Quotes of the day/week/month/year

“Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine.”
Gordon B. Hinckley

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Thanksgiving week is here and then the Christmas Season will begin.  I know it will all zoom by as the days have a way of doing!  Remember to take the time to be with friends and family.  I mean to be with them, not just be there but to give them your attention and love.  Life moves so fast.  It really is short as I am realizing lately as I will never get it all done unless I live to be a 120 years old! (without disability)
We don't have to get it all done, just give it our best with no regrets!  Enjoy your Thanksgiving, count your many blessings and have a fun and joyous Christmas Season.

Sunday, November 6, 2011

November review of October Conference Talks

November is here, actually we are in five days so far.  Many times at the end of October I have heard women say, "This month has gone by so fast."  It wasn't just "older"women saying this but young ones and even children! It has been a common theme in conversations I have had or overheard in the last few weeks.
     Is the clock moving faster?  I have not seen this visually but....I wonder?   Time is a precious gift.  I am grateful for each day that I get, each hour, each minute.  I spent many minutes/hours today reviewing all the October Conference talks and pulled out words and quotes from each one.  I will list them here.  Look at the words, remember the talks, the feelings and each lesson we were given by the Lord's Apostles.  I have set some new goals this week and weeks to come.  I will take the time for the essential things in my life. The necessary things, well, they are necessary and will be part of my life.  The nice-to-do things I then look forward to enjoying.
     Read, ponder, pray and know that we are blessed.  We have these words as a gift from Our Heavenly Father.  They help us to remember Him and His Son.


Scriptures are generated from inspired communication 
through the Holy Ghost, they are pure truth

open the channel to communion with our Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ.

great direction to life

precious jewels of truth spread throughout its pages.

blessings that result from scripture study

personal revelation

divine help that comes through the Holy Spirit

desire to receive revelation

Holy Ghost ‘satisfies and fills up every longing of the human heart, and fills up every vacuum.

Daughters in My Kingdom

nourish and strengthen

need to ask in faith, truly believe that we will receive an answer, and then diligently keep the commandments of God

3,000 stakes in the worldwide Church today

fulfillment of a Book of Mormon prophecy

one heart and one family at a time,

His was a life of service.

go “to the rescue” and serve others.

“the great plan of happiness

If
watched over and protected

“the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.

you matter to Him!

true eternal worth and potential

family history

build temples

do something

believe in families

 we believe in children.

“Motherhood is not a hobby, it is a calling.

“Where is your faith?”

“Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth … him that sent me.”
service of their fellowmen.
What time we have we must use wisely.
sincere prayer to a loving Father in Heaven
devote our time to the things that matter most
hings of God matter most.
Today would be a good day,
It is better to look up!
Savior.
Redeemer
the power of Christ’s Atonement.
Repentance
striving to change.
committing to obedience
persevere, even through pain.
joy of forgiveness.
we believe
Book of Mormon gives us a second witness
steadfastness in Christ
example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.”
share your beliefs and feelings about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ,
charitable. witnesses of God, endure
The Book of Mormon is a precious witness.
wait upon the Lord. hope, to anticipate, and to trust.
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done
you are waiting upon the Lord and doing your Heavenly Father’s will.
tribulation worketh patience
word of God—every sentence, every verse, every page.
Love her mother
guardians of virtue
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”
“Therefore ye must always pray unto the Father in my name;
He is our Creator. He is the Light of the World. He is our Savior from sin and death.
Choice
prayer is a sweet privilege
Agency is essential for individual spiritual growth and development
And Jesus listening can hear the songs I cannot sing.
I say and offer these words in the name of Jesus Christ, Our Savior and Redeemer-Amen

Sunday, October 2, 2011


An orphanage in Haiti are in the process of collecting items for Christmas presents for these orphans, and they would LOVE for you to collect some of these items.  They are making them large stockings and filling them.  Some items wanted are:  
  • black baby dolls
  • action figures
  • large legos (not the tiny ones as they will get lost)
  • wooden puzzles
  • hot wheels
  • baseball caps (child sized)
  • English/creole workbooks
  • hair accessories
  • mystery rings (i don't know what that is, but they asked for them?)
  • craft supplies (beads, craft projects for girls age 8-14) 
They need these by the first week in December.  And we will be SO grateful for any of them that you can gather up!  I need to mail them to TN so I would need them dropped off at my house by November 20th so I can mail the package on Monday the 21st.  Let's help them out.  A nurse that was with me when I went to Haiti is part of this group.  They are doing great things for the sweet people of Haiti.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

SUPER SATURDAY






More pictures of Super Saturday projects.  See below for a link to request more information and or to sign up via email.

