“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33 [emp. added] Fireside focuses on families Deseret News, February 7, 2005 Don’t put off having children, LDS Church apostle tells students PROVO — College students should not put off creating families until they have completed all of their studies, […]
Matthew 22:36-40 “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love […]
Stepping away from tradition by installing the residing counselors into the upper echelon of Mormonism, the new prophet, Russell Nelson, chose Henry Eyring, and Dallin Oaks, as his two counselors. Uchtdorf has been relegated to his former position in serving as one of the Church’s twelve apostles. Here’s what the Church News announced from the temple today […]
A HOUSE DIVIDED Mark 3:25; “And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” According to the Assistant of the Twelve Apostles, ElRay Christiansen, the words of Jesus are flat out wrong. Check out what he had to say at a General Conference – Conference Report, April 1953, p. 35; “There are two […]
2 Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” I’ve prayed the verse listed above I don’t know how many times for […]
The title of our post today was the subject of one of Henry Eyring’s speeches at General Conference this past weekend. We pulled this from the Salt Lake Tribune’s article on some of the Conference highlights. You can read the Trib’s entire article at God Picks Mormon Leaders and He Never Gets It Wrong Eyring Says. […]
2 Peter 1:20-21 “Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” Peppered throughout the voluminous works of Mormonism are oft used […]
John 6:63; “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” General Conference, ‘Becoming Self-Reliant,’ October 1991;“Independence and self-reliance are critical to our spiritual and temporal growth. Whenever we get into situations which threaten our self-reliance, we will find our […]
Romans 8:38-39; “For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” The following two recent […]
Philippians 3:7-10; “But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. 8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may […]
