Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged false teachers, LDS Visiting Teaching Message June 2016, Liahona June 2016, priesthood power, temple ordinances on 06/10/2016| Leave a Comment »
Idolatry is the action of demeaning God’s character by redefining who He is, and then passing the bogus information on to those around you.
The title for this month’s Visiting Teaching Message is ‘Temple Ordinances and Covenants’, making the subject matter self-explanatory. However, before we dig in, let’s take a look at their subject matter a little more closely, along with the definition of idolatry.
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged Carole Stephens, Daughters of Our Eternal Father, false doctrines of Mormonism, offspring of God, racist Mormon canon, Visiting Teaching Message April 2016 on 05/03/2016| Leave a Comment »
Soon after the General Conference in early April, we posted a Visiting Teaching Message on April 14th, and used Thomas Monson’s speech ‘Choices’. When I checked back two weeks later (April 29th) to retrieve the message for May, I saw they had listed another Visiting Teaching Message for April.
Sooo…here is another VT Message for April! The title for this one is ‘Daughters of Our Eternal Father’. The overall message is to understand all females are begotten daughters of the Mormon Heavenly Father.
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged Alice in Wonderland, Choices, false prophet, Thomas S. Monson, Visiting Teaching Message April 2016 on 04/14/2016| Leave a Comment »
Isaiah 35:8 “And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.”
With the advent of each General Conference, Visiting Teachers are instructed to choose a talk from the conference to use as a lesson for that month’s Visiting Teaching Message. With no pun intended, I’ve chosen to use Mr. Monson’s talk on ‘Choices’. You can read his talk in full at the link below.
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged Ether 3:1-17, false doctrines of Mormonism, John 4:24, LDS Family Proclamation, Mormon god is an exalted man, polytheism, Visiting Teaching Message March 2016 on 03/01/2016| 4 Comments »
This month’s Visiting Teaching Message was a recipe for confusion. The title for this lesson was ‘Created in the Image of God’, and it looks like their goal was for teachers to promote the idea all of mankind was created in the exact image of the Mormon god.
The article from which this lesson came from, briefly touched upon two other key Mormon doctrinal points, but at least one of them seemed to be totally out of place for the subject matter. Let’s take a look at what they said! This lesson, just as the others this year, is pretty short. Regrettably, it might be short in length, but it’s long on heresy.
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged D. Todd Christofferson, false doctrines of Mormonism, false gods, Marriage is Ordained of God, Visiting Teaching Message February 2016 on 02/02/2016| 1 Comment »
The title of this month’s Visiting Teaching Message is ‘Marriage is Ordained of God’.
As most of you know, each month I find myself on my knees praying to sweet Jesus the next month’s message won’t be as bad, and much to my chagrin, somehow it’s the same, or even worse. Ugh.
Although this month’s message was pretty short, there were a few notable things to look at so we’re just going to jump right in, and ask questions as we go along.
Posted in Visiting Teaching on 01/03/2016| 2 Comments »
Liahona, ‘The Family: A Proclamation to the World,’ January 2016
This month the LDS’ Visiting Teaching Message was a rededication of their beloved ‘Family Proclamation’, originally given by Gordon B. Hinckley in 1995.
The message was one of the shortest I’ve seen yet, as far as VT Messages go, but unfortunately, that didn’t mean their words weren’t noteworthy. Let’s take a quick look at what was said –
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged Compassionate and Kind, Divine Attributes of Jesus, false doctrines of Mormonism, false gospel, Liahona December 2015, Visiting Teaching Message December 2015 on 12/07/2015| 3 Comments »
Keeping with the theme for 2015, the Visiting Teaching Message for December is on one of the divine attributes of Jesus. This time around they focused on ‘Compassionate and Kind’. As we all know, Mormons will discredit the Bible stating it hasn’t been translated correctly, and use bits and pieces of it anyway. This month’s VT message is a classic example of that method in action.
They highlighted several bible verses, but misapplied the deeper meaning of each. The main thing they missed, intentionally or otherwise; Jesus is God!
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged demonic teachings of Mormonism, false doctrines of Mormonism, Linda Reeves, Visiting Teaching Message November 2015 on 11/01/2015| Leave a Comment »
General Conference, ‘Worthy of Our Promised Blessings,’ October 2015
As many of you know, when the Church holds General Conference twice a year, they instruct Visiting Teachers to use a talk from the conference as their lesson the following month. In light of that, I chose to use the talk ‘Worthy of Our Promised Blessings’ given by Linda Reeves, Second Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency.
Just let me state before we begin, trust me when I say this has to be one of the worst teaching moments in Mormon history. It will definitely be filed under our category ‘Worst of the Worst’.
Whenever we post articles and comment that Mormonism is demonic and full of lies, this is an example of what we’re talking about. I just cannot imagine having to live a life like this woman told others to live. Wait a minute…I can, and I did – that’s why I left!
Oh please, pray for these people won’t you? And don’t just pray, but venture out, and find a Mormon to witness to this week!
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged charity, Jesus' attributes, love, Visiting Teaching Message October 2015 on 10/13/2015| Leave a Comment »
The Visiting Teaching Message for October focused on Jesus’ divine attributes of charity and love.
At least that’s what the headlines said, but as is always the case in Mormonism, now for the rest of the story!
