Word: godly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City originally, but we all do missionary work at different times in different places. When we're all home, we get together every Monday night for a family council where we talk about all kinds of things, about anything that anybody has on their mind. Sometimes we talk about God, sometimes about any problems we might have--marital problems, financial problems, dating problems, you name it. You know, it helps to have somebody to talk to when things are bothering you. You know that, don't you? And it especially helps when the people you're talking to are family...
...Father told them the second part of the story, about how Moroni was sent from God to visit a youngster named Joseph Smith in upstate New York, about how Smith dug up the plates and began a rapidly growing and often persecuted religion, about how Smith led his Mormons west, settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, was shot and killed near there, and about how Brigham Young took over and ultimately led the Mormons to Salt Lake City...
...curtain came down and I looked over at Sister Wood. There were tears in her eyes. Full of emotion, she put her hands on my shoulders and said that family was really the most important thing in the world. She asked me to open my heart to God, and I told her I'd try to. Then she asked me if my time were up, and I told her I thought...
...Evangelist Oral Roberts tells it, he got the instructions straight from the Lord, just as Noah got the measurements for the Ark. Out walking in the California desert one day early in 1977, he heard God's plans for a hospital. It would be, said the Lord, "a new and different medical center," where "the healing streams of prayer and medicine must merge." Dubbed the City of Faith, it would rise in three towers, across from Oral Roberts University, behind a 60-ft. statue of healing hands. Biblical numerology was big in the Lord's plans: 777 beds...
...Tulsa Hospital Council fought the project, arguing that the city already had a surplus of 1.000 hospital beds. Grumbled State Representative Mandell Matheson: "We are not talking about man building a monument to God, but man building a monument to man." The Oklahoma Health Planning Agency, a federal advisory board, recommended disapproval of Roberts' application. But after an intensive nationwide letter-writing campaign by the evangelist's supporters and lobbying by political friends, the state's health planning commission last week gave Roberts a go-ahead to begin building. Still, God's plans were somewhat modified...