The Gospel According to You

What is your mission? One speaker has defined your mission as "the technology/tool of genius". It's very empowering, because it gives you purpose. You've heard of mission statements before. This is a simplified mission statement. It's your mission. It's what you're all about. As I list several possible missions, try to feel which ones apply …

Molten

The man was Shule. He was born into captivity and not happy about it. Not only was he being held captive, but he was being held captive by his very own brother, Corihor. Corihor had taken the kingdom from their own father, and none of the other 21 sons did anything about it. So Shule …

Core Values- Simple Statements of Knowledge and Truth

Successful people have core values. They have defined and specific mandates by which they live. Mandates that make up who they are, that reflect what they believe. John Wooden, legendary basketball coach at UCLA, lived strictly by seven creeds that his dad implemented in him. Kept in his wallet and reviewed each day, they are …

Do Not Forsake Your Flock

In Mosiah chapter 2, King Benjamin is addressing his people. The great number that they were all traveled and gathered together to hear this. They pitched tents, each family being separate one from another. "And they also took of the firstlings of their flocks, that they might offer sacrifice and burnt offerings according to the …

The True Nature of Heavenly Father

What I'm sharing today is simple. It's the essence of religion but it ain't deep doctrine that'll get your head spinning. The two greatest commandments have to do with love- loving our God and loving our neighbor. We struggle with the second one day in and day out but I think that we all pretty …

Bind On Thy Sandals

Howard W. Hunter, in the April General Conference of 1978, referenced a 1969 article published in the Church's then Improvement Era magazine. The story tells of a young, unsuccessful quarterback on the football team of a small high school. He was the fourth string in his position, and had lost hope by the final game …

Little, Young and Tender Branches

"I will prune it, and dig about it, and nourish it, that perhaps it may shoot forth young and tender branches, and it perish not" (Jacob 5:4). The master of the vineyard spoke these words in the beginning of the allegory of the tame and wild olive trees. Verse 6, "After many days it began …

Notwithstanding My Weakness

In October of 1976, Neal A. Maxwell addressed the Saints of the Church. He spoke "to those who carry their own load and more, who, though laboring devotedly in the Kingdom, have recurring feelings of falling forever short." When considering the great distance between our current state and the exacting doctrines taught by the Church …

Imperfect Laborers

Matthew 20 compares the kingdom of heaven unto laborers in a vineyard. At 6:00 in the morning, the Lord of the vineyard chose, out of many looking for work, several that he would employ for that day. A penny wage was agreed upon, and they were sent into the vineyard. Three hours later, at 9:00, …

One Scarred Hand to the Other

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. But just how far is the east from the west? This we read in Psalms 103:12. Does anybody else feel at times that you've been forgiven in Heaven, yet still feel guilty? Like God has forgiven you, …