Tag: Sunday Morning
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Lasting Discipleship
You don’t have to wear the badge to bear His name. Your discipleship isn’t just a slogan on a t-shirt.
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Patterns of Discipleship
Whenever we care to notice we find that God has given us sufficient witnesses of truth. This talk deserves some real study/consideration. He has a lot of good truth about aligning ourselves to truth. “What we do at home is the true crucible of…” I want to look at the connections he illustrated between what…
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Happy and Forever
A bent branch does not mean a bad tree. As we come to our Savior…we judge less and forgive more.
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His Yoke Is Easy and His Burden Is Light
How much of Isaac’s defiance is because of his emotional wounds? I actually know that much of it (possibly even all) is just that. The problem that remains with Isaac is that he can’t even conceive of the fact that the pain I caused him was because of my own wounds. Likewise with Laura, our…
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Lifted Up upon the Cross
I think it is beautiful that the church chooses the resurrected Savior as our virtual reminder of Christ and His Atonement rather than the cross or Christ on the cross. While we don’t use the iconography of the cross, we will talk about the bruises we bear. I will not offer unto the Lord my…
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Teaching Self-Reliance to Children and Youth
What is the intersection between self-reliance and helping others? How and when should we accept help from others? What is the balance between individual responsibility and communal support? We should help our children to make goals through the children and youth program and follow up with them to help them learn the self-control and drive…
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To Heal the World
Religious freedom honors the first and second great commandments, placing God at the center of our lives. Religious freedom fosters expressions of belief, hope, and peace. Religion inspires people to help others. Freedom of religion acts as a unifying and rallying force for shaping values and morality. The list of what is being done is…
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For God So Loved Us
No matter who you are and your present circumstances, someone feels about you the way that Judah felt about Benjamin whom he had promised to return safely to Jacob to the point that he offered to be jailed so that Benjamin could go free. I love the story of the investigator, Paul, and the straying…
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Love, Share, Invite
Love, share, and invite. Missionary work in a nutshell We already share often—our favorite restaurant or art that we enjoy—we should add sharing our joy in the gospel to the sharing we are already doing. We do not need to sell the gospel. We simply invite people to come and see, come and serve, and…
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Our Relationship with God
Because we know that God has power to remove affliction we may complain when He does not do so. It truly is folly for us with our mortal myopia to presume to judge God. We ought not to think of God’s plan as some cosmic vending machine. Our faith in God cannot be based on…