A survey on the retention of youth. Please give me 10 seconds of your time.
Posted by Matt W. on February 27th, 2007Please click on the link below and take the survey. I will leave the survey up until next wednesday.
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Archive for February, 2007
Teaching in the Synablog
Posted by Eric Nielson on February 26th, 2007Last week our Gospel Doctrine teacher explained a little bit about what it was like to teach in the synagogue during the time of Christ. He also showed a video depicting Jesus teaching in just such an environment.
There are holes in the bucket, and the bucket is the Church.
Posted by Matt W. on February 26th, 2007This weekend was our local Stake conference, and the priesthood section focused on home teaching and inactive members. One of the speakers uses a great analogy to briefly discuss a problem with our church.
He noted (And I am paraphrasing from memory): “We can bring as many members as we want into the church [and I […]
Born Gay…and with a Choice
Posted by david on February 24th, 2007I believe some people are born with same sex attraction. I also believe that God has given us agency and commandments. While we may be born with certain desires, predilections, or tendencies, if those desires lead us to do wrong, then we must chose not to succumb to them. Being born a […]
potential hebrew name theories for people in the BOM
Posted by Matt W. on February 21st, 2007For my Last Birthday, I got a Strong’s Concordance and Dictionary. It is a fun toy. This was one session of play I had with it.
People telling me I am totally wrong is strongly encouraged.
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Name: Nephi
Hebrew: Maybe
In the Bible?: No, but it is in the apocrypha at 2 Maccabees 1:36, but not as a […]
Retaining our Youth.
Posted by Matt W. on February 19th, 2007This weekend I was privileged to go to some training on the scouting arm of the Young Men’s Program. They provided some sobering statistics from President Dahlquist.
 Of young men born as members of the Church in the US and Canada, only 37% of these young men serve missions. Further, only 45% ever become […]
Humor and the Gospel
Posted by jettboy on February 17th, 2007No longer available because of publishing issues. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The Five Dysfunctions of your Ward.
Posted by Matt W. on February 15th, 2007For School, I have recently finished reading the book “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team.”
I liked it so much I asked my wife to read it. She liked it so much, we are buying a copy for ourselves, planning FHEs on it, and she is going to use it in her presidency meetings.
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Not all Missionary Stories Have Happy Endings
Posted by Eric Nielson on February 12th, 2007So I thought I might throw in some missionary thoughts also. Unfortunately I really don’t have any spectacular mass conversion stories to pass along. Baptisms in my mission were modest in number. One of the experiences I remember often is teaching a family in southern Georgia. The father of this family was named Roosevelt Givens.
The problem of miracles
Posted by Matt W. on February 12th, 2007Gospel Doctrine for next week has the following purpose attached to it:
To help class members understand some of the reasons the Savior performed miracles
In the spirit of the leadership development broadcast over the weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to go over my thought process in preparing this weeks lesson for my class.
To […]
