Archive for December, 2014

Heavy With The Sap Of The Gospel

TheDiscipleMD One thing I learned while camping out as a Boy Scout was that cutting down a live tree didn’t make for very good firewood. Finding dead trees provided much better firewood because they were dry. You see, dead trees have no sap left in them. Live trees are “green” with sap. Cutting them down for immediate […]

We Shouted For Joy!

TheDiscipleMD One of the saddest observations that I have made over the years as a priesthood leader is that many of our saints seem to feel discouraged regarding their standing before the Lord. Try as they might they never seem to live up to, in their minds, the “pattern” that is given. Elder Holland addressed this issue […]

“You Are A Very Blessed Man!”

TheDiscipleMD A few years ago one of my clients surveyed my office and spied the pencil drawing of my five children. He got up and examined it. He said they looked like me. He asked me about them and I gave him a quick rundown of their lives. He looked at me and said “You are […]

That Pesky Testimony

TheDiscipleMD The other night I was in the midst of testifying to a young couple of the reality of the plan of salvation as revealed in these the latter-days. They took turns asking thought-provoking questions regarding the afterlife. We searched the scriptures together to find the answers. We talked of the temporary state of those […]

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