by kdm | Apr 8, 2019 | Today's Post
“There is a line from Lead Kindly Light (Hymn # 97) that moves us gently to a subject that is to all of us of some concern: “. . . And with the morn those angle faces smile; Which we have loved long since, and lost awhile!: “It is given to all of us,...
by kdm | Apr 6, 2019 | Today's Post
Good morning! This is conference weekend so there will be no normal posts until Monday. There are five sessions in which, as we put ourselves in the spirit, much ‘light’, spiritual food for the soul will be available to the prayerful, vulnerable and open...
by kdm | Apr 5, 2019 | Today's Post
Elder Boyd K. Packer, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (deceased), wrote: “If there is a typical response to our missionaries, it is: “I already have a church. One is just as good as another and it doesn’t matter really which one we...
by kdm | Apr 4, 2019 | Today's Post
The Moffat translation of Paul’s great epistle on charity (see Corinthians chapter 13) gives us useful and relevant renderings; “Love is never glad when others go wrong.” “Love makes no parade.” We too should learn how to give “a...
by kdm | Apr 3, 2019 | Today's Post
Brian K. Ashton, Second Counselor in the Sunday School General Presidency wrote on the… Three Lessons on Love, Joy, and Peace . . . .It is usually little things that bring the Spirit into our lives, keep us from being deceived, and ultimately help us obtain the...
by kdm | Apr 1, 2019 | Today's Post
“It is so easy for those of us who aspire to Christian discipleship to be driven by what others think, to allow our conversation and our conduct to be determined by less than noble motives. It is so simple to be drawn into duplicity, to become obsessed with...
by kdm | Apr 1, 2019 | Today's Post
“Will ye also go away?” After quoting John 6:68–69, Elder M. Russell Ballard taught: “For some, Christ’s invitation to believe and remain continues to be hard—or difficult to accept. Some disciples struggle to understand a specific Church policy or teaching. Others...
by kdm | Mar 31, 2019 | Today's Post
Elder Russell M. Nelson said: “Do you realize that we have received more pages of scripture through the Prophet Joseph Smith than we have from any other prophet? As a result we understand eternal truths that would otherwise still be obscure or unknown. . ....
by kdm | Mar 30, 2019 | Today's Post
Russell M. Nelson said: “Prophets see ahead. They see the harrowing dangers the adversary has placed or will yet place in our path. Prophets also forsee the grand possibilities and privileges awaiting those who listen with the intent to obey. I know this is...
by kdm | Mar 29, 2019 | Today's Post
Elder Robert C. Gay of the Presidency of the Seventy said in October 2018 General Conference: My fellow brothers and sisters, recently, as I was pondering President Russell M. Nelson’s charge to call the Church by its revealed name, I turned to where the Savior...