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'Visual Resource DVDs' now available for Doctrine and Covenants
Members here are proud of that past. They know about the Italian missionary efforts of Peter's and Paul's latter-day apostolic colleague, Elder Lorenzo Snow, and his companions, who arrived in Italy in 1850 in the country's Piedmont Valley. And, finally, they point to their own, more recent...
D&C Course Supplement: Building the Kingdom
Mormon Life says: From its earliest days, the Lord's Church has been built up by ordinary people who magnified their callings in humility and devotion.
LDS Living has published lesson aids for all the lessons in the 2009 Doctrine and Covenants and Church History Course. This republished talk is meant not for a specific lesson but to complement...
D&C Lesson 46: Zion - The Pure in Heart
Mormon Life says: In general terms, Zion can refer either to a place or a people, or to both.
Introduction If you could fashion a community according to your own desires - one that would conform to your specifications to help you, your family, and your neighbors in the accomplishment of...
D&C Lesson 45: The Family Is Ordained of God
Mormon Life says: "We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society." (The Family: A Proclamation to the World)
Introduction Satan is laboring mightily to impede the progress of the Kingdom. If you had been assigned by him to decide where to attack in order to lessen the power of the church, where would...
D&C Lesson 44: Being Good Citizens
Mormon Life says: "If we are to be a God-fearing nation and enjoy the blessings of peace, then each one of us who has a faith in God must do our duty, take our part to accomplish our purpose in government."
Introduction "Unless we have faith in God and fear him and keep his commandments, we can hardly be worthy to hold high positions in government. The Prophet Joseph has told us in this statement...
D&C Lesson 43: Take Upon You My Whole Armor
Mormon Life says: It would be a nightmare to be involved in a battle of life or death without the protection of appropriate armor, which is why, in this battle of spiritual life or death called the mortal existence, we must take upon us the armor of God.
Introduction I have in my files a Gary Larson cartoon showing a man lying in bed having a dream. In the dream he sees knights clothed in iron armor and wielding iron swords and engaged in fierce...
D&C Lesson 42: Continuing Revelation to Latter-day Prophets
Mormon Life says: "For many years, I have watched the process of continuous revelation which emanates from God through the keys, authority, and under direction of the President of the Church." (James E. Faust)
Introduction One of the great realities of the restoration is the fact of communication between mortals and immortals. Beginning with the vision in the grove and continuing on through the...
D&C Lesson 41: Every Member a Missionary
Mormon Life says: "Wherefore the decree hath gone forth from the Father that they shall be gathered in unto one place upon the face of this land, to prepare their hearts and be prepared in all things against the day when tribulation and desolation are sent forth upon the wicked." (D&C 29:7-8)
INTRODUCTION We are to gather Israel. One of the great purposes of our global missionary effort if to gather Israel from the nations of the earth. And ye are called to bring to pass the...
D&C Lesson 40: Finding Joy in Temple and Family History Work
Mormon Life says: Our longing to locate the dead who are lost should be as compelling as our anxiety to find the living who are lost.
INTRODUCTION Several years ago as I was about to depart for work, a call came from my Bishop. His oldest son had disappeared. He had eaten breakfast and dressed for elementary school, but when...
D&C Lesson 39: The Hearts of the Children Shall Turn to Their Fathers
Introduction President Heber J. Grant told a wonderful story about work for the dead: There was three young men who were as intimate, I think, as any three young men who ever lived could be. They were Heber J. Grant, Feramorz L. Young and Richard W. Young. Feramorz L. Young had been in the...
D&C Lesson 38: In Mine Own Way
Mormon Life says: Our prophets have always taught us to be self-reliant and to assist those in need - to learn to set aside our burdens and proceed freely without unnecessary encumbrances.
Introduction On a trip to the Middle East several years ago, a close friend of mine and his wife determined to save money by collecting rocks instead of purchasing souvenirs. At every significant...
D&C Lesson 37: We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet
Introduction October Conference is less than a month away. Like many of you, I rejoice at the opportunity to sit twice a year and listen to the living words of living prophets. What a joy it is to be taught by the man we sustain as the Lord's Prophet, Seer, and Revelator, Gordon B. Hinckley. I...
D&C Lesson 36: The Desert Shall Rejoice and Blossom as the Rose
Introduction Neighbors who lived near my home in a small Arizona town suffered the misfortune of having the foundation of their home crack. The displacement left three- and four-inch gaps between the bricks of the West and North walls. It was a preventable calamity. Everyone knew that the soil...
D&C Lesson 35: A Mission of Saving
Introduction Cain's query of the Lord has echoed down the corridors of time: "Am I my brother's keeper?" (Moses 5:34) And the answer has followed close at hand. Religious history is filled with tales of sacrifice made by men and women in behalf of their brothers and sisters. We have always...
D&C Lesson 34: Faith in Every Footstep
Introduction Six houses that belonged to my ancestors still stand in Nauvoo; nice brick and frame homes, with lawns and gardens and trees and carriage houses. I can hardly imagine the stretching and intensity necessary for their owners to gather up a wagon load of non-perishable goods, sweep...
