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You Can't Believe Everything You Hear at Church + Why That's a Good Thing

I can remember the first time I felt sick to my stomach at something that was said over the pulpit during church. I was 16 and feeling claustrophobic in a chapel bursting with people who had come to listen to stake conference.

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How God's Grace Exalts Us When We Fall Short (+ How It Allows Us to Be Like God, Not Just with Him)

By Tad R. Callister

One might appropriately wonder how the Atonement can be effective in the lives of mortals. Even though we seek to be worthy and to repent of our sins, in the end we are all, in one way or another, unprofitable servants (see Mosiah 2:21). Given our weakness and our recurring failings, how are we able to receive the many blessings of the Atonement in our lives? How are we able to receive of its cleansing powers, or peace, or succor, or freedom? How does the perfection and exaltation of an imperfect being come about?

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How Christmas Cookies and the Gospel Brought These 10 Women Together for 40 Years (+Their Favorite Recipes)

By Claudia Scalley

How much love does a cookie hold? Ten friends who will celebrate their 40th year of exchanging Christmas cookies can tell you. For them, the baking, packaging, and sharing of cookies each December is a reminder that time cannot diminish the love shared by friends through a cookie! Don't forget to look through all the pages for all their favorite cookie recipes.

Book of Mormon Lesson 42: "This Is My Gospel"

By Ted L. Gibbons

3 Nephi 27-30; 4 Nephi

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New Testament Lesson 25: Not My Will, But Thine, Be Done

By Ted L. Gibbons

Matthew 26:36-46; Mark 14:32-42; Luke 22:39-46

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Old Testament Lesson 44: "Everything Shall Live Whither the River Cometh"

By Ted L. Gibbons

Temples are popping up like dandelions in an untended lawn. We have the joy of living when only the most remote and economically deprived of people cannot make arrangements to visit a temple.

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Book of Mormon Lesson 17: “A Seer . . . Becometh a Great Benefit to His Fellow Beings”

By Ted L. Gibbons

“Behold what wonders God hath wrought! Truth springs out of the earth; the gold plates are translated by the gift and power of God; and the voice we hear is one that whispers from the dust. It is the voice of all the Nephis, of Alma and Amulek and Abinadi, of Ether and Mormon and Moroni of all the Nephite and Jaredite prophets. It is the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ, who ministered among the Nephites, inviting them to feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet and to thrust their hands into his riven side. It is the voice of doctrine and testimony and miracles. It is the voice of God speaking to men through the Book of Mormon.

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Get Happy: 10 Proven Strategies for a More Joyful Life

By Jamie Armstrong

Everyone wants to be happy—and for good reason. Happy people earn more money and are more likely to get married and stay married. They also attract more friends, are more productive at work, and even outlive their gloomier counterparts by about nine years.

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The Pie That Saved a Pioneer + 8 Recipes for Pi Day Today

By LDS Living Staff

From pumpkin pie to apple pie to chicken pot pie, the tasty treat used to celebrate this quirky holiday has some unique connections to Latter-day Saints.

Mormons and 9/11: Survivors, Rescuers, and Victims' Families Share Their Stories

By Jamie Armstrong

As we observe the anniversary of 9/11, we take a look back through the eyes of LDS Church members who lost loved ones, narrowly escaped death, and helped with relief efforts. We also honor the victims who lost their lives—including five Latter-day Saints.