by Todd Bruce | Apr 1, 2023 | -General Conference, -Todd Bruce, Elk Valley Latter Day Saint, Holy Ghost, Robert D. Hales, Spirit
“When I take notes at conference. I do not always write down exactly what the speaker is saying. I note the personalized direction the spirit is giving me.” — Robert D. Hales It’s General Conference weekend! It’s time for wonderful stories, better quotes, silly quips,...
by Spencer Charles | Mar 31, 2023 | -General Conference, -Spencer, Agency, Covenants, David A. Bednar, Discipleship, Latter Day Help, Obedience, Priorities, Strength, Zion
Parables are a defining feature of the Lord Jesus Christ’s masterful approach to teaching. Simply defined, the Savior’s parables are stories used to compare spiritual truths with material things and mortal experiences. For example, the New Testament Gospels are...
by Spencer Charles | Mar 31, 2023 | -General Conference, -Spencer, Atonement, Forgiveness, Gerrit W. Gong, Happiness, Healing, Jesus Christ, Latter Day Help, Ordinances, Repentance, Temple Work
Friends, dear brothers and sisters, do you remember believing, or wanting to believe, in happily ever after?Then life happens. We “grow up.” Relationships get complicated. This world is noisy, crowded, pushy, with pretense and posturing. Yet, in our “deep heart’s...
by Spencer Charles | Mar 25, 2023 | -General Conference, -Spencer, Conversion, Discipleship, endurance, Faith, Latter Day Help, youth
During this past summer, over 200,000 of our young people all over the world grew in faith at one of the hundreds of weeklong sessions of For the Strength of Youth, or FSY, conferences. Coming out of pandemic isolation, for many it was an act of faith in the Lord to...
by Spencer Charles | Mar 11, 2023 | -General Conference, -Spencer, Discipleship, Humility, Jesus Christ, Latter Day Help, Love, Service
This morning our two children and three grandchildren in North America, and about half of the world, saw the brightness of the sun rising majestically in the east. The other three children and seven grandchildren in Africa, and the other half of the world, saw...
by Spencer Charles | Feb 25, 2023 | -General Conference, -Spencer, Adversity, Atonement, Cross, Discipleship, Jeffrey R. Holland, Jesus Christ, Latter Day Help, Religion, sacrifice
Years ago, following a graduate school discussion on American religious history, a fellow student asked me, “Why have the Latter-day Saints not adopted the cross that other Christians use as a symbol of their faith?” Inasmuch as such questions about the cross are...
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