When you study the lives of Abraham and his descendants, it becomes obvious that they waited a long time for the ‘normal’ milestones of life to occur. Although they lived longer than we do now, the waiting periods were still long, and the relative life stages are comparable enough to ours. Abraham and Sarah were … Continue reading Waiting: Abraham, Rebekah, Jacob, Rachel, Joseph, and Moses did it too
On the one hand, we must recognise that we are nothing; on the other, we learn that to God, we are everything, and He will give us everything. We are His heirs, “joint-heirs with Christ” Continue reading Unprofitable servants and joint-heirs
I’ve heard about Al Fox/Carraway – a woman who joined the LDS church several years ago, and was famous either because she had heaps of tatoos, or some other reason. I don’t go for the famous and popular in the Church (or elsewhere, really) but today when I looked at her blog, I just liked … Continue reading Change and overcoming (wisdom from Al Fox)
When the young Joseph announced his experience in the woods, no-one except his family, who knew him well, believed him – he was just a young farmer’s boy; what would he know? Why would God reveal himself to a farmer’s uneducated boy and not a learned theologian? Pah! Continue reading The legacy of Joseph Smith
I studied Chapter 18, Beware of Pride, in the Teachings of the Presidents of the Church – President Ezra T. Benson manual last week after Church (I work in Primary, so home study is the only way I get these at the moment) and it was powerful! At first, I thought I was probably just going … Continue reading Beware of pride
Peaceable Treasures 