by Michelle DeGraw | Feb 28, 2008 | for Spirit
Note: This is edited from two posts I wrote on my personal blog in Nov. 2007. At the time, I felt compelled to write about this paradigm shift twice, to remind myself of how amazingly transcendent this epiphany was for me. I share this now because the Spirit prompted...
by Ray DeGraw | Feb 24, 2008 | for Spirit
It is one thing to discuss the power of the Gospel—to analyze Joseph Smith—History 1:19 (which I will do here eventually) and dissect what it means to “deny the power (of godliness).” It is quite another to discuss the power of the Church. A little...
by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 22, 2008 | for Spirit
I will be the last person on the earth to claim that my will is identical to the Lord's. I am very often what I'd call a reluctant disciple. When God speaks through his prophets, I have sometimes been angry, annoyed, bugged, disappointed, argumentative, fill in the...
by Tracy Keeney | Feb 20, 2008 | for Spirit
In Moses 5 of the Pearl of Great Price we read that after Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, his wife, called upon the name of the Lord, and they heard the voice of the Lord from the way toward the Garden of Eden… And he gave unto...
by Ray DeGraw | Feb 11, 2008 | for Spirit
Our best friends in Alabama—our closest friends in our married life—called today to give us an update on their lives. When we finished crying, I immediately thought of how well the Lord knows us and how regularly He touches our lives—so much more fully than we...
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...
