Through my studies of the NT, I'm beginning to believe that the Book of Romans is my favorite. It already has my favorite scripture verses. The first chapter is really based.
A passenger accused of attempting to bring an explosive device through a TSA checkpoint at Sacramento International Airport is facing criminal charges. Investigators say the individual was also found carrying a knife, scissors, and zip ties.
"Once we make a covenant with God, we leave neutral ground forever. God will not abandon His relationship with those who have forged such a bond with Him. In fact, all those who have made a covenant with God have access to a special kind of love and mercy."
- Russell M. Nelson
One of my favorite quotes ever. Leave the neutral ground by making covenants with your Father in Heaven. You will never regret it.
BREAKING: Just hung up with Mayor Moy, who says a shooting broke out at Fairfield High School, where three students were shot and one passed away, during graduation for the continuation school, Sem Yeto. One mom was doing CPR on her son, still in his cap and gown.
More details to come on this tragedy.
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The election system in California is just another example of the incompetence of our state government. It's a joke just like everything else the Democrats have done to our state. We need change and we need a leader that will tackle these issues head on. ☀️👊
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@TMZ@realjasonmaples Never intentionally touch someone without their consent.
She was correct to stop what she was doing and walk away.
Credit to her for doing that.
At a @byuidaho devotional, Elder Mark A. Bragg, a General Authority Seventy, gave five principles that lead to developing Christlike resilience. He said this resilience can help all when faced with adversity and trials.
Sister Amy A. Wright of the Primary general presidency invited @EnsignSLC students to pay attention to the Savior’s invitations to “Behold.” She spoke at this week’s devotional about the associated blessings with each of those invitations.
This week’s episode of the Church News podcast features Michael Hall, who made two statues for Temple Square. He describes the process and how inspiration helped him sculpt the First Vision and Jesus Christ Carrying the Cross.
Karen Bass, the destroyer of Los Angeles, has managed to unite all off my friends regardless of politics. We are all in agreement that she is the absolute worst. Yet half the city voted for more of her “needles, crime, and human shit”policies. Evidently there’s no fixing stupid.
Why does California take so long to count ballots?
In short, the state’s leaders have prioritized expanding last minute options to vote by mail over a quick count.
At the Port Vila Vanuatu Temple, temporary lighting illuminates the steeple at night, highlighting its graceful design against the dark sky. Light from within the building indicates that interior construction and finish work are progressing. East of the temple, a two-story ancillary building will provide arrival facilities and accommodations for patrons traveling from distant islands and communities. Work is also progressing on the adjacent meetinghouse, which will serve local congregations for Sunday worship services and weekday activities. (Photo: Edmund Saksak) #portvilatemple #portvilavanuatutemple
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There is a moment in The Passion of the Christ where I always weep.
The film cuts from the road to Golgotha to Mary as a younger woman, watching her boy stumble and go down hard in a courtyard, and she does what every mother who has ever lived does without deciding to.
She runs.
She is across the ground before the thought has finished forming.
Then we are back on the road, and the child she gathered up is falling again, only now he is grown and beaten past recognition and dragging the instrument of his own execution, and she breaks through the crowd and runs to him the same way, the same reflex, thirty years apart and not one degree cooler.
The first fall she could catch.
The second she cannot. She reaches him and finds that all she can do is be present to a suffering she cannot lift, and that is the deepest and most terrible thing maternal love ever comes to know, the day the running is not enough.
And into that exact helplessness he lifts his ruined face and says, See, Mother, I make all things new.
He takes the blood and the failure and the thing she cannot stop and tells her it is the raw material of a remaking.
The wound is not waste.
Her standing there, unable to fix it and refusing to leave, is not the failure of her motherhood but its consummation.
Hear the order of the words, because the gospel lives in it: Jesus does not say I make all new things, he says I make all things new, and he will not concede a single thing to the trash.
He does not throw this world away and start over on cleaner ground; he takes this one, the ruined bleeding clay still turning on the wheel, and works it into another vessel, because you cannot transfigure what you have discarded, only what you are still holding.
Which is why he keeps the blood in his hands, and why, three days later, he keeps the holes in them, passing through a locked door still scarred and making Thomas put his fingers down into the wounds, the proof carried into glory rather than erased from it.
So the blood Mary is watching soak into the dirt is not lost there; it soaks into matter itself, into the actual ground of a real hill, and the dirt is included in the promise, because he did not say he makes all people new but all things, and Paul says the whole creation has been groaning like a woman in labor, and the cross is the contraction that finally breaks the water.
SECRETARY RUBIO: "I also want to remind everybody that the United States government is not a charity. We are not here to play social worker, we are here to win."
President Dallin H. Oaks has given many memorable talks over his 40+ year ministry.
One the most memorable for me is his talk, “Good, Better, Best” which seems more applicable today than ever before.
“We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and strengthen our families.”
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F-37, a member of the leadership chat for the Charlottesville rally in 2017, made racist posts under an SPLC employee's supervision and arranged transport for others to attend the rally. SPLC paid this person $300K.
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Good advice for the @spencerpratt campaign to start "curing" ballots, contacting voters whose ballots had missing or rejected signatures. Deadline to turn in those signed forms to the county is 22 days after election day.