Tag Archives: gordon b. hinckley

Living the Law of Consecration - Part 1: The Mythic “Folk Memory”

If you’re new here, you may want to sign up for email alerts or subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for reading!“Some day we will live the law of consecration again, but until then we must be ‘willing’ to live it.”
“It is Church doctrine that the full Law of Consecration was suspended by the [...]

The Seal of Melchizedek - Part 4

(Continued from Part 3)
To continue my research I wanted to know as accurately as possible the story about this symbol, the “seal of Melchizedek,” as it was used in the San Diego Temple.  I couldn’t find a good account online, so I decided to go to the source.  Who better would know than the design [...]

The 1978 Temple Revelation of the Extension of Priesthood

Video created by the LDS Church to commemorate and celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ action in June 1978 to extend its lay priesthood to men of all races - entitled “He Inviteth Us All.”  The revelation from God came quite clear from heaven to prophets and apostles [...]

The Temple is About Families

I received this LDS Gem today in my inbox:
When you come to the temple you will love your family with a deeper love than you have ever felt before. The temple is about families. . . . It extends to parents, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, forebears, and especially our grandchildren! This is the [...]

“What Is This Thing That Men Call Death?” - New Recording by Janice Kapp Perry

Most people in the Church by now are probably familiar with the hymn that Janice Kapp Perry wrote a couple of months ago to accompany a poem written by President Hinckley. President Hinckley published his poem in the May 1988 Ensign article entitled, “The Empty Tomb Bore Testimony,” but he notes that he penned [...]

DVD about President Hinckley’s Temple Building

Meridian Publishing, part of Meridian Magazine, has produced a 60 minute DVD presentation about President Hinckley’s temple building era. It is produced by Meridian’s founders, Scot Facer Proctor and Maurine Jensen Proctor. It looks like a great film about President Hinckley’s vast work of building up temples around the world. It is [...]

President Hinckley on Temples

President Hinckley loved temples. He loved speaking about them, building them, dedicating them, visiting them, and doing the work therein performed. Here are some of his words and counsel:
“Every temple that this church has built has in effect stood as a monument to our belief in the immortality of the human soul, that [...]

Gordon B. Hinckley - The Temple Builder

(June 23, 1910 - January 27, 2008)
The most remarkable temple builder who has ever lived passed away this evening at the age of 97 - the Prophet of God on earth, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and our beloved friend and exemplar, Gordon Bitner Hinckley.
In the 165 years before he [...]