb 6, 2022 | Today's Post
Hugh Nibley wrote: People are usually surprised to learn that atonement, an accepted theological term is neither from a Greek nor a Latin word, but is good old English and really does mean, when we write it out at-one-ment denoting both a state of being “at...
by kdm | Feb 5, 2022 | Today's Post
Continued from a previous post * Belief in and Age of Skepticism, from Timothy Keller’s book ‘The Reason For God’. . . Lewis realized that the common objections to God are based on a sense of fair play and justice. People, we believe, ought not to...
by kdm | Feb 4, 2022 | Today's Post
Elder Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke in October 2021 general conference and said: . . . . “Sometimes this falling away takes generations. Sometimes it happens in a matter of years or even months.8 But we are all susceptible. No matter how...
by kdm | Feb 3, 2022 | Today's Post
Elder Brent H. Nielson of the Presidency of the Seventy said in October 2021 general conference: . . . .We had a beautiful funeral that honored the life of my father. As time passed, however, and we experienced the pain of my father’s absence, I began to wonder why my...
by kdm | Feb 3, 2022 | Today's Post
Timothy Keller, author of ‘The Reason for God’ wrote: . . . . I knew a man in my first parish who had lost most of his eyesight after he was shot in the face during a drug deal gone bad. He told me he had been an extremely selfish and cruel person, but he...