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This article gives such insight in how to respond to anyone who believes "Love Wins", and they accept any form of love as being right.  Brother Hancock shows how that idea makes the need of repentance, etc., and living the commandments a secondary thing to loving everyone.  It basically shows that those who believe loving everyone is the right thing are not accepting the Plan of Salvation, and Heavenly Father's plan for us to become exalted! GREAT ARTICLE!  The Counterfeiting of “Love” By Ralph C. Hancock  · October 6, 2016 In  Part 1 of this series , I showed that the secular-Christian hybrid “Love Wins” ideology wields amazing dogmatic authority in our supposedly free-thinking age. In this part, I present examples of the presence of this ideology among prominent and influential LDS scholars and writers. The counterfeiting of “love,” the central ideal of Christianity, for purposes directly contrary to basic Christian morality i...

On this morning of my 82nd birthday, I couldn't sleep, and got up soon after 5 a.m.  I have been thinking of so many things.  I remember Larry Barkdull from the year 1989, when he owned Sonos Music, and was willing to publish 3 Simplified Hymns, Primary Songs, and Songs for LDS Women, that I had prepared.  I could write much about our friendship. I am facing an interesting time in my own life.  I still have quite good health, but I am planning at this point, to clean out my home, and prepare in the spring or next summer to sell my home in St. George, where I was born and raised, and where my husband Wayne and I returned in 1981, and have lived since then.  I will probably move up north with my oldest son Wayne M., and his wife Julie.  I have been looking around my home, and all the memories in each picture on the wall, each momento, etc., and realizing that most of them will not go with me.  I plan to simply take many pictures of dear items that t...

This article has much wisdom!  We need to be vigilant always, and faithful to our spouse! The Accidental Road to Infidelity By Wallace Goddard  · October 4, 2016 To sign up for Meridian’s Free Newsletter, please  CLICK HERE The following is part 13 of a series from the book,  Drawing Heaven into Your Marriage .  To see the previous section,  click here . Satan is subtle. And we are all vulnerable. A good friend taught me a lot about the subtle process that Satan uses. She is an earnest, married Latter-day Saint. She caught me at a social gathering to tell me of a great friendship she had developed with a man in her ward. She and he enjoyed great discussions about the gospel. Sometimes he called her from work. Occasionally they met downtown for lunch. He bought her little gifts. She told me how much she enjoyed her companionship with the man. I was worried. Then she told me how good the man was with children . . . and...

Ideas to study from Conference!  Pres. Thomas S. Monson spoke on the Word of Wisdom, and below is a great article from Meridian Magazine with quotes of several prophets on the same subject.  Very interesting! DAILY DEVOTIONAL October 3 General Conference SCRIPTURE OF THE  DAY  Doctrine & Covenants 21:4-6 "Wherefore, meaning the church, thou shalt give heed unto all his words and commandments which he shall give unto you as he receiveth them, walking in all holiness before me; For his word ye shall receive, as if from mine own mouth, in all patience and faith. For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory. " The Words of the Prophets Provide God’s Blueprint For Better Health By Carolyn Allen  · October 2, 2016 To sign up fo...