* Selfishness and Permissiveness

Neal A. Maxwell wrote: “Whenever selfishness flexes, it victimizes. It bullies empathy and generosity, just as when pride pulsates, pushing away graciousness and meekness. The more we move away from submission to God, the more submissive we become, instead, to...

‘Waiting on the Lord’

(To listen to or watch this complete ‘landmark’ talk, skip to the link at the end of this post.) Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, near the end of the last session of October 2020 general conference said: “My beloved brothers and sisters, we are all eager—no...

* if Christianity is True. . .

C.S. Lewis wrote: . . . . We are now getting to the point at which different beliefs about the universe lead to different behaviour. And it would seem, at first sight, very sensible to stop before we got there, and just carry on with those parts of morality that all...

‘A New Normal’

President Russell M. Nelson, our Prophet, said in his concluding remarks of October 2020 general conference: “We live in a glorious age, foreseen by prophets for centuries. This is the dispensation when no spiritual blessing will be withheld from the...

* Healing the World

From the book, “The Reason For God,” Timothy Keller wrote: I don’t want to be too hard on people who struggle with the idea of God’s intervention in the natural order. Miracles are hard to believe in and they should be. In Matthew 28 we are...

“This is where the light is. . . “

From his book, ‘Following Christ’ Stephen E. Robinson wrote: “I once asked a close friend why she had left the church as a teenager to return only after many years, and I discovered that she had been deceived by a spiritual sadist. “I remember...

* Quiet Time. . .

From the book ‘The Power of Stillness:’ It’s common for people contemplating the unique aspects of Jesus’s life to presume they arose largely because, “well, He was the Son of God. While true, does that adequately explain everything? We...

* Eyes to See

By Michelle D. Craig, First Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency Seeing God’s Hand I love the Old Testament story of a young man who served the prophet Elisha. Early one morning the young man woke up, went outside, and found the city surrounded by a great...

What does it mean to be faithful?

Stephen E. Robinson said in his book “Following Christ:” A common error made by some members of the Church is to equate the faithfulness that is part of enduring to the end with being sinless. Every time we commit a sin, they would argue, we are unfaithful...

* Don’t heed greed.

From Max Lucado’s book “Cure for the Common Life.” Greed makes a poor job counselor. She tells fig trees to bear no figs, olive trees to bear no oil, vines to bear no grapes. Don’t consult her. “Don’t be obsessed with getting more...

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