General Conference, Sunday Morning Session – There have been multiple talks specifically about prayer. Susan H. Porter – pray to know, pray to grow, pray to show others God’s love. Trust in God, he trusts you. Elder Kearon – It was not in the Father’s plan for us or those we love to fail.
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Special Study: the Lord’s Timing
I am brought to consider the “inconvenience” of the Lord’s timing in two personal experiences this morning. I am trying to find words that articulate all this. Trust in the Lord and lean not unto thy own understanding. Then on the flip side, the Jewish people of Nephi’s day had evolved into such a wicked …
Special Study: Prayer
(TG Prayer) And in that day ye shall ask me nothing but it shall be done unto you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may …
Easter
(Remarks delivered on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024 in the Marshall Branch Sacrament meeting) So as the account is told in scripture, the end was soon and the Hero of this story actually already knew how it was to happen. But even a complete and perfect understanding of what was about to happen, wasn’t enough. …
Notes on Documents from 1770
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0023 This first letter of the year 1770 starts with Jefferson recounting the loss of his books and personal writings and records through a house fire. What such a loss as this must do to the soul of a scholar, to know that the only thing left behind is what is recorded within. Of papers …
“Farewell… Until… the Pleasing Bar of the Great Jehovah”
Moroni 10:31-34 (Moroni 10:31-34) Here I am at the end of the record, and also at the end of a 16 year journey for me. I had not seen the significance of the parallels in my life with this study until just now. I have slowed down in the approach to my studies as I …
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Sacrament Contemplation
(Undated) 24 Jun 2023
Special Study: Joy Cometh in the Morning
Psalms 30:5 I’ve also been reflecting upon the latest talk from Amy Wright in October 2023 General Conference (which is not yet published) and a Friend article by President Thomas S. Monson. Because of Jesus Christ, and the covenants of His gospel, there is hope beyond tears.
Come Unto Christ
Moroni 10:26-30 (Moroni 10:26-30) Cuando leo declaraciones fuertes como lo que dice Moroni en el versÃculo 26, me hace recordar que Dios no es negro y blanco en tales cosas. Pero es el hombre natural el que atenta ser incompatible, inflexible, y sin voluntad de cambiar y crecer. Es en el acto de negar el …
“The Power and Gifts of God”
Moroni 10:19-25 (Moroni 10:19-25) This is scaffolding. The gifts of God or scaffolding, means by which faith is realized. I am being drawn to consider that this conversation on Spiritual Gifts is in reality a witness of the gifts that come from Jesus Christ. So often the human condition causes me to pass over, to …