Tag: Doctrine and Covenants

Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 37I don’t know how to teach about the importance of having a prophet except to bear my testimony and ask the youth why they think it is important to have a prophet and what it means in action to sustain him and show our appreciation for the…

Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 36“Retrench” – to cut back excesses. In gardening we call it pruning. For all of our lives it is important that we cut back excesses when they appear and prune our activities and expenditures of time and other resources in a way that directs us to the…

Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 35 James 1:27 – Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. Any “religion” without that action is hallow and ineffective for working out our salvation.

Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 34 Let all the people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and those who journey with them, be organized into companies, with a covenant and promise to keep all the commandments and statutes of the Lord our God. Let the companies be organized with…

Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 33When Brigham first arrived back in Nauvoo after the martyrdom he stated that he only wanted to know what the Lord desired for the church – he then called the Twelve together – it was after this meeting that he spoke to the people and sounded and…

Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 32“Why would Joseph and Hyrum take comfort in Ether 12:36-38?” that’s simple – they had the assurance of the Lord that their course in life was acceptable to the Lord. As Dan Jones said it when asked if he was afraid to die in Carthage jail,

Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 31The sealing by the holy Spirit of Promise may be like the name of the highest token of the Holy Priesthood – we are informed of its existence at the time we receive the token or covenant, but it must be received through the veil with no…

Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 30All of us chose in the premortal world to participate int he plan of salvation. The children in this day and age are able to perform ordinances that their fathers could not perform, but their fathers prepared the way whereby they could have that chance of a…

Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 29The coming to and building up of Nauvoo, as well as the work abroad while this was taking place is a model for the pattern of building, maintaining, and spreading Zion.

Doctrine and Covenants + Church History – Lesson 28The David Patten story is a great illustration of the peace that the gospel brings. While he lay dying from battle wounds he was wishing that apostates felt the peace of the gospel that he felt, with their souls safe in the Lord rather than suffering the…