Church & Religion Archives

  1. Does prayer work?

    If you’re looking for a bit of inspiration read my wife’s post about what’s happened with our daughter, Emma, over the past week.  She was really sick.  Hundreds, if not thousands, of prayers were offered on her behalf. Prayers are always answered, sometimes with a “yes”, often with a “no”.  During this difficult time I was…

  2. “Dad are you at work?”

    Question asked by my 4yr old as I’m sitting on the couch doing my best to ignore her while trying to prepare a lesson about internet safety for a Church fireside this evening. Sometimes priorities are a tough thing to figure.

  3. A thought on miracles

    For a very long time, I’ve wondered about why miracles from the New Testament don’t seem to happen much any more (i.e., raising the dead, causing the lame to walk, and blind to see, etc…). It’s been more of a perplexity (if there’s such a noun) than a question of my faith, so I’ve been…

  4. Growing your testimony

    Today I was assigned to give a talk in our Ward…the subject was “Testimony as a Process” — based on a talk from general conference earlier this year.  I figure that this blog is about me, and my thoughts, and this talk was something I devoted several hours of study and prayer to, so I’ll…