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Steven J. Lund - Flashes of Light
February 02, 2024 16:24As we drive through life’s journey, there will be flashes of light! The Lord promised Isaiah, “I will make darkness light before them.” Think about this. Life often presents itself as an incessant gray wall stretching off into nowhere, but here and there, if you watch for them, flickering assurances of God’s love for us will become evident. Once, on a business trip, I landed in predawn darkness at an airport in Asia and wearily found a car and driver. The trip would take a couple of hour...
D. Todd Christofferson - Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
September 22, 2017 23:25Take it one day at a time. … Don’t look ahead to the pain. Just get through the day.” To worry about what is or may be coming can be debilitating. It can paralyze us and make us quit. Read, watch or listen to the complete talk
Lynn G Robbins - Be 100 Percent Responsible
September 22, 2017 23:17Being 100 percent responsible is accepting yourself as the person in control of your life. If others are at fault and need to change before further progress is made, then you are at their mercy and they are in control over the positive outcomes or desired results in your life. Agency and responsibility are inseparably connected. You cannot avoid responsibility without also diminishing agency. Mercy and justice are also inseparable. You cannot deny the Lord’s justice without also impeding Hi...
Sheri Dew - Will You Engage in the Wrestle
September 22, 2017 23:08None of us are entitled to revelation without effort on our part. Answers from God don't just magically appear. If we want to grow spiritually, the Lord expects us to ask questions and seek answers. "If thou shalt ask," He promised, "thou shalt receive revelation upon revelation, knowledge upon knowledge...."[x] How much clearer can it be? The Lord loves inspired questions asked in faith because they lead to knowledge, to revelation, and to greater faith. Are you willing to engage in the ...
Michael Otterson - Understanding Church Boundaries: How Big Is the Tent?
September 22, 2017 22:43Winner-take-all scenarios are regularly pursued in the culture wars across the country by both sides. That is unfortunate. Some state legislatures seem intent on making religious freedom so broad that it simply sounds like a license to discriminate on any grounds. Some LGBT advocates take an equally uncompromising position on the other side. We believe there is a better way. I have described what the Church has been advocating for years—urging mutual respect, balancing the competing right...
Marcus B. Nash - Guided Safely Home
February 06, 2016 20:34This life is a test of faith. Keep your faith strong. Don't give in to doubt. Read, watch, or listen to this devotional address at speeches.byu.edu
Anthony D. Perkins - Nevertheless I Went Forth
June 01, 2014 08:00You young adults are now living in “the decade of decision.” Many of the most important choices of your life will be made in your late teens and twenties, such as “going to the temple, serving a mission, getting an education, selecting an occupation, and choosing a companion and being sealed for time and for all eternity in the holy temple.” Today I speak particularly to those persons who are struggling with one of these important decisions—some perhaps almost paralyzed from fear of making...
Jonathan Sandberg - Healing = Courage + Action + Grace
May 04, 2014 08:00My hope today is to encourage you that healing is possible if you apply the principles that lead to healing. I will try to explain clearly three principles that can lead to healing and to knowing that all healing is a gift from Jesus Christ, for, as Isaiah said, “with his stripes we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5). Healing is much more than “getting better” or “having our problems go away.” Healing is growth, development, and maturation. In a word, healing is change. It takes time and energy and...
M. Russell Ballard - Face the Future with Faith and Hope
April 06, 2014 09:05Face the future with optimism. I believe we are standing on the threshold of a new era of growth, prosperity, and abundance. Barring a calamity or unexpected international crisis, I think the next few years will bring a resurgence in the world economy as new discoveries are made in communication, medicine, energy, transportation, physics, computer technology, and other fields of endeavor. I believe many of today’s young adults will be active participants in temporal blessings if they keep ...
Henry B. Eyring - Where is the Pavilion?
March 02, 2014 10:00The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are. From a conference talk given in October, 2012. Read, watch, or listen at lds.org
Lynn G. Robbins - Avoid It
February 02, 2014 08:00If life hasn’t yet taught you the wisdom of the proverb I am about to share, it would be my prayer that by the end of my remarks it will have enlightened your understanding and touched your hearts sufficiently to motivate you to make some helpful and wise changes in your life. Here is the proverb: “Enter not into the path of the wicked. . . . Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.” 2The wisdom of Solomon in this passage is to be discovered in the word avoid. Solomon had disc...
Jeffrey R. Holland - Lord, I Believe
January 05, 2014 08:00In moments of fear or doubt or troubling times, hold the ground you have already won, even if that ground is limited. In the growth we all have to experience in mortality, the spiritual equivalent of this boy’s affliction or this parent’s desperation is going to come to all of us. When those moments come and issues surface, the resolution of which is not immediately forthcoming, hold fast to what you already know and stand strong until additional knowledge comes. From a general conference ...
D. Todd Christofferson - The Prophet Joseph Smith
December 01, 2013 08:00The expanding access we enjoy to the Prophet’s work and teachings fills previous voids in our knowledge, confirms some things we already knew or thought, and supplies answers to questions we might have had. The information also raises new questions and highlights new areas of inquiry to pursue. Realistically, however, we ought not to expect in this life to know all the answers (or for that matter, all the questions). The Prophet himself declared: You don’t know me; you never knew my heart....
