So Close

I have a friend, a non-member friend, who attends church every Sunday with his wife. He sits there stoically and unsmilingly. I’ve never seen him smile. I don’t know if he can. I suspect that he is there because of a deal that he made with his wife. He doesn’t look happy to be there.

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Born Again

As a new member of the Church I had just come from darkness to light, from depression to joy, from ignorance to knowledge,

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Salvation

People of other faiths spend much time and energy talking about “being saved.” They promote being saved as the object, goal, and ultimate condition to which we should seek.

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The Process of Sanctification

The authorship of the following article is 90% Marjorie, and 10% James. Women who opt out of becoming mothers, or who purposely have only one or two children—women who choose to follow men into the workplace and be like men—miss the best opportunity to become sanctified, and must achieve sanctification like men do.

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Traction

David A. Bednar told the story of his friend who bought a pickup, took it up in the snowy mountains to get a load of firewood, and promptly got stuck. He was unable to extricate the pickup from where it was stuck in the snow.

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