218 University Press Building Having wanted that for you tonight, that is one thing I would now ask from you tonight—healing, healing for others, healing for those you love and, yes, perhaps especially for those you don’t. Religious Center (206) 523-0846. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27). I love that. It was after Jesus had performed the miracle of feeding the five thousand from five loaves of bread and two fishes. He then “went up into a mountain apart to pray” (Matthew 14:23). That is why we make solemn covenants based on Christ’s atoning sacrifice, and that is why we take upon us his name. Sunday, September 9, 2012 at 6:00 PM PDT. Mormon Missionaries. We have found that God. 310–13.). May we have enough faith to accept the goodness of God and the mercy of his Only Begotten Son. Russell M. Nelson Memes. If we could not count on “the excellency of . It was always to give us hope and help, a reason to progress and improve, an incentive to lay down our burdens and take up our salvation. For some of you that is simply to live with greater faith, to believe more. BYU University Communications Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was admitted to the hospital last week following several days overrideTextColor= CES Fireside for Young Adults • September 12, 2004 • Elder Jeffrey R. Holland But He can’t if you don’t pray, and He can’t if you don’t dream. You Too often too many of us run from the very things that will bless us and save us and soothe us. (Which, I am very happy to report, she did.) When the storms of life make this difficult, may we still follow his bidding to “come,” keeping our eye fixed on him forever and single to his glory. Nothing in this world is more burdensome than sin. In short, He can’t if you don’t believe. Jeffrey Roy Holland is an American educator and religious leader. CES Young Adult Firesides . May we have enough faith to accept the goodness of God and the mercy of his Only Begotten Son. That was the hymn Elder Jeffrey R. Holland requested to have the congregation sing to begin the CES Devotional that was held on September 9, 2012. More than a year ago. I would learn the healer’s art. I am not sure how any of us are supposed to follow him and his marvelous prophetic messages, but if you will promise not to hiss, boo, stalk out, or otherwise show your displeasure, I will do my best. overrideCardHideDescription=false Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. My life was straight out of Happy Days. . Perhaps sometimes we come to Christ too obliquely, focusing on structure or methods or elements of Church administration. Jeffrey R. Holland. . Prior to his call as an apostle, he served as president of BYU, Church commissioner of education and dean of Religious Education at BYU. Brother Talmage used there the word succor. Show Map. [2 Corinthians 1:3–4]. There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the path that Christ walks. Imprisonment. He served as the ninth President of Brigham Young University and is a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 105) stretched out his hand and grasped the drowning disciple with the gentle rebuke “O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?” (Matthew 14:31). In fact, you look younger to me every year of my life!) And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? 14,273 talking about this. Someone sitting within reasonable proximity to you tonight is carrying a spiritual or physical or emotional burden of some sort or some other affliction drawn from life’s catalog of a thousand kinds of sorrow. Considering the incomprehensible cost of the Crucifixion, Christ is not going to turn his back on us now. character” (that is also his phrase) maintained by the Savior and his willingness and ability to “forgive iniquity, transgression, and sin,” we would be, he said, “in constant doubt of salvation.” But because the Father and the Son are unchangeably “full of goodness” then, in the words of the Prophet, such knowledge “does away [with] doubt, and makes faith exceedingly strong” (Lectures on Faith 3:19–20). The Lord has probably spoken enough such “comforting words” to supply the whole universe, it would seem, and yet we see all around us unhappy Latter-day Saints, worried Latter-day Saints, and gloomy Latter-day Saints into whose troubled hearts not one of these innumerable consoling words seems to be allowed to enter. I don’t know about you, but in my experience I hardly know of a hymn that caught on in the Church more readily than did “Lord, I Would Follow Thee,” written by Susan Evans McCloud and my BYU friend of years, K. Newell Dayley. Because of the winds, these men probably never even raised the sails but labored only with the oars—and labor it would have been. Jeffrey R. Holland was a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this fireside address was delivered at Brigham Young University on 2 March 1997. I cannot help but wonder what I might have done to watch out a little more for