General Conference, ‘Behold the Man,’ April 2018; “Recently I asked the internet, “What day most changed the course of history?” … If the same question were asked of you, what would you say? In my mind the answer is clear. To find the most important day in history, we must go back to that evening almost 2,000 […]
General Conference, ‘Take the Holy Spirit as Your Guide,’ April 2018;“To quicken means to make alive. Just as Christ brings our bodies back to life after physical death through the power of His Resurrection, so can He also quicken us, or make us alive, from spiritual death. In the book of Moses, we read of Adam […]
General Conference, ‘Prepare to Meet God,’ April 2018; “As we look at the primary purposes of the Church, they are all based on equality before the Lord and following the culture of the gospel of Jesus Christ. With respect to missionary work, the principal qualifications for baptism are humbling oneself before God and coming forth with a broken […]
Today we’re looking at a couple of the talks given at General Conference in April 2018. Before we begin…first things first… The numbers we’ve allotted to each talk is purely for our own references in the series, and isn’t meant to describe the order in which each talk was given at conference. We’ve noticed in past […]
Sunday Evening Session 2 Corinthians 3:5 “Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God”. Today we’re looking at just one of the talks given at General Conference. Over the next week or so we’ll take a look at some of the others, but for now this […]
The overall stats put out by the LDS Church last week was dismal. I would imagine there’s a fair amount of talk behind closed doors as to how they’re going to deal with the substantial loss of membership, not to mention the retention rate problem they have right now. After looking at the ‘fruits of […]
The past forty years has brought a lot of change to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Probably more than they expected, and far less than they were wanting to see (as in members, that is). The one thing that’s remained consistent is the downward spiral of church membership. While the rate […]
Acts 17:26; “And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation”. The phrase ‘if a picture could paint a thousand words’ seems to be an apt way to introduce events that […]
LDS Church ‘Retires’ Home and Visiting Teaching In what the Church referred to as ‘an historic General Conference’, several announcements were made including new apostles, and the ‘retirement’ of the Visiting and Home Teaching programs implemented back in the ‘50’s. Today we’re looking at the highlights of what leaders said regarding the Home Teaching program, […]