This month’s lesson told women that by understanding the Savior’s attributes, they’ll be able to increase their faith and bless others around them.
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged attributes of Christ, August 2015, false doctrines of Mormonism, humble, LDS Relief Society, meek, Visiting Teaching Message on 07/31/2015| 1 Comment »
This month’s messages focuses on the divine attributes of being meek and humble.
It goes without saying that all followers of Jesus Christ should strive to develop these attributes and pursue His example, as we cultivate meekness in our lives and learn to be humble.
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged forgiveness, God, Jesus, LDS, mormonism on 06/30/2015| Leave a Comment »
The Visiting Teaching Message this month focuses on the forgiveness and mercy of Jesus Christ and how Mormons can apply it to their lives.
As I began reading the message I was struck by the quote from Dieter F. Uchtdorf where he said: “Forgiveness for our sins comes with conditions”.
He then goes on to say. “We must repent, and we must be willing to forgive others.”
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged attributes of Christ, false doctrines of Mormonism, Visiting Teaching Message June 2015 on 05/23/2015| Leave a Comment »
This month’s Visiting Teaching message is centered on the attribute of virtue in the life of Jesus Christ.
The message starts off with Doctrine and Covenants 121:45 –
“Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven”
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged Book of Mormon, false apostle of Mormonism, false doctrines of Mormonism, M. Russell Ballard, Mosiah 3;5-13, The Greatest Generation of Young Adults on 05/04/2015| Leave a Comment »
Twice a year (May & November) the Church instructs Visiting Teachers to choose a talk from their General Conferences held the previous month (April & October) to use as a lesson for their Visiting Teaching Message.
With that in mind, we chose an unconventional talk that wasn’t necessarily intended for the entire Mormon populace. The talk we chose was delivered by LDS Apostle, M. Russell Ballard entitled ‘The Greatest Generation of Young Adults’.
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged April 2015, false apostles, false doctrines of Mormonism, Visiting Teaching Messages on 04/20/2015| Leave a Comment »
After taking a well deserved break from all things Mormon, Melissa’s back! Yay! One of the first things she did was send me a link for a video and when I mentioned that I’d like to use it straightaway she suggested it’d be a great segue for her article on the Visiting Teaching Message for April.
So here’s the link – it takes all of 3.5 minutes and it’s a cartoon on missionaries showing up at your door. Let us know what you think!
What the Missionaries Don’t Tell You – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VKT4hrBTuk
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged Jesus' attributes, patience and long suffering, Visiting Teaching Message March 2015 on 03/01/2015| 3 Comments »
In the Visiting Teaching Message for March you’ll find a continuation of the LDS series, ‘The Attributes of Christ’ and this time its focus was about ‘long suffering and patient’. Dieter Uchtdorf (LDS apostle) defined patience as ‘active waiting’, ‘staying with something’ and enduring whatever God ‘inflicts’ upon us – Mosiah 3:19. Here in part is what he had to say –
“Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something … even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!”
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged false doctrines of Mormonism, false teachers, February 2015 Liahona, Jesus was sinless, Visiting Teaching Message on 01/28/2015| 2 Comments »
This month’s Visiting Teaching Message is another installment on the attributes of the Savior and this time around they’re highlighting Jesus as the only person who lived without sin. Not surprisingly, they recycled the same verbiage they used in last month’s message.
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged attributes of Christ, Ensign January 2015, obedience, Visiting Teaching Message on 01/02/2015| 2 Comments »
‘The Attributes of Jesus Christ: Obedient Son’ is the title given to the January 2015 Visiting Teaching Message which is one part of a series the Church is doing on the attributes of Christ.
This should be interesting so let’s take a look at what the Bible and the Church has to say about Jesus and obedience. BibleGateway.com posted the following about Jesus’ obedience;
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged December 2014, Prince of Peace, Visiting Teaching Message on 12/01/2014| Leave a Comment »
In the month of December Visiting Teachers will be sharing a message that reflects the role Jesus has in our lives as the Prince of Peace.
The message begins with a quote by Quentin L. Cook, that says
“The Savior is the source of true peace,” said Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior’s Atonement and His grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.” (Emphasis mine)
Posted in Visiting Teaching, tagged Carol McConkie, Ensign November 2014, false doctrines of Mormonism, General Conference October 2014, Sustaining the prophets on 11/02/2014| Leave a Comment »
During the month of November the Ensign takes a break from publishing their regular Visiting Teaching message, and suggests the visiting teachers use one of the General Conference talks as their message for this month.
So with that in mind I’ve chosen to use Carol F. McConkie’s talk titled “Living according to the Words of the Prophets”.
Posted in Visiting Teaching on 10/01/2014| Leave a Comment »
For the month of October the visiting teaching message centers on Jesus being the bread of life in their daily lives. In John 6:35 we read:
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Anyone or anything that disagrees with the LDS Church is considered anti-Mormon. Yet, the Church considers themselves to be a Christian church.
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The Early Christian Church's Statements of Faith
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How to Witness to a Mormon/Help for your Mormon friends & loved ones
Church leaders have said that without the vision of Joseph Smith, they'd have nothing so let's take a look at some of the things of Joseph
We know Jesus died for our sins, but what did Joseph die for?
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Mormons are faced with confusing doctrine every time they open their scriptures.
Quotes & false prophecies from Mormon leaders
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