As members of the Church we all get new callings. Here are posts to help us learn how to do things at church.
Understanding Christlike love, how it is supposed to be felt, given, and expressed, is not easy. Love is learned. It is complicated, yet simple. Let's take a glimpse at this celestial trait. Figuring out love Many years ago, when I [...]
Photo by Matt Collamer on Unsplash Let's talk commitment in relationships. Just as commitment is required in a relationship, so too it is required in a calling in the Church. I was discussing social protocol with my children [...]
We are told that all things testify of God. In this case it is pole beans and scripture study. I truly never thought I would put those two things into the same sentence. This piece is about my experience with [...]
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash The first day's lesson in the Come, Follow Me lessons for Alma 32-35 asks "how you prepare to hear the word of God." My first thought was, "I don't prepare myself to [...]
Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash "The world" is one of those phrases that both smacks of danger and allure. If we lived in a one dimensional existence it would be easy to explain and understand the world. [...]
Faith has historically been a difficult principle to describe with any clarity. Sure, we all have the stock definitions of faith, but for many those stock definitions haven't made faith any easier to understand. After reading the New Testament Come, [...]
Quote by Kelly Merrill When I was young someone told me it was important to gain an eternal perspective. I didn't know what that meant. It took years to figure out on my own what an eternal perspective [...]
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 [...]