Tag: Sunday Morning
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Simple Is the Doctrine of Jesus Christ
Alma was leading a people who were frequently under attack by their enemies. He knew that overcoming would require repentance asking his people as well as their enemies. That was when we determined “to try the virtue of the word of God which has a more powerful effect than the sword or anything else.” We…
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O Youth of the Noble Birthright
Why must latter day saints live so differently? Because of the covenant blessings you receive as a joint heir with Christ. You’ve got this because Jesus Christ has you.
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Seek Him with All Your Heart
Make time for the Lord each and every day. For example when praying: what if we spent less time talking and more time just being with God. … What if while studying scriptures we spent less time just reading and more time… Paradoxically, helping God in His work of salvation may require that we slow…
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Seeking Answers to Spiritual Questions
How can we respond to the limits of our spiritual understanding? (What a fantastic question.) We may be required to wait upon the Lord in the place between our current understanding and {the next line of revelation}. We need to recognize that we do not possess any knowledge independently from God. In order to produce…
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“I Am He”
It sounds like his voice is ready to go at any time. People have come to reduce His righteousness to mere prudishness…His justice to mere anger…His mercy to mere permissiveness. Elder Holland has only one urgent message for the rest of his ministry—to testify of Christ in the most clear and straightforward way he can…
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Covenants and Responsibilities
The role of covenants People give up some individual freedoms in order to receive the greater blessings of organized society. The Lord is not being subtle with me about the importance of keeping my covenants and actively receiving their promised blessings and the centrality of prayer in my progress. To remove your garments (unnecessarily) can…
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Swallowed Up in the Joy of Christ
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, {that our education is completed}. Orson F. Whitney?
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God’s Intent Is to Bring You Home
God is in relentless pursuit of you. Christ’s great atoning gift removes every roadblock. I could just keep quoting his statements in succession.