High Council talks
Photo by Jackson Films on Unsplash Talking about knowledge and wisdom feels sort of like talking about air and water. Both are all around us, as well as in us. Yet for all their commonness, the happiness of [...]
When we were first given our topic to speak in Sacrament Meeting my first thought was that faith and testimony were opposites and didn't really have anything to do with each other. It took me a while to remember their [...]
My wife and I have been asked to speak on civility. We have been specifically asked to base our remarks on President Gordon B. Hinckley's book, "Standing for Something." After referencing his writings, it has occurred to me that civility [...]
I approach the subject of mothers from a different perspective today. I recommend that mothers, and by extension women, are types and shadows of the perfect Christlike love. First I would like to talk about what types and shadows are then [...]
The High Council has been asked to speak on the topic of seeking an outpouring of the Spirit in our Stake. As I have reviewed the suggested Conference talks and scriptural references, I have come to realize that I have [...]
Hope, for us, can sometimes be an ethereal substance, something that comes and goes, seemingly of its own accord. When we are told we should be pressing forward with a prefect brightness of hope, it sounds good, but the 'how [...]
As a people we face two great challenges, Satan’s deceptions are becoming increasingly subtle and difficult to identify, and as members of the Lord’s Church more and more of us are drifting into worldly practices that rob us of the [...]
When we think of Christ’s atonement we think of the garden of Gethsemane and the cross. These are the main events of our human story, but there were events that came before the atonement that made the atonement necessary. To better [...]
Some choices in life are easy to make, like whether to have dessert or get punched in the face. Other decisions are far more difficult, like choosing to forgive the person who has hurt you, or choosing to harbor resentment, [...]
This talk was given in the Hauula 5th Ward, April, 2015 for High Council Sunday. When I was growing up I was considered to be math avoidant. My 10th grade geometry teacher pulled me out into the hall [...]