the ones not included, to make sure the gesture of a friendly word or a listening ear or a little low-cost casual talk and shared time might have reached far enough to include those hanging on the outer edge of the social circle, and in some cases barely hanging on at all. Elder Holland was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve June 23, 1994. It is a jail temple. many that were possessed with devils . For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. To meet Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, the newest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, is to find a warm, personable, buoyant friend. [Matthew 8:16–17; emphasis added]. Then he wishes us to give comfort to others. Pages Liked by This Page. In doing so we too will walk triumphantly over the swelling waves of life’s difficulties and remain unterrified amid any rising winds of despair. His transition was a quote from some guy that I didn't write down, nor can I quote him exactly but he said while many consider liberty jail to be just that a jail. Hank Smith. (Burbank, California: B.H.S. Elder Holland has now served as a general authority for more than 25 years, and his service as a leader in various capacities within the Church Educational System extends for more than two decades prior to that. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Heal old wounds and try to make things better. . Maybe I can come at the 30-year mark. After Jesus had fed the multitude, he sent them away and put his disciples into a fishing boat to cross over to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. In true Jeffrey R. Holland style this marvelous book captures you from the start. On the example of the Savior himself and his call to his apostles, and with the need for peace and comfort ringing in our ears, I ask you to be a healer, be a helper, be someone who joins in the work of Christ in lifting burdens, in making the load lighter, in making things better. Our instruction and edification, as the scripture says, is to come “from above.” I pray for and await that heavenly guidance even as you do. That is at the heart of the gospel. The seas and oceans may dry up completely. My beloved colleagues in the Church Educational System, thank you for this privilege to be with you. Most of the healing I am speaking of tonight is not necessarily that of administering to the physically sick, though we surely should be ready and worthy to either request or give such a blessing at a moment’s notice according to the order of the priesthood. I do ask for your faith and prayers tonight, that the Spirit of the Lord will be unrestrained and with us in great abundance. Other translations render that simply “What do you want?”, They answered, “Where dwellest thou?” or “Where do you live?”. LDS Humor. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well. No, what I am speaking of tonight are those rending, wrenching illnesses of the soul that need to be healed but may be quite personal—some burden held deep inside, some weariness that is not always particularly obvious to the rest of the world. overrideCardHideDescription=false At the time of this call, Elder Holland was serving as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, to which he had been called on 1 April 1989. 801-422-4511, Photo by It is my problem, not yours. That harvest is great and the laborers are few. In their moment of great extremity, the disciples looked and saw in the darkness this wonder in a fluttering robe coming toward them on the ridges of the sea. Related Works. Ulisses Soares. Provo, UT 84602 Recent Post by Page. overrideButtonText=, PROVO, UT 84602, USA | 801-422-4636 | © 2021 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, BYU students sweep writing contest, win new short story dispenser for campus, BYU student-driven 1918 dataset details how pandemics spread, Award-winning BYU research makes strides in improving autism diagnoses. Instantly, as was his nature, Peter sprang over the vessel’s side and into the troubled waves. In the spirit of Christ’s first invitation to Philip and Andrew and then to Peter and the whole of his twelve apostles, jump into this work. “I have called you friends,” the Savior said in one of his highest compliments to his disciples (John 15:15). “Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid” (Matthew 14:27). Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will speak at a Church Educational System fireside Sunday, Sept. 7, at 6 p.m. in the Marriott Center on Brigham Young University campus. do not even the publicans the same? Public Figure. overridebuttonBgColor= I am very conscious that your speaker last month was President Gordon B. Hinckley. You can change. Dallin H. Oaks. Much of the comfort we have sung and spoken of tonight comes from the Savior’s power to heal—heal the wounds of life or of sorrow or, where necessary, of transgression. Home; Browse Works; Results 1-2 of 2 for: * He wishes us to come unto him, to follow him, to be comforted by him. They can’t help but bless us. For virtually all of us it means to live more by the promptings and promises of the Holy Ghost and to “press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men.”