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It’s time to put away those erroneous views of ourselves and of others. The truth is that other people are not as perfect as they appear; and we are not as hopelessly flawed as we may think.

Wendy Nelson

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1 Corinthians 10

1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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Here's what I think is often forgotten when reading to these verses: basically no one he was writing to acknowledged a Jewish history and yet Paul tells them that as Christians they have inherited this legacy.

The same is true for us today: we also inherited this legacy and the legacy of faith from the pioneers in the 1800s that traveled to the Salt Lake Valley and other settlements.

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You must not misunderstand what the Lord meant when Adam was told he was to have a helpmeet. A helpmeet is a companion suited to or equal to us. We walk side by side with a helpmeet, not one before or behind the other. A helpmeet results in an absolute equal partnership between a husband and a wife. Eve was to be equal to Adam as a husband and wife are to be equal to each other.

Elder Earl C. Tingey

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Happy National Day of Prayer.

This was designated law in 1952 by the United States Congress for the purpose of "turning to God in prayer and meditation."

Our country has always needed it.  When Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a National Fast Day on March 30, 1863, he stated:

"And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"

http://showcase.netins.net/.../lincoln/speeches/fast.htm

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No, You Can’t Support Abortion and be a Good Latter-day Saint.

You can’t support abortion and be a good Latter-day Saint. I have been debating writing this for a while, knowing that I will receive personal attacks for it. But this morning I received a clear prompting, that “come what may” I need to write this. Also note, when I reference[Read more]

While this does account for the exceptional cases the Church states are allowable, it is mostly based on the abortions that are elective for convince sake or to hide sins.

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My lesson for this week.

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A Nail in a Sure Place – Search Isaiah

We will here briefly look at three verses from Isaiah 22. Isaiah 22:23. “And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he shall be

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Says a brother, “I pray in my family sometimes, and sometimes I do not feel like it, and I do not pray in my family. Sometimes I am in a hurry, my work is driving me, my cattle are in mischief, and I do not feel like praying.” If I did not feel like praying, and asking my Father in heaven to give me a morning blessing, and to preserve me and my family and the good upon the earth through the day, I should say, “Brigham, get down here, on your knees, bow your body down before the throne of Him who rules in the heavens, and stay there until you can feel to supplicate at that throne of grace erected for sinners.” “Well, but I am in a hurry, and my cattle, perhaps, are in mischief and my work is driving me.” I should say, if the cattle are in the corn, “Eat away;” if they are in the wheat, “Eat away, eat the wheat, we have more than we can use any how;” and if the children are in mischief and this wants seeing to, and that wants seeing to, I say, “Kneel down before the Lord and there stay until this body learns obedience, until my tongue learns to praise his name, and to ask for the blessings I need.” “Well, but are you not afraid you will come to want?” Bless me, if I had all the gold and silver on the earth and no prayers, I should be in greater want than I should be with the prayers and without the gold and silver. I will make an application of this with regard to the feelings of the people. It is true that you and I cannot learn everything at once, but we can learn one thing at once and the one thing above all others that we should make it our business to learn is to yield strict obedience to the requirements of heaven, and we can learn that today just as well as any other time, and just as well as to spend a lifetime in doing it.

Brigham Young, JD 16:23