You can't have everything--where would you put it?

From the talk Candle of the Lord by Boyd K. Packer:

I will tell you of an experience I had before I was a General Authority which affected me profoundly. I sat on a plane next to a professed atheist who pressed his disbelief in God so urgently that I bore my testimony to him. “You are wrong,” I said, “there is a God. I know He lives!”

He ( Read more... )

“Are You Saved by Grace or Works?” New Era, Mar. 2005, 38

Heavenly Father wants all of His children to return to Him. The help or strength He gives us through the love of Jesus Christ is called grace. The things we must do are called works.

To gain eternal life, we need both grace and works. A Christian author, C. S. Lewis, compared grace and ( Read more... )

"...the human mind is loath to search deeply into anything it desires not to understand."

--James E. Talmage, Jesus the Christ, pg. 355

1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost ( Read more... )

I sent out an email last night, but for those of you whose email addresses I may have lost or misplaced, I am going to post the message here too ( Read more... )

"Alcohol can damage nearly every organ and system in the body, contributing to more than 60 diseases and conditions, including dependence, liver cirrhosis and cardiovascular disease..."

"[Alcohol] is estimated to cause at least 1.8 million deaths a year - including suicides and road accidents blamed on drinking - or four percent of deaths and ( Read more... )

Yesterday I left with Timm up to Ellensburg to visit Tyler, and once we get up there my parents call to tell me that my mission call came in the mail. I've been eagerly awaiting this and so it was slightly frustrating (however amusing) to be in this situation. I told them not to open it, and I returned home this afternoon. Now for the big news ( Read more... )

I was fiddling around with my guitar yesterday and I played this little bit that I liked, so I recorded it, and then I had some other random ideas and added them, and pretty soon I had this 2 minute interlude thingy.  It reminds me of those random hidden tracks some bands have at the end of their albums.  You know, the kind where after the last ( Read more... )

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." --Einstein


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