Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 24 Feb 2019

Sacrament Service 

Bulletin

“When we keep the commandments our lives will be happier, more fulfilling and less complicated.” - President Thomas S Monson

Hymn 15 “I Saw a Mighty Angel Fly” - It may be a surprise that this hymn does not have Latter-day Saints origins.  It is an anonymous poetic rendering of the scriptures in Revelation. The melody is often used in protestant hymnal as the time for “O Little Town of Bethlehem”.  The Lord revealed in Dnc 133:38 who the angel is. 

First Speaker

Sunday is not a Holiday, It is a holy day.

The purpose of the sabbath is to draw us closer to God.

Next Speaker

James 1

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Josh 2

15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

Sunday School 

Matthew 5, Luke 6 - The Sermon on the Mount

Jesus details attributes that we should be striving to add to our character. 

Matthew 5:14

14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Many will try to snuff out our light, or our value. We should be careful not to smother our own light, our own testimony, our own worth. 

Youth Fireside

DnC 88

122 Appoint among yourselves a teacher, and let not all be spokesmen at once; but let one speak at a time and let all listen unto his sayings, that when all have spoken that all may be edified of all, and that every man may have an equal privilege.

“Our Heavenly Father has reserved many of His most noble spirits—perhaps, I might say, His finest team—for this final phase. Those noble spirits—those finest players, those heroes—are you!” (President Russell M. Nelson, Worldwide Youth Devotional • June 3, 2018 • Conference Center, Salt Lake City, Utah)

“Now, we would like to talk with you about the greatest challenge, the greatest cause, and the greatest work on earth. And we want to invite you to be part of it!”

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“My dear young brothers and sisters, these surely are the latter days, and the Lord is hastening His work to gather Israel. That gathering is the most important thing taking place on earth today. Nothing else compares in magnitude, nothing else compares in importance, nothing else compares in majesty. And if you choose to, if you want to, you can be a big part of it. You can be a big part of something big, something grand, something majestic!”(ibib)

The gathering of Israel includes both sides of the veil. 

The most important thing you can do is to prepare to serve. 

Become a missionary long before you go. 

Dnc 138:55-56

55 I observed that they were also among the noble and great ones who were chosen in the beginning to be rulers in the Church of God.

56 Even before they were born, they, with many others, received their first lessons in the world of spirits and were prepared to come forth in the due time of the Lord to labor in his vineyard for the salvation of the souls of men.

Revelation 12:8,9,11

8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

The Liahona lead Lehi's family so long as they used it in righteousness. Our technology will do the same.

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 17 Feb 2019

Sacrament Service 

Bulletin

Romans 8:38-39

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

First Speaker

If you want more blessings, ask.  If you want more comfort, ask.

Seek the spirit every day.

Next Speaker

1 Kings 19

11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:

12 And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

Alma 32:28

28 Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.

Cultivate a spirit to spirit relationship.

DnC 130

22 The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.

The spirit dwelling with us is not a passive thing.  We have to actively seek it and actively work with it.

Elders Quorum 

Someone recommended the book Rough Stone Rolling. 

They also recommended Elder Lawrence Corbridge’s byu devotional talk, “Stand Forever”.

The lesson was based on Elder Holland's talk - The Ministry of Reconciliation

Reconciling is not the same as negotiating. 

When we reconcile with God we don't negotiate. 

1 Nephi 17

45 Ye are swift to do iniquity but slow to remember the Lord your God. Ye have seen an angel, and he spake unto you; yea, ye have heard his voice from time to time; and he hath spoken unto you in a still small voice, but ye were past feeling, that ye could not feel his words; wherefore, he has spoken unto you like unto the voice of thunder, which did cause the earth to shake as if it were to divide asunder.

Ephesians 4

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

“Brothers and sisters, Jesus has asked that we ‘live together in love’ with ‘no disputations among you.’ ‘He that hath the spirit of contention is not of me,’ He warned the Nephites. Indeed, to a great degree, our relationship to Christ will be determined—or at least affected—by our relationship to each other.” (Elder Holland)

To follow a celestial law you have to be able to get along with or reconcile with others. 

1 John 4

20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

“Surely each of us could cite an endless array of old scars and sorrows and painful memories that this very moment still corrode the peace in someone’s heart or family or neighborhood. Whether we have caused that pain or been the recipient of the pain, those wounds need to be healed so that life can be as rewarding as God intended it to be. Like the food in your refrigerator that your grandchildren carefully check in your behalf, those old grievances have long since exceeded their expiration date. Please don’t give precious space in your soul to them any longer. As Prospero said to the regretful Alonso in The Tempest, ‘Let us not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that’s gone.’” (Elder Holland)

Sometimes our kids don't care what is best for them and they get angry that we stand in the way of what they want. Sometimes we do the same thing with God.

 

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 3 Feb 2019

Sacrament Service

Bulletin

“As your leaders, we call upon members of the Church everywhere to put family first and to identify specific ways to strengthen their individual families.” - Elder M Russell Ballard.

Testimonies