44th Ward Gospel Doctrine

What did the Lord prophesy about the destiny of the church? Doctrine and Covenants 1:30 Doctrine and Covenants 65: 1-6 Doctrine and Covenants 109: 72-24  The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear; till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done. In what ways is the church coming out of obscurity? The Prophets Have Challenged Us To Do Our Part Doctrine and Covenants 1:4-5 Doctrine and Covenants 88:81 Every Member a Missionary - David O McKay “And that is the message today,” President McKay said, extending the challenge to that 1959 audience. “Every member—a million and a half—a missionary!” He then quoted ...

Doctrine and Covenants  2 ;  Doctrine and Covenants  110:13–16 ;  Doctrine and Covenants  138:47–48 ;  Joseph Smith—History 1:37–39 .  What does it mean that Elijah would "plant in the hearts of the children the promises of the fathers"? President Joseph Fielding Smith taught: “What was the promise made to the fathers that was to be fulfilled in the latter days by the turning of the hearts of the children to their fathers? It was the promise of the Lord made through Enoch, Isaiah, and the prophets, to the nations of the earth, that  the time should come when the dead should be redeemed ” ( Doctrines of Salvation,  comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954–56], 2:154). On 3 April 1836 in the Kirtland Temple, the prophet Elijah appeared to the Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery.  What was Elijah’s purpose in visiting Joseph and Oliver?  Why would the earth be "utterly wasted at the Lord's com...

Why do we need a living prophet today? While serving as President of the Quorum of the Twelve, President Ezra Taft Benson said: “The most important prophet, so far as we are concerned, is the one who is living in our day and age. This is the prophet who has today’s instructions from God to us today. God’s revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark. Every generation has need of the ancient scripture plus the current scripture from the living prophet. Therefore, the most crucial reading and pondering which you should do is of the latest inspired words from the Lord’s mouthpiece” (in Conference Report, Korea Area Conference 1975, 52). What are the roles of a living prophet? Amos 3:7 Doctrine and Covenants 21:4-6 Mosiah 13:33 Mosiah 8:16-18 Doctrine and Covenants 101:43-54 Doctrine and Covenants 107:91-92 How have you been blessed by a living prophet?  “The only safety we have as members of this church is to do exactly what the...

"I take you back to the general conference of October 1856. On Saturday of that conference, Franklin D. Richards and a handful of associates arrived in the valley. They had traveled from Winter Quarters with strong teams and light wagons and had been able to make good time. Brother Richards immediately sought out President Young. He reported that there were hundreds of men, women, and children scattered over the long trail. … They were in desperate trouble. Winter had come early. Snow-laden winds were howling across the highlands. … Our people were hungry; their carts and their wagons were breaking down; their oxen dying. The people themselves were dying. All of them would perish unless they were rescued. “I think President Young did not sleep that night. I think visions of those destitute, freezing, dying people paraded through his mind. The next morning he came to the old Tabernacle which stood on this square. He said to the people: “‘I will now give this people t...

SUCCESSION OF KEYS …in Nauvoo in the winter of 1843-44, the Prophet Joseph Smith spent several days giving the Quorum on the Twelve their temple endowments and teaching them about their responsibilities. He told the Twelve that he had been concerned that he would soon die without having bestowed the keys of the kingdom on others. Wilford Woodruff, who was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve at the time, recalled the following words from the Prophet Joseph: “Now, brethren, I thank God I have lived to see the day that I have been enabled to give you your endowments, and I have now sealed upon your heads all the powers of the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods and Apostleship, with all the keys and powers thereof, which God has sealed upon me; and I now roll off all the labor, burden and care of this Church and Kingdom of God upon your shoulders, and I now command you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to round up your shoulders, and bear off this Church and Kingdom of...