The keys to miracles are laid out in Spencer Kimball’s book “Faith Precedes the Miracle” available used on Amazon.

Personal guidance and revelation through the Holy Ghost, also being forms of miracles, are accessed with the same keys.

A bull was grazing in a field near a stream. Now in that country there was a flock of escaped parrots who busied themselves in other people’s matters. (more…)

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Background

Back in the day.

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In the modern West, there is a vast work to do in rescuing people from (self-)damnation – in saving them. This is the speciality of various ‘Evangelical’ Protestant groups – indeed, I think it is a fair generalization to say that this is almost all of what such churches do: they are geared to win Christian converts (i.e. those who come to Jesus and are born-again) – and when they have done this, the new converts are enlisted to do more of the same for others. (more…)

From Joseph Hertzlinger.

CDC baffled over what could possibly be causing this.

His Majesty: “Yet another reason to favor cloning.”

(Trigger warnings: Well, pretty much all of them.)

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From Obergefell that has received less attention than it deserves.

The real status quo candidate.

One of the recurring themes at Jeff Lindsay’s blog, www.Mormanity.org, is the translation process of the Book of Mormon. (more…)

One practice of the Latter-day Saints is to bear testimony of the gospel. In particular, one worship service each month is devoted to members bearing testimonies to their wards. Another practice is to joke about baring testimony. That is when instead of carrying an edifying message to hearers, saints lose track of their purpose at the pulpit in excessively revealing ways, sharing stories of family trips, or health concerns, or experience with sin that others may not feel at ease hearing about so intimately.

Last week I spent several hours with the first chapter of John (“In the beginning was the Word, . . .”), and a minor repeated detail of John the Baptist’s ministry was noticeable:
“John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.”
“And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.”
“And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.”

So, the homophone isn’t so wrong after all.

I don’t drink tea.

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(Trigger Warning for…everything)

SCENARIO 1:

Terrorist: Let everyone on this list of political prisoners free by midnight Friday or I will blow myself up in a public place and kill innocent bystanders.

Society: We don’t negotiate with terrorists!

SCENARIO 2:

Abused wife: He says if I ever leave him, he’ll kill himself, and I believe him.

Society: Girlfriend, you cannot let him blackmail you into spending your whole life with an abuser just because he says he’ll kill himself. He’s accountable for his own decisions, and you need to do what’s right for you and your kids.

SCENARIO 3:

LGBT Activists and Fellow-Travelers: If you don’t change your whole belief system to accommodate every conceivable sexual orientation and paraphilia, teenagers will kill themselves and their blood will be on your hands!

Society: Sounds serious, you’d better give them what they’re asking for unless you want kids to kill themselves. (more…)