Tag: Religion

  • The Trek of Our Lives

    The Trek of Our Lives

    From a talk given 14 Jul 2019 in the Pflugerville Ward I had the opportunity to go on Trek this year. Bishop Arnesen and I went as a Ma and Pa for one of the families. The theme for our Trek was “Keep on the Covenant Path.” In essence, the covenant path is the path…

  • Growing Toward the Son

    Growing Toward the Son

    This morning I got to give a spiritual thought at the Activity Days Camp at church. This is the summer camp for 7-11 year old girls. Their theme was “Growing Toward the Son.” There is an interesting phenomenon that happens in a lot of plants where they will actually change direction to grow toward the…

  • Good Thursday

    Good Thursday

    As I was readying bible stories with my daughter tonight, I was pondering on how we as Christians often focus so much on Good Friday and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ that we forget what happened to Him the day before that all-important day. In some ways, perhaps, what happened on “Good Thursday” was even…

  • It’s All About Agency

    It’s All About Agency

    When God held the grand council in the premortal realm, the central issue of contention between the spirits who supported our Heavenly Father’s plan and those that supported Lucifer’s was that of agency. In Moses 4:3 we read that “Because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I,…

  • O Come, O Come Immanuel

    O Come, O Come Immanuel

    Immanuel (or Emmanuel) means God with Us. The birth of Jesus Christ the son of God was prophesied centuries before He was born of Mary in Bethlehem. The prophecies of Him, fortold his virgin birth, His life and His atoning sacrifice. Christ, as a member of the Godhead and therefore as a God himself, literally fulfilled…

  • What I Learned On The Way to The Temple

    What I Learned On The Way to The Temple

    Yesterday we took a trip to the San Antonio Texas Temple. We try to go about once a month, and we’ve gotten really used to taking the trip down there. Yesterday, as usual, we wanted to go to the 9:30am session so that we could get done in time to come back home and get…