by kdm | Jul 13, 2021 | Today's Post
From Kent. . . I have used an asterisk here. See conclusion. From Terryl and Fiona Givens book ‘The Crucible of Doubt:’ Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints describe priesthood as the authority to act in God’s name. But they...
by kdm | Jul 12, 2021 | Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post, Religion and the Gospel—teachings of Timothy Keller with insights from the writings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde “I resolved in my future conduct to redeem the past;...
by kdm | Jul 11, 2021 | Today's Post
President M. Russell Ballard, Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said in April 2021 general conference: Brothers and sisters, at this Easter time we focus on the glorious Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We remember His loving...
by kdm | Jul 9, 2021 | Today's Post
Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in April 2021 general conference: . . . . my father and I visited the great cathedral at Chartres (France). . . . .Like Adam and Eve, we come into a world of thorns and thistles.3On our dusty roads to...
by kdm | Jul 8, 2021 | Today's Post
Following a theme of June 5, 2021, * What Can Put it Right? by Timothy Keller (from his book ‘The Reason for God): At the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most dreadful shuddering . . . I looked down . . ....
by kdm | Jul 7, 2021 | Today's Post
Elder Edward Dube of the Seventy said in April 2021 general conference: It is not so much about what we are going through in life but what we are becoming. As I read the book of Acts and Paul’s epistles, I am amazed at how Paul was driven by love and gratitude in...
by kdm | Jul 1, 2021 | Today's Post
(Beginning today until mid next week, we are on a family vacation. There will be no posts until I return.) This post is long and illustrates ‘the whys’ of making good decisions, sweetening the future, or at very least avoiding a trend that leads to...
by kdm | Jun 30, 2021 | Today's Post
In April 2021 general conference Jan E. Newman, Second Counselor in the Sunday School General Presidency said: Exceptional Teachers A few months ago, a former classmate from my hometown of Overton, Nevada, suggested we put together a Christmas gift for our beloved...
by kdm | Jun 29, 2021 | Today's Post
Continuing from Jerry Sittser’s book ‘the Will of God as a Way of Life,’ Making Life an Art : A.W. Tozer, a twentieth-century pastor, preacher, and spiritual writer, supports this view of work. He wrote that if one’s motive is right, what a...
by kdm | Jun 28, 2021 | Today's Post
From Jerry Sittser and his book “the Will of God as a Way of Life: To make life itself an art—that is the goal of living in the present moment. We do not have to join an Amish community to live this way. Most of us are too entangled in the modern world to...