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  • Growing Toward the Son

    Growing Toward the Son

    This morning I got to give a spiritual thought at the Activity Days Camp at church. This is the summer camp for 7-11 year old girls. Their theme was “Growing Toward the Son.” There is an interesting phenomenon that happens in a lot of plants where they will actually change direction to grow toward the…

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  • What do I do now?

    What do I do now?

    Questions What do I tell my boys now? Where is the example of standing by values and convictions? Can I trust that my boys will be safe from ridicule and persecution as we camp? How do I help them face the growing evil in the world? These questions and many like them have been crowding my…

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  • Keeping our baptismal covenants

    Keeping our baptismal covenants

    Today I taught a lesson to the deacon’s quorum at church. The topic of the lesson was “What covenants did I make at baptism?” I had been really busy this week and sadly didn’t get to preparing my lesson until Sunday morning. I was struggling to figure out what to talk about when I had…

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  • Good Thursday

    Good Thursday

    As I was readying bible stories with my daughter tonight, I was pondering on how we as Christians often focus so much on Good Friday and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ that we forget what happened to Him the day before that all-important day. In some ways, perhaps, what happened on “Good Thursday” was even…

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  • It’s All About Agency

    It’s All About Agency

    When God held the grand council in the premortal realm, the central issue of contention between the spirits who supported our Heavenly Father’s plan and those that supported Lucifer’s was that of agency. In Moses 4:3 we read that “Because that Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man, which I,…

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  • The Christmas Spirit

    The Christmas Spirit

    Intentionally focusing on the true meaning of Christmas draws us to Christ I must admit, I’ve been struggling with this a bit this year. I’ve had a lot on my mind these last few days and have been feeling discouraged about what I see going on in the world. I’ve been concerned with the reaction…

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  • O Come, O Come Immanuel

    O Come, O Come Immanuel

    Immanuel (or Emmanuel) means God with Us. The birth of Jesus Christ the son of God was prophesied centuries before He was born of Mary in Bethlehem. The prophecies of Him, fortold his virgin birth, His life and His atoning sacrifice. Christ, as a member of the Godhead and therefore as a God himself, literally fulfilled…

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  • What I Learned On The Way to The Temple

    What I Learned On The Way to The Temple

    Yesterday we took a trip to the San Antonio Texas Temple. We try to go about once a month, and we’ve gotten really used to taking the trip down there. Yesterday, as usual, we wanted to go to the 9:30am session so that we could get done in time to come back home and get…

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  • Why do Mormons Revere Joseph Smith So Much?

    Why do Mormons Revere Joseph Smith So Much?

    Last year my wife and I spent a lot of our time with a real estate agent as we shopped for our first home. For a few months we went out with this agent and viewed home after home. Through this process we began to develop a friendship with this man. We learned that he…

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  • General Conference

    General Conference

    Every April and October members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) gather in locations around the world to be instructed by living prophets and apostles of Jesus Christ. Over the next two days, March 31 and April 1 2012, these inspired men of God will teach the world about the Gospel…

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