Loving Life, Trials and All
Everyone has trials. How we handle them will determine the quality of our lives.
Helping the Unemployed on a Personal Level
So many people are out of work right now. How can you help them meet both long-term and short-time needs?
Finding Yourself
To find yourself, find God
Hope in Difficult Times
What can Mormon beliefs offer you in the way of hope during these challenging times?
Getting to Know God
Building a relationship with God is much like building a relationship with anyone else in your life.
Learning Without Going to School
There are times and seasons for everything, and sometimes it’s not our time to go back to school. This is especially true for mothers of young children. This doesn’t, however, mean we have to turn off our brain until we have the time and money to continue our formal...
Abish and Spiritual Strength
Abish was a woman who worked in the palace where Ammon, a popular Book of Mormon missionary, was temporarily serving the king as a shepherd. She had been converted but no one else in her community believed in the church and she had to keep her own testimony private....
God Has the Bigger Picture: A Mormon Message of Comfort in Troubled Times
by Karen R. Trifiletti (This is Part I of a reproduction of a fireside presentation to Mormon Youth on October 21, 2001.) We lifted my eight-year old daughter, Talia and held her up over the retaining wall in the back yard where she glimpsed the world from a few feet...
A Brand New Year
The Mormons have a new website for teenagers. While aimed at Mormon teens, there are aspects of it that will appeal to teens of any faith. The website is called A Brand New Year and is designed to help teenagers make this a really great year where they commit...
New Years Resolutions for New Mormons
Congratulations! You’ve joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and have become what is sometimes called a Mormon. Your whole eternity looks different now, but you may be feeling a bit overwhelmed about what steps to take next. With the new year just...
Changing the Music in Your Home
Once we become aware of the power of music to influence our spirituality for good or bad, we often start to take inventory of the types of music in our homes. This leads to a need to remove some types of music and replace it with others. However, that can seem a bit...
Christmas Service the Savior’s Way
In this year’s Christmas devotional, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (nicknamed the Mormons), President Monson, talked about the innkeepers who turned away Mary and Joseph as they sought a place for Jesus to be born. He thought that...
Mormon Marriage and Family Relations Course
Mormons attend church three hours each week. After the basic service, they attend two other classes. In addition to the regular courses, there are optional courses offered periodically in wards (congregations) as needed. One is the Marriage and Family Relations...
When Mormon Missionaries Knock on Your Door
Most people have found Mormon missionaries standing at their door from time to time. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you invited them in? Their responsibility is to deliver a message to those who are interested. The message may vary, based on what they...
Mormons Leadership in Congregations
The Mormons (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), have a lay church, meaning the leaders are not paid. Everyone volunteers their time, which offers extensive opportunity for personal growth and the development of new skills. Leadership is...
Jesus Showed Respect to a Blind Man
One of my favorite stories of Jesus’ many services to those in need is that of his healing of the blind man, Bartimaeus. 46 And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus,...
Why Can’t Everyone Go into the Temple?
When I was in high school, some placement tests gave the school the idea that I should be in classes for gifted students in every subject. While I was quite advanced in some areas, such as English or history, I had very little background information in science. The...
Truth is Absolute
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...
Noah’s Ark and Moral Courage
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...
Proverbs 31:9
Proverbs 31:9 Open thy mouth, , and plead the cause of the poor and needy. The Bible devotes a great deal of time to teaching us our responsibility toward the poor. There are those who read the scripture that says the poor will always be with us, and feel that means...
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