Category: Scripture Notes
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How Great Will Be Your Joy
Giving missionary assignments one time he saw 10 senior couples to assign when there were 300 requests for senior couples. Will Laura and I make and take opportunities to serve a mission together? There are significant questions to answer about how, when, or where to serve but not asking the question isn’t a path I’m…
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Do You Want to Be Happy?
When God speaks and we obey we will always be right. — Thomas S. Monson He was called as a bishop during a time when he was stretched thin in circumstances but far different than my last decade.
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The Power of Jesus Christ in Our Lives Every Day
What gives someone the power to go through hard things? I need to fix my life before I come to Jesus. … {We don’t come to Jesus because we are strong, we come to be strengthened.} One of the mistakes we make is to think that the covenants we make are transactional—I keep my covenant…
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Preserving the Voice of the Covenant People in the Rising Generation
Just find what works for you and your family and then try to do a little better each day. Ward Council’s are authorized to hold teacher council for parents quarterly. This sounds to me like a good way to use 5th Sundays (which happen quarterly).
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Kingdoms of Glory
All children of our Heavenly Father will receive the highest kingdom of glory in which they can comfortably dwell. The focus of this church is to prepare his children for the highest level of the celestial kingdom. The gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to become something.
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Love Thy Neighbour
How much better would the world be if people seriously and consistently focused on real enemies like poverty and disease?
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Hearts prepared
In order for Satan to have no power over the hearts of the children of men those hearts will need to be prepared. The Lord judging with righteousness and reproving with equity might help to prepare those hearts. Whatever preparation is needed for Satan to lose his influence, that same preparation will also make this…
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The ways of the Lord
I saw a video about tops (as in, the little toys that you spin—yes, it’s related) which talked about how many of them behave in ways that don’t intuitively make sense such as rising up or even turning over when spun with sufficient velocity. Of course a sufficient understanding of the physics of rotational inertia…
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A path for repentance
I love that there is always a path for repentance. Even as he says that the great and abominable church must fall Nephi says that those who are a part of it can repent rather than fall with it. While the path of repentance is always open, the path of complacency—all is well—is a trap.