Inspiring Shorts
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Inspiring Short: Covenant Relationships | Jenet Jacob Erickson | 2024
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Inspiring Short: Childlike Wonder at Christmas | Scott E. Ferrin
By Study & By Faith
Making Strong Families a National Priority
Two-parent homes are a privilege. Making strong families a national priority will improve children's lives and reduce poverty and inequality.
Choosing God’s Best Blessings: Family
The greatest gifts from God come from the Abrahamic covenant and the new and everlasting covenant: the blessings of families.
Designed for Covenant Relationships
Entering into covenant relationships while we are on earth helps us to experience the truest intimacy—the perfect love the Father has for us.
“I Know That He Loveth His Children . . .”
Understanding that God "loveth His children" can help us build a better relationship and recognize His tender mercies in our lives.
Christmas and Christ’s Invitation to Become as a Little Child: What Manner of Child Ought We to Be?
This Christmas season may we all care more for the child of God within us and bend to the exigencies of life and finances less.
Teach the Children
Our children - or the children around us - are also children of God who have been entrusted to our care. We must nurture them and teach them all we can.
“Walk as Children of Light”
Primary song “Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam” teaches us to be “children of light” through pleasing the Lord, kindness, repentance, & service.
How Do We Think about What Is Human?: C. S. Lewis and The Abolition of Man
Political philosophy professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, citing C.S. Lewis, warns against tampering with our definition of what is human and deserving of life.
Lessons and Lifelines
Developing child-like attributes helps us become more Christlike. Children teach us many lessons, and we provide them lifelines.
“Because He First Loved Us”
Nothing can be more important to teach our children than love. We must exemplify love in our family relationships and teach them about the love of God.
Writing His Law in Their Hearts: The Development of Religious Faith in Children
To transmit religious traditions to their children, parents must live their own testimonies and understand how to balance love and control.
“Become as a Little Child”
In trying to follow the example of the Savior, we should look to the example of little children and the special gifts that they have.
“That Our Children May Know”
It is each of our responsibility to preserve generational testimony by teaching truth to our children and strengthening our families.
Households of Faith
As members of the household of God, we are entitled to infinite blessings if we live worthy of the name we have been given.
The Blessings of Eternal Glory
To receive the blessings of eternal glory that we are each striving for, we need to honestly evaluate our lives and whether they are in harmony with the commandments of God.
Through the Eyes and Mouths of Children
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