* The Friend . . . Jesus Christ

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...

Worthiness is Not Flawlessness

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...

* “Telling” the Truth

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...

With the Power of God in Great Glory (1 Nephi 14:14)

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...

Could I Set My Sights Higher?

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’...

The Divine Embrace

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...

* Belief in an Age of Skepticism II

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...

Daily Restoration

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...

Is There No Balm in Gilead?

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...

* Belief in an Age of Skepticism

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...

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