Mormon Lives Matter

Christ Heals That Which Is Broken         By Amy A. Wright While the Savior was teaching in the temple, a woman was brought to Him by the scribes and Pharisees. We do not know her full story, just that she was “taken in adultery.” Often the scriptures give only a small portion of someone’s life, and based on that portion, we sometimes tend to exalt or condemn. No one’s life can be understood by one magnificent moment or one regrettable public disappointment. The purpose of these scriptural accounts is to help us see that Jesus Christ was the answer then, and He is the answer now.

Do What Mattereth Most Rebecca L. Craven Excerpts from her talk.  I had a sweet experience with a darling young woman who asked a very sincere question: “Sister Craven, how do you know that anything about the Church is true? Because I feel nothing.”    Before jumping to an answer, I first asked her some questions. “Tell me about your personal scripture study.”    She replied, “I don’t read the scriptures.”    I asked, “What about with your family? Do you study Come, Follow Me together?”    She said, “No.”    I asked about her prayers: “What do you feel when you pray?”    Her answer: “I don’t pray.”    My response to her was simple: “If you want to know anything, you will have to do something.” Isn’t that true with anything we want to learn or know? I invited my new friend to start doing the gospel of Jesus Christ: praying, studying, serving others, and trusting in the Lord. Conversion won’t come while doing ...

God said to preach his gospel. But that verb has some negative connotations. People don't like to be talked down to or feel like they are being judged. Share, listen, love, serve, be an example are much better verbs that describe the very basic essence of preaching like Step 12 says: 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to sexaholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Why doesn't God make it more obvious to his children that He lives and witness more to His church? 

King James Version Numbers 6: 26 The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. NIV Numbers 6:26 NIV the LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace.  The Lord is turning his face toward us because he wants to communicate with us - not literally with words most of the time but with friends and family who love the Lord and love you. 

Certainly not as in Numbers 6 where you don't drink wine or grapes, cut your hair or go near a dead person even if it's your own family. (vowing to be a Nazarite). Why did the Lord I want the children of Israel to stay away from deceased and dead people. Maybe it was because how easily bacteria could spread if the person died of unknown causes or disease. Question, what does it mean in the scripture: D&C 59:21 "And in nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things, and obey not his commandments." The Savior sums up the counsel given “according to law and the prophets” (D&C 59:22) by declaring that the root of many of our sorrows is a lack of acknowledgement of the Lord’s hand in our lives and a lack of appreciation for the blessings He has given to us. As the Saints in Missouri entered into their great experiment in consecration, the Lord reminded them that the central tenet of that law was ...

Failing to be valiant in Christian discipleship will leave us without significant happiness. Therefore, our active avoidance of wickedness must be followed by our active engagement in righteousness. Then we can come to know true joy—after all, man is that he might have joy (see 2 Ne. 2:25). Furthermore, certain taste buds of our souls may have been burned over by sin, and our Father desires that we regenerate these by repentance. Our Heavenly Father also desires the development of what are presently the many other neglected taste buds of our souls. These, when they are really developed, will bring even greater happiness and true joy. This sounds like Elder Maxwell.