Tag: Boyd K Packer
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The Power of the Priesthood
The key in the organization of the Lord is priesthood. The priesthood will lose great power if the sisters are ignored. Fathers preside in the home whenever they are present even when someone else such as a civic or church leader is present. When the father is not present the mother should request the presiding…
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Prayer and Promptings
We have a spirit body housed, for now, in an earthly tabernacle of flesh. When he says “for now” I think he has a special perspective on thetemporary nature of mortality as his earthly tabernacle is becoming worn out in service to the Lord. Before I left, we had our family prayer. Our little boy…
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Counsel to Young Men
“Young men speak about the future because they have no past. Old men speak about the past because they have no future.”Wonderful sense of humor. J. Reuben Clark described the youth as “hungry for the church and eager for the truth. . . You do not need to sneak up behind these youth and whisper…
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The Twelve
The full quorum is required in order to authorize one man to exercise all the keys of the priesthood (keys which they all hold). 8 quorums of 70? (I must have missed something yesterday in the two sessions I didn’t hear) The most precious thing lost in the Apostasy was the authority held by the…
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The Weak and the Simple of the Church
“It shall not be given to any one to go forth to preach my gospel, or to build up my church, except he be ordained by some one who has authority, and it is known to the church that he has authority and has been regularly ordained by the heads of the church” (D&C 42:11;…