Marriage & Family
Teaching our kids not to be courageous (cyber-courageous)
It seems like rude is the new polite.
It is nearly impossible to go anywhere in public and not see someone or a lot of someones sitting or walking around with their attention fixed on the little device in their hand. Looking at a tiny display, swiping a finger on that tiny screen, or typing their fingers on that tiny screen.
Everyone is now connected to a data server thousands of miles away caught in the virtual world removed from reality. In a distant past, people use to eat dinner together, talk to one another (in person), and...
Strengthening Your Marriage With The Scriptures
So now that you have settled all your fights using the scriptures (if you don’t know what this is referring to read our previous blog post), now it is time to grow and strengthen your marriage. As the scriptures are a great place to receive revelation, guidance, and support, what better place to turn to when working with your spouse to build your marriage into an eternal marriage.
This is far from an exhaustive list, but here are a few scriptures to help everyone trying to build their marriage...
How to win fights with your spouse using the scriptures
For those spouses who are in a perfect marriage and never fight you can stop reading now. I mean it, you can go back to your perfect life and disregard this blog post. For the other 99.9% of spouses that have an imperfect marriage and occasionally (or frequently) fight, don’t you want some scriptures that you can quote that helps you win the fight? Those powerful scriptures that prove that you are right and your spouse is wrong. Well you are in luck, after winning and losing many fights with my wife, okay mostly losing them because I have a...
Gifts and Talents God Has Given Men and Women
There is a common misconception that women within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints do not have the power of the priesthood. This is false. While women within the church do not hold the priesthood, we are never without the ability to be blessed by the power of the priesthood.
Sadly, many would have us believe otherwise. Regarding this issue Elder Bruce R. McConkie has said; “Some will try to convince Latter-day Saint women that because they are not ordained to hold the priesthood, they have been shortchanged, that women are second-class...
Lead Me Guide Me - Raising righteous children
When I was a young man growing up in the LDS church, I had the opportunity of going to youth conference each year. Many of the years that I attended youth conference, we would do the “Hold to the Rod” rope course. For those of you that may never have done this type of course before, the leaders set up a rope that goes through a grove of trees. The course wound back and forth, wrapped around trees, and had twists and turns.
Once the rope course was set up, the leaders had the...