Tag: October 2024
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Seek Him with All Your Heart
Make time for the Lord each and every day. For example when praying: what if we spent less time talking and more time just being with God. … What if while studying scriptures we spent less time just reading and more time… Paradoxically, helping God in His work of salvation may require that we slow…
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Seeking Answers to Spiritual Questions
How can we respond to the limits of our spiritual understanding? (What a fantastic question.) We may be required to wait upon the Lord in the place between our current understanding and {the next line of revelation}. We need to recognize that we do not possess any knowledge independently from God. In order to produce…
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“I Am He”
It sounds like his voice is ready to go at any time. People have come to reduce His righteousness to mere prudishness…His justice to mere anger…His mercy to mere permissiveness. Elder Holland has only one urgent message for the rest of his ministry—to testify of Christ in the most clear and straightforward way he can…
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In the Space of Not Many Years
He’s talking about the book of Helaman and applying it to today. It is a time where the Lamanites are often more righteous than the Nephites. Perhaps the most telling thing about this decline into wickedness by the Nephites is that it came upon them in not many years. … And this came upon them…
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Embrace the Lord’s Gift of Repentance
When he talked about feeling inadequate in his calling at times I thought “he’s obviously nervous and feeling inadequate right now. “No matter which part of the covenant path we are on now, focus on {repentance}.”
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The Man Who Communed with Jehovah
The God who answered Joseph Smith in the sacred grove is a God who answers teenagers in times of trouble. Speaking of Jesus: “It is neither His mission nor His character to condemn. He came to save.” I like this series of quotes from Joseph Smith.
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The Joy of Our Redemption
Like the story of how the painting was better after correcting the mistake that has smeared it than it had been before the mistake. The beauty of repentance through Christ is that He does not simply restore us to our prior state, He lifts us to a state greater than we had achieved before. Keep…
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Holiness to the Lord in Everyday Life
I missed the first portion but he’s talking about people who exemplify holiness to the Lord in their daily life.