. Do you know its meaning? Public Figure. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland was ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 23 June 1994. We aren’t told all of the circumstances of the disciples as they set out in their boat, but it was toward evening, and certainly it was a night of storm. One element is the question, to every one of us, “What seek ye? We call ourselves his children, and we testify that he is the only source of eternal life. Gospel Quotes. Uplifting Quotes. Prior to his call as an apostle, he served as president of BYU, Church commissioner of education and dean of Religious Education at BYU. [Matthew 9:35]. I have, in fact, spent most of those 20 years trying to forget the painful moments of our school days together. pin. The fireside will also be broadcast live on the Church satellite system, BYU Television and online at www.byubroadcasting.org. Cumorah International LDS Resources. Do whatever you have to do to come into the fold and be blessed. That is my basic message to each of you tonight, wherever you live, whatever your joys or sorrows, however young or old you may be, at whatever point you may find yourself in this mortal journey of ours. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. Januar 2018 Elder Jeffrey R Holland 1994 Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf 2004 Elder David A. Bednar 2004 HLT - Kirche, den Film zuerst in den Kinos der USA zu veröffentlichen. Relationship Work Contributors Genre; Includes "And They Knew It Not" Boyd K. Packer: Includes: A Challenge to Young … Public Figure. whereby man [or woman] can be saved in the kingdom of God” (2 Nephi 31:20–21). Christ has “borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows,” Isaiah declared, “and with his stripes we are healed”—if we want to be (Isaiah 53:4–5; Mosiah 14:4–5). We may pass through the fiery furnace; we may pass through deep waters; but we shall not be consumed nor overwhelmed. When Andrew and Philip first heard Christ speak, they were so moved, so spellbound that they followed him as he left the crowd. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve addressed seminary and institute teachers at a CES Devotional broadcast from the tabernacle in Salt Lake City on … Jesus taught the same thing to the Nephites, who also lived in a difficult world. Holland … I have wept for her—my friend—and other friends like her in our youth for whom I and a lot of others obviously were not masters of “the healer’s art.” We simply were not the Savior’s agents or disciples that he intended a group of young people to be. In the midst of all that fun, I remember the terribly painful letter written by one very bright—but, in her childhood, somewhat overweight and less than popular—young woman who wrote something like this: Congratulations to all of us for having survived long enough to have a 20-year class reunion. Once we have come unto Christ and found the miracle of his “covenant of peace,” I think we are under obligation to help others do so, just as Paul said in that verse to the Corinthians—to live as much like he lived as we possibly can and to do as much of what he did in order that others may walk in this same peace and have this same reassurance. Too often we see gospel commitments and commandments as something to be feared and forsaken. But, as always, Christ was watching over them. Since I have talked a little earlier tonight about repentance, let me repent a bit myself—or at least do the confessing part and hope even now there is a way for me to make some restitution where that is still possible. Official Facebook page for Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. ChurchofJesusChrist.org; Broadcasts; Israel, Israel, God Is Calling; Israel, Israel, God Is Calling. (And I certainly consider you in your youth. deutsch - kanadischer Eishockeyspieler Jeffrey R Holland 1940 US - amerikanischer Repräsentant des Mormonentums Jennifer Holland Autorin US - amerikanische amtierender Präsident des Kollegiums seit dem 14. Specifically he said that unless we believe Christ to be “merciful and gracious, slow to anger, long-suffering and full of goodness,” that unless we can rely on these unchanging attributes, we would never have the faith necessary to claim the blessings of heaven. In acknowledging that, I make an appeal for us to reach beyond our own contentment, to move out of our own comfort and companion zone, to reach those who may not always be so easy to reach. . All rights reserved. (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1916), p. 337]. We want to feel included and important, to have the feeling we matter to others. Jeffrey R. Holland LDS Mormon Apostle Collection by Mormon Hub. 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