For many believers, marriage, even inside a church, is a civil contract made between two people. It is an agreement formed with the best intention between those who have decided to wed. Often, God did not lead them to be together and thus, just as your decision to wed was yours, your...
I made every effort to ascertain the signification of Ah-wah-ne, but could never fully satisfy myself, as I received different interpretations at different times. In endeavoring to ascertain from Ten-ie-ya his explanation of the name, he, by the motion of his hands, indicated depth, while...
Living in Los Angeles is a lot like folding a fitted sheet: It seems almost impossible to do well — until someone shares a tip or two that smooths things out and makes the whole process infinitely easier to navigate. I’ve been the beneficiary of many a Los Angeles life hack ov...
Once more I must qualify this by saying that the history of the Church, and of preachers, shows quite plainly that sometimes the Church can make a mistake. She has done so many times, and has rejected men who have proved by their records as preachers that they were obviously called of G...
Many mormons don’t dare stop paying tithing, because they believe misfortune will visit them if they do. The randomness in my life didn’t change at all after I stopped paying it. What did happen is that I gained a 10% raise and developed an internal locus of control. ...
19 For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute; he has seized houses he did not build. 20 “Surely he will have no respite from his craving; he cannot save himself by his treasure.21 Nothing is left for him to devour; his prosperity will not endure.22 In the midst of his...
Before long, I had dozens of stories and within about two years, I had around three dozen of them published traditionally. That first book went nowhere, by the way. But my short stories surely did. And I learned a whole lot about the writing craftbecauseI spent so much time practicing ...
I guess the government wants to keep this secret so that only they move to higher ground, and the rest of us drown. Those who survive are expected to riot. My point is that all this will most likely occur during the time of the Wrath of God. The saints should have been raptured by...
Everything points to a major political crisis brewing in France and there is talk that perhaps France should also now move to exit the EU – FREXIT. … Macron admitted inJanuary 2018that if the French people were given a right to vote of FREXIT, a simple yes / no response to such a...
Did God actually command Israel to do this, or did they just invent this divine sanction to justify territorial greed or genocidal tendencies? Why would God use a nation as questionable as the post-Exodus Israelites to deliver His "judgment" on the Canaanites? (Why not just use natural disa...