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Episode #226 - Returning From a Mission Early - Navigating Emotional And Mental Health

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - April 28, 2024 21:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Returning home from a full-time LDS mission early is one of the more difficult trials one will face.  Not only must you navigate a new life but you must do so with disappointed friends, family and peers all while battling a terribly controlling illness that highjacks your emotional and spiritual...

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Mosiah 4-6, "A Mighty Change"

Saints In the South - April 28, 2024 11:00 - 52 minutes
From Come Follow Me:       "Have you ever heard someone speak and felt inspired to change your life? Perhaps you decided, because of what you heard, to live a little differently—or even a lot differently. King Benjamin’s sermon was that kind of sermon, and the truths he taught had that kind of e...

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Mosiah 1-3, "Filled with Love towards God and All Men"

Saints In the South - April 22, 2024 01:00 - 31 minutes
From Come Follow Me:       "When you hear the word king, you might think of crowns, servants, and thrones. In Mosiah 1–3, you will read about a different kind of king. Rather than living off the labors of his people, King Benjamin “labored with [his] own hands” (Mosiah 2:14). Instead of having o...

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Episode #225 - Love Me

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - April 21, 2024 23:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
We all wonder at times whether the Lord loves us.  We wonder if our relationship is growing.  Many times we desperately seek and hope to feel that love.  I hope this message helps you to see just how loved you are.

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Enos-Words of Mormon. "He Worketh in Me to Do According to His Will"

Saints In the South - April 15, 2024 05:00 - 43 minutes
From Come Follow Me:       "Although Enos went to the forest to hunt beasts to satisfy physical hunger, he ended up staying there all day and into the night because his “soul hungered.” This hunger led Enos to “raise [his] voice high that it reached the heavens.” He described this experience as ...

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Episode #224 - Unclean

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - April 14, 2024 23:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
As the lepers cried out during Christ's day so do others whose fate is similar to the lepers.  Addiction affects more than the person who is suffering.  It is a power of mind and body that needs the power of the Savior.

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Episode #223 - Moving Mountains of Doubt

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - April 07, 2024 19:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
I hope that you enjoy this episode.  It has always been one of my favorites and perhaps one of the more relevant ones to my life.

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Jacob 5-7, "The Lord Labors with Us"

Saints In the South - April 07, 2024 16:00 - 35 minutes
From Come Follow Me:       "There are many, many people who haven’t yet heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. If you ever feel overwhelmed by the immensity of the task of gathering them into the Lord’s Church, what Jacob said about olive trees in Jacob 5 has a reassuring reminder: the vineyard belon...

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Episode #222 - Deep Desires - Infertility-Single Life-Divorce

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - March 31, 2024 19:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
For many members and individuals blessings such as marriage, children and a loving spouse have not yet materialized.  It can be a deeply painful experience to have righteous desires left unfulfilled without answers.  Trials of righteous desires can be perhaps the most painful in one's life.  Fin...

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Jacob 1-4, "Be Reconciled unto God through the Atonement of Christ"

Saints In the South - March 31, 2024 10:00 - 47 minutes
From Come Follow Me:       "The Nephites considered Nephi their “great protector” (see Jacob 1:10). He had also protected them against spiritual dangers, warning them against sin and urging them to come unto Christ. Now that task fell to Jacob, whom Nephi had consecrated to be a priest and teach...

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209. What's so good about Good Friday? — Eric Huntsman

Faith Matters - March 27, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
As Latter-day Saints, we often say that we focus more on Jesus’ resurrection than on His death, and we consider the atonement in Gethsemane as the most sacred event in Jesus’ life. In this episode, we consider a question we don’t think about too often, stemming from this: why have we not cultiva...

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209. What's So Good About Good Friday? — A Conversation with Eric Huntsman

Faith Matters - March 27, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
As Latter-day Saints, we often say that we focus more on Jesus’ resurrection than on His death, and we consider the atonement in Gethsemane as the most sacred event in Jesus’ life. In this episode, we consider a question we don’t think about too often, stemming from this: why have we not cultiva...

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EASTER! (2024)

Saints In the South - March 25, 2024 00:00 - 26 minutes
From Come Follow Me:       "The ancient Apostles were bold in their testimonies of Jesus Christ and His Resurrection (see Acts 4:33). Millions of people believe in Jesus Christ and try to follow Him because of their words recorded in the Bible. Yet some people might wonder: If Jesus Christ is th...

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Episode #221 - The Enemy of Our Souls

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - March 24, 2024 21:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
When we can see Lucifer’s attacks for what they really are and how he works, when we are suffering from emotional and mental health issues.  We will find defenses, avoidance techniques and spiritual awareness important to our mental health. 

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208. Curious Mind, Open Heart — A Conversation with Bill Turnbull and Kathy Clayton

Faith Matters - March 23, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
This week we sat down with Kathy Kipp Clayton and Bill Turnbull to talk about the fascinating chapters they contributed to a new book entitled No Division among You: Creating Unity in a Diverse Church. Bill, and his wife Susan, are two of Faith Matters’ co-founders. Kathy and her husband Whitney...

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Therapist Are Teaching What?!

