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...
by kdm | Jan 19, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, choices, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Revelation, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
Ardeth G. Kapp wrote: Being faithful does not necessarily develop faith. The first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord, Jesus Christ. To have faith in him is to know him, to know his doctrine, and to know that the course of our life is in harmony with and...
by kdm | Jan 15, 2024 | #character, #discipline, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, For times of trouble, Learning?, Revelation, The Plan, Today's Post
Patricia T. Holland wrote: Christ’s promise to us forever is that we don’t have to do it alone. So let’s keep our focus on the right motives, let’s just try to look to him for life, let us try to lay up for ourselves treasures in heaven rather...