Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 27 Feb 2022

Sacrament Service

First Speaker

DnC 49:17 - before the world was made.

17 And that it might be filled with the measure of man, according to his creation before the world was made.

Moses 1:39

39 For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

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Alma 32:21

21 And now as I said concerning faith—faith is not to have a perfect knowledge of things; therefore if ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true.

Hope precedes faith and faith is the action that makes it a reality.

“May we press forward with love in our hearts, walking in the ‘brightness of hope’ that lights the path of holy anticipation we have been on now for 200 years. I testify that the future is going to be as miracle-filled and bountifully blessed as the past has been. We have every reason to hope for blessings even greater than those we have already received because this is the work of Almighty God, this is the Church of continuing revelation, this is the gospel of Christ’s unlimited grace and benevolence.” (Elder Jeffrey R Holland, “A Perfect Brightness of Hope”, April 2020 General Conference)

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He shared several interactions he had with different prophets throughout his life and work as a physician.

Mosiah 2:11

11 But I am like as yourselves, subject to all manner of infirmities in body and mind; yet I have been chosen by this people, and consecrated by my father, and was suffered by the hand of the Lord that I should be a ruler and a king over this people; and have been kept and preserved by his matchless power, to serve you with all the might, mind and strength which the Lord hath granted unto me.

Sunday School

“Thus a complete restoration was required. God the Father and Jesus Christ called upon the Prophet Joseph Smith to be the prophet of this dispensation. All divine powers of previous dispensations were to be restored through him. This dispensation of the fulness of times would not be limited in time or in location. It would not end in apostasy, and it would fill the world.” (Elder Russell M. Nelson, “The Gathering of Scattered Israel”, October 2006 General Conference)

“Are you willing to have your will swallowed up in His?”

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“When your greatest desire is to let God prevail, to be part of Israel, so many decisions become easier. So many issues become nonissues! You know how best to groom yourself. You know what to watch and read, where to spend your time, and with whom to associate. You know what you want to accomplish. You know the kind of person you really want to become.” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Let God Prevail”, October 2020 General Conference)

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 20 Feb 2022

Ward Conference

Sacrament Service

First Speaker

Declare the truths that are in Christ.

Enos 1:26

26 And I saw that I must soon go down to my grave, having been wrought upon by the power of God that I must preach and prophesy unto this people, and declare the word according to the truth which is in Christ. And I have declared it in all my days, and have rejoiced in it above that of the world.

“My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Joy and Spiritual Survival”, October 2016 General Conference)

“Saints can be happy under every circumstance. We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Joy and Spiritual Survival”, October 2016 General Conference)

Make the Savior the center of our life and not just have him on the periphery.

Matthew 5:14-16

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

15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Duty and love are mutually sustaining.

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Gen 3:1

1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Satan manipulates us step by step.  Hiding the putrid while accentuating the appealing.

Live in the world and not of the world.

Is it possible for us to stand in the lion’s den and have angels come and stand with us?  Is it possible to be in the furnace and have angels protect us so that we don’t even smell of smoke?

Anchor yourself in the rock of Jesus Christ.

Relief Society

“There has never been a time in the history of the world when knowledge of our Savior is more personally vital and relevant to every human soul. Imagine how quickly the devastating conflicts throughout the world—and those in our individual lives—would be resolved if we all chose to follow Jesus Christ and heed His teachings.” (President Russell M. Nelson, “Pure Truth, Pure Doctrine, and Pure Revelation”, October 2021 General Conference)

There is such a thing as right and wrong.

Alma 32

26 Now, as I said concerning faith—that it was not a perfect knowledge—even so it is with my words. Ye cannot know of their surety at first, unto perfection, any more than faith is a perfect knowledge.

27 But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith, yea, even if ye can no more than desire to believe, let this desire work in you, even until ye believe in a manner that ye can give place for a portion of my words.

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.

29 Now behold, would not this increase your faith? I say unto you, Yea; nevertheless it hath not grown up to a perfect knowledge.

The scriptures define the doctrine of Christ as exercising faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repenting, being baptized, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end.

“We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.” —Articles of Faith 1:4

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 13 Feb 2022

Sacrament Service 

First Speaker

Helaman 5:12

12 And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.

“In coming days, it will not be possible to survive spiritually without the guiding, directing, comforting, and constant influence of the Holy Ghost.” (President Russell M Nelson, “Revelation for the Church, Revelation for Our Lives”, April 2018 General Conference)

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Mosiah 18:21

21 And he commanded them that there should be no contention one with another, but that they should look forward with one eye, having one faith and one baptism, having their hearts knit together in unity and in love one towards another.

John 13:34

34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

“How grateful we are for the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. It tells us who we are. When we understand our relationship to God, we also understand our relationship to one another.” (Elder Dallin H. Oaks, “The Gospel Culture”, Ensign March 2012)

There is a divine pattern of loving each other and the Lord.

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Alma 37

35 O, remember, my son, and learn wisdom in thy youth; yea, learn in thy youth to keep the commandments of God.

Mosiah 2:17

17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.

Teacher Council (Sunday School)

Charity and Students that Don’t Participate or Are Unruly

When a kid is off topic or disruptive, attempt to take one thing they are saying and turn it into something relevant or at least instructive.

Don’t be laser focused on having to cover the material from the lesson.  Be aware of the needs of your students.  There may be something a student or the class is dealing with that you may be able to address for them.

Church Services This Week at Oak Ridge Ward Layton North Stake Layton Utah 6 Feb 2022

Sacrament Service

Be thankful for people that don’t pretend to be saints, but truly try to be saints.  Do your best to be one of those people.

Sunday School 

The book of Genesis covers a third of human time. Interesting that the book of Revelation as it describes the times of man doesn't spend much time on that time period either. 

Noah is the angel Gabriel. He appeared to Daniel, Zachariah, Mary, and Joseph Smith. 

Noah is the first prophet that did not know Adam. 

Noah had been preaching repentance for a hundred years and warning of what was coming.  His ministry was not a failure. Many were translated during that time. Many more did not listen, but he gave them opportunity and perhaps gave them something to ponder on the way out of this life for Christ to be able to teach them when separated from the temptations of the time that they lived. 

The flood was an act of mercy and love.