Archive for August, 2008

The Holy Ghost is to Our Spirits What the Sun is to the Earth

Recently I was pondering the importance of the Holy Ghost when the following words came into my mind: “The Holy Ghost is to our spirits what the sun is to the earth.” I was a little surprised at first, but the more I thought about it the more instructive it became.

The [...]

Wrapping Our Minds Around an Idea-Choose Your Ideas Carefully

Wrapping our minds around an idea is one of the joys of life. It is fulfilling to wrap our minds around an idea and then apply our new idea in some fashion and see the results. However, at times the results can be unsettling. Ideas can seemingly wrap themselves around our minds and [...]

Bloggernaclist—Are You Puffed Up or Humble? An Acid Test for Self Assessment

Moving quickly about the internet is easy to take for granted. At least I have, until recently, that is. The broadband that runs my home computer is being upgraded and I’m without the internet for a week or so—what a pain. I now realize just how much I rely on various internet sites. [...]

Conservative, Liberal, and Intellectual Mormons

The Bible teaches the gospel net gathereth of every kind, in other words, the Lord sure has a lot of variety in His church. This is true of the Bloggernacle. We’re a diverse group; a microcosm of early 21st century American Mormons.
For most of my church life I’ve thought of members as being either [...]