“This Is My Day of Opportunity”
This earth life is so short in the eternal scheme, but it determines so much. It is our “day of opportunity.” Use it well and you will have opportunities you never dreamed of.
Of Dead Cats and Dead People: How Family History Can Save the World
More than something that that dude in the Third Ward or your great aunt does, genealogical consciousness is a way of being, a way of thinking about your place within and responsibility to the generations surrounding you.
Disciples of Jesus Christ—Defenders of Marriage
There is great power in a strong partnership. True partners can achieve more than the sum of each acting alone. With true partners, one plus one is much more than two.
Marriage, Family Law, and the Temple
Every time we go to the temple, the ordinances reorient us to the natural order of the universe, including the natural order of marriage. Like the ancient mariner, we look to the heavens to get our bearings—and we do that through the temple.
On the Moral Purposes of Law and Government
As we move into a secular age, we cannot overlook the importance of government's moral purposes, which include the protection of life and family.
Faith, Family, and Friendship
We have been given much; therefore we must give of ourselves and incorporate and strengthen faith, family, and friendships. Doing so can ensure happiness and peace in this life and help us begin to understand, in part, what life will be like in our heavenly home.
Protect Our Homes, Renew Our Powers
Today I would like to talk about the war we are waging to defend our homes. Our social fabric has been attacked around the edges, and now it is moving to the center—our homes! I’ll use Moroni’s strategies of preparing places of security to suggest ways to protect our homes and renew our powers today.
Adoption: A Gift of Life, a Gift of Love
I will tell you about some of my own experiences with adoption and adoption in this country and in the Church, and finally I will speak about adoption as it pertains to all of us as the seed of Abraham.
Faith and Families
Also pivotal to God’s plan is the family. In fact, a purpose of the plan is to exalt the family.
We Have Everything
It requires the gospel and the Church to bring everything that is important in our lives into one eternal sphere. There is nothing else in this life of eternal worth—just family, friends, and the gospel and the Church of Jesus Christ.
Make God and His Kingdom the Center of Your Life
Change yourself. Decide today “I am going to make the Church and kingdom of God the center of my life!” Position yourself firmly inside God’s kingdom; allow it to encompass you.
“Lay Hold upon Every Good Thing”
Family relationships are sacred. The bonds within families have spiritual roots. We know that we lived as brothers and sisters before coming to earth.
Keep the Chain Unbroken
You young men and you young women, most of you will marry and have children. Your children will have children, as will the children who come after them. Life is a great chain of generations that we in the Church believe must be linked together.
Defending the Family
"Great works, including great families, require commitment to something greater than ourselves."
Some of BYU’s Responses to “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”
My address today is related to the topic of strengthening marriages and families. It’s a topic I’m generally comfortable with. But I’m not comfortable—and not just because I feel inadequate to address this audience. Family has been a popular topic for speeches on this campus recently. Both President Bateman and Elder Eyring have recently addressed us on the topic of “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” (Ensign, November 1995, p.…
“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.
The Eternal Family
When we know that the marriage and family have eternal purposes, we are more motivated to follow God's commandments and those relationships with care.
The Family
The Family: A Proclamation to the World declares the importance of family in our journey to, and enjoyment of, eternal life.
Upon Your Heads
"On this campus you have engaged texts and teachers. In the temple you can engage and commune with the intimate and ultimate Creator."
Families
May I introduce my remarks today with two questions: (1) what is your relationship with your parents, and (2), for those of you who are married, what is your relationship with your companion and your children? Now, think seriously about these questions for a moment. Are you comfortable with your thoughts and feelings? Does pride and joy start to swell within your heart? Or is there a tinge of resentment…
“Rejoice in Christ Jesus, and Have No Confidence in the Flesh”
As we learn to be always filled with the Light and Spirit of Christ, we will always be able to see the foolishness and the disaster of the self-centeredness of men.
“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.
Roots and Branches
Marion G. Romney teaches that it is your responsibility to fulfill Malachi's promise and turn hearts to their roots and branches.
“Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother”
As we honor our parents through righteous and respectful living, we feel of their love and receive many blessings from following their counsel.
Family Home Storage
Home storage is more than food storage or financial preparedness. Your spirituality and family relationships are all the home storage you can take with you.
Kinship, Religion, and the Transformation of Society
Social anthropologists study people in those parts of the world that have not yet experienced the full consequence of the industrial revolution. These people still derive a large part of their living from the food they grow themselves, from the animals they herd, or from their hunting and gathering activities. They expect the place where they were born to be their permanent home, and they rely on the cooperation of…
Family Perspectives
The family is the tilt point for a vast number of souls who can go either way—to alienation and anger or to sweetness and service.
Sealing Power and Salvation
Joseph Fielding Smith is given an award celebrating his work in genealogy. He speaks about the central role of the sealing power in our quest for salvation.
Spiritual Ecology
Elder Neal A. Maxwell teaches that chastity and family love are key components to healthy individual, family, and community spiritual ecology.
Nurturing a Family in the Gospel
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How You Can Best Honor Your Parents
The best way to honor your parents is to always keep yourself pure and honorable so that they don't have to worry about you.
Building An Eternal Home
An eternal home is one where eternal covenants are made and kept. Strive for a temple marriage, and treasure your spouse and children.
Mutuality: Ideals of Family Living
The happiest and healthiest families have the principle of mutuality; parents and children help one another in a balance of work, teaching, and good fun.
A Latter-day Saint Home
Elder Richards admonishes young members of the Church to make decisions now that will help them create a united Latter-day Saint home.
How Do We Teach Reverence?
As parents, teachers, and leaders, let us teach our children and our congregations to be reverent during sacred meetings and ordinances.
