by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Sep 23, 2009 | Basic Beliefs of Mormons, Mormon Principles, Practices & Precepts
Tithing is the payment of ten percent of your income to God. Mormon beliefs state that everything we have comes as a gift from God, and despite this, He asks that we return only ten percent to Him. The rest may be used for any moral purpose we choose. For Mormons, it...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Jul 31, 2009 | Discipleship: Follow the Savior
Unless we know what matters most to us, we will spend much of our life doing things that don’t matter to us as much as the things we neglect. To use our agency wisely, we have to know what we want out of life. One question I often as myself when faced with a choice to...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Jun 17, 2009 | Finding Happiness
The term “real men” is a popular one to bounce around, but the definition of a real man varies from culture to culture, even in the same country. Too many people equate true manhood with being rough and tough, liking freedom, doing as he pleases, and even being...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 14, 2009 | Frequently Asked Questions
Mormon women are regularly asked why they don’t demand to hold the priesthood, which is given only to worthy boys and men. This is sometimes seen as proof that Mormon women are not considered equal in the church. The truth is that faithful Mormon women devote...
by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Apr 9, 2009 | Mormons
At the April 2009 General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (sometimes called Mormons), history was made with the calling of Joseph W. Sitati to the First Quorum of the Seventy. He is the first black person from Africa to be called as a...
