For those of you reading this who may not be familiar with LDS meetings, today was what we call “Fast and Testimony Meeting.” On the first Sunday of each month (called “Fast Sunday”) members of the faith abstain from food and water (a.k.a fast) for 24 hrs. and give the money they would have used in those [...]
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A Two Hour Sacrament (Communion) Meeting/What the Lord Touches Lives
Posted in Church, Jesus, tagged Christ, Fasting, Jesus, LDS, Mormon, Testimony, Witness on March 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Top 25 Churches in America (in membership)
Posted in Christianity, Church, tagged America, Canada, Christian, Church, Faith on February 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »
US MEMBERSHIP CHURCH RANKING: Largest 25 Churches Denomination Name Current Ranking (Ranking in 2007 ed.) Inclusive Membership Percentage Increase/Decrease The Catholic Church 1(1) 67,515,016 0.87% Southern Baptist Convention 2(2) 16,306,246 0.22% The United Methodist Church 3(3) 7,995,456 -0.99% The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 4(4) 5,779,316 1.56% The [...]
Does God Lead People to Other Churches?
Posted in Church, tagged Christianity, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Mormon, Spirituality, truth on February 28, 2008 | 17 Comments »
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints boldy declares itself as the only true and living church. Furthermore, Joseph Smith boldly states that God the Father and Jesus Christ declared that the christian churches only had a portion of the truth and that he should join none of them. Therefore, The Church of Jesus Christ (Mormon) [...]
Washington Post Article on LDS Church part 2 (Retention)
Posted in Church, Latter-day Saints, tagged Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jesus, LDS Church, Mormons on February 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Retention This is part two of my series on the Washington Post Article. I recently wrote a post entitled “Why do People Leave the LDS Church?” I included a link to posts written by John Dehlin on what his opinion is as far as why people may leave. He suggests that many people don’t know [...]
Washington Post Article on LDS Church part 3 (Dress Standards and Culture)
Posted in Christianity, Church, tagged Book of Mormon, Latter-Day Saint, LDS, Missionary, Mormon on February 13, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Dress Standards and Culture This is part three of my series on the Washington Post Article. The article mentions that the LDS church has fallen from the highest converting Christian church in America. The official LDS website states the church is the second-highest converting church in America. The article suggests that other faiths are “willing [...]
Washington Post Article on LDS Church part 1 (Converts to the Church)
Posted in Christianity, Church, Latter-day Saints, tagged Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormons on February 11, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I recently read a post from the mormonmissionblog that reported a recent article in the Washington Post (I coincidentally work for them) on the challenges the LDS church faces. In the article it discusses the decline in the number of converts to the LDS faith (a decline of 8% to 3%), the poor retention rate [...]
Why do People leave the LDS Church?
Posted in Church, Joseph Smith, Latter-day Saints, Mormon Christians, tagged Book of Mormon, Faith, Latter-day Saints, LDS, Mormons on February 4, 2008 | 52 Comments »
I have deep roots in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. My fourth great-grandfather was the first bishop of the church, Edward Partridge. Amasa Lyman was one of my ancestors as well and he was an apostle and a polygamist. In addition, I’ve had many great spiritual experiences within the church and served [...]
New Website Dedicated to President Hinckley
Posted in Church, Mormon Christians, tagged Book of Mormon, Gordon B Hinckley, LDS, Mormons on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just in case you didn’t know about this, there is a new website dedicated to President Hinckley. It has talks he’s given, pictures and stories of his life, etc. Check it out: http://www.lds.org/gordonbhinckley
Church of Jesus Christ Statistics
Posted in Church, Latter-day Saints, tagged Church, Church of Jesus Christ, Latter-day Saints on January 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
For those of you who are interested in statistics, I thought this was intersting. It’s found on the LDS Newsroom website. I shows stats on how many members the church has, how many missionaries, how many members in each country, how many countries we’re doing humanitarian aid for, etc. Here’s the site: http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/statistical-information
The Church of Jesus Christ
Posted in Church, tagged Bible, Book of Mormon, Christianity, Church, Church of Jesus Christ, Jesus on January 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I recently read a blog today from a person I don’t know, but that I can tell is an earnest seeker of truth. His post was entitled “Restructuring the Church for Explosive Growth.” In his post he poses the question “What if we were to build a system from scratch that was simply designed to [...]
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