David Journal

Tag: Sunday school

  • Patriotic Sunday School

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    For our 5th Sunday lesson today we had a combined adult meeting and talked about supporting our divinely inspired Constitution. I really enjoyed the lesson and they didn’t cross any lines by mentioning any candidates but I would hope that the message may stick in a few minds and make people less inclined to support…

  • Teacher council for parents

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    Today in Sunday School Brother Tate demonstrated an example of how a teacher council for parents would begin if it were based on the question “how do we deal with or respond to children who choose to step away from the church?” He wasn’t trying to do a teacher council but his lesson was based…

  • A perfect “lesson”

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    I didn’t record this at the time but it deserves to be recorded and I am grateful for the experience. On Sunday I was assigned to lead the discussion in teacher council for the teachers and leaders of the priesthood, relief society, young men and young women organizations. We were discussing inviting diligent learning and…

  • Apostasy

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    Apostasy is not a drifting away, it is a mutiny or a rebellion. The Nicolatians spoken of in Revelation 2 were church members who sought to maintain their membership while living like the pagans in the sticker around them.

  • Traditions

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    I would like to make it a tradition that the day after Thanksgiving be an event at our house where the Miller’s gather. It might expand eventually but it would be the time dedicated to my family allowing people to gather together without conflicting with the traditions of in-laws. I would also like to make…

  • Understanding

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    “Seek first to understand then to be understood.” – Steven Covey If we don’t understand those we seek to communicate with it is only by chance that we may be able to communicate accurately. When Brother Smith read the words from Elder Holland’s April 2007 talk that, “Sisters, there is no place in that magnificent…

  • Personal security is required

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    Before you can be effective at assisting others you need to make sure that your emotional, spiritual, economic, or even physical footing is secure. That explains why I haven’t had a calling that requires any hard demands since I was released as elders quorum president.

  • Evidence

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    Suzie Becker’s brother went to medical school. He had an agnostic as his partner when studying gross anatomy. As they studied human bodies and how miraculously they operate and he turned to his agnostic partner and said, “isn’t coincidence a wonderful thing?” His agnostic friend responded, “you win.”

  • Grace and works

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    Susie Becker said that Martin Luther swung the pendulum too far from works to grace as he declared that through grace alone we are saved. She reminds that it is by grace we are saved after all we can do (her emphasis), and that God does all He can to save us after we have…

  • Sickles

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    “We no longer use sickles in the missionary work, we use combine harvesters.” (can’t remember who said it) I don’t think that’s true. We have more laborers in the field but we still use sickles and always will. Conversion is an individual process that can’t be done in a mechanized or programmed way.