by kdm | Mar 15, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Atonement, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
continuing from * Desperation is for Unbelievers ~ (yesterdays post). . . William B. Smart, Messages for a Happier Life, Inspiring Essays from the Church News (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1989), 14-15 Fanaticism can, and often does, grow from such faith. The world...
by kdm | Mar 14, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Christ Ministry, fear, Nurture, spiritual workout, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From William B. Smart, author of “Messages for a Happier Life”. . . ‘Inspiring Essays from the Church News”: Cutting across the mountainous border separating Pakistan and Afghanistan lies the Khyber Pass, the historic invasion route from...
by kdm | Mar 12, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, choices, Christ Ministry, Family, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From Christine A. Tanner and the book “50 Things that really matter to Latter-day Saints”: I have been fascinated by people’s hands all of my life. How they look, how they feel, and especially by what they can do. If you look closely, our hands tell...
by kdm | Mar 11, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, choices, Christ Ministry, fear, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan
From the book ‘Blessed from on High’: Wherefore, lift up your heads and rejoice, and gird up your loins, and take upon you the whole armor, that ye may be able to withstand the evil day. . . . Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth,...
by kdm | Mar 9, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, For times of trouble, spiritually strong, The Plan, Today's Post
From ‘The Will of God as a Way of Life’, Jerry Sittser writes: The conventional approach to discovering the will of God has a . . . problem. It betrays a false and negative view of God. It implies that God, for some reason, “hides” his will and...
by kdm | Mar 8, 2024 | #character, #discipline, agency, Choice, Modern Prophets, The Plan
From Richard L. Evans, The Man and the Message: “The deepest hunger in human beings,” said William James, “is the desire to be appreciated.” A wife, a mother can put up with faults and imperfections—with inadequate income,...