Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah Jan 4, 2026

Sacrament Service

Testimonies

“A testimony of the gospel is a personal witness borne to our souls by the Holy Ghost that certain facts of eternal significance are true and that we know them to be true. Such facts include the nature of the Godhead and our relationship to its three members, the effectiveness of the Atonement, and the reality of the Restoration.

“A testimony of the gospel is not a travelogue, a health log, or an expression of love for family members. It is not a sermon.  President Kimball taught that the moment we begin preaching to others, our testimony is ended.” (Elder Dallin H. Oaks, “Testimony”, April 2008)

1 Corinthians 2

14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Moroni 10

4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.

“As we desire and seek, we should remember that acquiring a testimony is not a passive thing but a process in which we are expected to do something.” (Elder Dallin H. Oaks, “Testimony”, April 2008)

Alma 5

46 Behold, I say unto you they are made known unto me by the Holy Spirit of God. Behold, I have fasted and prayed many days that I might know these things of myself. And now I do know of myself that they are true; for the Lord God hath made them manifest unto me by his Holy Spirit; and this is the spirit of revelation which is in me.

Do we desire revelation, but don’t do the work to receive it?

“We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.” (Elder Dallin H. Oaks, “Testimony”, April 2008)

The power of Christ doesn’t always remove our trials, but often He can give us the power to deal with it.

There were lots of testimonies today about prayer today.

Sunday School 

Satan makes us feel that the Lord will abandon us if this or that. But the Lord never leaves us. 

Jehovah can come off as harsh. Some of that could be due to what the people needed. Some of it could be the way the scribes wrote it. 

Nobody ever lived in the past. It was the present to them.