by kdm | Oct 19, 2015 | Today's Post
“We cannot allow ourselves the slightest bit of leeway in dealing with sin. We cannot allow ourselves to believe that we can participate “just a little” in disobeying the commandments of God, for the sin can grab us with an iron hand from which it is...
by kdm | Oct 18, 2015 | Today's Post
“The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How sacred a thing marriage is! Johann’s statement teaches in a few words how...
by kdm | Oct 16, 2015 | Today's Post
“We are overcome by the “cares . . . of this life” when we are paralyzed by fear of the future, which hinders our going forward in faith, trusting in God and His promises. Twenty-five years ago my esteemed BYU teacher Hugh W. Nibley spoke of the dangers of...
by kdm | Oct 14, 2015 | Today's Post
(preamble scripture…Mosiah 4:9 ) Meanwhile how can there be refining fires without heat? Or greater patience without some instructive waiting? How can we develop empathy without first bearing one another’s burdens? Not only that burdens may be lightened,...
by kdm | Oct 12, 2015 | Today's Post
Imagine for a moment a heaven where everyone did ‘their own thing’ without thinking of others or the effects their actions (or lack of wholesome actions) had upon those around them. Does this, in most respects, sound like our world today? Our prisons are...
by kdm | Oct 10, 2015 | Today's Post
‘Right from the beginning the standard charge against Joseph and the Mormons was treason. And why not? That was the only possible charge when the crime was simply a whole way of life. “They accused him (Joseph Smith) of treason (forty-seven prosecutions,...