Category: General Conference
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Choose the Light
Sometimes the darkness overwhelms or personal light. We may need to depend upon the light of someone stronger or on the combined light of multiple companions. Sometimes we give undue credibility to unfamiliar sources that come across on social media. We must trust in the Lord.
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Tested and Tempted—but Helped
Use your priesthood to bless the people around you. Go the second mile Smile Express compassion Invite others to come to the church
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It’s Never Too Early and It’s Never Too Late
“We cannot let society give our family a makeover in the image of the world.” “…we must be engaged in intentional parenting.” Hearing the word of God is not the same as understanding. We need to seek to ensure that our children understand and don’t just hear.
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Behold Thy Mother
Remember how constant and enveloping the love of Christ if for all the children of men. Too many people will castigate this story of faith because they don’t want such things to be true.
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Meeting the Challenges of Today’s World
“Never deliberately fly into a thunderstorm.” He is counseling young people to avoid debt for their education as much as possible by making wise decisions including working while going to school. “That will require sacrifice but it will set you up for success.” “Don’t date all through your 20’s just to have fun.”
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Shipshape and Bristol Fashion: Be Temple Worthy—in Good Times and Bad Times
The adversary and his emissaries assert that we have a choice between happiness in this life and happiness in a future life which they suggest may not exist. Lehi teaches us that if there is no righteousness there is no happiness. Many people today believe that what is moral has shifted. Honoring the sabbath will…
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The Pleasing Word of God
The parts I heard sounded good. He talked about things that hold us back in our spiritual progress.
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What Lack I Yet?
The journey of discipleship is not an easy one, it is a course of steady improvement. When we successfully ask how we can improve the Spirit can teach us what we need, even if it isn’t what we expected. “Clean up your language” for one. “Don’t interrupt people when they are talking” for another. And…
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Yielding Our Hearts to God
How do we, as modern, competitive people, yield and become settled. Sometimes the Lord, in His wisdom, let’s us wait even when we are earnestly seeking. “Our family moto is ‘it will all work out.’ … It doesn’t say ‘it will all work out now.’” I really like Sister Marriott and her perspective. In order…
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The Joy of Living a Christ-Centered Life
The results are drastically different of we start with clay that is centered on the wheel. Likewise, our lives are vastly improved if we have them centered firmly on the gospel of Christ. The father of Lamoni was willing to give up half his kingdom in order to save his life when he was at…