More Projects...

Super Saturday! Again it is time for a day of fun, crafts and hanging out with the ladies. Oh, do we have some wonderful projects for you to create. Won't your family and friends think you are such a "Martha Stewart" with all the homemade gifts you will give out this year. Or just keep 'em for your self, nothing wrong with that! Check out the pictures and if you have any more questions or want to sign up for the class CLICK HERE further instructions on how.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Agree to disagree

Pastor, we are going to have to agree to disagree. The only thing I was sorry to see in your letter was at the end when you said Mormonism is a cult.

Cult: A system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object. (Catholics with the saints,scapular,Tabernacle, Eucharistic adoration?)
2. A relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister is a cult.
The word cult pejoratively (contempt or disapproval) refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre.

As one observer explained why people use the term:  “Because it’s a neat, shorthand and rather lazy way of putting a whole group into a box.”   
“cult” – a harsh, cold, four-letter word used to summarily dismiss religious competitors and avoid civil discourse.  If a group is a cult, as 26% actually believe about Mormons (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints), then obviously an open-minded investigation of such inferiors is out of the question."

This word seems to be used in a derogatory sense, like the cults associated with, Jones town, Manson Family.   Most sociologists and scholars of religion also began to reject the word "cult" altogether because of its negative connotations in mass culture.

     I do not think the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is sinister, small, bizarre or a cult.   (There are 14 million members in 132 countries.  In America, there are more Mormons than there are Presbyterians or Jews.)
      I hope people do not show me contempt just because of my beliefs.
Jesus was persecuted, the Christians, the Jews. Why do "men" continue to judge.  I try to understand others in their beliefs.  Good "Christian" people have not wanted to live next to blacks,  Jews or "Mormons".  I can not understand theses feelings.  I just can not.  My mind can not "get" it.  I see people, God's children.  I know He loves them as His children and His Son was the one who came to earth and did what He did for us!  Others might not believe this.  Others will have their spirituality, their beliefs different from mine and Christianity and yet be the most "Christian" people I know.  How can a loving father throw them by the wayside?  How can He not love all His children.



I have been blessed by the Lord.  You too are blessed and again I am glad to have met you and our paths have crossed for a reason.  Yours in Christ, Laurie

Friday, April 8, 2011

Reply from the Pastor

Hi Laurie,

Mormonism and Historic Christianity are very different. I hope I can be respectful to your beliefs and from this e-mail your concerns revolve around our different view of God in regards to the Trinity and in particular Jesus Christ as God the Son co-equal with the Father. Here is a my attempt to explain the difference to show that we are worshipping a totally different God.
Scripture teaches monotheism (Only one God).
The Theme of one God is carried on throughout the Bible (Deut. 32:39, Ps 86:10, Isa 43:10, 44:6, 45:21).
The Bible teaches that ALL other gods are a product of human imagination.
Mormons will argue correctly that these are idols. However, the Mormon church paints pictures of the First Vision of Joseph Smith with two human-gods appearing in light, these are no less images. Thus, both the Romans and Mormons have exchanged God’s heavenly likeness for an earthly likeness. No Man can be compared to the likeness of God, not Adam – no one.
The Bible teaches that God is Spirit then, he cannot be made of material substance. God is a personal, infinite, self-existent, immaterial, transcendent being who drives no attribute from another source. God does not have a Spirit – He is pure Spirit
Jesus has Always pre-existed as God. (John 1:1; Micah 5:2;Col. 1:17-19; Heb. 1:8;13:8 and 1John 1:1) He was not Jehovah one of the many god’s.
The Bible teaches explicitly the vicarious atonement of Jesus Christ for the sins of the world.
Jesus is God come in human form to reconcile the world to himself (2 Cor. 5:18; Phil. 2:6-8)
This is accomplished through the shed blood of Jesus (Rom. 5:10).
The atonement was accomplished on the cross – not the Garden – Christ bore our sin on the cross.

Laurie I hope this helps clarify some of the doctrinal difference. The Mormon God and Jesus are not the same as the Christian God and Jesus – So we do not worship the same God.

I am confident after years of study and the reliability of the only true Scriptures (the Bible) that the Historic view is the correct one and the Mormon religion is a Cult.
Pastor