Tom Christofferson: The Healing Power of Charity

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 12:15 p.m.

What if there is power in a Christlike attribute we have heard about our entire lives but have barely scratched the surface of understanding? In his new book, \u201cA Better Heart,\u201d Tom Christofferson writes, \u201cThe gift of charity is enormous in conception, its effect and meaning eternal. And yet, it is also small and intimate and personal.\u201d On this week\u2019s episode, we explore charity and how it has the power to give us all better hearts.

\u201cIt\u2019s that opportunity to be able now to simply be an instrument in His hands\u2014to transmit as purely as we possibly can His affection, His knowledge, His intimate awareness of every individual, and then to strengthen them in their faith and then help them have hope.\u201d

Show Notes

2:34- London with the Checketts and Missionaries
5:47- \u201cLet It Be You\u201d
9:31- Seeking to Understand
13:10- A Righteous Mother
17:06- The Powerful Gift of Seeing Someone
18:37- More Used Would I Be
23:24- The Connection Between Blessings and Commandments
28:53- Luxuriate in the Feeling of Christ\u2019s Love
32:02- Rooting Out Discouragement and Despair
34:46- "Communal Salvation\u201d
39:50- Personal Power to Endure
43:59- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

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