Category: General Conference
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Precious Gifts from God
As we each sustained President Nelson by our uplifted hands, we stood as witnesses before God and acknowledged that he is President Monson’s rightful successor. With our raised hands, we promised to hearken unto his voice as he receives direction from the Lord. The Lord has said: “Thou shalt give heed unto all his [meaning…
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The Voice of the Lord
As you listen to conference talks, the messages you receive may be very literal or they may be general. I wonder if Elder Andersen found it easy to prepare for this talk – knowing that he would be gathering quotes from earlier speakers – or if he found it difficult. Elder Hales prepared the following:…
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Love One Another as He Has Loved Us
Love is a combination of actions as well as deep feelings. Sending a text message with a funny emoji is good … but many of us should put down our mobile devices and serve with or hands and feet. Love without service is like faith without works – it’s dead.
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Seek Ye Out of the Best Books
We must look to Christ at all times and especially on dark and stormy nights. He must have felt especially poignant quoting Elder Hales mere hours after his death. Faith is a crucial element of religion, this having a ready answer for all things would be counterproductive.
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Essential Truths—Our Need to Act
The truths we gain because of Joseph Smith God calls prophets to instruct, guide, warn, and lead us. The nature of God Always act when our living prophets speak.
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Do We Trust Him? Hard Is Good
The Lord trusts us with His priesthood and by allowing us to assist in His work. Do we trust Him? Hard is good. Hard is the constant (we all have challenges) the variable is our reaction to hard. Whatever we do we should not act out of a feeling of fear.
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Apart, but Still One
Despite any differences we have the ability to be one when we share some common ground. What we share in the church should be much more unifying than the stories of unity due to a shared love of sport and country. We have no right to portray anybody, especially within our church, as a badly…
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The Trek Continues!
While it is important and appropriate to remember the Mormon trek of the 19th Century {it is important to remember that the trek of life continues daily for each of us.} We must be careful where our footsteps in life take us. Keep the doctrine of Christ pure. I like the blanket condemnation of racism,…
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Fear Not to Do Good
I almost completely overlooked President Monson’s call to study the Book of Mormon daily – despite the fact that I read it every day since he made the call. In contrast, President Eyring (who also has a habit of daily study in the Book of Mormon) made an enhanced effort to receive the promises blessings.…