Category: discipleship

May 8, 2013

Other Mothers

The sacred calling of mother is conferred upon women by both ...

May 5, 2013

Purity of Heart

[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray ...

April 21, 2013

The Difference Between Mercy and Meekness and Kindness

[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray ...

April 14, 2013

Forbearance to Inflict Harm: Practical Mercy

[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray ...

April 5, 2013

Gifts (Estates) Precede Callings

This is the third in a 7-part series, A Compound in One.  As I studied ...

March 31, 2013

It Is Finished: Death on Easter Sunday

Easter Sunday is the ultimate celebration of life - the glorious ...

March 27, 2013

Brad Wilcox, Continuous

In a delightful pair of books, popular LDS author and speaker ...

March 26, 2013

Equal Opportunity Prayer, For only $5!!

I am not sure how many of you have heard of ...

March 24, 2013

Mercy: “Judge Not, that Ye Be Not Judged”

[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray ...

March 23, 2013

Be Ye Therefore Perfect

Matthew 5:48 quotes Jesus Christ as saying, "Be ye therefore perfect, ...

March 22, 2013

Spiritual Education Through Sin

We are often told that the only thing that we truly ...

March 17, 2013

Becoming More Merciful

[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray ...

March 16, 2013

Loving Pope Francis

This morning I heard, “I will pray for him and for ...

March 15, 2013

Covenant Motherhood: A Review

Our friend Stephanie has written a beautiful, accessible treatise on the ...

March 10, 2013

What Satisfies Hunger and Thirst?

I have been struck more than once by the way our ...

March 9, 2013

Gospel Friendship

President Gordon B. Hinckley said that every convert needs three things: ...

March 4, 2013

That for Which I Hunger and Thirst – and the Place of Blogging in My Pursuit

[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray ...

March 1, 2013

Do God and Satan Negotiate My Trials?

As a group of editors, we find there are questions that ...

February 25, 2013

What is Influencing You?

Sheri Dew visited our area for a 3-Stake fireside Saturday night. ...

February 18, 2013

How To Help Someone Who Is Depressed: An LDS Perspective

This guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series is by Sarah ...

February 17, 2013

Understanding Dementia

Today's guest essay in our Peculiar Minds series comes from Cassandra.  It’s ...

February 13, 2013

Why the Basics Are Not Always So “Basic”

Language is a fluid concept. An english dictionary from two hundred ...

February 12, 2013

The Unspeakable Gift

I was buffeted by images of people recoiling in their living ...

February 10, 2013

Managing Hunger and Thirst

[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray ...

February 6, 2013

Life Infusions from Lives Lived Well

When we are young, it seems that we will live forever. ...

February 3, 2013

Hungering and Thirsting after Righteousness

[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray ...

January 27, 2013

Reflections on Meekness: Being Gentler With the Ones We Love

[On Sundays this year we are publishing a series from Ray ...

January 21, 2013

Three questions from the 1964 Freedom Summer

A few days ago, my brother made the observation that Americans ...

January 20, 2013

Blessed are the Meek: Defining Meekness as a Personal Quest

[Over the next few Sundays we are publishing a series from ...

January 18, 2013

Vision of Hope

“Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we ...

January 13, 2013

The Paradox of Spiritual Debt

[Over the next few Sundays we are publishing a series from ...

January 12, 2013

Growing Sin

I don’t like the word repent. Short and chopped at the ...

January 6, 2013

Thoughts on Spiritual Poverty

[Over the next few Sundays we are publishing a series from ...

January 3, 2013

A Stream of Testimony

As the old year ends and the new begins, the editors ...

December 23, 2012

Greater Love Hath No Man than This

I have thought a lot in the past about the idea ...

December 22, 2012

Mary and Christmas

It's getting cold outside, where I live. The nights are getting ...

December 21, 2012

The Gift of the Gospel

This is the twelfth and final in a series by our ...

December 20, 2012

The Gift of Oneness

This is the eleventh in a series by our writers and ...

December 18, 2012

Foundational Thoughts about Spiritual Gifts

This is the ninth in a series by our writers and ...

