by kdm | Oct 9, 2023 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Oct 8, 2023 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Oct 8, 2023 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Oct 8, 2023 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Oct 4, 2023 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Oct 3, 2023 | #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Brad Wilcox from his book ‘Changed Through His Grace’ taught: . . . . . the Holy Ghost was like someone tapping on his shoulder. To me, the Spirit’s direction is like following a spiritual traffic light. When I speak to youth, I teach them that after...
by kdm | Oct 2, 2023 | Today's Post
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.....
by kdm | Sep 29, 2023 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Sep 28, 2023 | Today's Post
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...
by kdm | Sep 27, 2023 | Today's Post
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...