The Cost

Elder Melvin J. Ballard (deceased) wrote: I think as I read the story of Abraham’s sacrifice of his son Isaac that our Father is trying to tell us what it cost him to give his son as a gift to the world. You remember the story of how Abraham’s son came...

The Answer is Jesus

Elder Ryan K. Olsen of the Seventy, speaking in the Sunday afternoon session of October 2022 general conference said: . . . . In our relationship with the Savior, He looks on the heart and is “no respecter of persons.”3 Consider how He chose His Apostles. He didn’t...

* Christianity, Respecting People III

Continuing from Christianity, Respecting People II Keller from his book ‘The Reason for God’ taught: One of the paradoxes of history is the relationship between the beliefs and the practices of the early Christians as compared to the culture around them....

* Christianity, Respecting People II

Continuing from a previous post,  Timothy Keller from his book ‘The Reason for God’ taught: Christianity not only leads its members to believe people of other faiths have goodness and wisdom to offer, it also leads them to expect that many will live lives...

Justice II

From Fiona and Terryl Givens, a previous post, Justice: Dostoevsky pointed out the fruitlessness of justice as retribution. As his character Ivan cries out to his brother, “What use is vengeance to me, what use to me is hell for torturers,  what can hell put...

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