by Terrie Lynn Bittner | Aug 18, 2012 | Encouragement, Jesus Christ, Scripture Stories
I was writing an article about the apostle Peter today for another website. I like Peter. Sometimes people aren’t very nice to him because they focus too much on the mistakes he made, but he did more right than wrong. Peter was the first apostle Jesus chose. He had so...
by | May 23, 2011 | Blog, Friends, Mormon Women, Scripture Stories, Uncategorized
A lot of people are suddenly talking about modesty. Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio did a study on children’s clothes and found that about a third of the clothes on the websites of popular stores have clothes for kids and tweens that are way too sexy for little girls...
by | Mar 4, 2011 | Blog, Mormon Women, Scripture Stories
Last week I wrote about Sam, a teen in the Book of Mormon who doesn’t get enough credit for being a quiet hero. Today I’m going to introduce you to a girl who doesn’t get enough credit for being a quiet hero. Her story is also told in the Book of Mormon, but we tend...
by | Feb 22, 2011 | Blog, Encouragement, Humility, Scripture Stories, Teenagers in the Scriptures, Teens Making a Difference
One reason people like to tell stories from the Bible and Book of Mormon is that they are filled with exciting people. There are lots of flashy heroes and villains. The bad guys are regularly held up as bad examples and warnings. The heroes get Sunday School lessons...
by | Dec 20, 2010 | Blog, Finding Truth, Jesus Christ, Scripture Stories
Last post, we talked about a teenager named Joseph Smith, who prayed to find out which church to join and to know what was true. He got a rather unexpected response—God and Jesus came in person to answer his prayer. The Bible promises us that if we ask God for wisdom,...
by | Dec 16, 2010 | Blog, Famous Mormon Teens, famous Mormons, Finding Truth, Jesus Christ, Mormon, Mormonism, Scripture Stories, Teens Making a Difference
In the last article we pretended we had a chance to enter a game show that assigned you a special quest. You could guess the quest or you could be told what it was and how to solve it but the prize was the same. Obviously, you’d want to be told what to do. Finding a...
