As members of the Church we all get new callings. Here are posts to help us learn how to do things at church.
This is a written musing caused by my going to Church today. The topic in Priesthood meeting was repentance. What I was feeling was not matching up with my knowledge of repentance. That is what got me thinking. Why do [...]
There is good reason for why the Brethren don't give us a manual on how to receive personal revelation. The reason is because it is personal, and that means that each person will learn it in their own way and [...]
From NASA When we study the gospel, if there is one thing that is always guaranteed to happen it's that we will make discoveries and have thoughts we never anticipated when we sat down to study. The Spirit [...]
I needed to write this article in two columns, and Wordpress doesn't have that feature. As a result I used the only word processor that offers parallel columns - WordPerfect. Click the link below to open the article in PDF [...]
I have come to believe that any of us can be spiritually as worthy as any Apostle. I used to think such a belief was presumptuous and arrogant, as though apostles had some corner on the market for spirituality. I [...]
Today's society is governed by an addiction to offense, an ease in criticizing others, and a tendency to dismiss other's opinions or feelings in favor of our personal point of view. Even writing this last sentence filled me with visions [...]
As the Church becomes more comfortable with the concept of ministering, our imaginations can still run amok. This is a higher, holier way to serve, but are many of us tossing out that which is sacred and needed in our [...]
The act of writing something down on paper can be called by various names. We can refer to writing in a diary, or we can talk about taking notes, recording impressions, journaling, or any number of other designations. No matter [...]
I was the organist at a funeral I attended recently. As I sat there looking over the music I was to play next, I only half heard what the current speaker was saying. I don't know what he said, but [...]
As we prepare for General Conference, let's consider one way in which the Lord requires us to learn, through hunger. There is physical hunger, and that can teach us its own set of lessons, and then there is spiritual hunger, [...]