Thought for Saturday 3/22/14 - Robert D. Hales on strengthening families: Strengthening families is our sacred duty as parents, children, extended family members, leaders, teachers, and individual members of the Church.... We must understand that each of our children comes with varying gifts and talents. Some, like Abel, seem to be given gifts of faith at birth. Others struggle with every decision they make. As parents, we should never let the searching and struggling of our children make us waver or lose our faith in the Lord.... In the Doctrine and Covenants the Lord says that parents are to teach their children to understand the doctrine of repentance, faith in Christ the Son of the living God, and of baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands, when eight years old.... And they shall also teach their children to pray, and to walk uprightly before the Lord (D&C 68:25, 28). As we teach our children the gospel through word and example, our families are spiritually strengthened and fortified. - Robert D. Hales, Strengthening Families: Our Sacred Duty, Ensign, May 1999, pp. 32-34 Read the full talk here: https://lds.org/ensign/1999/05/strengthening-families-our-sacred-duty?lang=eng
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:45:05 +0000
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