Category: witness
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If We Now Shun The Fight
I listen to LDS hymns almost every day. One of my favorites is Come, Come, Ye Saints. I was listening to it sitting on my cell phone while sitting in my easy chair. It came to the line, “Why should we think to earn a great reward/ If we now shun the fight?” I was…
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Just Four More Minutes
I didn’t want to get out of bed today. I bargained for a few more minutes of sleep. Now mind you it hasn’t been a bad day. Stephanie had a horrible day but I’ll let her tell you about that. Ben came home screaming and got an emergency pill, but at least he didn’t attack…
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The Lint Trap
Today I am doing my laundry. I have 12 good pairs of slacks and I like to wash them all in one load. So if I get dressed every day I have to do them every 13th day while I wear the dress pants I don’t like. The pants are done and folded. I just…
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Christ in the Immigrant
A friend challenged me to see Christ in the immigrant. There is good Biblical sense in that. “For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in” (Mt 25:35 KJV). But mostly I just see Lamanites. The Lamanites…
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Time for Books
I go through phases where sometimes I read voraciously and others where I have to push myself to read. I’m currently working slowly through three books, one chapter a day. The first is Doctrine & Covenants. I’m about a quarter of the way through that but still in the 1830 chapters. I got a book…
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brother god
I am having another conversation about how much I can or even want to follow Jesus. The traditional view that he is fully God and fully man detracts from the ability and desire to do so. If I am not also fully god and fully man then I can’t really be a disciple. He can…
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Knowing Scripture
I use the term scripture loosely. When I started reading one of the first things my parents got me were Bible comic books. I think the brand was called Arch. I have a distinct memory of the battle between David and Goliath in soft pastels. I’ve been studying the Bible ever since. Over the years…
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No, All Men are not Created Equal
The Declaration of Independence is wrong. People don’t start out equal. Some have great advantages and some have great challenges. Some put great effort into enriching the world. Others squander their time and talents big and small. There are only two ways that I can imagine equality among humans. The first is infinite worth. But…
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Library
We have more books than I could read in a lifetime. I’m in the middle of three or four books right now. It occurred to me that I also have a new translation of the Quran to get through. So I look at our library with a sort of melancholy resignation that some of the…
Latter Day Sinner 