Posted in Character, Faith on Feb 22nd, 2008 Discussion »
I will be the last person on the earth to claim that my will is identical to the Lord’s. I am very often what I’d call a reluctant disciple. When God speaks through his prophets, I have sometimes been angry, annoyed, bugged, disappointed, argumentative, fill in the blank with the negative emotion of your choosing. […]
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Posted in Character, Faith on Feb 20th, 2008 Discussion »
In Moses 5 of the Pearl of Great Price we read that after Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden, “Adam and Eve, his wife, called upon the name of the Lord, and they heard the voice of the Lord from the way toward the Garden of Eden…
And he gave unto them […]
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Years ago, my sister in law had a medical emergency. She was bleeding profusely, but she still had the presence of mind to tell her husband her blood type. She managed to say, “B positive.” Her husband, worried as he was,
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The Savior teaches that we need to have a broken heart and a contrite spirit. (See 2 Nephi 2:7; 3 Nephi 9:20, 12:19.) I grew up in the Church, and consequently I have heard this phrase over and over. It seems that I even used to take it for granted in a “yada, yada, yada” […]
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Posted in Faith on Apr 20th, 2005 Discussion »
There was a man who was asleep one night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light and the Savior appeared. The Lord told the man He had a work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to […]
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An anonymous reader writes:
I am dealing with a big problem and don’t know what to do. I have been a convert for 15 years. My husband joined 8 years later. My husband was just called as a ward missionary. He works late every day and doesn’t get home until 7:00 or 7:30 pm. He hasn’t […]
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