by kdm | Mar 16, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, choices, Christ Ministry, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (deceased): I love the Book of Mormon. I know that it’s true. I have studied it; I have prayed about it. And I will continue to study it. It is another testament of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ....
by kdm | Mar 15, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
continuing from * Desperation is for Unbelievers ~ (yesterdays post). . . William B. Smart, Messages for a Happier Life, Inspiring Essays from the Church News (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1989), 14-15 Fanaticism can, and often does, grow from such faith. The world...
by kdm | Mar 11, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan
From the book ‘Blessed from on High’: Wherefore, lift up your heads and rejoice, and gird up your loins, and take upon you the whole armor, that ye may be able to withstand the evil day. . . . Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth,...
by kdm | Mar 10, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Learning?, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “Being Enough” by Chieko N. Okazaki: One of the greatest blessings the gospel offers us the opportunity to both give and receive from the depths of a thankful heart. But this is a topic on which there’s also a certain amount of...
by kdm | Mar 9, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From ‘The Will of God as a Way of Life’, Jerry Sittser writes: The conventional approach to discovering the will of God has a . . . problem. It betrays a false and negative view of God. It implies that God, for some reason, “hides” his will and...
by kdm | Mar 8, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Modern Prophets, The Plan
From Richard L. Evans, The Man and the Message: “The deepest hunger in human beings,” said William James, “is the desire to be appreciated.” A wife, a mother can put up with faults and imperfections—with inadequate income,...