I have come to sense that God's response to the COVID-19 epidemic if he were in my place would be to stay home and make as little physical contact with others as possible. You might wonder how one could come to that conclusion. I'll explain. A Divine Influence I am a member of the Church … Continue reading Stay Home
I finished 2nd Timothy on December 31, 2019. Although I did not finish reading the later epistles, and my study of the Gospels this year did not progress my Harmony of the Gospels a great deal, I’ve done OK at doing what is needed to increase my gospel scholarship. So what did I learn of Paul’s … Continue reading Pauline Epistles
When Christ comes again, it will be the conclusion of terrible destruction throughout the world. Some, often the oppressed, believe the destruction will have been his retribution for all the pains he suffered. And surely that is true, for the scriptures say so. But as I survey his life, as an obscure child in a … Continue reading Blameless
The following is an extract from my journal about how duty and routine can help us in the midst of our trials. Monday, August 28, 2006 09:27 AM Buffalo, NY Duty I am definitely not excited to be here. But I read this quote nearly first thing when I boarded the flight this morning in … Continue reading Duty and Routine
A young friend of mine serving a mission for my church wrote in his weekly e-mail, "This week has been very slow we are having trouble finding people to teach. But we are working on it. " I responded with the following: I enjoy hearing about your work...and as you describe the difficulties of not having … Continue reading The Virtue of Killing Time (or Being Killed By It?)
The recent church announcements about temples have included it seems a disproportional number building temples on some very small islands, including Guam, Canary Islands, Okinawa Japan, Pago Pago America Samoa, Neiafu Tonga, and San Juan Puerto Rico. These places would never have the church membership necessary to justify a temple on the islands, simply because … Continue reading Isles of the Sea
In my Sunday school class, the teacher explained that unlike many of his epistles were to known contacts he knew, but this epistle was to a congregation he did not personally know. That point made me realize Rome was the most cosmopolitan city of this day. The congregation would likely have been like many of … Continue reading The Epistle to the Romans
The following are charts that can be used to teach much of Orienteering Merit Badge within Flower Mound, Texas. Here is a link to the orienteering merit badge requirements. There are also requirements for both 2nd Class and 1st Class that deal with Orienteering. The below can be used to fulfill most all the requirements … Continue reading Flower Mound Texas Post Oak Park Scout Orienteering Course
An article in the Dallas Morning News this morning reinforces my comment to an acquaintance on a flight. She expressed doubt that valuing virtues could ever win the war against the un-virtuous and asked how that would ever happen. "Because there is a natural bias to want to be virtuous. No one wants to be … Continue reading A Bias To Virtue
Why did the Savior refer to himself as the Son of Man? I think one reason is because the clarity of what it meant was not obvious; and yet it could be understood he was referring to the Divine Man, his Father in Heaven. Being too clear about his relationship would have put himself in … Continue reading Son of Man
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