Room in the Inn

Elder Gerrit W. Gong of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in April 2021 general conference: . . . . my father and I visited the great cathedral at Chartres (France). . . . .Like Adam and Eve, we come into a world of thorns and thistles.3On our dusty roads to...

* Religion and the Gospel

Following a theme of June 5, 2021, * What Can Put it Right? by Timothy Keller (from his book ‘The Reason for God): At the very moment of that vain-glorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most dreadful shuddering . . . I looked down . . ....

Pressing Toward the Mark

Elder Edward Dube of the Seventy said in April 2021 general conference: It is not so much about what we are going through in life but what we are becoming. As I read the book of Acts and Paul’s epistles, I am amazed at how Paul was driven by love and gratitude in...

* Why Make the Game So Hard?

(Beginning today until mid next week, we are on a family vacation. There will be no posts until I return.) This post is long and illustrates ‘the whys’ of making good decisions, sweetening the future, or at very least avoiding a trend that leads to...

Teaching in the Savior’s Way

In April 2021 general conference Jan E. Newman, Second Counselor in the Sunday School General Presidency said: Exceptional Teachers A few months ago, a former classmate from my hometown of Overton, Nevada, suggested we put together a Christmas gift for our beloved...

* Making Life an Art II

Continuing from Jerry Sittser’s book ‘the Will of God as a Way of Life,’ Making Life an Art : A.W. Tozer, a twentieth-century pastor, preacher, and spiritual writer, supports this view of work. He wrote that if one’s motive is right, what a...

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