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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A car with a low battery needs a jump-start. Aren’t we much in need of the same continual renewal? It’s easy to get mission myopia, waiting for the call to come or forgetting that people are hungering for what we have. Here’s a story to help us remember.
Dr. Specht, a German scholar with three, not [...]
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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