* The Screwtape Letters

Starting with the Forward, Walter Hooper, Coauthor with C. S. Lewis: The Authorized Biography wrote: The Screwtape Letters is such an established classic that it is difficult to envision a time when, like the sky, it wasn’t there. In fact the idea of the book...

Concern, Motivation, Sacrifice

From Brad Wilcox, his book ‘Changed Through His Grace’, Concern, Motivation, Sacrifice I know a woman who no longer considers herself LDS. She said, “I went to seminary, read my scriptures, kept the Word of Wisdom, and did everything else good little...

Spiritually Anchored in Unsettled Times II

Continuing from Bruce C. Hafen and his book ‘Spiritually Anchored in Unsettled Times’: I have also noticed a tendency among some Church members, especially younger ones, to see testimony and inspiration as primarily a good feeling. Feelings are especially...

Spiritually Anchored in Unsettled Times

From the book of the above title, author Bruce C. Hafen writes in his Introduction: This book begins by discussing a disciple’s journey, even though Anchored is the main word in the book’s title. How can we go anywhere when we are anchored? That sounds...

* How We Betray Ourselves

From the book “Bonds That Make Us Free”, C. Terry Warner taught: We are seeking to understand the source of our troubled, afflicted emotions and attitudes and the way they foul our relationships with others. Here is the clue: those times when we feel most...

* When Difficult Times Come. . .

From Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, quoting Psalm 77:10-12 I will remember the years or the right hand of the most High. I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of all thy doings.....

He Could Heal Me!

Elder Peter F. Meurs of the Seventy said in April 2023 general conference: . . . .  Jesus taught the Nephites about the importance of repentance, about becoming as a little child, and about the need to be baptized by one having His authority. He then taught much of...

A Voice of Gladness

In April 2023 general conference, during the Sunday morning, Elder Kevin R. Duncan of the Seventy taught: “. . . . Now, what do we hear in the gospel which we have received? A voice of gladness! A voice of mercy from heaven; and a voice of truth out of the earth; … a...

* Have I Truly Been Forgiven?

Have I Truly Been Forgiven? By Elder K. Brett Nattress Of the Seventy The promise of complete and perfect forgiveness is made to everyone—in and through the infinite Atonement of Jesus Christ. Several years ago, Sister Nattress and I moved to Idaho, where we opened a...

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