Don’t Get Discouraged (The Battle for a Man’s Heart IV)
Our Search for an Answer. . . .From a previous post, John Eldredge continues: First and foremost, we still need to know what we never heard, or heard so badly from our fathers. We need to know who we are and if we have what it takes. What do we know with that ultimate...* When the One You Love Persists in Making Poor Choices II
Continuing from Yesterday’s Post and the book “Take Your Love to Your Family and your Frustrations to the Lord” Dr. John L. Lund & Bonnie Lund write: In our opinion, a better title for his parable would be “The parable of the loving...When the One You Love Persists in making Poor Choices I
This is a repeat as it disappeared from my sent mail…? From the book “Take Your Family and your Frustrations to the Lord” Dr. John L. Lund and Bonnie Lund write: Let’s assume That your expectations for your loved ones are reasonable and in the...Humility and Prayer
From Gene R. Cook, and his book Humility in Prayer: In the D&C, the Lord directly connected humility to answered prayers when he said, “Be thou humble; and the Lord thy God shall lead thee by the hand, and give thee answer to thy prayers”. (D&C...Teach Obedience
Repeat of a previous post. . . . “I have learned that where there is a prayerful heart, a hungering after righteousness, a forsaking of sins, and obedience to the commandments of God, the Lord pours out more and more light until there is finally power to pierce the...A Spiritual Practice . . . The waking of the Spiritual Mind.
M. Catherine Thomas wrote: The Spirit does not get our attention by shouting and shaking us with a heavy hand. Rather it whispers. It caresses so gently that if we are preoccupied we may not feel it at all….Occasionally it will press firmly enough for us to pay...The Battle for a Man’s Heart III,
Continuing from The Battle for a Man’s Heart II: WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON HERE, ANYWAY? Let’s say it’s June 6, 1944, about 0710. You are a soldier in the third wave onto Omaha Beach. Thousands of soldiers have gone before you and now it’s...* The Great Answerer
From Wayne E. Brickey and the book “A Year of Powerful Prayer’: There can’t be an answer without a question. Could there be answers in the back of a math book without any problem in the front? There must be a question. And as generous as our Father...* The Battle for a Man’s Heart II. . .
Continuing from John Eldredge and a Previous Post. . . : “At least three or four times as many boys as girls are essentially defined as ill because their preferred patterns of play don’t fit easily into the structure of school. Well-meaning...
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I am married and we have 3 children and many grandchildren. Our children have chosen wisely in their careers and in marriage and I attribute much of their success, as they do, to a close relationship with Jesus Christ… Click for more.