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What Is Your Satan IQ?
This is a test. Only ten questions. Loading... Here are the correct answers: 1) In the preexistence Satan was an angel of God who was in authority. - TRUE. In graduate school I was taught to always start with an easy question. 2) Satan was “cast out” in the...
Santa, Superman and Satan
What do these images have in common? You may say something like, "Well from time-to-time I act like they're real. But in the back of my mind I know these personatlities really have no great influence on my personal life. Santa really doesn't bring toys on Christmas...
God’s Plan For Sex
WHEN YOU HEAR THE WORD SEX… What do you think of? Do you think… PORNOGRAPHY IS POISON. Pornography, with its sleazy filth, sweeps over the earth like a horrible, engulfing tide. It is poison. Do not watch it or read it. It will destroy you if you do. It will take from...
Puberty: The Second Fire
While transporting Young Men along I-15 in Utah to a church activity, there is a giggle from a 13 year-old as he reads the bill board- While teaching at BYU education week a mom told me “My 11 year old daughter and I were watching America’s Most Funniest Home Videos...
God’s Love Chemicals
FIRE! Fourteen-year-old Joe had three felony sex charges. He was also the Teacher’s Quorum President in his ward. I was doing the Sexual Behavioral Risk Assessment. At the time Joe and I were sitting in lock-up. He would be there until I finished the eval. Upon...
Anatomy Of A Soul
Anatomy-how things work Let’s take a look at the anatomy of your soul. You need-to-know how your “Soul Systems” function BEFORE you can do things like: effectively break a bad habit, overcome depression, strengthen your testimony, or understand your responsibility in...
Worth vs. Worthiness
I’m asked regularly questions like: “dr rick, how can you even stand to be in the same room with that guy… …who just killed the bank teller, …who just molested the neighbor girls, …who just kidnapped and raped the store clerk?” I explain the difference between “worth”...
FREE – According To The Flesh
IF I CUT AN APPLE IN HALF, HOW MANY PIECES WILL I HAVE? Joe is in his 50s. He has Down’s Syndrome. Early in his life, he obtained a temple recommend. Since that time, he has been attending the temple regularly typically doing 3 sessions a day. At first, he lived at...
Promptings Never Exceed Your Capacity
To Thine Own Self Be True These words of Polonius are taken from Shakespeare’s work: “This above all: to thine own self be true And it must follow, as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man…” I’m going to share one of my most valuable clinical...
What Do Twinkies And Porn Have In Common?
TWINKIE is SYNTHETIC COUNTERFEIT PROCESSED FOOD A Twinkie is an American snack cake, marketed as a “Golden Sponge Cake with Creamy Filling“. Steve Ettlinger, the author of the book “Twinkie, Deconstructed” spent months of his life interviewing chemical engineers,...