by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Nov 24, 2008 | Finding Truth
When Joseph Smith was a teenager, he longed to know which church he should join. He found himself confused because each church he looked into had contradictory doctrine. How could they all be right, as some claimed? Rightly so, he sensed that truth was absolute and...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Nov 22, 2008 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
It’s easy enough to do the right thing when everyone agrees it’s the right thing and is also doing it. It’s another to make the right choices when the world is against you and you are standing alone, or at least in the minority. This requires moral courage. In the...
by Ben | Oct 6, 2008 | Finding Happiness
It is reported that Brigham Young (1801-1877), the second president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Mormons, once said, “we should pray as if everything depended on the Lord, then work as if it all depended on...
by Laurie W | Oct 6, 2008 | Finding Truth
“To hear this loved song rendered by an assembly of devoted Latter-day Saints is a spiritual baptism” (Stories of Our Mormon Hymns, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1968, p. 108). ~ J. Spencer Cornwall Hymns are said to be a prayer offered to the Lord: “For my soul...
by Jenny A | Sep 27, 2008 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
There is a children’s song that has lines in the chorus: “Lead me, guide me, walk beside me, help me find the way. Teach me all that I must do to live with Him someday.” (I Am a Child of God) Finding ways to lead and guide children is the goal of parents in the Church...
by Laurie W | Aug 22, 2008 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
“It can’t hurt.” “Try it just this once.” “It’s not like taking one drink/puff/shot/etc. will make you addicted.” Heard these phrases before? My husband, a bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (nicknamed the Mormon Church), was directed to put...
