In this time of Christmas, we are reminded of the important things in life for ourselves and most importantly toward others.
The following video is a message for Christmas, one of the heart and of the Spirit, godly in nature and a life message
If you wish to view this video directly on the YouTube site - http://www.youtube.com/user/MormonMessages#p/c/4A73DDEE675FBC39
I found on YouTube some excellent videos posted by “AdventistaSampaguita”. I am supposing she is an Adventist, but that does not matter when it comes to such a blessing as her voice and her hymn songs. She has posted other videos on Youtube singing several hymns and it is a great pleasure and joy to my soul to listen. Good and blessed work found anywhere is praise worthy and this work by AdventistaSampaguita is clearly a blessing to her and to us from God.
Please take the time to listen and view some of her other musical videos, they are well worth it.
You would need to click the link to attend YouTube, the embedding of this video outside Youtube was restricted.
Click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=389hE_hWO98
A while back, I posted an article about the use of the word “cult” against the latter-day Saints usually named as Mormons. That article ( http://mormondirection.com/2009/04/27/cult-misuse-use-of-the-webster-dictionary/ ) spoke of the misuse by people, even ex-mormons.
To add to that posting, here is an interesting video on YouTube displaying the meaning of a cult, the actual meaning and usage. How the video shows how the world at large, which includes the Anti-Mormons, their own cult like practices, but because the world at large condones and even promotes it, then such cult like practices are acceptable. It is the true religious and faithful practice of the Latter-day Saints that others dislike, as people in the world at large, which includes the Anti-Mormons and Ex-Mormons.
Interesting, we Latter-day Saints advocate the one true gospel, a single set of doctrines from Jesus Christ, even the revelation of Jesus Christ (D&C 84:1 / Galatians 1:12 ), yet the world at large advocates diverse doctrines that are not from Jesus Christ, but from worldly men.
This YouTube video is good and any truly reasonable person would agree.
View the video just below, or click this link for the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqr_09-Z5fU&feature=player_embedded
I always enjoy the truth, because it always gives light.
Amen
The new YouTube channel named “Mormon Messages” is online. It has quality videos, excellent messages and teachings. It is good to see the Church is taking advantage of media sources as YouTube. Here is a presentation of hope, to have hope, to endure with hope, to live with hope. When listening to this message, it shows me that unless we have hope, faith will falter.
Hope is not just having a manner of faith that all will be OK in the face of despair, but hope applies to every part of life and faith. Hope is to have the intent that things will be fulfilled and I can see in this, that hope to receive spiritual guidance from the Holy Ghost is that very thing, or hope that you will receive a true spiritual testimony, or to receive further spiritual testimony and understanding of the gospel.
To some these things are easy, to others they need to make the effort, but when there is a loss of hope, a different kind of despair occurs and I will call it the faith of despair, which is despair in faith. Without hope a person will fall from faith and loose their connection with God. Sort of makes one wonder if that is what happened to members who left the Church?
Here is the video on hope from the Lord’s apostle Dieter F. Uchtdorf.
The link is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbsU3b2srQA
I was alerted to this video by a friend who received it by e-mail. I located it on YouTube entitled, “How would you introduce Christ to a room full of people???“. As I watched it, I found the timing of this interesting since I posted a blog article about this very thing – “ God’s Work, Always in Faith“. I spoke of how God does his work and anything he promotes will never be to appease or please the vanity of people, or even use such things to promote himself, his gospel, his salvation and be assured that any fanfare that appears in the name of Jesus Christ is not of him neither can it be for him.
This video portrayed the exact thing I was speaking about in the recent article about God’s work. I ask you to watch this video, it is a short one. The performance is by Steve Harvey, a actor and comedian who stood on stage to speak about Jesus Christ. Look at this video before you read on.
For a nice break, a little musical interlude. This group of anesthetists are really quite good. Here is one of their musical numbers.
You can go directly to the YouTube page here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrjcLJ2IE0
They have a website, here is that link: http://www.laryngospasms.com/fr_index.cfm . They are called “The Laryngospasms”.
You really should to to their website. At the bottom of the web page is an audio player and their lyrics are really good, especially the “little old lady with a fractured femur”.
Enjoy.
I was invited to a website called “S.P.A.M”, an acronym for the name of “Society For the Prevention of Anti-Mormonism“. It is an interesting site filled with articles, comments, membership and videos, the latter being the reason for the title of this post.
Unfortunately, I have not been able to peruse the Latter-day Saint video collection on YouTube (I prefer not to use the name “Mormon”), but once in a while I come across a good video or two that deserves attention. Just goes to show the abundance of good material and media on the web.
Firm in the Fire is a motivational video and was well done. Praise to its author – SethAdamSmith. Good to see the desire and inspired motivation this author has shown in his videos. Quality is always a good thing to produce.
For those who would like to view this video now, here is it just below. You can attend YouTube and view other videos by SethAdamSmith, or attend “S.P.A.M.” for a series of videos also.
Firm in the Fire
Link to YouTube for this Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCbYHPmTbLU&feature=player_embedded
There is a new website that just opened up. It is also a “help” site of sorts for people who want to inquire about this Church of Christ and have a hard time reading scripture to understand it.
This website provides simple explanations in the format of animated videos. I viewed this site and I am impressed with the quality of the information and media. The combination of the visual and verbal provides the viewer a simple guide to our practices, beliefs and doctrines.
At this time the website owners upload their videos to YouTube and use that feed access for their website.
The website owners are in the process of constructing more instructional videos. Below is an example of one of their videos entitled, “The Book of Mormon”.
Usually I post serious posts, but if you noticed, that from time to time, I would include a humours image or video.
Humour is a good thing to have. I know that Jesus Christ displayed a good lightness. This, I believe, shows joy in life when well placed and exercised. In light (pun intended) of this personal philosphy, I had to post another humour video for you to see.
These two men in coats is one of the best shows I have seen. It can be found at Metacafe.com or Youtube. The video I show here is from YouTube (has better quality), as Metacafe had shorter cut versions.
These characters present a very good show. To view this completely, give it some time to load, it is about 12 megabytes. Click “read the rest…” just below to view that video and then get yourself a pop, popcorn, chips or the like. If you have a setup where you can view this video on your wide screen TV from the computer, lucky you. Enjoy.
Before I get into the serious posts again for this new year, here is a light moment about cell phones. (Best to wait for it to load)
