by kdm | Jun 9, 2024 | #character, #discipline, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Becky and I are doing some vacationing. There will be no zionwisdom posts for the week starting tomorrow (and for the week at the end of June). If you feel inclined, you can look back over past posts of which there are about 3,000 now. Kent. Continuing from The Logic...
by kdm | May 30, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post “Logic”, Adam S. Miller writes: The law is about justice, not punishment. Punishment—defined as the work of returning evil to those who have done evil—can only compound evil. Punishment, as the work of giving...
by kdm | May 29, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Adam S. Miller and his book “Original Grace”: My father bought our first house with a handshake. My parents “had no money, not even two nickels to rug together.” But the prophet had said, “Get an education, marry, and buy a home. I...
by kdm | May 27, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Today's Post
From Adam S. Miller and his book “Original Grace”, Under the above title: If the purpose of justice isn’t punishment, then what is justice? And what has justice to do with grace? In the opening pages of Plato’s Republic, a young man named...
by kdm | May 25, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “Fifty Things that Matter to Latter-day Saints . . . . Perseverance is why we revere Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, Lance Armstrong and several other greats. They didn’t find their destiny in defeat, or spelled out obstacles, but rather they...
by kdm | May 22, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
The Disease of Profanity IV by kdm | May 22, 2024 (I believe this might be a repeat. . . . ‘computer glitches’ . . . . or someone needs to see it who missed it the first time.) Continuing from Elder Boyd K. Packer and a previous post: In the Church that...