by kdm | Jun 27, 2022 | Today's Post
Elder Garrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in April 2022 general conference: Do you know your story? What your name means? World population grew from 1.1 billion people in 1820 to nearly 7.8 billion in 2020.4 The year 1820 seems to be an inflection...
by kdm | Jun 26, 2022 | Today's Post
From Jerry Sittser’s book ‘The Will of God as a Way of Life’: A group of believers in the church of Corinth were especially adept at exploring the freedom they had in Christ. They claimed the right to do anything they wanted. They even applauded a...
by kdm | Jun 25, 2022 | Today's Post
Elder Michael T. Ringwood of the Seventy said in the Sunday morning session of April 2022 general conference: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16)....
by kdm | Jun 24, 2022 | Today's Post
From Timothy Keller’s book “The Reason for God”. . . . . . the world is polarizing over religion. It is getting more religious and less religious at the same time. There was once a confident belief that secular European countries were the harbingers...
by kdm | Jun 23, 2022 | Today's Post
Elder Dale G. Renlund of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in April 2022 general conference . . . . “our sense of God’s love may be blunted by challenging circumstances and physical or mental illness, among other things. In all these cases, the counsel of...
by kdm | Jun 22, 2022 | Today's Post
From the ‘Will of God as a Way of Life,’ Jerry Sittser wrote: In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus exhorts us not to be anxious about tomorrow but to concentrate on what we must do today. We ought to trust that God who clothes the lilies of the field and...
by kdm | Jun 20, 2022 | Today's Post
Concluding this series from Elder Neal A. Maxwell: “For the serious reader, the Restoration scriptures provide a deeply significant response to modern man’s architectonic needs—that is, our deep needs to discern some design, purpose, pattern or plan...
by kdm | Jun 19, 2022 | Today's Post
From Timothy Keller and his book ‘The Reason for God’: On the other hand, secular people should also examine their own self-narrative, namely that they are not exerting any faith, that they are simply using their reason and “seeing things as they...
by kdm | Jun 18, 2022 | Today's Post
From Elder Neal A. Maxwell: The plenitude of the Restoration followed “a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, or of thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord” (Amos 8:11). The end of that famine was marked by the coming of the Book of...
by kdm | Jun 17, 2022 | Today's Post
Richard L. Evans wrote: One of the indispensable elements of a sincerely successful life is the ability, the power and the willingness to see things through—to carry things beyond conversation to conclusion. And one of the disappointing qualities of character is...