Tag: Saturday Afternoon
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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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That We May Always Have His Spirit to Be with Us
My message this afternoon focuses on the baptism of the Spirit and the blessings that flow from the companionship of the Holy Ghost. Too often we seem to treat confirmation as a passive postscript to baptism. The statement “receive the Holy Ghost” in our confirmation was a directive to strive for the baptism of the…
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Be One with Christ
I missed what ancestors he had that he was warned against taking any pride or expectation based on his heritage. The requirements for baptism, while profound, are decidedly simple. Some take real but small differences and magnify them into chasms Without moral agency we could not learn, progress, or choose to be one with Christ.…