December 13, 2012

Tangible Gifts

This is the fourth in a series by our writers and ...

December 10, 2012

Jared, His Brother, and Spiritual Gifts

This is the first in a series by our writers and ...

December 7, 2012

Salvation in This Life

Those who crucified Jesus did so because they could not accept ...

December 3, 2012

Seeing God in the Caterpillars Among Us

I was struck by something a while ago that I have ...

November 30, 2012

Making the Gospel a Review, Not a Revelation

When I first became a parent I believed that it was ...

November 29, 2012

Motherhood – Service of the Highest Order

The most service I ever do is my day in and ...

November 25, 2012

A Fresh View of Repentance

The Bible Dictionary defines repentance as: "a change of mind, i.e., a ...

November 21, 2012

Be Zealous to Save Souls

What is the difference between over-zealousness, zealousness, and apathy? The scriptures ...

November 18, 2012

The Map: Imagine If

My second daughter is a senior in high school.  She wrote ...

November 17, 2012

Candy to My Soul

It’s that time of year where sweet temptations are constantly at ...

November 11, 2012

“Remember” as a Missionary Principle

My mind is prone to wandering to and fro trying to ...

November 7, 2012

No Turning Back Now

While half of our nation is in a relative state of ...

November 6, 2012

A Storm of Anger

Lying here in the dark I hear the rumbling of a ...

November 2, 2012

Embracing Grace

I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me - ...

October 31, 2012

Dia de Los Muertos

Halloween coincides with the Mexican festival Dia de Los Muertos (Nov ...

October 28, 2012

Understanding Commandments

Too often commandments look like a crazy quilt of random historical ...

October 27, 2012

Our Matriarch

My maternal grandmother is 90 years old. She has been a ...

October 26, 2012

Appraising Souls

One of my favorite talks from the October 2012 General Conference ...

October 25, 2012

Carrying His Load

I had an interesting insight during a prayer one morning a ...

October 24, 2012

The President’s Ward

Not long ago I read an article in The Washington Post ...

October 23, 2012

Does God Need Me?

I sat doubled over in the temple dressing room stall sobbing ...

October 22, 2012

Peoria Tree of Life

with Richard Shook, artist This year I’ve had the opportunity to watch my ...

October 20, 2012

The Autumn of Our Lives

While driving through the mountains on a crisp beautiful autumn day, ...

October 19, 2012

To Prosper in the Land

Prosperity.  We want some of that, don’t we?  Here’s what my ...

October 18, 2012

Digging Deep Wells

I sat in the evening session of Stake Conference last month ...

October 17, 2012

The Wonder of Warts

It is a basic medical truism that in order to be ...

October 16, 2012

If Ye Do This, Ye Shall Always…

Months ago, I was preparing to teach the gospel doctrine lesson ...

October 10, 2012

A Tale of Two Frames

Let's say we encounter a carefully crafted piece of language--whether it's ...

October 5, 2012

We cannot say, “I have no need of you”

21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no ...

October 4, 2012

The Problem with the Popular Perception of Perfection

OK, the title is intentionally over-the-top alliteration, but I believe ...

October 1, 2012

Stale Bread

I had a dream about bread last night. In my dream, I ...

September 30, 2012

With Willing Hands

"The meeting that unfolded has to be the worst meeting in ...

September 29, 2012

Receiving God’s Image in Our Countenances Does Not Destroy Individuality

I saw a very profound, short statement on the wall of ...

September 28, 2012

The Simple Pleasures of Home

His hand grips the glass of cool, creamy milk. ...

September 28, 2012

Ghazal

My grandfather, Gurcharan Singh Gill, is the kind of grounded, giving ...

September 27, 2012

Empty Nets

I’m pretty sure I’m on a List at church. It’s the ...

September 26, 2012

A Comfortable Dead Watch

My eyes darted across my dresser one last time as I ...

September 24, 2012

Is Faith Your Personal Story?

Everyone has a story. Not very many people record it, especially ...

September 24, 2012

The Bright Night of My Soul

I wrote the following on Mormon Matters a while ago, but ...

September 20, 2012

Mites

Our ward is noisy. We are a young ward, with a ...