by Michelle DeGraw | Dec 15, 2007 | for Spirit
Over the past six or seven years our (previous and current) bishopric has developed and maintained a Ward Vision Statement. It includes the following: We are homeward bound. Our destination is the Celestial Kingdom. Our journey consists of learning how to live the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Dec 1, 2007 | Book Club, for Spirit
Mary, Martha, and Me: Seeking for the One Needful Thing By Camille Fronk Olson When someone says, “She is a Martha-type,” we know just what that means: a woman who is practical, competent, down-to-earth. We understand that Marthas are certainly useful and...
by Alison Moore Smith | Nov 1, 2007 | Book Club, for Spirit
Mormon Doctrine By Bruce R. McConkie Preface from Mormon Doctrine: This work on Mormon Doctrine is designed to help persons seeking salvation to gain that knowledge of God and his laws without which they cannot hope for an inheritance in the celestial city. Since it...
by Joyce Anderson | Oct 22, 2007 | for Spirit
Recently I taught a Sunday school lesson on the Plan of Salvation. As I began to prepare my lesson, I mistakenly thought that I would be finished in no time, because I am a returned missionary, I've been a member of the Church all of my life, I was weaned on the Plan...
by Alison Moore Smith | Oct 6, 2007 | for Spirit
Elder Quentin L. Cook [This biographical sketch appeared in the August 29, 2007, News from the Church in the News Archives.] Elder Quentin L. Cook was sustained as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on April 4, 1998. He served in the Second Quorum of the...
by M. Linford | Sep 20, 2007 | for Spirit
I recently went through a difficult spiritual slump. This type of struggle has been an on-and-off thing for me for much of my life. Although I have a burning testimony of the gospel, I sometimes slip into a mode where guilt, frustration, and inadequacy overwhelm...
