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Courage is essential, students told
Individuals must exercise courage to choose wisely, Elder Stanley G. Ellis of the Seventy told Brigham Young University students during the campus devotional on March 13. “Brothers and sisters, there are, and will be, surprises in life,” he said. “There have been in mine, and there will be in...
Elder Cook charges young single adults to build the kingdom
While serving his mission to Scotland in the late 1890s, then Elder David O. McKay (who served as Church President between 1951 and 1970) and his companion passed a building where the stone above the door was inscribed with a quotation usually attributed to Shakespeare: “What e’er thou art, act...
Elder Patrick Kearon of the Seventy speaks of love on Valentine's Day
“Happy Valentine’s Day!” Elder Patrick Kearon, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, wished students as he began Tuesday’s devotional. And then he spoke to them about messages of love. When he was 10 years old, Elder Kearon went to boarding school in England while his parents lived in...
BYU Devotional: "Harvey and Howard: Lessons From Two Grandfathers"
Thomas H. Fletcher, a professor in the Brigham Young University Chemical Engineering Department, addressed students Tuesday in a campus devotional address he called, “Harvey and Howard: Lessons from Two Grandfathers.” Fletcher is the grandson of Harvey Fletcher, whom the university honored during...
President Hugh B. Brown’s Most Famous Statement
One of the best-known, most famous of General Authority statements is Hugh B. Brown’s admonition to BYU students during a May 13, 1969, campus-wide Devotional that “We are not so much concerned with whether your thoughts are orthodox or heterodox as we are that you shall have thoughts.” Brown, at...
Professor discusses repentance and the miracle of forgiveness at BYU Devotional
Michael Dunn, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science, spoke to students Tuesday in the Marriott Center in a heartfelt devotional about repentance and the miracle of forgiveness. In the New Testament account of the woman who approached Jesus in the house...
MTC celebrates 50-year anniversary with devotional
Fifty years ago last year, newly called missionaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints going to two foreign-language missions began receiving preparatory language instruction in Provo prior to their departure. "Tonight, we join in joyous jubilee to commemorate 50 years of...
Elder Zwick counsels leaders 'to let the Spirit guide them'
When the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ visited the Nephites and instructed them, the 12 disciples whom the Lord had chosen knelt and prayed to the Father in the name of Jesus for "that which they most desired" (see 3 Nephi 19:9). Elder W. Craig Zwick finds it striking that of all the things they...
Restoration of the gospel, Elder Duncan shares personal testimony
Like the glow of the morning sun coming over Y Mountain east of the Provo Missionary Training Center is the Restoration of the gospel, said Elder Kevin R. Duncan of the Seventy in his Jan. 11 address at the Seminar for New Missionary Training Center Presidents and Visitors' Center Directors.
Elder Zwick counsels leaders 'to let the Spirit guide them'
When the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ visited the Nephites and instructed them, the 12 disciples whom the Lord had chosen knelt and prayed to the Father in the name of Jesus for "that which they most desired" (see 3 Nephi 19:9). Elder W. Craig Zwick finds it striking that of all the things...
Elder Perry: The Church is scaffolding for lives
The Church is the scaffolding for individuals and families as they engage the most important building projects of their lives, Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve told students during a campus devotional at Brigham Young University-Idaho on Jan. 24. Elder Perry addressed the students in...
Evangelical speaker: True Christians don’t demonize Mormons
Mormon Life says: DeMoss, an Evangelical PR man, has been an unpaid adviser to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign for the past five years.
Mark DeMoss has a message for his fellow evangelicals: You can’t attack and demean Mormons or President Barack Obama and still consider yourself a follower of Jesus Christ. It is impossible to...
Fundamental principle: Know for certainty the character of God
At the heart of LDS missionaries' message is the doctrine concerning the Godhead, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland told 21 couples gathered for a three-day seminar in Provo and Salt Lake City Jan. 10-12.Speaking at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building Jan. 12, Elder Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve gave...
Growth in the Church: Retaining the spiritual change of heart
Teaching others the doctrine of Christ, inviting them to come unto Him and helping them endure to the end are components of what many of the Brethren are now calling "real growth" in the Church, Elder David F. Evans of the Seventy said in his presentation Jan. 10 at the Seminar for New Missionary...
President Packer seminary centennial: How to survive in enemy territory
Fifty years and more than 2.5 million miles of worldwide travel later, President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve still has an ever-deepening interest in the seminary and institute programs of the Church, and more particularly in the youth of the Church. “We invest in our youth,”...
