by kdm | Jul 6, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan
From Truman G. Madsen: It is said that prayer is a crutch. After all, mature people are supposed to stand on their own two feet; they don’t have to pray. Prayer is a form of wishful thinking, a kind of wanting pie in the sky. Well, as to that, there is nothing...
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...
by kdm | Jul 3, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Continued from The Joy of Our Redemption II Here, as in all things, Jesus set the standard for us to follow. Life is too short to be spent nursing animosities or in keeping a box score of offences of against us—you know—no runs, no hits, no errors. We...
by kdm | Jul 3, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From the book “Peace, Essays of Hope and Encouragement” (multiple authors), Jeffrey R. Holland wrote: Ultimately it is Christ who is beautiful upon the mountain. And it is His merciful promise of “peace in this world,” His good tidings of...
by kdm | Jul 2, 2024 | #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From the book “The Power of Stillness”: Rather than something to get done, prayer can begin to take on a life of its own. And, like real life, our prayer life can feel really messy sometimes. For instance Adam Miller describes a moment in prayer when we...
by kdm | Jun 30, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and the book “Peace, Essays Hope and Encouragement” (multiple authors), related to our own obligation to repent is the generosity of letting others do the same Elder Holland wrote:...