Tag: Saturday Morning
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Welcome to Conference
It took so long to get things set up that we missed the entire opening remarks. The computer wouldn’t load a plugin to play the live stream so w had to Chromecast it from YouTube.
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A Priceless Heritage of Hope
Whoever you are and wherever you may be, you hold in your hands the happiness of more people than you can now imagine. Every day and every hour you can choose to make or keep a covenant with God. Wherever you are on the path to inherit the gift of eternal life, you have the…
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Spiritual Whirlwinds
My young friends, the world will not glide calmly toward the Second Coming of the Savior. The scriptures declare that “all things shall be in commotion.” Brigham Young said, “It was revealed to me in the commencement of this Church, that the Church would spread, prosper, grow and extend, and that in proportion to the spread…
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Protection from Pornography—a Christ-Focused Home
We as leaders are increasingly concerned about the destruction that pornography is causing in the lives of Church members and their families. Satan is attacking with unprecedented fury. One reason we are here on earth is to learn to manage the passions and feelings of our mortal bodies. These God-given feelings help us want to marry and…
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Christ the Redeemer
{Jesus’} preaching was simple, and even though multitudes followed after Him, His ministry always consisted of blessing people one by one. He performed innumerable miracles among those who accepted Him as the One sent from God. He gave His Apostles authority and power to do miracles “and greater works” than those He performed, but He…
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The Joyful Burden of Discipleship
When Elder Rasband asked President Monson what he should do when he was visiting an area that had experienced a natural disaster President Monson asked him to telly the people that the property loved them, that the prophet was praying for them, and that the prophet appreciated the work of those who were helping in…
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The Cost—and Blessings—of Discipleship
If we are unwilling to stand for true principles and endure the scorn of the world when it will not accept those principles then we will be left with our houses desolate. I can’t wait to actually listen to this whole talk uninterrupted. If love is to be our watchword, and it must be, we…
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Welcome to Conference
I caught basically nothing except the statement that there would be no announcements of new temples in the immediate future.
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Come, Join with Us
Why would people want to join a church that requires so much of them as ours does? Because we come closer to God and we are challenged to become better. Our daily walk with Christ leads to piece and purpose in this life. “Sometimes we volunteer. Sometimes we are volunteered.” The question that leads to…
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The Windows of Heaven
The blessings that we receive from tithing aren’t always the large and obvious ones that make popular stories. In his first time as part of the counsel on the disposition of the tithes (which consists of the first presidency, the presiding bishopric, and the quorum of the twelve apostles) Elder Bednar was surprised at how…