David Journal

Tag: Saturday Afternoon

  • For Our Spiritual Development and Learning

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    When I was a young boy, my parents received a gift that became fascinating to my younger brother David and me. The gift was a miniature model of the golden plates the Prophet Joseph Smith received from the angel Moroni. As I recall, the model plates had 10 or so metal pages with words written…

  • “Abide in My Love”

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    There are many ways to describe and speak of divine love. One of the terms we hear often today is that God’s love is “unconditional.” While in one sense that is true, the descriptor unconditional appears nowhere in scripture. Rather, His love is described in scripture as “great and wonderful love,” “perfect love,” “redeeming love,”…

  • Look to the Book, Look to the Lord

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    I’d like to share a true story with you, a story that can be both an example and a lesson. It can show you how to get closer to the Lord and access greater power to resist temptation. This is a story of a young girl, living in New York, who before age three lost…

  • Valiant in the Testimony of Jesus

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    Eternal life is the greatest gift of God and is bestowed on those who “keep [God’s] commandments and endure to the end.” On the other hand, eternal life with our Heavenly Father is denied those “who are not valiant in the testimony of Jesus.” There are a number of stumbling blocks to our valor that…

  • Family Councils

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    What did he say would counter the impact of media influences in our families? Was it family counsels? 4 types of family counsels 1: general (everyone) 2: executive (parents) 3: limited (parents + 1 child) 4: one on one (1 parent + 1 child) Keys to family counsel: no electronics – avoid distractions General family…

  • Always Retain a Remission of Your Sins

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    Baptism, confirmation, and always retaining a remission of our sins. I had to deal with bathing kids for most of this talk.

  • The Sacred Place of Restoration

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    I like how his journey of faith wasn’t a straight line of always upward progress. He embraced the gospel slowly and later still had to deal with significant questions challenging his faith.

  • To the Rescue: We Can Do It

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    4 principles to help in rescuing 1: don’t delay going to the rescue 2: we must never give up 3: how great shall be your joy if you bring one soul unto Christ 4: no matter our age, we are all called to go to the rescue

  • “Whoso Receiveth Them, Receiveth Me”

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    I once thought it inscrutable that the Provision on the family would eventually be canonized. I don’t know if that will ever happen but it is certainly useful for doctrine and edification. While our ideal regarding the structure of family won’t change, we need to be sensitive to the fact that many people in the…

  • Standing with the Leaders of the Church

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    {Honest} Questions are an indication of a willingness to learn more and strengthen faith. As we press forward choosing to follow the counsel of leaders we choose to follow the Lord – separating ourselves from a world traveling a diverging path.