by kdm | Jan 12, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Family, Learning?, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post, T.H. Bell writes: *Keys to Attaining Excellence, There are certain universal laws that surround all of us in our lives. If we break those laws, we must pay a price. When we meet the terms of the laws of the universe, we find the joy of...
by kdm | Jan 11, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Nurture, spiritually strong, Temple, The Plan, Today's Post
From Dallin H. Oaks and his book, “With Full Purpose of Heart”: . . . . Many years ago a young Latter-day Saint enrolled at a Midwestern university and applied for a scholarship available only to Christians. Both the applicant and the university officials...
by kdm | Jan 10, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From T. H. Bell: Keys to Attaining Excellence in Our Lives: In the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, this prestigious body defined excellence as “performing at the outer limits of one’s capacity.” We should find little...
by kdm | Jan 9, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book, “The Power of Stillness” (multiple authors—Jacob Z. Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D. Mansfield, Ty R. Mansfield: It’s really hard, dare we say impossible, to have life experiences go through us and not have them affect how we see...
by kdm | Jan 8, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Elder David A. Bednar and his book “One by One”: . . . . I suspect some individuals may be thinking to themselves at this point—surely the President of the Church, General Authorities, and General Relief Society President. and people called to...
by kdm | Jan 7, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Christ Ministry, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “He Will Give You Rest. . . (from Chapter 1:) Invitation and a Promise: One scholar observes that Matthew 11:25-30 records “perhaps one or the most important verses in the Synoptic Gospels,”1 More specifically, Elder James E. Talmage...
by kdm | Jan 6, 2025 | #character, #discipline, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Jeffrey R. Holland and his book “For Times of Trouble”: Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offering of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me thy judgments. Sometimes we are forced to say the right things, as if righteousness could be coerced. In a court,...
by kdm | Jan 5, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “The Man and the Message”,: These are doctrinal insights from multiple Latter-day Saint theologians and authors: . . . . C. S. Lewis is a thinking man’s theologian, a writer whose views are crisp and sharp and challenging; his...
by kdm | Jan 4, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (deceased) wrote: In recent years, running has become popular throughout the world. Many run primarily for exercise. But others run to condition themselves for well publicized grades of various distances....
by kdm | Jan 2, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Christ Ministry, Learning?, Today's Post
From Timothy Keller’s book “The Reason for God”: C. S. Lewis was a world-class literary critic. When reading the gospels, he noted: “I have been reading poems, romances, vision literature, legends and myths all my life. I know what they are...