* The Prison of Want

From Max Lucado and his book ‘Traveling Light’: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Psalm 23:1 Come with me to the most populated prison in the world. The facility that has more inmates than bunks. More prisoners than plates. More residents than...

The Infinite Atonement

Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (deceased), wrote: Christ’s atonement is the center piece of human history. The Restoration scriptures both confirm the fact and amplify the information concerning this crucial reality. Both Jacob and...

* To Enjoy the Journey

From Richard L. Evans: On this question again of always wondering when we are going to “get there”: When our children are young and very dependent upon us, sometimes we think what we would do if we were more free from responsibility. And then the time...

God Continues to Create

From the book “Original Grace” by Adam S. Miller, under the title “Time”: My son didn’t arrive in 2004 as a finished product. His birth was a crucial moment, a tipping point, in his creation. But that moment wasn’t the beginning or...

* Receive Thy Sight

From Shauna Humphreys book “100 Favorite Verses to Bring You Closer to Christ”: And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee. And immediately he received his sight and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw...

Wholehearted

Wholehearted By Sister Michelle D. Craig First Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency We should be followers of Jesus who are joyful and wholehearted in our own personal journey of discipleship. Sometimes, it helps to know what to expect. Near the end of His...

* Faith and Works (Both must be right.)

Continuing from Stephen E. Robinson’s book “Following Christ,” previous post. . . . The Scriptural Necessity of Works. Now, the doctrine of justification by faith is thoroughly  scriptural (see, for example, Galatians 2:16; 2 Nephi 2:5; Doctrine and...

The Scriptural Necessity of Works

Stephen Robinson in his book Following Christ taught: The scriptures make crystal clear that proper behavior (works) must be part of our life in Christ. The Savior himself taught, “Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of...

* Don’t Cry

David O. Mac Kay wrote: At some time or other every human being faces what we call death. When I was but a boy, I sensed this deeply in the cry of a mother who sat by the side of a casket that contained her little boy. Several of us boys had been playing with...

Nourishing and Bearing Your Testimony

From a talk by Elder Gary E. Stevenson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, speaking in the last session of October 2022 general conference: Nourishing and Bearing Your Testimony By Elder Gary E. Stevenson Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles I invite you to seek...

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