OK, hypothetical situation: you’re the final speaker in sacrament meeting, and the previous speakers have left you no time. Technically the meeting should be concluding about now, but you haven’t even started talking yet. What do you do? Deliver the ten-minute talk you worked so hard to prepare? Cut it down to five minutes so…
I hate bad advertising. Take last night, for example. I was driving home when I heard a sixty-second radio spot for a local plumbing company. During the spot, an announcer explains – rather excitedly I might add – that plumbers from this particular company don’t smell bad. And that was it. For a whole sixty…
I’ve often heard stories of investigators visiting our church and being thunderstruck by all the noise from the congregation. “Golly, you people are loud,” a friend of my wife’s once said. This was back in high school and she had invited him to a sacrament meeting. “Loud?” she asked. “What do you mean?” “All those…
Put your hands together, brothers and sisters. It’s time once again to play your favorite after-church guessing game . . . Guess That Calling! Cue cheesy game-show music. And heeeeeeeeere’s your host. Applause HOST: Thank you, Mr. Announcer Voice. And welcome, everyone, to today’s show. Our three lovely contestants, Ted, Pam, and Gidgidonni, all have…
You’re in Sunday School. The teacher just asked someone to read a scripture. Let’s say Hebrews 11:1. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Once the scripture is read, the teacher leans forward and asks, “So, according to this scripture, what is faith?” The response? Total silence….
If you’ve never heard of The Singles Ward or God’s Army, chances are you’re either not LDS or you’ve been living in a cave for the past few years. Mormon filmmakers have been capitalizing on our culture for some time now. There are a truckload of these movies. So many in fact that if your DVD collection only…
