by kdm | Feb 3, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, choices, Christ Ministry, Revelation, The Plan, Today's Post
From Timothy Keller’s book ‘The Reason for God’: My question—that which at the age of fifty brought me to the verge of suicide—was the simplest of questions, lying in the soul of every man . . . a question without an answer to which one...
by kdm | Jan 31, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Learning?, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan
Gene R. Cook wrote: The Lord truly wants to bless us in all aspects of our lives—our goals, our relationships, our spiritual desires, and everything else. The key to receiving these blessings is to ask in prayer. Those who ask in faith and then obey the...
by kdm | Jan 30, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Kathy K. Clayton from her book (written in 2012….we’re now 12 years later) ‘Teaching to Build Faith and Faithfulness’: Teachers and parents empower students and children by avoiding micromanagement of decisions that can be left to the...
by kdm | Jan 29, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Joseph Smith, (1st Prophet or this, the last Dispensation) What are some ways to fortify ourselves in troubled times, that we may be “instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work”? (Alma 26:3). Let us look to the scriptures. We are...
by kdm | Jan 28, 2024 | #discipline, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Chieko N. Okazaki wrote: “One of the most important ways we can be pure before the Lord is to be scrupulously honest in our words and deeds. The first person we need to be honest with is the Lord. The Lord doesn’t want just pretty prayers. He wants real...
by kdm | Jan 24, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Today's Post
From his book “Press On,” Joseph B. Wirthlin of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles teaches of the “Abundant Life’: Harry de Leyer was late to the auction on that snowy day in 1956, and all the good horses had already been sold. The few that...