Tag: temple covenants

  • Inseparable Bonds: Our Covenant with Christ

    Inseparable Bonds: Our Covenant with Christ

    “You and I have made covenants that link, attach, and connect us to Christ. But saying they bind us connotes something more to me, that we are stronger because of our covenant relationship with Christ—inseparable, even unstoppable, if we choose to be.” -Tamara Runia Tamara Runia served as first counselor in the General Young Women Presidency. This

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  • Empowering Women Through Keeping Covenants

    Empowering Women Through Keeping Covenants

    “We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us.” -Rosemary M. Wixom Rosemary Mix Wixom was the 12th General Primary President from 2010-2016. This quote is taken from her talk, “Keeping Covenants Protects Us, Prepares Us, and Empowers Us,”

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  • Women’s Priesthood Power in the Familial Order

    Women’s Priesthood Power in the Familial Order

    “Each covenant a woman or man individually makes in the temple is part of the process of entering into the patriarchal /familiar familial order, otherwise known as the new and everlasting covenant. Whether married or single, each woman or man therefore is individually receiving promised priesthood privileges and blessings associated with the patriarchal order of

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  • The Good Samaritan: Lessons in Charity and Boundaries

    The Good Samaritan: Lessons in Charity and Boundaries

    “Temple covenants ask us to build the kingdom of God, which is sharing the joy and peace of the Savior’s love. From this perspective, we can’t be charitable, benevolent, tolerant, and pure in a vacuum; relationships are where we practice being benevolent, tolerant, and pure. “There are no qualifiers on the charge to whom we

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