Tag: Saturday Morning
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“Draw Near unto Me”
To maintain a relationship with the Father we should seek opportunities to communicate with Him, to spend time with Him, and to serve Him.
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My Love for the Savior Is My “Why”
The best motivation we can have for following the Savior and keeping His commandments is love for Him. We can sometimes let activities and traditions become an end in themselves if we forget the Christ-centered reason that may have initiated them.
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The Atonement of Jesus Christ Provides the Ultimate Rescue
Eight of the ten handcart companies came to Salt Lake without tragedy. This is like life, most of us experience normal challenges, rather than extraordinary challenges. We can’t afford to forget that whole remembering the extraordinary variants. I didn’t realize that the winter storms hit the Willy and Martin handcart companies two weeks after the…
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Right Before Our Eyes
We are witnesses to the Lord hastening His work in our day. The gathering is evident in the acceleration of temple building and increasing numbers of missionaries and expanding enrollment in church seminaries and institutes. Give the Lord equal time (not spare time) in prayer, scripture study, Sabbath worship, and temple service.
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Spiritually Whole in Him
We know that someone can be physically healed without being spiritually whole but can a person be spiritually whole without being physically or emotionally healed? I’m sure the answer is yes, and it is in our best interest to prioritize spiritual wholeness over physical healing. Healing from {temporal afflictions} happens in the Lord’s time but…
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As a Little Child
We must divest ourselves of personal ambition if we are to be able to serve the Lord with ultimate effectiveness wherever we are ever called to serve. “…We quote His teachings but we don’t follow them. We admire Him, but we don’t worship Him.”
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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.
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Trusting Our Father
Following the Lord’s servants is harder when what they ask of us differs from what we wanted ourselves.
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“This Is My Gospel”—“This Is My Church”
Without a stabilizer nitroglycerin was too volatile to be useful. The porous rock that can stabilize nitroglycerin to make it effectively usable was also worthless on its own. Together they are immensely valuable and useful. The Savior’s church is only special if it is built upon His history. Without the Lord’s church his doctrine is…