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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Gas Law of Learning

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They could both speak with perfect confidence because of what I call the gas law of learning, namely, that any amount of information no mat...
Sunday, December 30, 2018

Women Lead in Teaching

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My wife has been preparing for the new emphasis in the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more gospel learning in the home....
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Unity, Diversity

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In elders quorum today, we used the talk by Ulisses Soares, "One in Christ"  as the launching point for our discussion. The conver...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Our Memories are Weak Without the Holy Ghost

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I taught in Elders Quorum today. My subject was the talk from President Eyring, His Spirit to be With You . I started with a story about m...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

A Short Drive With "Saints"

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The first volume of "Saints" was released this month. I thought I knew a lot of church history, but I've already learned new t...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

A Quorum Presidency Meeting Role-Play

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I'm the deacons quorum adviser. Our quorum presidency (the boys who lead the quorum) was asked by the stake Young Men's President to...
Saturday, January 06, 2018

Remembering Truman Madsen

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In the late 1980's, Truman Madsen gave a series of lectures about the Prophet Joseph Smith . They were published on cassette tapes and l...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

Ordinances For Power

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Would God really break up a loving couple at death merely because they failed to get married by the proper authority in the temple? Doesn...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Science Doesn't Prove. Science Describes.

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Listen to Guy Consolmagno, the head of the Vatican Observatory (yes, they have one) talk about the scientific process.  That also is how...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Two Men on the Bus

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Today on the bus, I was two men. A teen sat on the seat across from me, sitting with his headphones on and bobbing to the music that only ...
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Have Not Seen, Yet Have Believed

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Thomas the apostle famously refused to believe that Jesus was resurrected unless he, like the others, could actually see him. When Jesus did...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Lone Survivor: A Knowledge Problem

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I've sometimes imagined what it would be like if I had to bear the sole responsibility of passing on all the world's knowledge to th...
Sunday, September 01, 2013

Time Travel

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If you could go back in time, what would you change? Are there horrible things you would prevent?  If you changed the past, would you change...
Sunday, August 18, 2013

Unconditional Love

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There is some confusion about the love of God. As a parent, I can't imagine ever ceasing to love my children. Yet we are taught that the...
Sunday, December 30, 2012

Knee Deep in Sardines

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Via Bill Reel , I discovered a fantastic talk by Dale Sturm of BYU-Idaho . Two things need to be cited from this talk that I'd like to r...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Early to Church

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My wife is brilliant. She carried over a tradition from her family growing up to our young family. She labors to get our family to church 20...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Teaching Reverence

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This counsel stung a little bit. "But remember, if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training b...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Small and Simple vs. One Great Thing

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A well known statement attributed to Brigham Young presents a theological problem for Latter-day Saints. Speaking of the heroic young men wh...
Saturday, July 07, 2012

Forgiving the Excommunicated and Disfellowshipped

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The church's topic study page for " forgiveness " includes a link to a talk by Elder Theodore Burton in 1983 on the subject o...
Sunday, June 17, 2012

Brain Waves

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We can probe a person's brain with a tiny bit of electricity and cause sensations similar to a spiritual experience. You might conclude ...