Tag: April 2007
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It’s True, Isn’t It? Then What Else Matters?
If we have the faith to ask this question the things that don’t matter will fall away and the things that do will be put in perspective – either enlarged or diminished in our minds as necessary. I take as my subject today something President Hinckley said in general conference in April of 1973. I…
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Ye Must Be Born Again
I love the symbolism of the transformation from cucumber to pickle. The basic lessons I learned about temporal self-reliance and provident living while picking and canning produce have blessed me throughout my life. Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have. As an adult I have reflected upon…
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Let Us Take This Into Our Hearts and Homes
We hope that you will use the May edition of the church magazines in your homes.
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Truths of the Restoration
The true nature of God – He having a body as a person separate from ChristThere are more scriptures than the Bible for the Lord has more words to give us.
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The Peril of ‘Someday’
Choose you this day . . .“I love those who seek me early” is as true of a day as it is of a life – morning prayer, early scripture study.We do not know how long we will have to serve until the Atonement has wrought a mighty change in our hearts but we have…
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The Importance of Tithing
“I, the Lord, require the heart and a willing mind.”Tithing is a matter of faith and of commitment.Tithing is a token of our willingness and dedication.
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The Consequences of Sin
Satan is sometimes called “the Accuser”There is no such thing in the gospel as a ‘point of no return.’Sin is the willful transgression of divine law.God sent not His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world, through Him, might be saved.It is not through our own efforts alone that we…
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Hope Through Repentance
Repentance is the Lord’s regimin for spiritual growth.Repentance is conversion. A measure of either can be had only with a measure of the other.The Lord wants me and you as sunbeams but also as welding blacksmiths to curb the curse of family fragmentation.
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Divorce
Marriage is under attack. Society views marriage as a very light contract. No fault divorces make it easier to terminate a marriage with an unwanted spouse than it can be to terminate an employment relationship with an unwanted employee.“Because of the hardness of our hearts the Lord does not currently enforce the consequences of the…