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Self Development
Misunderstanding God’s Eternal Placement Program
Posted On March 24, 2025

God has designed an intriguing eternal placement program for all of us. When I started college, I was sure that I should be an electrical engineer. I loved all my little …

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Self Development
Have You Experienced the Mighty Change?
December 30, 2024

The brother of Jared—that amazing disciple who pierced the veil with his faith—acknowledged, “Now behold, O Lord, and do not be angry with thy servant because of his weakness before …


Self Development
Seeing the Forest in the Trees: The Sacred Invitation of the Temple
December 2, 2024

Several years ago, I knew a man who said that he had mastered the temple endowment. I was intrigued. He claimed that he could sit down and sleep for an …


Parenting
Bringing Compassion to Parenting
November 18, 2024

Since I consider the book Between Parent and Child by Haim Ginott to be a masterwork of empathetic, yet disciplined child raising, I was delighted when Haim’s widow, Alice Ginott, …


Free Resources  / Self Development
The Core Doctrine of the Book of Mormon
October 21, 2024

There are unnumbered treasures in the Book of Mormon! In 2005, I published a series of thirteen articles about the ways that great book of scripture acts as a latter-day …


Self Development
God’s Trophies
October 7, 2024

Quite often something that is almost too good to be true. A sunset. A field of wildflowers. A starry night. A delectable peach. Over the years, when we ran into a …


Self Development
Life is Perfect
September 13, 2024

Why do I react so strongly to such trivial things? My usually reliable ball-point pen was not working. I scribbled circles on scratch paper to get it warmed up. I tried …


Helping Hands
The Refugee Surprise
August 27, 2024

I was reluctant at first. Nancy and I were glad to have become involved with a local agency that assists refugees. But when the agency asked Nancy and me to …


Free Resources  / Marriage
Looking at Our Marriages from God’s Perspective
August 12, 2024

How would you define the purposes of marriage? Love and companionship? Stability? Building a family? Social expectations? There are a lot of reasons people marry and, more often than not, …


Self Development
The Problem with Praying for What We Want
May 20, 2024

“Don’t you believe in miracles? Why should we pray at all if we can’t get miracles?” An earnest Latter-day Saint pressed me for answers about her friend’s looming family disaster. “We …