In January 1995, the tennis world gathered in Melbourne for the first Grand Slam of the season. For Pete Sampras, however, the tournament would come to mean far more than tennis. Just days before, his coach and close friend Tim Gullikson collapsed in the Melbourne Park locker room. Doctors soon confirmed the worst: multiple brain…
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All Your Heart, Might, Mind and Strength
A few months ago, a friend asked me some advice about missionary work ethic. In the context of Doctrine and Covenants 4, he asked me what I thought it meant to “serve Him with all your heart, might, mind, and strength.” I gave three points of advice based on my personal experiences… #1 Leave It…
“Don’t Let Go! Reach!”
One of my favorite cinematic moments comes near the climax of “The Return of the King” in The Lord of the Rings series (nope, I never finished reading the actual book). Frodo and Gollum struggle for possession of the ring near the ledge above the lava where Frodo was to drop the ring to destroy…
The Things Which Are Pleasing Unto the World I Do Not______.
Nephi tells us the fullness of his intent “is that [he] may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved” (1 Nephi 6:4). He has an eye single to the glory of God. Because of that commitment, Nephi also explains: “Wherefore,…