Tag: October 2024
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Aligning Our Will with His
When we don’t allow God to prevail in our lives we can end up justifying anything we decide to do.
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Be Thou Clean
I like how he compares daily repentance to the way his wife cleans her hearing aids daily to keep them operating properly.
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“Ye Are My Friends”
We can build sacred relationships with others as we look upward to heaven together. “There is much more that unites us than what separates us.” (That’s a direct quote from Kamala Harris’s stump speech.) I heard a bunch of good things but I was cleaning up an accident on the stove.
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Welcome to the Church of Joy
Do we feel joy in the gospel? Do we feel joy in meeting together? Do we bring joy with us to church? What is “joyful reverence”? Reverence is more than folding our arms, bowing our head, closing our eyes, and holding still…indefinitely. We may have been conditioned to spend the time during the sacrament thinking…
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His Hand Ready to Help Us
Jesus has the power to help us out of every miserable condition. It is important to persist in our efforts help others. That includes persisting in building trusting relationships before obvious help is needed so that people have the emotional connection to feel safe in accepting help.
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Bonded to Jesus Christ: Becoming the Salt of the Earth
Like salt we can lose our spiritual vitality if we become casual in our worship.
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Burying Our Weapons of Rebellion
What can we do to bury our disposition or desire for sin? It’s crazy to think about the rebellion of W. W. Phelps because it seems forgotten because of his sincere repentance and subsequent faithfulness. I’m curious what example of passive forms of rebellion he will talk about. Burying or weapons of rebellion means putting…
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Following Christ
Reemphasis of the doctrine in the family proclamation Now a reemphasis of how we communicate on public policy—specifically the need to avoid contention. “He that hath the spirit of contention is not of me but it’s of the devil who is the father of contention.” Blessed are the peacemakers “One of the easiest ways to…
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God Loves All His Children
This is at least the third talk already emphasizing that the Lord loves each of us individually. One of your missions in this life is to become a disciple of Jesus Christ and follow the impressions that He gives you.