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Moroni 6:4
4 And after they had been received unto baptism, and were wrought upon and cleansed by the power of the Holy Ghost, they were numbered among the people of the church of Christ; and their names were taken, that they might be remembered and nourished by the good word of God, to keep them in the right way, to keep them continually watchful unto prayer, relying alone upon the merits of Christ, who was the author and the finisher of their faith.
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This is my last post on X, and I wanted the last word to be one that matters.
The very first commandment God gave in Eden was to multiply and replenish the earth, and the Restoration placed the family at the burning center of the whole plan: the unit of the celestial kingdom, the reason for the temple, the very shape of God's own life.
So when a covenant people quietly stop bearing the next generation, they have not merely made the reasonable lifestyle choice the world applauds. They have begun to set down the first and oldest commandment ever given, and a people who set down the foundation should not wonder why the house begins to sink beneath them.
The Book of Mormon shows you how it happens, and it shows you in slow motion, over and over, until no honest reader can miss it. A people are delivered and made prosperous.
Prosperity breeds comfort. Comfort breeds forgetting. And the forgetting always wears the same face: they come to love the world and its ease more than the covenant and its cost.
They set their hearts on riches and on the praise of men, they grow quietly ashamed of the strict and demanding ways of their fathers, and they trade the weight of the covenant for the lightness of the age.
The empty cradle belongs to that same trade.
Children are heavy, and faith is heavy, and sacrifice is heavy, and everything the covenant has ever asked is heavy, and a people who have fallen in love with their own comfort will not carry what is heavy for long.
So do not mistake what the numbers are telling you. The collapsing birthrate of the Saints is not a sociological curiosity to be smoothed over with better messaging. It is the scriptural pattern arriving on schedule, the visible fever of a covenant people grown too comfortable to bear the weight of their own future.
A people who will not have numerous children have, at the deepest level, stopped believing the future is worth filling with their faith, and a people who no longer believe in their own future are already in the early stages of not having one.
This is the warning the scriptures have been shouting across the centuries, and we have been too soothed to hear it.
And yet the warning has always carried its mercy folded inside it. Every cycle in the Book of Mormon that ended in destruction could have ended in repentance instead, and some did, and the difference was never circumstance. It was never the size of the threat or the strength of the enemy or the hardness of the times.
The difference was always one thing only: whether a people, warned, would humble themselves before the comfort finished its work.
We have been warned.
Your prophets at general conference warned you time and time again. Do not forget their words.
The cradle is the warning made visible. The only question left is the one the scriptures have put to every people who ever stood where we now stand. Will we turn, and take up the weight again, and build a future worth being born into.
Or will we stay comfortable, and go the way of every comfortable people the record has ever buried.
That is my last word.
Here. We. Go.
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One thing for sure about President Trump… when he says he’s going to do something, he means it!
The man ran on Making America Great Again, and every day America looks a little better because of it.
Promises made. Promises kept!
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Biden eclipsed $120 per barrel from March through the June of 2022.
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Children in my church—The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—know this song, “I Will Walk With Jesus”
Pay attention to the words
If this isn’t emblematic of Christian faith, I don’t know what is
As a Marine and a veteran, I know firsthand what pressure feels like, and seeing these dark forces at work is deeply disheartening. I highly appreciate @MichaelJKnowles for his valuable insights on the matter. You are absolutely right—it is not surprising, but it is certainly unfortunate to hear of another attack on our faith. Nevertheless, the Lord will use it to further His will, and we pray to remain aligned with it.
To be perfectly honest, @PeteHegseth, your explanation was poor. However, I believe you are a good man and an excellent choice for the Secretary of Defense. May you continue to focus on protecting and serving this nation.
My own faith journey took me from a Catholic upbringing to joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at age 27. I love this country and am proud of my service. As a veteran, I want to see this mistake rectified and a proper apology given.
As we sing in one of our hymns, "Do what is right, and let the consequences follow."
Michael Knowles today on Mormon controversy:
"But I have to come out here in defense of the Mormons, because if trinitarian theology is the criterion [to be Christian], why are the Jehovah's Witnesses listed as Christian? Why are the Christian Scientists who deny the Trinity?
I'm not changing my views about the Trinity or the essential aspects of the Creed, but it does seem to me that the Mormons are being unfairly singled out here.
Everybody beats up on the Mormons all the time. Mormons are very reliable Republican voters. They live very, very good family lives. They're model citizens in many, many ways. And I do think this would be an example of them being unfairly singled out."
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