by kdm | Jul 2, 2019 | Today's Post
Under a chapter heading ‘Making and Begetting,’ C.S. Lewis wrote in his book ‘Mere Christianity’: “Everyone has warned me not to tell you what I am going to tell you in this last book. They all say “the ordinary reader does not want...
by kdm | Jul 1, 2019 | Today's Post
In April 2006, Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in general conference: “The Prophet Joseph Smith taught: “You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost....
by kdm | Jun 25, 2019 | Today's Post
In the Saturday afternoon session of April 2019 general conference, Elder David P. Homer of the Seventy shared: “Many years ago, I traveled on a small plane with a newly certified pilot at the controls. At the end of our flight, we were cleared to land. But as...
by kdm | Jun 24, 2019 | Today's Post
From Mother Theresa’s book, ‘A Simple Path’: “Shishu Bhavan, our children’s home in Calcutta, is made up of a number of tall buildings behind a wall on a busy main road. At the entrance are the day clinics, where the poor can bring their...
by kdm | Jun 23, 2019 | Today's Post
Elder Russell M. Nelson, as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said, “Eve and her husband heeded divine commandments of obedience and sacrifice. They received “commandments that they should worship the Lord their God, and should offer. . . an...
by kdm | Jun 22, 2019 | Today's Post
Elder Marvin J. Ashton, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (deceased) said in October Conference 1981: “Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.” (John 21:16.) You can’t feed them if you don’t know where they are. You can’t feed them if you give them reason to resist you....
by kdm | Jun 21, 2019 | Today's Post
Louis Zamperini, from his book “Don’t Give Up, Don’t Give In,” wrote a chapter on ‘Free Advice’: When I get on an airplane, before I sit down, I look around for the exit doors. When the flight attendant does the safety...
by kdm | Jun 20, 2019 | Today's Post
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in April Conference 2009: . . . . “Now I speak very carefully, even reverently, of what may have been the most difficult moment in all of this solitary journey to Atonement. I speak of those...
by kdm | Jun 19, 2019 | Today's Post
In the book ‘Memorable Stories and Parables by Boyd K. Packer”, he wrote: “Many years ago my parents lived in a very modest home in the northern end of the state of Utah. One morning, my mother answered a knock at the door and was confronted by a...
by kdm | Jun 18, 2019 | Today's Post
Elder Henry B. Eyring of the First Presidency spoke on ‘The Power of Sustaining Faith’ in the Priesthood session of conference, April 2019: He said, “. . . . The fact that you are in mortality now assures us that you sustained the Father and the...