Tag: Preaching

Great Power and Authority to Preach Only Comes if Given by God

~ Richard Rowley

The brother missionaries, Nephi and Lehi, had miraculous results when preaching the word of God because they had authority from God to preach and then spoke the words that God gave them through the Holy Spirit.

…They did preach with great power, insomuch that they did confound many…dissenters…insomuch that [the dissenters] came forth and did confess their sins and were baptized unto repentance…And…Nephi and Lehi did preach…with such great power and authority, for they had power and authority given unto them that they might speak, and they also had what they should speak given unto them. (Helaman 5:17-18)

Questions:

-Who has a line of priesthood authority to preach that goes directly back to Jesus Christ?

-How does one rely on the Holy Spirit so that the words spoken, when preaching, are given by God?

These Things Ought not to Be

~ Richard Rowley

The Lord’s servants preach against specific actions that tear at the fabric of society and corrupt the soul.

“…Those priests who did go forth among the people did preach against all lyings, and deceivings, and envyings, and strifes, and malice, and revilings, and stealing, robbing, plundering, murdering, committing adultery, and all manner of lasciviousness, crying that these things ought not so to be…” (Alma 16:18)

Questions:

-How many of the above things does popular culture in the United States take lightly?

-How much damage has been done to our society and culture because some of these things have been treated as though they aren’t the spiritual and societal poison they are?

-Do some businesses, corporations, and media outlets have systems set up that profit from a degree of deception and disingenuousness?

-Do some politicians and practitioners of law benefit from the creation of strife, malice, reviling and envying?