by kdm | Dec 20, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Elder Neal A. Maxwell (deceased), and his book “That Ye May Believe”): (This book contains letters on Gospel subjects to his posterity): Dear Peter: Let’s go right to your major point concerning intellectual dissenters. The gospel requires us to...
by kdm | Dec 19, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Family, Nurture, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Rebecca McCarrty and the book 50 things really matter. . . It’s another cross-country road trip. We leave Michigan at eight o’clock in the morning and finally reach Chicago. There’s not much to look forward to for the next twenty-three hours...
by kdm | Dec 18, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, Learning?, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From her book “The Holiness of Everyday Life”, Joan A.MacDonald shares: When all is done, a person of related mind, a brother or sister by nature, comes softly and easily, so nearly and intimately, as if it were the blood in our proper veins, that we feel...
by kdm | Dec 17, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Learning?, Modern Prophets, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From D. Kelly Ogden’s book “Before You Get to Heaven” One day I sat at my computer working on a paper. By late afternoon I must have typed twelve to fourteen pages of original thinking. Then, after the full day’s work, tired and ready to close...
by kdm | Dec 16, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, fear, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Neal A. Maxwell wrote: The Lord reminded us that our prayers will be granted if our lives are righteous and if we ask in faith for that which is expedient. (Doctrine & Covenants 88:64-65,78.) He attached the same condition to his visit to the Nephites when he said...
by kdm | Dec 15, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Revelation, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Bruce C. Hafen and his book ‘Faith is Not Blind’: Some people who wonder if they are losing their religious faith say that they are not only losing confidence in Joseph and the Restoration, but that why are losing confidence in the very existence if...