If your purpose is really to help someone you will communicate with them respectfully and with patience. If you are a hireling and care little about the people you are speaking with then you will not worry about offending them, but when you do this the risk is that they will not listen ...
These Beatitudes (mourn, meek, and hunger) point into the sermon, 3 Nephi 12:21-48. As we hunger and thirst after a righteous capacity to love God, and others, He clarifies how His grace will perfect us as we learn the law of the gospel and its subset, the law of chastity. These...
My own view is that Jesus’ temptation experience in the wilderness specifically led to much of the material that comprises the Sermon on the Mount. There Jesus counters Satan’s three suggestions withcallsfor his disciples to embrace a mindset of faith and abundance: Because of this, I say t...
empty these narratives of their significance as revealing a morally responsible use of force. Let us be just as orthodox as we can, the purpose of the use of the forces is the supreme miracle; let us be just as destructively radical as we please, we cannot eliminate from the Scriptures ...
The culmination of planting and nourishing your Alma faith seed is to grow a tree that produces fruit.[5] Fruit in the Sermon seems to be more than just “good works” and includes knowing Christ.[6] A person’s fruits are sufficiently visible that they can be evaluated by others; “ye...
Likewise, He gives husbands the commands to use their headship authority for the purpose of sanctification to lead their wives to be more like Christ. Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her...
I’ve recently been working my way through former president Obama’s latest book,A Promised Land. There he cites a sermon delivered by Martin Luther King called “The Drum Major Instinct.” According to Obama, King’s sermon highlights the difficulty of reconciling selfish ambition with more sel...
• Woodrow Whidden: “The triunity of the one God” is “the profound unity or oneness inherent in the doctrine of the Trinity. Here are three divine beings lined up together in such a way as to point to Their oneness of purpose in imparting grace and love to God’s people thr...
The Olivet Discourse spells this purpose out right next to where it tells us to give up on knowing “when” far enough in advance to be useful. (I say “far enough in advance” because Daniel 12 says when the Abomination of Desolation happens we will know we have 1290 days until Christ...
Being called of the Father for His purpose. Referencing The God of David also known as son of David. How can we love someone we don’t believe coexists with his creation. Randomly searching for a random energy source. To make the image of God to be the god of ourselves. Converting ...