Category: General Conference
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The Man Who Communed with Jehovah
The God who answered Joseph Smith in the sacred grove is a God who answers teenagers in times of trouble. Speaking of Jesus: “It is neither His mission nor His character to condemn. He came to save.” I like this series of quotes from Joseph Smith.
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The Joy of Our Redemption
Like the story of how the painting was better after correcting the mistake that has smeared it than it had been before the mistake. The beauty of repentance through Christ is that He does not simply restore us to our prior state, He lifts us to a state greater than we had achieved before. Keep…
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Holiness to the Lord in Everyday Life
I missed the first portion but he’s talking about people who exemplify holiness to the Lord in their daily life.
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Aligning Our Will with His
When we don’t allow God to prevail in our lives we can end up justifying anything we decide to do.
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Be Thou Clean
I like how he compares daily repentance to the way his wife cleans her hearing aids daily to keep them operating properly.
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“Ye Are My Friends”
We can build sacred relationships with others as we look upward to heaven together. “There is much more that unites us than what separates us.” (That’s a direct quote from Kamala Harris’s stump speech.) I heard a bunch of good things but I was cleaning up an accident on the stove.
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Welcome to the Church of Joy
Do we feel joy in the gospel? Do we feel joy in meeting together? Do we bring joy with us to church? What is “joyful reverence”? Reverence is more than folding our arms, bowing our head, closing our eyes, and holding still…indefinitely. We may have been conditioned to spend the time during the sacrament thinking…
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His Hand Ready to Help Us
Jesus has the power to help us out of every miserable condition. It is important to persist in our efforts help others. That includes persisting in building trusting relationships before obvious help is needed so that people have the emotional connection to feel safe in accepting help.
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Bonded to Jesus Christ: Becoming the Salt of the Earth
Like salt we can lose our spiritual vitality if we become casual in our worship.