Tag: Sunday Afternoon
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One Percent Better
What if, instead of trying to perfect everything we focus on getting 1% better on one thing after another? Over time those gains will aggregate into major improvement. Even if the changes needed in your life are wholesale, begin on a small scale.
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Remember Thy Suffering Saints, O Our God
Physical or emotional suffering from a variety sources has been, is now, or will be part of your life. How can suffering, especially suffering caused by someone else misusing agency, bring us closer to eternal life?
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Giving Holiness to the Lord
Like Sister Eubank, he has been asked to report in conference on the humanitarian work of the church. If we think we are giving to others we may sometimes feel unappreciated but if we think of those offerings as gifts to the Lord we can view them differently.
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Trust Again
God asks us to keep the light on for each other so that all may feel welcome. Those who feel trust has been broken need to find ways to trust again. Those who still have their trust in God need to look for ways to help others feel that they too can trust God. Want…
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The Power of a Strong Testimony
In this uncertain world, there are some things that never change: the perfect love of our Heavenly Father for each of us; the assurance that He is there and will always hear us; the existence of absolute, unchanging truths; the fact that there is a plan of happiness; the assurance that success in life is…
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COVID-19 and Temples
Phase 2 has been amended to allow young people and new converts to participate in proxy baptisms. Do all you can to bring covid numbers down in your area in order to have access to your temples. 20 new temples!!!!! Oslo, Norway Brussels, Belgium Vienna, Austria Kumasi, Ghana Beira, Mozambique Cape Town, South Africa Singapore,…
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“The Principles of My Gospel”
The important role of principles in the restored gospel. A gospel principle is a doctrinally based guideline for the exercise of agency. In 1998 President Oaks talked about the principle of non-distraction saying that an Aaronic priesthood holder would not want anything in their appearance or behavior to distract anyone from the Savior. He refrained…
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The Gospel Light of Truth and Love
Interesting that he would have any memories of being sealed to his family at age 2. He is the second speaker in a row to quote “I will put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and they shall be my people.” Considering that his was prerecorded he couldn’t have…
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Why the Covenant Path
When we walk the covenant path we avoid many unforced errors in life. With covenants, obedience to the gospel becomes rooted in our soul. A second unique aspect of the covenant path is our relationship to Heavenly Father Figuratively speaking the gate is so narrow that only one person may enter at a time (covenants…
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Light Cleaveth unto Light
Darkness must always surrender to even the faintest light. Sunlight is vital to all life in earth. Equally vital spiritually is the light of Christ. Heavenly Father’s light always resides in the temple. We walk in shadows when we are too quick to anger or too slow to forgive. “If we let God prevail in…