David Journal

Tag: notes

  • Notes from stake conference

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    Aaron Stobbe and Kirk Silver as HP and Aaron Stobbe to the High Council. President Jackson: Matters of the Heart Speaking of the priests of Noah: because they did not apply themselves to understanding they were unable to act in wisdom and their knowledge was not only not a benefit to them but it became…

  • Succor

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    “I think everyone wishes to have a ten leper moment but more often Christ succors us through our infirmities.” Kirk Silver

  • Enoch and Mariah Talks

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    It is important that Jesus lives because if he wasn’t alive we wouldn’t be able to return to Heavenly Father. The plan of salvation depended on him coming and saving us from sin and death. In Alma 34 Amulek taught: 9 For it is expedient that an atonement should be made; for according to the…

  • Apostasy

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    Apostasy is not a drifting away, it is a mutiny or a rebellion. The Nicolatians spoken of in Revelation 2 were church members who sought to maintain their membership while living like the pagans in the sticker around them.

  • Traditions

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    I would like to make it a tradition that the day after Thanksgiving be an event at our house where the Miller’s gather. It might expand eventually but it would be the time dedicated to my family allowing people to gather together without conflicting with the traditions of in-laws. I would also like to make…

  • Understanding

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    “Seek first to understand then to be understood.” – Steven Covey If we don’t understand those we seek to communicate with it is only by chance that we may be able to communicate accurately. When Brother Smith read the words from Elder Holland’s April 2007 talk that, “Sisters, there is no place in that magnificent…

  • Personal security is required

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    Before you can be effective at assisting others you need to make sure that your emotional, spiritual, economic, or even physical footing is secure. That explains why I haven’t had a calling that requires any hard demands since I was released as elders quorum president.

  • Evidence

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    Suzie Becker’s brother went to medical school. He had an agnostic as his partner when studying gross anatomy. As they studied human bodies and how miraculously they operate and he turned to his agnostic partner and said, “isn’t coincidence a wonderful thing?” His agnostic friend responded, “you win.”

  • Grace and works

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    Susie Becker said that Martin Luther swung the pendulum too far from works to grace as he declared that through grace alone we are saved. She reminds that it is by grace we are saved after all we can do (her emphasis), and that God does all He can to save us after we have…

  • Sickles

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    “We no longer use sickles in the missionary work, we use combine harvesters.” (can’t remember who said it) I don’t think that’s true. We have more laborers in the field but we still use sickles and always will. Conversion is an individual process that can’t be done in a mechanized or programmed way.