* Is God Hiding Something?

Continuing from a post from Jerry Sittser’s writings. . . . What’s really important, anyway? The conventional approach to discovering the will of God has a second problem. It betrays a false negative view of God. It implies that God for some reason...

Lessons at the Well

Sister Susan H. Porter of the Primary General Presidency said in the Women’s Session of April 2022 general conference: . . . . I was going through my mail when a small picture in a catalog caught my eye. As I looked closer, I realized it was an artist’s...

* The Problem of Disciplining People. . .

Richard L. Evans wrote: There is always an urgent field for thought in the problem of disciplining people. Parents and others frequently find themselves searching and praying and pleading for wisdom and guidance in the teaching and disciplining of young and...

Choose the Lord and His Prophet

President Russell M. Nelson, Prophet, Seer, and Revelator From the June issue of the Liahona magazine, speaking first of the Prophet Samuel from the Bible, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles wrote: The Tugs of the World As members of this...

The Olive Press

From the book ‘The Gift of the Atonement’ and W. Jeffrey Marsh: The lunar calendar and Jewish calendar help us determine that there was a full moon the night Christ entered the Garden of Gethsemane. If the night was clear Jesus would have been able to see...

‘Do What Matters Most’

Sister Rebecca Craven of the Young Women General Presidency said in April 2022 General Conference: . . . .In a dream, the Lord told the prophet Lehi, “Blessed art thou Lehi, because of the things which thou hast done.”1 Being a disciple of Jesus Christ involves more...

* Free to Live as I See Fit III

  Continuing from a previous post : Timothy Keller. . . his book ‘Making Sense of God’:  Today we hold a new unqualified kind of freedom (only and exclusively excepting the impingement on others’ freedom). We understand freedom as the right of...

Express Gratitude II

Continuing form ‘Express Gratitude’ Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (deceased) wrote: Valued. You show knowledge is valued by expressing appreciation for it, especially in heartfelt prayers of gratitude. The Lord said, “He...

* Free to Live as I See Fit II. . . .

From his book ‘Making Sense of God’, Timothy Keller wrote (in chapter Five an invitation to the skeptical), Continued from a previous post. The History of the Idea (continued) How did freedom become not just one valuable thing among many but the ultimate...

Express Gratitude

From Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (deceased): One of President N. Eldon Tanner’s favorite scriptures, which he often quoted, was this: “In nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who...

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