Thomas S. Monson - Be a Light to the World
November 03, 2013 07:00In order for us to be examples of the believers, we ourselves must believe. I would think that each of us within the sound of my voice has a testimony, although our testimonies are no doubt of varying degrees. It is up to each of us to develop the faith necessary to survive spiritually and to project a light for others to see. Amidst the confusion of our age, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. Remember that faith an...
Clayton M. Christensen - Decisions For Which I've Been Grateful
October 16, 2013 02:43By World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland - Leading Through Adversity: Clayton ChristensenUploaded by January, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24692519 I wanted to just recount for you five decisions that I made when I was a young adult that in retrospect have had a profound influence on my life, because these are decisions that I think many of you will find yourself needing to make, and maybe, if I can talk through with you how I wrestled with and mad...
Dieter F. Uchtdorf - The Reflection in the Water
February 04, 2013 03:57Much of the confusion we experience in this life comes from simply not understanding who we are. Too many go about their lives thinking they are of little worth when, in reality, they are elegant and eternal creatures of infinite value with potential beyond imagination. Discovering who we really are is part of this great adventure called life. Read or watch this message at lds.org
W. Steve Albrecht - Be As Good As You Can Be
January 06, 2013 19:53From http://www.analysisgroup.com/experts-and-staff/affiliated-experts/w--steve-albrecht/ With your knowledge of who you are and what is important in life and by maximizing options, adding value each day, and avoiding inhibitors of success, the changing world you face presents great opportunities, not threats, for you. With your background, training, knowledge, beliefs, and standards, you are much better poised to take advantage of future opportunities than are most others. Read, view or ...
Glenn L. Pace - The Divine Nature and Destiny of Women
December 02, 2012 16:51My focus this morning will be on the divine nature and destiny of women and the sacred role they play in the sanctification and purification of men. In pondering the effect women have had on my life, I have concluded that there has been a metamorphosis of my spirit that could not have taken place without these relationships. Complete text of this talk and other formats are available at speeches.byu.edu.
Boyd K. Packer - The Choice
October 07, 2012 19:29You need not be either rich or hold high position to be completely successful and truly happy. In fact, if these things come to you, and they may, true success must be achieved in spite of them, not because of them. It is remarkably difficult to teach this truth. Original talk at lds.org
Eric B. Shumway - Unto the Least of These
September 02, 2012 20:06...Many of the things we value in our religion will not be enough to save us. Personal testimony, for example, is not enough, a temple recommend won’t do it, visions and ministering of angels, personal healings, a brilliant grasp of the gospel, a righteous lineage; all of the ordinances put together will not do it; the celebrity and universal good opinion of your friends and colleagues in the Church will not do it. Each of these is necessary, but without reaching out to the "least of thes...
David A. Bednar - Line Upon Line, Precept Upon Precept
July 01, 2012 13:57If you and I would learn to discern the difference between our own emotions and the promptings of the Holy Ghost, then we must come to recognize the Lord’s pattern and process for giving us spiritual knowledge. And the phrase “line upon line, precept upon precept” describes a central feature of the Lord’s pattern. Read original text Read New Era article Listen to mp3 audio
Love Her Mother
June 04, 2012 19:09How can a father raise a happy, well-adjusted daughter in today’s increasingly toxic world? The answer has been taught by the Lord’s prophets. It is a simple answer, and it is true—“The most important thing a father can do for his [daughter] is to love [her] mother.”1 By the way you love her mother, you will teach your daughter about tenderness, loyalty, respect, compassion, and devotion. She will learn from your example what to expect from young men and what qualities to seek in a future sp...
The Power of the Priesthood
May 07, 2012 17:47The priesthood does not have the strength that it should have and will not have until the power of the priesthood is firmly fixed in the families. We need everyone. The tired or worn out or lazy and even those who are bound down with guilt must be restored through repentance and forgiveness. Too many of our priesthood brethren are living below their privileges and the Lord’s expectations. Read, watch, or listen at lds.org
His Grace Is Sufficient
April 02, 2012 15:09The miracle of the Atonement is not just that we can go home but that—miraculously—we can feel at home there. If Christ did not require faith and repentance, then there would be no desire to change. Think of your friends and family members who have chosen to live without faith and without repentance. They don’t want to change. They are not trying to abandon sin and become comfortable with God. Rather, they are trying to abandon God and become comfortable with sin. If Jesus did not require cov...
Be a Light to the World
March 05, 2012 16:00May I suggest that you set aside time every day to find out for yourself if the Book of Mormon is a true book. For it will change your heart and change your life. If you seek this knowledge with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, I promise you will receive an answer. Such a personal testimony is essential if we are to safely navigate the sometimes treacherous paths of life, with the adversary attempting to deceive us at every turn. Read or listen at speeches.byu.edu
How Do You Open Your Heart to Heaven?
February 13, 2012 15:52How can we be more cheerful and enthusiastic? How can we be more polite, kind, and sincere and show genuine concern for other people and be patient, especially with family and friends? How can we increase our temperance and be more humble and submissive to the Lord? How can we have increased godly love and be more positive and bring more energy into our lives? How can we increase our self-mastery, self-discipline, and self-control? How can we better govern ourselves and be more honest and tru...