* a countercultural look

Wow! I have spent too much time on this. It is what it is. . . Stopping as a Radical Act To start, we might ironically first need to stop. But immersed in nonstop news and entertainment, many find it a lost art to be able to pause and deeply rest. Have you noticed how...

Our Guide, Solace, and Stay

President Bonnie H. Cordon, Young Women General President, said: “. . . . Some of you may be thinking, “I have prayed, but the Lord doesn’t answer.” I too have questions and concerns that I repeatedly bring to God. At some point we will have to...

There Was Bread

Bishop W. Christopher Waddell, First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric said in October 2020 conference: “. . . . Today we are blessed to be led by prophets who understand the need for us to prepare against the calamities “which should come”[iv] and who also...

*not until then. . . . and the words of eternal life

“When a load of bricks dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied onto a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least,...

God Will Do Something Unimaginable

Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in October 2020 general conference: Blessings Come from Hardship Every dispensation has faced its times of trial and hardship. Enoch and his people lived in a time of wickedness, wars, and bloodshed....

* When to Say It—and When to be Silent

Richard L. Evans wrote: “As was observed many centuries ago: There is “a time to every purpose . . .”(Ecclesiastes 3:1) And there are times when some things should be said, and times to keep silent. There are many times when we are tempted to make...

The Miracle of Change

Robert L. Millet wrote: “What mortal can snatch pride and selfishness, lust and lewdness from a natural man and create a clean heart in its place? Indeed no man but the Man of Holiness and the Son of Man can do such things; these are works and wonders beyond the...

* how weak the case. . .

From Timothy Keller’s book “The Reason for God:” Anne Rice was one person who was startled to discover how weak the case for a merely human “historical Jesus” really is. Rice became famous as the author of Interview with the Vampire and...

Part II, from writings of Stephen E. Robinson

Stephen E. Robinson, Following Christ: From yesterday’s post. . . “If we have too much of the wrong kind of contact, our emotions can create new kinds of attachments or dissolve old ones when we didn’t intend for that to happen. Our emotions are a...

Fallen intellect can’t get things right. . .

From the book ‘Following Christ’, Stephen E. Robinson wrote: “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. . . . For the wisdom of...

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