As members of the Church we all get new callings. Here are posts to help us learn how to do things at church.
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, [...]
I'm going out on a limb here and guessing there haven't been very many of us who haven't had a tough time reading the scriptures at some point in our lives. Someone was asking for help with this problem on [...]
There seems to be some confusion in the minds of some members of the Church as to the reason we pray in the name of Jesus. They don't seem to have a problem with doing it, but I get the [...]
I recently asked the readers of my newsletter to respond and let me know what kinds of things I could address that would be helpful to them. One person responded with a concern that it was difficult to make prayers [...]
At one point, when my mother was in rehab for a broken leg, she asked me to help her think of a spiritual thought she could present at their Family Home Evening (FHE) group. She said, 'What do you say [...]
The Savior served wherever he saw a need. He didn't withhold his kindness and generosity of spirit from those who were socially undesirable or those who were financially insolvent. His love was both boundless and without boundaries. We, on the [...]
The ministering landmines to which I refer in this article don't come from ministering itself, but from us, the members of the Church. Ministering is the solution to our problems, not the problem itself. To help me make my points [...]