by kdm | Sep 14, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan
From Leo Tolstoy and his book “The Kingdom of God is Within You” Continuing from (a previous post, The Kingdom is Within You III “If we take no thought for the morrow, what we shall eat and what we shall drink or wherewithal we shall be clothed, do...
by kdm | Sep 7, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
What follows is the introduction to “He Will Give You Rest”, by Richard Neitzel Holzapfel and Gaye Strathern:. “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden,” and his marvelous promise, “I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28)...
by kdm | Aug 27, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from Leo Tolstoy and his book “The Kingdom of God is within you. . . . . The Christian religion seems to exclude the possibility of life only when we mistake the pointing to an ideal as the laying down of a rule. It is only then that the principles...
by kdm | Aug 21, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Bruce C. & Marie K. Hafen and their book “Faith is Not Blind”. . . . . . . Before popular web sites took charge of both our research and our reasoning, most educated people knew that scholars often quibble over nuanced issues in old events. They...
by kdm | Aug 16, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, spiritually strong, The Plan
Continuing a previous post and the book of the above title by Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You (Barnes & Noble, Inc. 122 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10011) The savage recognizes life only in self and personal desires. Interest in life is...
by kdm | Aug 10, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Preamble by kdm. . . I’ll be honest, as I started into what follows, I immediately became aware of the writing style in the era under which author Leo Tolstoy wrote what’s below (1893). It was different from what we are used to today. . . . to the point of...
by kdm | Aug 10, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
After eighteen hundred years of education in Christianity the civilized world, as represented by its most advanced thinkers, holds the conviction that Christian religion is a religion of dogmas; that its teaching in relation to life is unreasonable, and is an...
by kdm | Aug 3, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, Today's Post
Ministering Like a Prophet III, (continuing from Ministering Like a Prophet II) We are usually very good about showing the appropriate social concerns for someone during the time of their passing. We may even send them flowers, pat ourselves on the back, and think we...
by kdm | Aug 1, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Teaching from his book “For Times of Trouble”, Jeffrey R. Holland quotes from Psalms 57:7; 26:1-2,11 Judge me, O Lord, for I have walked in mine integrity. . . . Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. . . . I will walk in mine...
by kdm | Jul 27, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Email 1: What Most People Miss About Religion Subject: What Most People Miss About Religion—and Why It Still Matters, From kdm. . . .I’ll be honest: as I started into what follows, I quickly realized the writing style from Leo Tolstoy’s time—when The Kingdom of...