Archive for the ‘Church’ Category

He loves us and we love Him

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

We love seeing young women around the church stand together and recent the Young Women theme. Some young women may wonder, “Why do we have a theme?” An official church website explains, “The Young Women theme helps each young woman understand her identity, purpose, and destiny as a daughter of God.”

Because we’re men, we’re probably not qualified to talk much about the young women theme. But our friend Laurel Christensen recently wrote a book about really gets at the heart of this theme and has some great insights. The book is called He Loves Us and We Love Him: You’ve memorized it – Now live it.

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Why Should I Go to Church?

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

It is almost a given that at some point (usually in the early-teen years) every kid turns to their parents and says something like, “Why do I HAVE to go to Church?”  We got this very question submitted to us through the ldswhy e-mail this week.  We partially answer this question in our chapter “Why Should I Keep the Sabbath Day Holy?” and thought it might be good to re-print it here:

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Should I go to church (or mutual) if it will be boring?

Friday, February 19th, 2010

YAWN

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Yawn. How do yawns make you feel? Look at that picture of a yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Think about Yawns. Odds are, you might have yawned just now. That’s because seeing yawning is contagious. A researcher at NYU simply showed videos of yawns to 65 college students, and the yawning video caused the students to yawn 41.5% of the time (see “Contagious Yawning,” November 2003, http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/yawnc.html; accessed 29 January 2010). Most researchers agree that yawning is mentally contagious.

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