Tag: Saturday Afternoon
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The Transforming Power of Faith and Character
Character is woven patiently by applied threads of principle and doctrine. How well we do with mortal challenges will determine how strong your faith will be. Faith cannot be taken away from us but it can be lost by neglect or personal choice. When faith is properly understood and used, it has dramatically far-reaching effects.…
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Never Leave Him
The road of discipleship is not for the spiritually faint of heart. Watch out for the stumbling blocks of being offended and ashamed. As disciples of Christ we stand apart from the world Unless your roots of faith are firmly planted it will be difficult to withstand the mocking of the world. “Aren’t there those…
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Temple Mirrors of Eternity: A Testimony of Family
Eternal perspective helps us better recognize our position through generations. His oriental genealogy is well recorded back 35 generations – that changes family history work. …each new convert, young single adult, those returning to Church activity, and others bless generations when they become fellow Saints in the household of God. Today, speaking of electronic handheld…
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Our Very Survival
Recited the same 14 fundamental truths about prophets that Elder Costa reviewed from Elder Bensen. That must have been discussed at a meeting the two of them were both in during the last few months and had an impact on each of them. The winter of 1848 had been extremely harsh. The winter had been…
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Faith – the Choice Is Yours
Faith and agency. We have to exercise our agency to develop our faith. Because of the conflicts and challenges we face in today’s world, I wish to suggest a single choice – a choice of peace and protection and a choice that is appropriate for all. That choice is faith. Be aware that faith is…
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Let There Be Light!
While preserving and collecting light is our primary goal we should also work to blackout the destructive bombs of the adversary. Freedom and light have never been easy to attain or maintain. Since the War in Heaven, the forces of evil have used every means possible to destroy agency and extinguish light. The assault on…
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Agency: Essential to the Plan of Life
When Heavenly Father offered the plan of happiness Satan responded by trying to substitute his own idea (kind of like the kids often do). The idea that none of the definitions of agency conveyed the idea of choice to act surprises me as well. That seems so fundamental. Because of Lucifer’s rebellion, a great spiritual…
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The Blessing of Scripture
William Tyndale sacrificed his life to translate the Bible into English even though the church refused to give him permission to do so. What did people in 16th century England know about the scriptures that they would spend vast sums of money and take on great personal risk to obtain a copy of the scriptures.…
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Being Temperate in All Things
Temperance is being self-controlled rather than self-willed. Tempered glass has been heated so that it is stronger and under stress it will not break into jagged pieces. We live in an impatient and intemperate world where there is uncertainty. In a spiritual sense, temperance is a divine attribute of Jesus Christ. He desires for each…
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When the Lord Commands
Occasionally we believe that there must be an easier way, a shortcut or modification of the Lord’s commandments that will accommodate our individual circumstances. Thoughts such as these fail to acknowledge that strict obedience to God’s laws brings His blessings and failure to abide by His laws leads to foreseeable consequences. When we choose to…