by kdm | Aug 19, 2022 | Today's Post
Following Jerry Sittser, continuing from a previous post from * The Problem with Careers: I have witnessed this tragedy first hand in college teaching. A bright student wants to become a college professor and scholar as a way to reach generation Z, “the lost...
by kdm | Aug 18, 2022 | Today's Post
Elder Randy D. Funk of the Seventy said in the Sunday afternoon session of April 2022 general conference: . . . . As one of the missionaries in that humble, faith-filled home 49 years ago, I have witnessed in them what King Benjamin taught in the Book of Mormon: “I...
by kdm | Aug 17, 2022 | Today's Post
Following Jerry Sittser, a previous post of July 19, 2020 titled *The Will of God: . . . . a calling is not the same thing as a career, though the two are related. A career involves some kind of socially useful work. It usually requires specific education or training,...
by kdm | Aug 16, 2022 | Today's Post
From the June 2022 Liahona magazine, an article by Jason Whiting, PhD, Brigham Young University . . . School of Family Life: Dan (name has been changed) was seeing me for professional counseling. “I try to live the commandments,” he said, “but I am constantly tempted...
by kdm | Aug 14, 2022 | Today's Post
Elder Jörg Klebingat of the Seventy said in the Sunday afternoon session of April 2022 general conference: Moral agency is God’s precious gift to each of His children.1 We are “free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to...
by kdm | Aug 13, 2022 | Today's Post
Max Lucado from his book ‘Cure for the Common Life’ wrote: Jesus . . . made Himself of no reputation . . . He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Philippians 2:5, 7-8 My teenage acquaintances included a...