by kdm | Jan 12, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Family, Learning?, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post, T.H. Bell writes: *Keys to Attaining Excellence, There are certain universal laws that surround all of us in our lives. If we break those laws, we must pay a price. When we meet the terms of the laws of the universe, we find the joy of...
by kdm | Jan 11, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Nurture, spiritually strong, Temple, The Plan, Today's Post
From Dallin H. Oaks and his book, “With Full Purpose of Heart”: . . . . Many years ago a young Latter-day Saint enrolled at a Midwestern university and applied for a scholarship available only to Christians. Both the applicant and the university officials...
by kdm | Jan 10, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Nurture, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From T. H. Bell: Keys to Attaining Excellence in Our Lives: In the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, this prestigious body defined excellence as “performing at the outer limits of one’s capacity.” We should find little...
by kdm | Jan 9, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book, “The Power of Stillness” (multiple authors—Jacob Z. Hess, Carrie L. Skarda, Kyle D. Mansfield, Ty R. Mansfield: It’s really hard, dare we say impossible, to have life experiences go through us and not have them affect how we see...
by kdm | Jan 6, 2025 | #character, #discipline, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Jeffrey R. Holland and his book “For Times of Trouble”: Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offering of my mouth, O Lord, and teach me thy judgments. Sometimes we are forced to say the right things, as if righteousness could be coerced. In a court,...
by kdm | Jan 5, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “The Man and the Message”,: These are doctrinal insights from multiple Latter-day Saint theologians and authors: . . . . C. S. Lewis is a thinking man’s theologian, a writer whose views are crisp and sharp and challenging; his...