Tag: Jeffrey R Holland
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Place No More for the Enemy of My Soul
Lust is a deadly sin because it defiles the highest and holiest relationship given to us by God in mortality. Lust celebrates self indulgence. I feel much like Jacob of old, who said, “It grieveth me that I must use so much boldness of speech . . . before . . . many . .…
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My Words Never Cease
If the words of the Lord to one prophet were sufficient for all people in all time then why have future prophets, and who is to say when it is enough – why have Isaiah if you already have Moses. Were the Christians who first had the gospel of Mark (the one we understand to…
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None Were with Him
Never has so little money purchased so much infamy. my Easter-season message today is intended for everyone, but it is directed in a special way to those who are alone or feel alone or, worse yet, feel abandoned. “I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me. . .…
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The Ministry of Angels
Occasionally the angelic purpose is to warn. But most often it is to comfort, to provide some form of merciful attention, guidance in difficult times. Even the Son of God, a God Himself, had need for heavenly comfort during His sojourn in mortality. The latter days are not a time to fear and tremble. They…
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The Only True God and Jesus Christ Whom He Hath Sent
Harper’s Bible Dictionary records that “the formal doctrine of the Trinity as it was defined by the great church councils of the fourth and fifth centuries is not to be found in the [New Testament].” (Paul F. Achtemeier, ed. (1985), 1099) In such creeds . . . They are three distinct persons, yet not three…
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The Power of Words
“If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man and able to bridle the whole body.”Nephi’s being bound with cords and beaten by rods must have been more tolerable to him than listening to Laman and Lemuels constant murmuring. Surely he must have said at least once, “Hit me one more…