6 Things You Can Do To Help Someone Who Struggles With Pornography. Sooner or later you will face it. Someone you care about will struggle with an addiction to pornography. The question then becomes, what can and should you do? You see it causing pain and your first instinct will be to want to …
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Let me preface this with that as a temple worker, who has attended the temple over 200 times in the last three years, and has visited almost 70 temples in North America what I am going to say is totally ok to talk about outside of the temple. And it is a discussion we need …
The Biggest Lie Satan Tricks Latter-day Saints Into Believing. When someone decides to stop going to Church, typically it is often because they have been offended or they feel judged by the shame culture. When this happens, it becomes harder and harder to go to church. This is when Satan tricks them into believing that even …
Do you ever wonder is God there? Is He listening? One of the most comforting things I have learned in life is that God is real and that He really does love me. And most importantly, He wants to have a relationship with me. He helps through Divine Guidance, often called revelation. Learning how to recognize …
3 Types Of “Testimonies” The Prophets And Apostles Have Told Us To Avoid. The first Sunday of each month always was the most nerve-racking as a missionary. Never knowing what fast and testimony meeting was going to hold. Often testimony meeting was treated like an open mic night at church. When the testimony meeting went …
Understanding The Relationship Between Grace And Works. Immortality, salvation, and eternal life are used interchangeably in Christianity and sometimes Mormons also use them interchangeably. But they are not the same thing. Understanding their true meaning allows us to understand better the commandments and other Christians. But more importantly, understanding the difference between salvation and …
Every year when Mother’s Day approaches I think of the women in my life. I quickly realized they taught me everything worth knowing. Yes, the men in my life also taught me. But, more often than not, it was the women who mothered me who made the difference. These women were not CEOs who ran …
Four Ways The Shame Culture Is Corrupting Mormon Culture. There is a thriving shame culture in the world today. The shame culture is cancer; and sadly, it has infected in many aspects of Mormon culture. Having lived in The South I experienced persecution for being a member of the church by those outside the church. …
The death of a loved one is always hard to handle. But with an eternal perspective on death, we can better face the hardship of losing a loved one.
Do Latter-day Saints believe in Palm Sunday and Holy Week? (Read this article in Français) A few years ago, at Church, I welcomed everyone with a greeting of “Welcome to Church, have a good Palm Sunday.” Repeatedly, I was asked, “What is Palm Sunday?” I was shocked, so I asked a member of the Bishopric, …