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 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Choice, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, Today's Post
From the second chapter of their book ‘Faith is Not Blind’, Bruce and Marie Hafen share: We first met as students in a BYU religion class called “Your Religious Problems.” We both solved our biggest “religious problem” when our...
by kdm | Jan 26, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Nurture, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Robert L. Millet wrote: Surely no roadblock could be more prevalent than distraction and preoccupation. Sometimes we don’t pray well because our minds and hearts are focused on other things. We are too prone to think of prayer as something within the spiritual...
by kdm | Jan 23, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, choices, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Modern Prophets, spiritually strong, The Plan
From Sherri Dew: C. S. Lewis wrote: the “trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done” (The Quotable Lewis, 156). This means making worship a central part of life. True followers pray. They have some...
by kdm | Jan 21, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Christ Ministry, spiritually strong, Today's Post
From Jerry Sittser, from his book ‘The Will of God as a Way of Life’: I spent the first twenty years of my life feeling certain I knew the will of God for my life. I was going to practice medicine. I was as sure about the future as I was about the...