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Posted in Apathy, Charity & Charitable Service, Forgiveness, Hypocrisy, Love, Offense, Parables, Prodigal Son, Sin on Mar 30th, 2010
“If fish could scream there would be fewer fishermen.” My friend, Ted Gibbons, once told me that…just in time to ruin a fishing trip. I have pondered his remark ever since. How many people, hooked by sin or the urgency of their circumstances, helplessly flounder about while inside they are silently screaming?
Posted in Character of God, Charity & Charitable Service, Faith, Miracles on Dec 28th, 2009
Posted in Charity & Charitable Service, Gospel Definitions, Love, Rescuing Wayward Children on Dec 11th, 2009
There is a vast difference between being in love and being loving. True love is built on the three pillars of complete loyalty, complete sacrifice, and complete trust. Moreover, true love is patient. As we have discussed, patience promises, “I will wait for you; I will wait with you; I will wait upon you.” True [...]
Posted in Charity & Charitable Service, Consecration, Love, Zion, Zion--Characteristics on Oct 22nd, 2009
Over one hundred years ago, President Lorenzo Snow issued a mandate to the Church: “It is high time to establish Zion.” What has been holding us back all these years?
Posted in Charity & Charitable Service, Consecration, Gospel Definitions, Love, Zion, Zion--Characteristics on Sep 26th, 2009
“Charity never faileth!” If charity can never fail, Zion can never fail, because Zion is built upon charity, “the greatest of all,” the celestial quality of love that “endureth forever.” Charity is the quintessential virtue, “the end of the commandment,” the power that invigorates and propels the law of consecration and makes way for the establishment of Zion. [...]
Posted in Abundance, Charity & Charitable Service, Consecration, Safety, Zion, Zion--Characteristics on Sep 11th, 2009
Joseph Smith said, “We ought to have the building up of Zion as our greatest object.” Brigham Young laid the responsibility of Zion upon each of us, individually: “[Zion] commences in the heart of each person,” and Elder Matthew Cowley stated unequivocally that individually, we are Zion. We cannot read the scriptures, especially latter-day scriptures, [...]
Posted in Charity & Charitable Service, Covenants, Gospel Definitions, Obedience, Purification, Sanctification, Zion on Dec 3rd, 2008
Zion is the habitation of the Lord. A Zion person harbors the hope that one day the Father and the Son will make their abode with him. To regain and enjoy God’s presence is a primary reason why a person enters into the New and Everlasting Covenant. To regain and enjoy God’s presence are the [...]
Posted in Abundance, Charity & Charitable Service, Gospel Definitions, Justification, Mercy, Sanctification, Zion, Zion--Characteristics on Oct 15th, 2008
(Editor’s note: This is the second of two parts on the Zion virtue of blessedness.)
Posted in Charity & Charitable Service, Example, Love, Rescuing Wayward Children on Oct 5th, 2008
Have you ever become so frustrated with your wayward child that you wish something difficult would happen to shake him up? Then you repent and go back to status quo. But what if your prayer was to ask for a conversion experience-something that would offer the child an opportunity to rethink his position and [...]
Posted in Charity & Charitable Service, Love, Obedience, Zion on Sep 19th, 2008
Becoming a Zion person is a process that replaces telestial qualities with celestial ones. In Part 2 of this Zion series, we will discuss the traits of charity (true love), experiencing true happiness, joy and fullness of life, and becoming holy.