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  1. “Be Still, and Know That I Am God”

    David A. Bednar April 2024 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    A central feature of our Sabbath worship is to “go to the house of prayer and offer up [our] sacraments upon [the Lord’s] holy day.” The “house[s] of prayer” in which we gather on the Sabbath are meetinghouses and other approved facilities—holy places of reverence, worship, and learning.

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  2. The Powerful, Virtuous Cycle of the Doctrine of Christ

    Dale G. Renlund April 2024 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (3)

    The next element of the doctrine of Christ is baptism, which includes the baptism of water and, through confirmation, the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

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  3. A Framework for Personal Revelation

    Dale G. Renlund October 2022 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    A third element of the framework is that personal revelation will be in harmony with the commandments of God and the covenants we have made with Him.

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  4. WeAre The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    Reyna I. Aburto April 2022 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (3)

    From the beginning, God has sought to gather and organize His children “to bring to pass [our] immortality and eternal life.” With that purpose in mind, He has instructed us to build places of worship where we receive knowledge and the ordinances of salvation and exaltation; make and keep covenants that bind us to Jesus Christ; are endowed with “the power of godliness”; and gather together often to remember Jesus and strengthen each other in Him.

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  5. The Need for a Church

    Dallin H. Oaks October 2021 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    One of those laws is to worship in church each Sabbath day.

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  6. Why the Covenant Path

    D. Todd Christofferson April 2021 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    There is also a weekly gathering of the covenant people to the house of prayer on the Lord’s day, that we may “more fully keep [ourselves] unspotted from the world.” It is a gathering to partake of sacramental bread and water in remembrance of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and a time “to fast and to pray, and to speak one with another concerning the welfare of [our] souls.” As a teenager, I was the only member of the Church in my high school class.

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  7. Behold the Lamb of God

    Jeffrey R. Holland April 2019 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    My beloved brothers and sisters, with the exciting new emphasis on increased gospel learning in the home, it is crucial for us to remember that we are still commanded to “go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day.” In addition to making time for more home-centered gospel instruction, our modified Sunday service is also to reduce the complexity of the meeting schedule in a way that properly emphasizes the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper as the sacred, acknowledged f...

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  8. Exceeding Great and Precious Promises

    David A. Bednar October 2017 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    “For verily this is a day appointed unto you to rest from your labors, and to pay thy devotions unto the Most High.”

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  9. The Beauty of Holiness

    Carol F. McConkie April 2017 General Women’s Session

    Open paragraph (3)

    If we will keep the associated covenants, the sacred priesthood ordinances will change us, sanctify us, and prepare us to enter the presence of the Lord.

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  10. Drawing the Power of Jesus Christ into Our Lives

    Russell M. Nelson April 2017 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    We also increase the Savior’s power in our lives when we make sacred covenants and keep those covenants with precision.

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  11. Gratitude on the Sabbath Day

    Henry B. Eyring October 2016 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    For Latter-day Saints, the Sabbath is such a moment, actually a day, of gratitude and love.

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  12. Always Retain a Remission of Your Sins

    David A. Bednar April 2016 Saturday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    The sacrament is the third ordinance necessary to obtain access to the power of godliness.

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  13. God Is at the Helm

    M. Russell Ballard October 2015 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    Another important doctrine that we should cling to is to observe the Sabbath day.

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  14. Your Next Step

    Randall K. Bennett October 2015 General Priesthood Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    If, in remembering Him each Sabbath, we turn our hearts to the Savior through these two important signposts, our efforts are again more than matched by the Lord by His promised blessings.

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  15. Why the Church

    D. Todd Christofferson October 2015 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (2)

    The wards and branches of the Church offer a weekly gathering of respite and renewal, a time and place to leave the world behind—the Sabbath.

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  16. The Sabbath Is a Delight

    Russell M. Nelson April 2015 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    “And inasmuch as ye do these things with thanksgiving, with cheerful hearts and countenances, … the fulness of the earth is yours.”

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  17. The Sacrament and the Atonement

    James J. Hamula October 2014 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (4)

    Significantly, when Jesus visited His disciples in the Americas, He also instituted the sacrament among them.

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  18. The Sabbath and the Sacrament

    L. Tom Perry April 2011 Saturday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    “And on this day thou shalt do none other thing.”

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  19. Standing in Holy Places

    James E. Faust April 2005 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    Our chapels are dedicated to the Lord as holy places.

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  20. Did You Get the Right Message?

    James E. Faust April 2004 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    One message missed by so many in our time is the word of the Lord commanding us to “keep [ourselves] unspotted from the world.” We are told that many are called “but few are chosen,” and the reason is that “their hearts are set so much upon the things of this world.”

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  21. An Invitation with Promise

    Keith B. McMullin April 2001 Sunday Morning Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    Worldly lusts lose their allure as the holy sacrament assumes its proper place in our lives.

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  22. The Blessing of Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy

    H. Aldridge Gillespie October 2000 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (2)

    The Sabbath lasts all day!

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  23. The Sabbath Day and Sunday Shopping

    Earl C. Tingey April 1996 Saturday Morning

    Open paragraph (1)

    “And on this day thou shalt do none other thing, only let thy food be prepared with singleness of heart that thy fasting may be perfect, or, in other words, that thy joy may be full.”

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  24. Eternal Laws of Happiness

    Lynn A. Mickelsen October 1995 Sunday Afternoon Session

    Open paragraph (1)

    Thou shalt honor the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

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