by kdm | Jul 8, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Adam S. Miller and his book ‘Original Grace’: Not long ago, I spoke at a conference on grace that doubled as a celebration of ‘Believing Christ’s’ twenty-fifth anniversary. Preparing for the conference, I went looking for the copy of...
by kdm | Jul 7, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all me liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James 1:5; emphasis added). These five words in the epistle of James changed the world. Joseph Smith’s first prayer is...
by kdm | Jul 6, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan
From Truman G. Madsen: It is said that prayer is a crutch. After all, mature people are supposed to stand on their own two feet; they don’t have to pray. Prayer is a form of wishful thinking, a kind of wanting pie in the sky. Well, as to that, there is nothing...
by kdm | Jul 5, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post—- “Peace” . . . “Essays of Hope and Encouragement” under the above title ‘Peaceable Things of the Kingdom’, Jeffrey R. Holland—President of the Quorum or the Twelve Apostles taught: Christ...
by kdm | Jul 4, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, The Plan, Today's Post
From D. Kelly Ogden: Jesus sometimes began his day by rising early and finding a solitary place to pray. “And in the morning, arising up a great while before before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed: (Mark 1:35). During his...
by kdm | Jul 3, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continued from The Joy of Our Redemption II Here, as in all things, Jesus set the standard for us to follow. Life is too short to be spent nursing animosities or in keeping a box score of offences of against us—you know—no runs, no hits, no errors. We...