* ‘True Devotion’

Continuing from a previous post, teachings of Jerry Sittser, of November 21, 2019, * All is Vanity, Except. . . Francis de Sales, known during his lifetime in the seventeenth century as a wise counselor and master of the spiritual life, believed that the effects of...

Express Gratitude III

From a previous post, Express Gratitude II, Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (deceased) wrote: You can learn vitally important things by what you hear and see and, even more so, by what you feel, as prompted by the Holy Ghost. Many...

* Is God Hiding Something?

Continuing from a post from Jerry Sittser’s writings. . . . What’s really important, anyway? The conventional approach to discovering the will of God has a second problem. It betrays a false negative view of God. It implies that God for some reason...

Lessons at the Well

Sister Susan H. Porter of the Primary General Presidency said in the Women’s Session of April 2022 general conference: . . . . I was going through my mail when a small picture in a catalog caught my eye. As I looked closer, I realized it was an artist’s...

* The Problem of Disciplining People. . .

Richard L. Evans wrote: There is always an urgent field for thought in the problem of disciplining people. Parents and others frequently find themselves searching and praying and pleading for wisdom and guidance in the teaching and disciplining of young and...

Choose the Lord and His Prophet

President Russell M. Nelson, Prophet, Seer, and Revelator From the June issue of the Liahona magazine, speaking first of the Prophet Samuel from the Bible, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles wrote: The Tugs of the World As members of this...

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