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Making connections between our culture & the gospel in everyday life.Bringing “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”
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New podcast episode: Guest Benjamin Pacini (BYU-I)
Benjamin Pacini, host of the podcast, “Radical Civility,” is currently a faculty member at BYU-Idaho in Elementary Education and pursuing an EDD from BYU. His experience as both educator and student has given him a unique perspective on how our culture seems to...
Finding the Family in Come, Follow Me – Lessons 7: Beatitudes
Salt is mentioned over forty times in the scriptures. It has an estimated fourteen thousand or more uses. But when the Organizer and Creator of this world used it as instruction to His followers (us), He was clear to which characteristic of salt he was referring. Matt...
Finding the Family in Come Follow Me Lessons 5 & 6: Identity and Born Again
Mindset matters; knowing who we are (identity) and who we belong to (through covenants) is the best way to improve ours. A chorus of secular and spiritual wisdom aligns with our Come Follow Me lessons and "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" where we are reminded...
As His people how are we doing?
Baptism is often taught as the way to become clean. It is, and so much more. When we are baptized: * We become part of the fold of God, to be called his people * and are willing to bear one another’s burdens, * and are willing to mourn with those that...
Finding the Family in Come Follow Me – Lessons 3 & 4: John 1, Matthew 3; Mark 1; Luke 3
Every book of scripture confirms every one of us are spirit sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father. In fact, "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" tells us we are each “beloved” sons and daughters with “divine potential.” Sin and a fallen world leave us...
Finding the Family in Come Follow Me – Lessons 1 and 2
In this week’s lesson we learn that Luke, as a gentile, traveled with the Apostle Paul and recorded events of the Savior’s life for a non-Jewish audience and perspective. Like then, today there are many who do not share our faith but acknowledge and publish truths...
Week 52: Finding the Family in Come Follow Me
JOY TO THE WORLD Sometimes primary songs, with their uncomplicated language and simple melodies are so effective at delivering a message to the child in us all. Consider this one: IT’S JOYFUL TO LIVE THE GOSPEL It’s joyful to live the gospel! So joyful I want to sing!...
Weeks 50 & 51: Finding the Family in Come Follow Me
The Old Testament’s final word is a witness that speaks to the centrality of family. Without our hearts turning to family—fathers to their children and children to their fathers, the whole earth would be cursed, … wasted, … for naught. The “welding together of...
Family Traditions, Wholesome Recreation, and Chuck-a-Rama: Podcast with Dr. Brian Hill, BYU
Don’t miss this fun and fascinating podcast on the “why’s” behind family traditions! Does wholesome recreation actually lead to greater happiness in family life? Dr. Brian Hill, professor of Experience Design at Brigham Young University, discusses the science behind...
Why Seeing Christ as an Unborn Baby Will Change Your Christmas Forever
Before the star. Before the shepherds. There was a mother and her unborn baby.
Week 48 & 49: Finding the Family in Come Follow Me
Prophets of old, and prophets today have foretold and warned of the downfall of strong and powerful cities. In Come Follow Me this week we read the terrifying accounts of Nineveh, Babylon, and even Jerusalem’s fall. That was thousands of years ago, today many believe...
Week 46 & 47 Finding the Family in Come Follow Me
What kind of efforts would qualify us for a title like “Savior on Mount Zion.” What an incredible comparison to make. This week’s Come Follow Me lesson teaches that we can be “Saviors on Mount Zion,” with one interpretation by President Hinckley relating to family...
Week 45 (Daniel): Finding the Family in Come Follow Me
Are we frightened for today’s youth growing up in a world, wicked as it is? This week’s Come Follow Me, through Daniel and his friends remind us sin-resistant youth can rise to meet and even exceed expectations and survive Babylon even as they face fierce beasts and...
Sister Nelson: Why we need to replace question marks with exclamation points after words of prophets
I wonder if you and I would study, in just a little different way, actually, perhaps in a much different way, each truth we received from this past General Conference if we had any idea of the price paid by our leaders to offer each truth to us?
Week 44 (Ezekiel): Finding the Family in Come, Follow Me
We learn this week that the duty to warn belongs to more than prophets. We are all called to warn our neighbor. We’ll undoubtedly stumble as we learn to do this well. Anything that matters this much takes time, practice, humility and courage. Right in the middle of...