by kdm | Oct 25, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from Flexibility II, and Jerry Sittser’s book ‘the Will of God as a Way of Life’: When I was nineteen years old, my best friend, Jerry Keizer, and I decided to take the “great American road trip.” We left in early July from...
by kdm | Oct 22, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From the book of the above name, Larry W. Tippets shares: The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is this single most important skill that can be acted upon in this life. ~Julie B. Beck We can not overstate the importance of personal...
by kdm | Oct 18, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
Gerald N. Lund taught: Another possible answer to the question of why God doesn’t seem to be answering our prayers stems from our unwillingness to accept what the Lord gives Us. I had an experience as a bishop. A returned missionary in the ward had been home...
by kdm | Oct 14, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From the book “What’s a Parent to Do?” by Glen I. Latham: During one of the darkest moments of Nephite history, when the wicked had vowed to slay the righteous if the sign of Christ’s birth did not “come to pass, which had been given by...
by kdm | Oct 14, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
John Bytheway taught:. A note of caution: Faith is not willing our desires into existence. That would be exercising faith in what we want. For example, many of us have experienced the death of a loved one and have concluded that if we only had more faith, the loved...
by kdm | Oct 13, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From William B. Smart’s book “Messages for a Happier Life”: In a quiet New England churchyard lies a headstone whose epitaph contains a profoundly important message—a goal—for all of us. Here lies a woman twice blessed; She was happy and...