by kdm | Aug 26, 2023 | Today's Post
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, (see a previous post, ‘The Spirit of Revelation’) : Now continuing In the Doctrine and Covenants, we find a significant key to understanding the spiritual gift of revelation and the process by...
by kdm | Aug 25, 2023 | Today's Post
From her book ‘Teaching to Build Faith and Faithfulness’, Kathy K. Clayton wrote: Mercifully, Heavenly Father included in His perfect plan of happiness the gift of agency, which allows us to taste the bitter in order to know the sweet. It also includes the...
by kdm | Aug 24, 2023 | Today's Post
From his book ‘The Man and the Message,’ Richard L. Evans taught: If we are blessed with long years of life, this brings us to old age, and with old age there comes concern for growing old gracefully as for growing old usefully—“The Art of...
by kdm | Aug 23, 2023 | Today's Post
Continuing from Jerry Sittser, the Will of God as a Way of Life” / Two Kinds of Freedom: (Previously) The will of God has to do with what we already know, not what we must figure out. It is contained in Jesus’ command that we seek first God’s kingdom...
by kdm | Aug 22, 2023 | Today's Post
(Note from Kent. . . . From the related previous post a couple of paragraphs are now added by way of correction. Continuing from The Veil of Unbelief II: According to President Benson, all of our teachings should be circumscribed by the “great plan of the...
by kdm | Aug 21, 2023 | Today's Post
Continuing from Church Historian, Kate Holbrook ‘A Harvest of Truth’: Let me be clear. I don’t just study this Church, I live it. And I love it. I’ve raised my children in this Church as my own mother raised me. Aside from the many reasons I...
by kdm | Aug 19, 2023 | Today's Post
From Ardeth G. Kapp: When time stands still and the veil seems very thin, questions flood into our minds. “He did all that for me, though he didn’t have to? But he did! Whatever he asks of us, is it too much? Maybe it is not enough. Surely it is not...
by kdm | Aug 19, 2023 | Today's Post
A quote from Carolyn J. Rasmus from the book ‘A Year of Powerful Prayer’ The scriptures give us ample instruction on how the Spirit speaks to us, but to hear the still small voice we must be still and listen. This was forcefully brought to my mind early...
by kdm | Aug 18, 2023 | Today's Post
~ In some of her final writings, the late Church historian Kate Holbrook explores the question of what makes the Church true. . . . Just before leaving for her first year at Cornell University, a young friend of mine approached me with a question on her mind. She had...
by kdm | Aug 16, 2023 | Today's Post
By Brother Milton Camargo, First Counselor in the Sunday School General Presidency spoke in April 2023 general conference: The Lord Jesus Christ is the solution to our problems, but we must lift our eyes and raise our sights to see Him. My father used to tell me,...