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Editor's note: "This week from the pulpit" highlights recent messages by General Authorities and General Officers of the Church.
Editor's note: “Resources to follow Him” curates study resources, teachings, and thoughts to deepen your study of this week's Come, Follow Me.
The pattern, the purpose, the power, and the potential. These are 4 Ps that have guided one Latter-day Saint man's church and temple attendance.
The Mormon church could stymie efforts to build a $1.5 billion train between South Florida and Orlando International Airport by not allowing tracks on land it once owned. Attorneys for All Aboard Florida, the Coral Gables company behind the train, are trying to decide what to do about the potential problem. On Thursday, they were poring over legal documents related to the property on the south side of the BeachLine Expressway near the airport.
Dressed in a suit and tie, Burgess Owens stood at the pulpit in the Herriman LDS chapel and surveyed the scene before him on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. The 61-year-old man could see his wife, Josie, surrounded by six children and six grandchildren, seated among the congregation. A short time earlier, male family members had participated in the blessing of their newest granddaughter. In the midst of that sweet moment, Owens wanted to share his testimony with fellow members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. “The church has been everything to us,” Owens said.
For those ushered out of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints at Longfellow Park at 10:45 a.m. during the morning service over two years ago, the sight of the burning chapel would be difficult to forget. The spire would collapse that day, and the building’s interior was left a gnarled, burnt mess by a four-alarm fire.
Throughout the world, members of the Church and others have found hope and healing through the Addiction Recovery Program (ARP), sponsored by LDS Family Services. Now, with the advent of http://arp.lds.org, the 12-step program’s message of recovery through the Atonement of Jesus Christ is accessible to more people than ever before. The initial release of the site, launched last week in English (plans are in place for the site to be translated into other languages at a future date), includes information for people facing addictions, their loved ones, their leaders, and ARP volunteers, a structure somewhat similar to that of the Combating Pornography website the Church released in April 2010.
This week as I’ve perused pictures and pondered the memories of my own children’s baptisms, I noted that one of the strongest and most colorful memories isn’t from the last; it’s from the first. And it didn't unfold during the service. It hit before it began.
After an activist launched an ad campaign against the Church, with the goal to get the Church's tax-exempt status revoked, Comcast made a public statement, saying they would not carry the ads because the "client was unwilling to provide substantiation for their claims." Read the full statement here.
The First Presidency announced that the groundbreaking for the Arequipa Peru Temple, the third temple in Peru, will be held March 4, 2017.