by kdm | May 13, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continued now from The Disease of Profanity II Boyd K. Packer continues with: Better Than Profanity. . . . There is no need for any of us to use profanity. Realize that you are more powerful in expression without it. I give you two examples. Sir Winston Churchill...
by kdm | May 13, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Gerald N. Lund: God, even in His infinite power and knowledge, will not force the human heart. This principle often brings sorrow and suffering into the world because many choose to do evil, and that almost always affects others. Sometimes to get an answer to our...
by kdm | May 12, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, Today's Post
Continuing from a previous post. . . Elder Boyd K. Packer wrote: Controls for Discipline Like the man in the shop, many of us may never have been told how serious an offense of Profanity can be. Ere we know we are victims of a vile habit—and the servant of our...
by kdm | May 11, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From her book “Spiritual Lightening”, M. Catherine Thomas shared: Many have wondered if the events in the Garden of Eden cast women in an unfavorable light. For example, Paul wrote: “For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but...
by kdm | May 10, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Elder Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his book ‘in Wisdom and in Order’: A number of years ago I went with a brother to tow a wrecked car. It was a single-car accident and the car was demolished; the driver, though unhurt, had...
by kdm | May 9, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Gene R. Cook taught: There is another way to express this principle. Pray as though everything depends on the Lord, then work as though everything depends on you. . . . When we obtain blessings from the Lord, it is not just because of the work we do. The work...