by kdm | Jul 20, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Russell M. Nelson: There hath no temptation take you but such is as common to man: but is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will, with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 1...
by kdm | Jul 11, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from the post ‘Perfection’ about his father, Adam S. Miller writes: . . . . I try to imagine my father reading, a few pages each day, something I’d written, something from one Adam’s books.” I try to put myself in his head and...
by kdm | Jul 9, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Neal A. Maxwell: Prayer, therefore, that is too self-conscious of itself is not yet praying. What is needed by us all are feelings of adoration that produce a mental posture of contemplation—and more meditation and less premeditation. When we pray, we are...
by kdm | Jul 8, 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’: Not long ago, I spoke at a conference on grace that doubled as a celebration of ‘Believing Christ’s’ twenty-fifth anniversary. Preparing for the conference, I went looking for the copy of...
by kdm | Jul 7, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all me liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James 1:5; emphasis added). These five words in the epistle of James changed the world. Joseph Smith’s first prayer is...
by kdm | Jul 5, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post—- “Peace” . . . “Essays of Hope and Encouragement” under the above title ‘Peaceable Things of the Kingdom’, Jeffrey R. Holland—President of the Quorum or the Twelve Apostles taught: Christ...