by kdm | Jul 25, 2022 | Today's Post
From chapter 5 of his book ‘Making Sense of God’, Timothy Keller wrote (an invitation to the skeptical): Why Can’t I Be Free to Live as I See Fit, as Long as I Don’t Harm Anyone? When “The Star-Spangled Banner” is sung at sporting...
by kdm | Jul 24, 2022 | Today's Post
Stephen E. Robinson The suffering of Jesus Christ in the Garden and on the cross exceeded the combined suffering of all human beings. The suffering of Jesus was not just tough pain and a bad death, it was not just the most painful of all human experiences and deaths....
by kdm | Jul 23, 2022 | Today's Post
From Brad Wilcox, his book ‘Changed Through Grace’ Robert Robinson was a small boy in the 1730s when his father died and he had to work to help support the family. As a teenager he fell in with a bad group of friends and live a wild and worldly lifestyle....
by kdm | Jul 22, 2022 | Today's Post
Sunday General President Mark L. Pace said in the afternoon session of April 2022 general conference: For just over three years now, we have been on a journey together as members of the Lord’s Church. It was October 2018 when the First Presidency and the Quorum of the...
by kdm | Jul 17, 2022 | Today's Post
Continuing from Jerry Sittser * Overcoming Worry. In addition to praying about the future, we can also prepare for it. One major way of doing this is to live well in the present. We can practice spiritual discipline, develop character, form lasting friendships and...
by kdm | Jul 14, 2022 | Today's Post
From Jerry Sittser’s book ‘The Will of God as a Way of Life’. . . There is no simple way to overcome worry. We come by it naturally and there are too many reasons why we should worry. But we can learn to control our worries. We can pray about them,...
by kdm | Jul 13, 2022 | Today's Post
From Adam S. Miller’s book “Original Grace”: In Believing Christ (Stephen E.) Robinson turns the problem of grace on its head. The problem isn’t that God is unwilling to offer the grace I need. The problem is that I’m unwilling to receive...
by kdm | Jul 12, 2022 | Today's Post
From Richard L. Evans. . . . Perhaps all of us at times have questions concerning freedom—especially young people who feel too closely tied, too closely tethered, and who sometimes seem to feel that freedom should mean the right to do absolutely anything they...
by kdm | Jul 11, 2022 | Today's Post
Continued from Steve Young. . . ‘The Law of Love’, You may feel like Moses at the edge of the Red Sea: you’ve got water in front of you, the Egyptians behind you in hot pursuit and you’re stuck. But what if the law of love could open a path for...
by kdm | Jul 10, 2022 | Today's Post
Amy A. Wright, Second Counselor in the Primary General Presidency said in the Sunday morning session of April 2022 general conference: We can learn much from the scriptures about how our Savior, Jesus Christ, will help us successfully navigate the things in our lives...