Saints In the South - March 20, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutes
Join us this week on our Linger Longer.   Michael Shares a discussion he had with his daughter about what she had been learning.   The thoughts, ideas, and beliefs we express on this channel do not officially represent The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  For additional information...

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2 Nephi 31-33, "This is the Way"

Saints In the South - March 18, 2024 00:00 - 48 minutes
From Come Follow Me:       "Among Nephi’s last recorded words, we find this declaration: “The Lord commanded me, and I must obey” (2 Nephi 33:15). This is a good summary of Nephi’s life. He tried to understand the will of God and courageously obeyed it—whether that meant risking his life to get ...

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Episode #220 - Applying the Power of the Atonement

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - March 17, 2024 21:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
In preparation for Easter, I would like to return to one of my favorite episodes.  When we better understand the nature of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we will possess greater power to access the powers of healing, understanding, grace and mercy.

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207. Feeling Separated? So did Jesus. — A Conversation with Kerry Muhlestein

Faith Matters - March 16, 2024 15:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
As Holy Week and Easter Sunday approach, we thought it would be helpful to visit with someone who could help us reflect on these sacred events in a new way. Our guest today, Dr. Kerry Muhlestein, recently wrote The Easter Connection, which dives into the biblical account of Holy Week and illumin...

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2 Nephi 26-30, "A Marvelous Work and a Wonder"

Saints In the South - March 11, 2024 01:00 - 41 minutes
From Come Follow Me:        “I prophesy unto you concerning the last days,” Nephi wrote (2 Nephi 26:14). In other words, he was writing about our day. And there’s reason to be concerned about what he saw: people denying the power and miracles of God; widespread jealousy and conflict. But in addi...

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Episode #219 - Emotional Exhaustion

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - March 10, 2024 23:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
So often in this world of pressures, priorities and pledges to succeed, we find the wreckage of the emotionally exhausted individual.  One who has pushed beyond their emotional and physical capacity and found a crevasse so dark and deep, it is difficult to see anything much less a way out.  

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206. Tragedy in the Holy Land: What Can We Do? — A Conversation with Chad Ford

Faith Matters - March 10, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Ever since October 7th, we’ve been wanting to better understand the conflict in Israel and Gaza and how we as Latter-day Saints can be good neighbors and friends to everyone impacted by it. We know there are no easy answers. Our guest this week, BYU Hawaii professor Chad Ford, has been working o...

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Episode #218 - HeartBreak

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - March 03, 2024 23:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Heartbreak or the loss of a close emotional connection is one of the most common ways in which mental and emotional health issues arise in our lives.  Our close friends, spouse and family can literally become a part of our identity.  When we lose these people it can be as though we have lost our...

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205. Tough Love from the Book of Mormon — A Conversation with Grant Hardy

Faith Matters - March 03, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Book of Mormon scholar Grant Hardy knows that there are lots of different views about what The Book of Mormon is—how it came to be, how credible its origin story and originator are, and what its value is to Latter-day Saints, and to the world. Though he himself falls firmly on the side of belie...

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2 Nephi 20-25, "We Rejoice in Christ"

Saints In the South - March 02, 2024 11:00 - 39 minutes
From Come Follow Me:       "The writings of Isaiah include strong warnings, but they also offer hope and joy. This is one reason Nephi included them in his record: “I write some of the words of Isaiah,” he said, “that whoso … shall see these words may lift up their hearts and rejoice” (2 Nephi 1...

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Stand Ye In Holy Places and Be Not Moved - Linger Longer 4

Saints In the South - February 28, 2024 23:00 - 39 minutes
In this weeks episode of Linger Longer we discuss what it means to stand in holy places and be not moved. ************** The thoughts, ideas, and beliefs we express on this channel do not officially represent The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  For additional information or offic...

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Episode #217 - An Epidemic of Perfectionism

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - February 27, 2024 01:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
There is a social crisis through out the world and within the church. We are becoming a society of perfectionists. And anxiety and perfectionism are consistent companions.

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2 Nephi 11-19, "His Name Shall Be Called... The Prince of Peace"

Saints In the South - February 26, 2024 09:00 - 33 minutes
From Come Follow Me:       Engraving on metal plates is not easy, and space on Nephi’s small plates was limited. So why would Nephi make the effort of copying so many of the writings of the prophet Isaiah into his record? He did it because he wanted us to believe in Jesus Christ. “My soul deligh...

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204. Advice from "The World's Worst Mom" — A Conversation with Lenore Skenazy

Faith Matters - February 24, 2024 16:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
When Lenore Skenazy’s son was nine, he asked her repeatedly if she would let him have a solo adventure in their hometown of New York City. Her son had a specific plan for this adventure: he wanted her to take him somewhere new in the city and then let him find his own way home. Lenore took the l...

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Episode #216 - Sexual Abuse and Assault - Healing and Hope

DEPRESSION, BIPOLAR & ANXIETY - LIVING AS A LATTER-DAY SAINT, LDS - February 18, 2024 23:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
Sexual abuse and assault are perhaps the most heinous type of sin perpetrated upon the innocent victim.  The wounds can run deep and cause great distress leading to mental and emotional health concerns.  The Lord weeps for those who suffer and desires that they find his healing balm with the emb...