Posted on 06/29/2010 9:12:56 AM PDT by T Minus Four
Every once in a while, the church changes and updates their programs to better serve the needs of the members. I personally love how these programs, while the same in purpose and desired outcome, adapt to use new technologies and relevant goals to strengthen and uplift our youth.
I also love how the changes to this program involve the family. According to the Questions and Answers section on LDS.org, the program "provides opportunities for parents and leaders to strengthen relationships with young men" and can "easily be integrated into family home evening and quorum meetings and activities."
Families are a huge emphasis throughout the church, but especially when talking about the youth. Young men need good examples and leaders to emulate. When they have these model role models in church leaders and parents, even the most troubled can find the way to becoming good men through spiritual activities and lessons.
And this program is here to help those young men find their testimonies. After years of teaching both at church and at home, the seeds that have been planted can really begin to grow during the formative years of twelve and eighteen.
I look at the young men in the ward I grew up in, and I'm amazed at the great men they have turned into. They have strong testimonies, are tender dads, and honor their priesthood. I'm certain it's in part because of this program. And I'm excited for the young men in my current ward. The changes to the Duty to God program will benefit them in ways they may not understand now, but they certainly will in years to come.
The Duty to God program takes the lofty goals of teaching young men their roles and responsibilities within the priesthood and to God and makes them accessible to the young men. It breaks them down into manageable and understandable principles that the young men can apply in their lives.
While the specific changes to the program haven't yet been announced, they'll be announced and materials will become available between June and August.
For more information about the changes to this program, visit DutytoGod.lds.org.
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No, she meant me. I would be hurt but we don’t hold her to the same standards.
ah. And she isn’t a Christian, it would be unfair to hold the unreedeemed to Christian standards.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
The next time you post an article with a confusingly similar name for “open” RF debate, wait at least four hours.
aye, aye.
OK, will do.
Yup!
All 22 of us!
I hope the 60,000 no 53,000 nuts! 52,000 missionaries from MORMONdom are pounding on doors in the sunnyshine instead of rain.
Oh heck!
Use the Quad or WHATEVER you've got!
MORMON
ATTITUDES OF SUPERIORITY
1. Im Superior; I have a special gift of the holy Ghost -- you dont!
2. Im Superior; I have Gods true priesthood power -- you dont! 3. Im Superior; I can go in Gods secret Temple -- you cant! 4. Im Superior; Ive been Endowed with special Gifts and Knowledge -- youre just normal! 5. Im Superior; Ill have my family with me in heaven -- youll be with strangers! 6. Im Superior; Im becoming a God -- you arent! 7. Im Superior; My women know their place as servants of man and yours dont. 8. Im Superior; YOUR creeds are wrong because they come from man - mine comes from God (you can find each one printed in our Scriptures). 9. Im Superior; I dont HAVE a creed - Ive got 13 Articles of Faith. 10. I'm Superior; I have 4 "Bibles"-- the standard works (5 if you count the JST) -- you've only got one: in as far as it is translated correctly. 11. Im Superior; I can lie with impunity about such things as church membership, church growth, church doctrine, church history, church influence, etc. -- You cant. 12. Im Superior; I am right (everybody knows) when I say 'evangelical' Christians are lunatics -- -- Youre a hideous narrow-minded bigot, who is persecuting me by practicing discrimination by saying I'm not a Christian.
13. I'm Superior; I have a testimony about a prophet -- you don't. 14. I'm Superior; I have a Scripture-producing Amos 3:7 prophet -- you don't 15. Im Superior; I have a Living Prophet who talks to god every day -- you have a dim-witted hireling of Satan who only talks to himself. 16. I'm Superior; I have my calling & election made sure -- you don't. 17. Im Superior; I have magic underwear to protect me from the bogey man -- you dont. 18. Im Superior; I have secret clasps and grips to give the angel so I get admitted to the celestial kingdom -- you dont ;so you cant. 19. I'm Superior; I know secret handshake codes for afterlife entrances-- you don't. 20. Im Superior; I will see Joseph Smith setting on the right hand of GOD, when I get to Mormon heaven, and he will recognize me and judge me favorably -- Youre on your own; when you get to wherever youre going! 21. Im Superior; Im going to hie to Kolob -- youre going to who knows where. 22. Im Superior; I get to have a harem and act like a celestial stud for time and all eternity -- you dont. 23. Im Superior; I have sun stones, moon stones, sky stones, cloud stones, Saturn stones, and the evil eye of Osirus guarding my temple -- all you have is a stupid cross.
24. Im Superior; My church has billions in assets stashed away -- yours has taken a stupid vow of poverty. 25. I'm Superior; Last - we have the power to keep a whole race out of our priesthood if we wanted to reinsert our 148-year legacy (we ARE still keeping an entire GENDER at bay!) 26. I'm superior; I have the "higher law" -- everyone else "lives under the "lesser law' because I say so...(over and over). Revision 46.2
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Whatcher mouth; Sister!
Interesting thought here.
I see the REPLY times in FR as my LOCAL time. Does FR make ALL the times shown LOCAL to me?
For instance; if someone in California posts a THREAD at 11:15 AM their local time, what time will appear on the screen of someone reading it in New York city?
The time shows as your local time.
Thanks...
What the heck? Is that for real UB?
Yes, I did get the DTG award when I was an obedient Morgbot youth.
A cow skull? What’s up with THAT?
It has been over fifty years and at least three hundred bottles of vodka. How do you expect this old geezer to remember something that I no longer wear proudly?
Maybe western folklore or dead cows on the dairy farm where I grew up have something to do with it. There must be an expert on Mormon history out there that can enlighten you. Reaganaut? Colorcountry? Elsie?
Wow. Can’t think of any reason it would be a cow skull except for the ‘wild west’ thing.
Was that given out through scouts or LDS church?
Also, notice that ‘honor the priesthood’ is written above ‘serve God’. Why am I not surprised
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