by kdm | Feb 8, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Larry W. Tippetts and his book “Receiving Personal Revelation”: Three Categories of Personal Revelation Revelation from God serves many purposes in our lives, but for ease of thinking and teaching about this subject it is helpful to group personal...
by kdm | Feb 7, 2025 | #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from Not Half Way II, Neal A. Maxwell wrote: From a previous post; No wonder, therefore, we are repeatedly rushed to use our time wisely by forsaking the world and “[taking] up our cross daily” (Luke 9:23; emphasis added ). I seem to remember that C.S.Lewis...
by kdm | Feb 6, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, For times of trouble, Learning?, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Under the title “A Meaning That Suffering Can’t Take form You” Timothy Keller wrote: In “A Confession” Leo Tolstoy tells how he was leading a very successful life until around the age fifty he began to realize that every loved one would...
by kdm | Feb 2, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Today's Post
From Jeffrey R Holland and his book “For Times of Trouble”: It would be nice if life were so calm and consistent that we never had occasion to feel discouraged. If there were no tribulations in our lives, no difficult or taxing circumstances that consumed...
by kdm | Jan 29, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continuing from “Coming Together To Be (Un)comfortable” from the book “The Power of Stillness”. . . Notice stories or labels you carry around for other people, and how they inadvertently establish all manner of “-ites” (4 Nephi...
by kdm | Jan 28, 2025 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Nurture, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “The Power of Stillness”: It is common for us to talk about the aim of Church gatherings to be uplifting, comforting and consoling our spirits. Although these are things we all understandably want, what happens when the opposite happens, and...