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A Prayer for Understanding of Sealing

6 Comments / Doctrine / By Tim Malone / March 21, 2021

Oh Lord, can a man and a woman who love each other and have demonstrated a lifetime of human love together and who believe in the life hereafter be together in the eternities even though one is a faithful member of the LDS church and one has resigned their long-time membership in the LDS Church and does not recognize or acknowledge the claims of authority of the President of the LDS Church to bind or seal on earth and have it recognized in heaven, or that authority can be delegated to others?

What To Do With Your Treasures

20 Comments / Last Days / By Tim Malone / April 28, 2017

What will you do if you are called upon to sell all that you have and give to the poor?

Vision of the Abandoned Temple

11 Comments / Journal, Uncategorized / By Tim Malone / January 13, 2016

If you don’t mind reading through a personal journal entry you might find some symbolic insights in this post.

Reorganizing the Family of God

33 Comments / Doctrine / By Tim Malone / June 16, 2015

In the Boise rescue, Elder Oaks spoke much of the temples as evidence of the fruits of the LDS Church. They are beautiful buildings aren’t they? So many resources are poured into these edifices. As President Hinckley once taught, the buildings of the church are not income producing, and constitute a major expense. A lot …

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Pentecost and Patterns

6 Comments / Doctrine / By Tim Malone / May 26, 2015

Sunday, May 24 marked fifty days since the Feast of the Passover. The early Christian disciples, gathered together in Jerusalem, experienced an outpouring of the Spirit and attending gifts following prayer and supplication. Joseph adds that Peter officiated in ordinances: “God obtained a house where Peter washed and anointed on the Day of Pentecost.” (WJS, p. …

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Determining Your Mission in Life

17 Comments / Personal Revelation / By Tim Malone / April 25, 2015

First of all, YOU determine your mission in life. Nobody else can do it for you. YOU decide what you want to do with your life. YOU decide what it is that God would like you to do with your life. If you feel God would like you to be a faithful member of The …

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Translation Please!

17 Comments / Doctrine / By Tim Malone / March 26, 2015

How often have people declared to have the “fullness” of truth? How many have stood with those who have cried, “Behold, I, I am the Lord’s.” Is there a church on earth that hasn’t made the cry in one way or another? Just recently I talked to some wonderful people about a particular movement that …

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Mormonism Without The LDS Church

15 Comments / Mormon culture / By Tim Malone / March 15, 2015

I am a Mormon. I am not a member of the LDS Church. There is a difference between the two – a big difference. The LDS Church does not define Mormonism. The LDS Church has changed dramatically from what God revealed through Joseph Smith. That memory has been lost, altered, redefined, added unto, retracted from …

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The Elephant in the Room

41 Comments / Doctrine, Mormon culture / By Tim Malone / December 10, 2014

Anybody who tells you life is rosy after one spouse leaves the church is either blind or lying. I knew things would be difficult in our marriage after I resigned, but I didn’t know just how difficult it could be. I thought things were under control until I wanted to talk about using some tithing …

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That They Do Always Remember Him

18 Comments / Doctrine, Last Days, Mormon culture, Personal Revelation / By Tim Malone / December 7, 2014

I ask myself why I do this. I go to Sacrament meeting each week with my wife, because I don’t want her to feel alone, but I don’t partake of the Sacrament. As a non-member, I could partake. It’s clearly spelled out in the handbook that those who are not members of the LDS Church …

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Of One Heart and One Mind

19 Comments / Doctrine, Last Days / By Tim Malone / October 29, 2014

I wanted to share something that I have pondering about for a while now. It’s this idea of being one heart and one mind, such a rare and beautiful thing that is necessary to bring about Zion. Zion is almost a mythical thing to us latter-day saints, something that’ll automatically come when Christ comes (I’ve …

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A Few Thoughts on Priesthood

43 Comments / Doctrine, Personal Revelation / By Tim Malone / October 11, 2014

Note: To those familiar with it, these thoughts are taken from Lecture Five. They are not original with me, but I have tried to summarize them in my own words as I have studied them. Sharing my notes is the way I customarily study doctrine. You will note many of the concepts here do not …

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The True Order of Prayer

106 Comments / Doctrine, Personal Revelation / By Tim Malone / April 1, 2014

I’m not sure if I can write the things I feel in my heart right now. I am simply overwhelmed with emotion. I’ve asked the Lord’s permission to share this and He said yes. It’s a sacred experience to me. I hope the spirit bears witness. I’ll give you a little bit of background first, …

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Mormons Are a Submissive People

45 Comments / Blogging, Doctrine, Mormon culture / By Tim Malone / February 11, 2014

I’ve noticed a constant theme over the past few years as I have written about those who have been excommunicated from our church. I don’t know if it’s just coincidence the subject has come up so many times or if I have sought it out. I’d like to explore the idea of submissiveness with you …

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The Appeal of Denver Snuffer

68 Comments / Blogging, Humor, Mormon culture / By Tim Malone / September 5, 2013

Update 9-11-13: Denver Snuffer has been excommunicated. You can read it on his blog. A reader asked my opinion of a recent post about Denver Snuffer by Russell Stevenson over on Rational Faiths. Somehow I missed it even though I go there often. It’s entitled, “Housewife Danites: Denver Snuffer and the Suburban Underground” dated August …

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