Tag: 2016
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Opposition in All Things
The role of opposition in the plan of salvation. Without temptation we would have no way to exercise agency and it would atrophy – this was the plan of Lucifer. Atrophy was the tool Lucifer would use to destroy the agency of man. In democracy there is place for a loyal opposition but not in…
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Refuge from the Storm
The church response to the refugee crisis in Europe is an example of how we, in the US, should treat those who have been displaced by conflicts in their homelands. Find ways to reach out to people in need. We should see if there are things we can do as a family. Each of us…
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Always Remember Him
Remembering and forgetting are part of life and part of our spiritual life. The Lord’s hand is often seen clearest in our life in hindsight. Life is understood backwards but it must be lived forward. Once we repent and priesthood leaders declare us worthy we don’t have to keep confessing and confessing. {In times of…
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The Holy Ghost
The Holy Ghost has some similar characteristics as the Light of Christ but He isn’t the same. Some expect the Holy Ghost to weigh in on every minor choice in their lives. This trivializes Him.
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He Will Place You on His Shoulders and Carry You Home
As a young boy he wondered how the destruction of the way could ever be restored. He recently went back to Dresden and saw it had been rebuilt since World War II. If man can rebuild a city, hire much more capable is God to rebuild a broken soul. The parable of the lost sheep…
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See Yourself in the Temple
Each of us should see ourselves in the temple. Despite the challenges of our day, we live in a sacred, holy time. The availability of temples is what sets this time apart from any in history. Please don’t see the temple as some distant and unachievable goal. Make the temple the symbol of your membership.
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Fathers
People’s attitudes about fatherhood range from hostile, to ambivalent, to skeptical, to supportive (too few are supportive). Fatherhood is more than a social construct. Father’s manifest their love as they sacrifice their lives day by day in support of their families. I want to study this one without the distractions that are currently around me.…
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A Pattern for Peace
Learn, listen, and walk What a faithful couple, saving to return to the temple to be sealed to their son when, as new converts, they didn’t understand that they were already sealed to him as part of their sealing to each other before his birth. We must continue partaking of the fruit and not be…
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Do I Believe?
I love how her answer came before she knew what the outcome of the illness would be for her son and that the answer was independent of the outcome. She knew it was true regardless of whether her son would live. To believe we need to get the message of the gospel from our heads…
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Choices
Four new temples: Quito, Ecuador Harare, Zimbabwe Belém, Brazil Lima Peru (2nd) We know where we want to go, let us choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong.