by kdm | Feb 21, 2023 | agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From their book ‘The Christ Who Heals’, Fiona and Terryl Givens shared: “It is in Third Nephi, that we find the most tender portrait of Christ fully vulnerable to human woundedness. “And it came to pass that when Jesus had spoken, he cast his...
by kdm | Feb 20, 2023 | #character, #discipline, agency, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from Max Lucado and previous post: To prevent injury, the shepherd anoints the rams. He smears a slippery, greasy substance over the nose and head. This lubricant causes them to glance off rather than to crash into each other. They still tend to get hurt,...
by kdm | Feb 18, 2023 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, The Plan, Today's Post
From Brad Wilcox’s book of the above title: Brent Fillmore teaches at the Institute of Religion adjacent to Utah State University. When he speaks to classes of a covenant relationship, he talks about a stalactite hanging from the top of a cave dripping water on...
by kdm | Feb 17, 2023 | agency, For times of trouble, The Plan, Today's Post
From Richard L. Evans. . . . Most men and women who move about us from day to day are carrying their share of trouble and disappointment and sorrow hidden within their hearts; and we, with unseeing eyes often walk roughshod over them, not knowing their cares nor...
by kdm | Feb 16, 2023 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Modern Prophets, The Plan, Today's Post
Elder Jonathan S. Schmitt of the Seventy said in the Sunday afternoon session of October 2022 general conference: My earnest desire is that you will come to know Jesus by His many names and that you will become like Him. A few years ago, I had a life-changing...
by kdm | Feb 11, 2023 | #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From Max Lucado, his book ‘Traveling Light’: . . . We can follow the example of the apostle Paul. His goal was to be a missionary in Spain. Rather than send Paul to Spain, however, God sent him to prison. Sitting in a Roman jail. . . He said, “As...