by Jenny A | Jan 14, 2020 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons
“I do it myself!” shouts my three-year-old daughter as she struggles to put on her shoes. My offers to help are rejected as she fights to do something hard on her own. I am seeing free will (with a high level of frustration and intense, unrelenting...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Jul 6, 2019 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons, Mormon Principles, Practices & Precepts
Latter-day Saint scriptures teach that every person God creates is given gifts, talents, traits, and experiences from Him to be used to help others as well as to bless our own lives. They are His gifts to us, and what we choose to do with them is our gift to God. It...
by Ben | Jun 20, 2019 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons
All through my life, I’ve known the importance of temples. I’ve known they are necessary for us to know where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going after this life, because the temple ritual is a review of God’s Plan of Salvation. Temples are also...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Aug 30, 2018 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons
When the teenaged Nephi, the first Book of Mormon writer whose work we still have, received his first vision, it was in response to his desire to gain a testimony of the vision his father had just seen. While pondering and praying, an angel came to instruct him....
by Cindy B | Aug 16, 2018 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons
When I think on the goodness of God, it reminds me of the word “mercy,” and yet in so much more depth than the traditional meaning of mercy. Just what does “mercy” mean? If we go to most dictionaries, they will tell us traditional...
by George Domm | Jul 13, 2018 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons, Frequently Asked Questions
The debate over the true origin of man has been going on for centuries and maybe even millennia. In today’s world, how we came into being is divided into two basic camps or major points of view. On one hand, there is the group that says we evolved slowly...
