Thanks for coming by and I’m glad you enjoyed your visit. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

I’m new to your site but I want to say Thank You for this great site.

Sharon

Great comment about the Savior.

Daniel,

Your insight and experience shows forth in your comment. Thanks!

I really enjoyed reading your comment, or should I say testimony.

Thankfully the Lord gave me some big wake up calls and He began to teach me what it meant to truly have a broken heart and a contrite spirit. He gave me the vision of what it means to be a true follower of Jesus Christ, to take upon myself His attributes; to seek to develop the kind of love He has for others (Moroni &:48). He has taught me that it is His grace that I need to draw on to sustain any real growth (Jacob 4:7). Most importantly, the Lord has taught me to center my life and my testimony on Him and to have faith and repentance be the focus of my gospel study (Mosiah 18:20). He has taught me that His gospel is more than four steps that are so often rattled off while reciting the 4th article of faith. He taught me that the gospel of Jesus Christ is to live a life of faith, a life of repentance, a live of making and keeping covenants, a life filled with and lead by the Holy Ghost.

I don’t go to church anymore to learn things. I now go to church to become something-a person more like my Savior. I can see now that D&C 130:18-19 is talking about making the gospel a part of me, the core of who I am inside, even the knowledge of the gospel written on my heart. I can see how putting my trust in my Savior, instead of myself, has brought me much closer to Him.

On a different note: I enjoyed this summary, “Our uniquen doctrines should never distract us from the importance and person of Christ and His mission.” So true!

Thanks for commenting. I agree with you for the most part. I read Kevin Barney’s post, then made my post, and afterwords read your post.

By the way, I’ve enjoyed your post–having been a fan for a long time. I don’t always agree, but that is to be expected. Your series on the Dream Mind was very interesting to me. Keep up the good work.

Regarding orthodoxy: I’m trying to stay out of the Terrestrial Kingdom! I hear it’s not a bad place, but I’m more interested in sun bathing than bathing in the light of the moon. In other words, I am walking the narrow path in the latter days of my life so that all that I did while on the broad road will be forgiven and forgotten.

As I’ve said before, I’m getting my share of readers but not many leave comments. Thanks for taking the time to express your thoughts.

There are some worthy points in your post, but you go so far in your orthodoxy sometimes as to be unorthodox.

Apparently the dollar will collapse sometime before summer, 2009. Source: LEAP/Europe2020.

The rest of what I wrote comes from this source: the Spirit.

I do not know what the Lord is going to do. The Spirit hasn’t told me every detail. But I’m receiving a lot of prophetic communications of late. He recently gave me a very urgent mission, which I completed yesterday (see my latest post), so the Lord is obviously doing something to counteract the secret combination. I assume others will likewise be given missions of the Lord to perform works that will frustrate the evil one’s plans.

Tim asked, “Are you referring to some sort of catastrophic or cataclysmic events?”

The Spirit hasn’t indicated it to be catastrophic or cataclysmic, as in earth changes due to planetary reconfiguration or the interplanetary plasma discharge of a comet, etc., so I give it as my opinion that it will be an earthly and not a heavenly event.

To give you an example of some of the prophecies I’m receiving: prior to the election, the Spirit indicated to me that whether Prop 8 passed or not, the church would be broken up irregardless.

Tim Malone asked, “I’m especially interested in your sources for tribal anarchy - exactly when and how?”

The Spirit has indicated that the secret combination’s efforts will be frustrated, the government will be broken up and this nation will be brought into tribal anarchy. I assume this will happen when the dollar tanks in 2009.

That’s the problem with much of the intellectual analysis and writing that can be found by writers who are gifted and yet lack in focus, as you so aptly pointed out, on what is really central to our salvation and exaltation. You are right on when you point out that many well-meaning individuals in the church write about things that are just not important and present them in such a way that makes you wonder how they could have possibly missed the mark on what promotes faith.

Thank you for the well-written reminder of the need to focus on what is really important - our relationship to our Heavenly Father, our devotion to following the ways of the Savior and our intimate knowledge of revelatory experiences with the Holy Ghost. With that rich knowledge, strengthened daily by new insights through personal devotion of study and prayer, we can give greater service, filled with love and unselfishness, while enjoying the peace that comes from knowing we are doing what we do with a focus on the right kind of saving knowledge.