We wonder what we can share online, and how effective our voices will be in reaching others who may want to know more about what Mormons believe and how they live their lives.
It’s surprising how much of a difference we can make by simply inviting people to take a look over our shoulders as we [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Karen Merkley
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Several years ago, a teenage girl backed into my car in a parking lot. She hadn’t been driving for very long and was pretty nervous about her first fender-bender. After talking about what had happened and exchanging information, I commented on her beautiful necklace. It was a locket engraved with the words, “Daddy’s girl.” She [...]
Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Karen Merkley
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In order to gear up for sharing the gospel, it sometimes helps to stand outside ourselves and remember what is rocking the world around us. We live in a time where humanism largely prevails–the notion that we can lift ourselves up by our own bootstraps and accomplish everything on our resources and to our own [...]
Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Karen Merkley
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I was 15-years-old and walking down the halls of my high school in a tiny Colorado town. Other than my family, and two others, we were the only Mormons in town. It was the 70’s, Donny and Marie ruled the airwaves, the hippy movement was in full force and life was a little odd.
The one [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Candace Salima
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Joseph Smith, Jr. said:
“A person may profit by noticing the first intimation of the spirit of revelation; for instance, when you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Candace Salima
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Sometimes we just need to remember–remember to put what we desire to do in the front of our minds. Like sharing the gospel. At the end of the day, what really matters? That we were nice, honest, good to our children, friends and co-workers, and that we opened our mouth and shared [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Karen Merkley
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For ways to share your faith and experiences online and answer gospel questions asked by friends of other faiths, see “Ways to Share the Gospel” on the www.moregoodfoundation.org homepage. We’ve found that those around us who are curious about our faith want to know what we believe and how we live, but want to [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Karen Merkley
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All of us recall President Benson’s challenge to flood the earth with the Book of Mormon. I remember living in Florida and buying a couple of cases of softbacks. I wondered where the Lord wanted them to go.
One day, as I was driving on the freeway with my EZ-Pass, a thought arose:
“Take your [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Karen Merkley
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I need my sleep but I have to remind myself that the Lord doesn’t. He cares about our salvation, our thoughts, our hearts 24/7; He is constantly working behind the scenes and sometimes stage-front with everyone. I love the metaphor of the almond tree in Jeremiah, though it’s not often talked about. The scripture [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Karen Merkley
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I have often wondered if the anxiety many of us feel about sharing the gospel stems from a tendency to rely more on ourselves than on the Lord. When we realize that it is His work and that He is willing to lead us in it, we can be prompted to talk to those who [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Karen Merkley
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