Monday, April 27, 2015

Lessons

Upcoming, May 3, 2015  Relief Society Presidency -Jolene Jeppson
                 May 10, 1015 Chapter 9 The book of Mormon- Keystone of Our Religion-Jeannie Johnson


April 26, 2015 "Free Forever, to Act for Themselves" By Elder Christofferson- Lori Beckstrand
      Christ died not to save indiscriminately but to offer repentance. We rely “wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save” in the process of repentance, but acting to repent is a self-willed change. So by making repentance a condition for receiving the gift of grace, God enables us to retain responsibility for ourselves. Repentance respects and sustains our moral agency: “And thus mercy can satisfy the demands of justice, and encircles them in the arms of safety, while he that exercises no faith unto repentance is exposed to the whole law of the demands of justice; therefore only unto him that has faith unto repentance is brought about the great and eternal plan of redemption.”


April 19, 2015  Chapter 8 The Power of the Word- Silvana Gardner
     "The word of God, as found in the scriptures, in the words of living prophets, and in personal revelation, has the power to fortify the Saints and arm them with the Spirit so they can resist evil, hold fast to the good, and find joy in this life."
We need our daily Iron, read the Scriptures


April 12, 2015  Chapter 7  Joseph Smith, an instrument in the Hands of the Lord- Jeannie Johnson
      The Prophet Joseph was commanded to go forth as an instrument in the hands of God and organize the Church, to publish to the world as an added testimony to the divinity of Jesus Christ, the Book of Mormon which was taken from the sacred records....
     This restoration of the gospel, the bringing back of light and truth, is intended for the benefit and blessing of all God's children.  And so, humbly and gratefully, our missionaries go out into the world to proclaim that there has been an apostasy from the truth, but that through the goodness of God the heavens have again been opened and the gospel revealed unto man through Joseph Smith, the Prophet.