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5 LDS Artists Break Top 10 on Billboard Chart in Same Week

Five LDS artists reached top-10 status on Billboard's "Classical Crossover Albums" this week. Here's a look at these artists and the albums that are topping Billboard charts.

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Modest Dresses from the 2018 Golden Globes

By Danielle B. Wagner

This year's Golden Globes saw an uncommon number of celebrities sporting modest dresses. Last night, women wore black dresses in solidarity with #TimesUp, a movement protesting sexual harassment, assault, or abuse in the workplace.

1: “Hearken, O Ye People” (December 28–January 3)

And so it begins—our study of the Doctrine and Covenants! If you’re feeling a little wary, maybe a little intimated, don’t freight. If you feel like you already know everything there is to know about the Doctrine and Covenants, hold onto your hats because we are going study like never before. So grab your scriptures, and let’s dive into Doctrine and Covenants section 1.

12: “All Things Must Be Done in Order” (Doctrine and Covenants 27–28)

This week’s lesson is full of important topics. The sacrament, seer stones, putting on the full armor of God—Doctrine and Covenants 27–28 is just a lot to unpack. But these topics are so essential for us to understand as we face challenges the world has never seen before. So grab your scriptures and let’s dig into how these topics can help us today.

Latter-day Saint Life

Stunning Music Video by LDS Pianist Jason Lyle Black Is More Than Just a Love Song

By LDS Living

Set in a beautiful garden, Jason Lyle Black's music video, "Sacred Romance," is a moving song that seems to reach deeper than a typical love song.

Christmas I Remember Best: Acts of kindness touched family

Christmas 1983 promised to be rather bleak for us. In April I had lost my position at U.S. Steel's Geneva Works and had practically worn out a pair of shoes pounding the sidewalk in a futile hunt for stable new employment. We had battened down the hatches, canceled magazine subscriptions, ended piano lessons and scaled back discretionary purchases of all kinds — and learned to live on very little.

Malaysian LDS youth love family history

The Malaysian Latter-day Saint youth are model examples of gospel faithfulness. Many youth live in small apartments or terrace homes. Some live in pieced-together wood structures built in areas of Bintulu with no electrical service or waste water systems. They use generators for electricity or candles if necessary for light (generators and gas are expensive). Water is supplied from a network of small hoses fed off a main line from the highway. Water is also stored in barrels. Bathing with water from barrels can be challenging.However, when they show up to Church, they are wearing their Sunday best.

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Watch: LDS 13-Year-Old Sings Jaw-Dropping "Never Enough" from "The Greatest Showman"

Reese Oliveira may only be 13 years old, but she's already sung a solo at the White House for President Barack Obama with the One Voice Children's Choir, toured Fukuoka Japan with a small singing group, and has been cast in the upcoming 2018 movie of Little Women. It's not hard to see that she has a talent for singing.

Famous Latter-day Saints

13-Year-Old LDS Singer Signs Music Deal With Sony

By Jeff Hampton

If you've never heard Lexi Walker sing, stop what you're doing and watch this video. Do it. Now.

Podcasts

Composer of 'Consider the Lilies' shares the inspiration and revelation behind the hymn

On this week’s episode of This is the Gospel, four guests share how God has helped to take care of their temporal needs. Among these guests is Roger Hoffman, composer of the popular hymn “Consider the Lilies.” One day, as Hoffman played a piano in a Church meetinghouse, inspiration from heaven flowed into his mind as the song came to him. But his thoughts quickly went from “Oh my. That’s better than what I write,” to “I am not adequate.”