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Category: Self Development

The Trouble With Competition: When Winning Is Losing

I remember riding in the car years ago with my beloved Grandpa Wallace. I was only a boy at the time. My brother, Alan, and I sat in the front seat with him. Grandpa took a pocketful of coins and … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on March 22, 2019Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on The Trouble With Competition: When Winning Is Losing

The Great Presumption

A bright, sensitive young man told me about his recent battle with his brother. Harsh words and threats were traded. The young man told me, “If he apologizes sincerely, I will forgive him. But I rather like being estranged. It … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on March 19, 2019Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on The Great Presumption

The Natural Leader Is An Enemy To God

It is hard to imagine Jesus nagging the apostles: “You guys need to get out there and spread the word. My ministry is half over and we haven’t reached our goals. I don’t know what I’m going to do with … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on March 13, 2019Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on The Natural Leader Is An Enemy To God

Nephi’s Psalm

 



It seems to me that great rejoicing in the Atonement is often evoked by great challenges in life. And Nephi’s Psalm in 2 Nephi 4 is a great case in point.

When we consider this chapter in perspective, … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on March 11, 2019Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on Nephi’s Psalm

Lehi’s Life Summary

 

Lehi’s Life Summary

Hugh Nibley said that there is a single verse that best encapsulates what the Atonement is all about and gives us a visual imagery for the significance of the Atonement. That verse is 2 Nephi 1:15.… Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on March 7, 2019Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on Lehi’s Life Summary

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

We have all experienced questions from others that left us feeling confused or humiliated. Often we are left wondering how to respond to cruelty and insensitivity. I recently read an article by a multiracial woman who had experienced several painful … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on March 6, 2019Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on Blessed Are the Peacemakers

JESUS WARS—THEN AND NOW

Philip Jenkins, the renowned historian, has observed that Christian orthodoxy “was hammered out in a process that was painfully slow, gradual, and often bloody” (2010, p. 17). Over the centuries of the early church councils, bishops and churchmen fought to … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on March 4, 2019Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on JESUS WARS—THEN AND NOW

Surrendering Our Way to Power

A central message of scripture is to submit ourselves to God (James 4:7, Mosiah 3:19, Alma 7:23; 13:28, Ether 12:27). When we empty ourselves of ourselves—our agendas, preferences, peeves, demands, expectations—God is able to take up occupancy in us. Filled … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on February 28, 2019Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on Surrendering Our Way to Power

Question: Strengths

A powerful idea from Martin Seligman’s excellent book, Authentic happiness: “Authentic happiness comes from identifying and cultivating your most fundamental strengths and using them every day in work, love, play, and parenting.”

Many of us fret endlessly about our mistakes, … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on February 26, 2019Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on Question: Strengths

A Few Ways To Assess Our Spiritual Progress

Years ago I read a talk by Truman Madsen in which he asked 20 questions to help us assess whether we are experiencing the Spirit in our lives. His questions included experiences such as feeling healed by the sacrament to … Read more

Author H. Wallace GoddardPosted on February 23, 2019Categories Self DevelopmentLeave a comment on A Few Ways To Assess Our Spiritual Progress

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