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This Week - March 17, 2024

Balance

Broadcast Date: March 17, 2024
Balance is vitally important to every person engaged in a good cause. May I illustrate? We are commanded, you know, to “improve our time while in this life,” (Alma 34:33) – meaning that we are to diligently strive to be better and to do better. But at the same time we are commanded to “see that all these things are done in wisdom and…

Pharoah's Bad Example

Broadcast Date: March 17, 2024
Our son is graduating from college. We were talking on the phone the other day and he told me he didn’t want a graduation present. Instead he wanted a page of advice. Well – okay, son, here you go. Jed, don’t ever live your life in such a way that someone can hold you up as a bad example – like Pharaoh. You’ll remember that Moses and…

Enos

Broadcast Date: March 17, 2024
Parents, this story is for you. Not long ago, I was helping my children get off to school, and I noticed they weren’t listening to me. Several times I reminded them of various family rules, only to have to turn around and remind them again just a few minutes later. Is there some sort of teenage disorder called ‘parentally induced…

Martin Harris & Jacob

Broadcast Date: March 17, 2024
When the prophet Jacob counseled us to “think of your brethren like unto yourselves, and be familiar with all and free with your substance, that they may be rich like unto you,” this has to be a classic example. He was a man raised up for a singular purpose, called and chosen to assist in the bringing forth of the Book of Mormon. Martin…

Joshua and the Spies

Broadcast Date: March 17, 2024
The children of Israel had been out of Egypt only a few months when Moses gathered 12 men, and sent them as spies into the land of Canaan. They were to “…see the land…” (Numbers 13:18) and bring back a report. Also they were told to bring back some of its fruit. “…be ye of good courage…” Moses told them. (Numbers 13: 20) They were gone…

Last Week

The Patriarch Nephi

Broadcast Date: March 10, 2024
When Nephi said of the writings of Isaiah, “… my soul delighted in his words” (2 Nephi 11:2), he really meant it. He wasn’t just saying that to impress people. Now, why did Nephi love and quote Isaiah? What did he find there? Well, I think a partial answer lies here. Before Nephi ever came to the Promised Land, his father Lehi shared his vision of the Tree of Life.…

The Turning Point

Broadcast Date: March 10, 2024
By small and simple things are great things brought to pass. And again, even the smallest candle can ignite a mighty flame. September 1835, two men rode on horseback a distance of 25 miles from Mantua, Ohio to the small community of Kirtland. The one man was a young student enrolled at the Presbyterian school of Oberlin College. He was beginning a new semester of…

Hezekiah's Test

Broadcast Date: March 10, 2024
“Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed … for there be more with us than with him:” (2 Chronicles 32:7) I like those words. So spoke Hezekiah, king of Judah, in the day that the Assyrian army entered his land and began conquering the outlying towns and villages. Hezekiah worked desperately to prepare his people against the most powerful army on the face…

You Can't Make Me Dishonest for Ten Dollars

Broadcast Date: March 10, 2024
It was once said, “It is [It’s] better to be trusted than loved.” (David O. McKay) Well, with that in mind, I would like to share a story about integrity, and the kind of grit and determination it takes to maintain it in today’s world. Lyman didn’t think his pants were worn out, but his wife insisted they were. So, she sent him to the department store to get a new…

The Storm is Coming

Broadcast Date: March 10, 2024
Living in the mountains and having to travel a great deal has taught me to pay attention to the weather. I check the forecasts daily and with good reason. Now, I knew days in advance that this storm was coming. I woke up that morning and noticed the Winter Storm Watch in effect. This was not going to be the storm to end all storms, but still, if I had to travel in it…