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Dave Says: Why Spending More on Teens Is Okay

Dave Ramsey - Dear Dave, We have three children, ages 15, 10 and nine. With our oldest starting high school and just being a teenager, we’re spending lots more money on her than the others. It’s almost like she’s the favorite child. Should we spend more on the other kids to make things seem a little more fair? Julie Dear Julie, I don’t think so. In five or six years, it’ll be their turn and you guys will be spending that kind of money on them, too. That’s the way it is with teens. Here’s a question for you. When the 15-year-old is 23,...

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Church Responds to Questions about Disciplinary Action

Newsroom - The Church issued the following statement today in response to questions from the news media regarding Church discipline: "The Church is a family made up of millions of individuals with diverse backgrounds and opinions. There is room for questions and we welcome sincere conversations. We hope those seeking answers will find them and happiness through the gospel of Jesus Christ. "Sometimes members' actions contradict Church doctrine and lead others astray. ...

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Students Feel Called to Serve Online

The Daily Universe - BYU student Jacob Burdis created an app that has seen more than 20,000 downloads, received a 4.5 star rating and is the sixth search result for “Book of Mormon.” Burdis thought of the idea for his LDS Book of Mormon Promises app while serving his mission. “I was studying ‘hope’ in Preach My Gospel, and there is a quote that says, ‘Hope is an abiding trust that the Lord will fulfill his promises that he has made to you,’” Burdis said. “One day I thought, if I want to have more hope, I need to better know what those promises are.”...

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Maybe I Should Get My Blessing

ChurchofJesusChrist.org - One Sunday, the stake patriarch led our lesson about patriarchal blessings. Before this lesson, I knew almost nothing about these blessings. I’d heard about them once or twice, and my brother had recently received his, but I didn’t really understand their purpose. In his lesson, the stake patriarch taught us that a patriarchal blessing is like personal scripture. It’s a blessing directly from God with several purposes. One is to declare your lineage in a tribe of the house of Israel. Others are to give you guidance and to promise you blessings Heavenly Father will give you if you’re faithful. The...

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Conference Center Organ a Jewel of Its Own

Mormon Tabernacle Choir - The Choir’s second home is across the street from the Tabernacle at the Conference Center, a one-of-a-kind 21,000 seat facility with its own pipe organ. In the summer, with scores of tourists visiting Temple Square, the Conference Center easily accommodates everyone attending the broadcast of Music and the Spoken Word. Special organ recitals are also performed there in the summer. ...

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Photographer Travels to Every Temple in the US

Deseret News - Scott Jarvie has called almost all 50 states home in the last eight months as he’s immortalized the beauty of every LDS temple in America with his Nikon D800 camera. With Jarvie’s car doubling as his residence, this member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spends his days on the road, navigating U.S. cities for LDS temples and other religious buildings. His journey started with an idea he had in March 2013, five years after he became a full-time photographer. ...

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Am I Planting or Killing Seeds?

Middle-Aged Mormon Man - Thirty-four conversion stories were published last week for the Third Annual Hug a Convert Day. Thirty-four! Each one unique and wonderful. But this year, more than the previous two, there was an unmistakeable thread that ran though many of them. Did you notice? Many of the conversions came to fruition from a seed that had been planted years, or even decades before. Seeds that were planted by best friends, families, school teachers, missionaries, and even well-placed literature. This of course, got me thinking about those priceless seeds that have since sprouted and grown into such wonderful testimonies. Each one is a...

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Never Underestimate the Cost of Conversion

Deseret News - Flannery O’Connor, the Catholic novelist, said it surprised her how many people of her faith “constantly underestimated the cost of salvation.” As I’ve watched people come into the fold of our little Spanish branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brigham City — and watched others leave to return to their former ways — I’ve decided we life-long members of the LDS Church “constantly underestimate the cost of conversion.” We’re excited to see people join us, but we seldom appreciate the price that those people had to pay. For many, the price of admission involves friendships, family,...

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Do Your Kids Drive You to Your Knees?

Deseret News - It was Abraham Lincoln who was quoted as saying, “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.” He was probably speaking about the burdens of his presidency and of the Civil War, but he could well have been talking about parenting. How often do parents feel at their wits' end and wonder how they are going to cope with the confusion, the contention, the competition and the conundrums that are part of the parenting process? ...