by Ray DeGraw | Feb 5, 2008 | for Spirit
There was a lady in Sapporo (Japan) who had been meeting with the missionaries for almost two years, while simultaneously attending another church and listening to their lessons. By the time my companion and I started teaching her, just about everyone thought it was...
by Ray DeGraw | Jan 29, 2008 | for Spirit
It is a basic medical truism that you cannot be cured of an illness unless you go to a doctor…or someone else who can heal you. In order to be healed, you need to expose the problem that is troubling you to someone who can recognize it and offer assistance that will...
by Ray DeGraw | Jan 22, 2008 | for Spirit
When we become members of the Church, we covenant to take upon ourselves certain responsibilities. We promise to comfort those who stand in need of comfort and mourn with those that mourn. We agree to the sacramental covenants, then Priesthood or YW's covenants, then...
by Ray DeGraw | Jan 15, 2008 | for Spirit
I stand all amazed at the love Jesus offers me, confused at the grace that so fully he proffers me. I have been struck recently by how little we discuss grace in the Church. We talk about the Atonement and faith and hope and works and love and forgiveness and so many...
by Ray DeGraw | Jan 11, 2008 | for Spirit
As my first venture into this forum as an actual column contributor, I am going to post something I wrote for my own blog recently. First, however, a little background on my basic philosophy of life as a process of becoming. I believe in a very simple framework for...
