Kristine Frederickson

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Despite troubles and sorrows, there is always something to be grateful for

I am thankful for the love of the Savior Jesus Christ this Thanksgiving. Jesus Christ sees our potential and appreciates even our simplest attempts to do good

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Is it time to enact the Savior’s message and change the world?

The heart and soul of the Savior’s message was not just that Christians love fellow Christians but that human beings love fellow human beings

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Learning to recognize blessings in disguise

We will all experience a mix of happy, joyous times interwoven with tough times. Yet tough times will often prove to be blessings in disguise.

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The enormous stress on young people today

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‘In this life we see through a glass darkly’ — using historical context to understand church history, Bible

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What’s at the center of parenting children who make poor decisions?

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Kristine Frederickson: Hate breeds hate and love breeds love

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This “Work Hard and Be Nice” sign hangs in Kristine Frederickson’s home.

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Kristine Frederickson: Why we need to teach children to ‘work hard and be nice’

We do our children a disservice when we don’t teach them the value of, and how to work. Meaningful work provides personal satisfaction, helps children gain confidence, self-esteem, how to persevere and be creative and resourceful.

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Jesus washes Peter's feet while at the Last Supper with the Apostles in this image from the Bible Videos series.

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Kristine Frederickson: Show, don’t just say, you love others

Many mothers, and women with mothers’ hearts serve others and do good in the world — as did Jesus Christ. Make sure you not only tell them often how much you love them but show them you love them as well.

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Kristine Frederickson: The 2 practices from the Founding Fathers to ensure freedom

The Founding Fathers of the U.S. realized that two practices were essential to maintaining freedom and liberty. The first was operating under the rule of law, or upholding the Constitution. The second was encouraging and defending religious liberty.

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In a depiction by Robert T. Barrett, Christ, walking on the water, reaches out to rescue Peter after bidding the disciple to come to him.

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Kristine Frederickson: As we reach for the Savior, he is there

The horrors of and one individual’s rescue from addiction highlights the mercy and love Jesus Christ has for each of us. It teaches of the power of redemption, every soul precious to Christ and no one sunk so low they cannot be rescued.

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Kristine Frederickson, right, with her mother, Estelle, and sister Lucy at the Provo Temple.

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Kristine Frederickson: Aging is beautiful

In our youth-obsessed world we often discount the many wonderful contributions of those who’ve grown old and gained experiential wisdom. We would all benefit from seeking their counsel and watching over and caring for them

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Sri Lankan Army soldiers stand guard in front St. Anthony's Church or Shrine in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, April 26, 2019. Priests have allowed journalists inside St. Anthony's Church in Sri Lanka for the first time since it was targeted in a series of I

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Kristine Frederickson: Following Jesus Christ’s teachings when there’s religious violence

Some public figures described the Christian Sri Lankans killed during Easter services as “Easter worshippers.” It is wrong to obscure what they died for. They were followers of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior of mankind, who taught love and charity.

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A view from the pulpit in the reconstructed Tabernacle on Temple Square on Friday, March 30, 2007, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Tabernacle was given a seismic upgrade and refurbished inside and out.

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Kristine Frederickson: Evidence of God’s love is all around us

From the world of nature to the more intimate setting of a ward sacrament meeting, it’s obvious how much God loves and blesses his earthly children.

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In this image made available on Tuesday April 16, 2019 flames and smoke rise from the blaze at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. An inferno that raged through Notre Dame Cathedral for more than 12 hours destroyed its spire and its roo

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Kristine Frederickson: Saga of Notre Dame Cathedral can inspire devotion to Jesus Christ

When fire gutted Notre Dame Cathedral it left the gold cross behind the altar untouched and gloriously shining. At Easter let it remind us Jesus Christ overcame the cross, was resurrected and is “the way, the truth, the light and life of the world.

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Jesus declares the parables of the wheat and the tares, mustard seed and leaven to his disciples in this scene from the Bible Videos.

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Kristine Frederickson: The importance of ‘sowing seeds’

Gathering family for scripture study or family home evening can at times seem a “total bust.” At other times, however, your persistence will bear fruit, as we found when recently discussing the parable of the sower with my son’s family.

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Members of the Young Women choir from stakes in Pleasant Grove form hearts with their hands as President Russell M. Nelson leaves the general women's session of the 188th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hel

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Kristine Frederickson: Bingeing on the words of today’s prophets

I’ve been binge-reading the last general conference talks. It’s been great for me — reminding me what matters most, reinforcing gospel principles, motivating me to serve others. Always listen to conference talks, but try reading and pondering, too.

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Kristine Frederickson writes that gathering to make, share and eat food can be not only one of life's great joys but food and socializing also play an important role in our mortal experience and beyond.

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Kristine Frederickson: The joy of food

Gathering to make, share and eat food can be not only one of life’s great joys but food and socializing also play an important role in our mortal experience and beyond.

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Runners compete in the Deseret News marathon in Emigration Canyon on Tuesday, July 24, 2018.

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Kristine Frederickson: Run to win the prize

For children and adults, sharing is often difficult to do. Possessing seems a part of human nature but we are taught to share with others. Why is it so hard to master our passions and desires? Perhaps it is so we can learn rigorous self-mastery.

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Kristine Frederickson provides examples of the blessings and benefits of sincere, heartfelt communion with God.

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Kristine Frederickson: Sincere, heartfelt communion with God

Josephine Butler’s experience in prayer replicates that of Jesus’ apostles when the Spirit gave “unto them what they should pray.” Her experience is instructive for all who seek deeper communion with God through prayer.

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A painting of Jesus Christ in the entry of the Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple.

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Kristine Frederickson: Peace possible only through Jesus Christ

While many seek a peaceful world, in many ways, we are further from peace than ever before because people are encouraged to indulge rather than restrain their passions. Peace will only come as people exercise self-control as taught by Jesus Christ.

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When Jesus Christ visited the Nephites after his Resurrection, he explained the meaning of the scriptures.

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Kristine Frederickson: We need to know the doctrine of Jesus Christ

The purity of his doctrine is critical to Jesus Christ. RoseAnn Benson clarifies the distinctions between 19th-century traditional Christian doctrine and the doctrine of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Sunset through a wagon wheel on the second day of the Farmington Utah South Stake Pioneer Trek held near Evanston, Wyoming but on the Utah side of the border, June 26, 2008.

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Kristine Frederickson: Acts of kindness can make an enormous difference

A letter to one of my ancestors reminds us all of the enormous difference an act of kindness can have in the life of another person.

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Charlton Heston is Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments." The Ten Commandment help provided moral clarity in situations, Kristine Frederickson writes.

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Kristine Frederickson: Sexual immorality and human trafficking are morally indefensible

While media pundits recently jumped to defend prostitution and pornography as credible professions, the reality is both trades survive on enslaved and exploited individuals. Such practices are morally bankrupt under both God’s and man’s laws.

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Tourists look at the installation "Vanished Berlin Wall" by South Korean artist Eun Sok Lee on the eve of the 18th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2007. The Berlin Wall w

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Kristine Frederickson: Learning to see others as God sees them

Myriad example remind us that our Heavenly Father loves each of us beyond anything we might comprehend. He asks us to love others as he loves them. By doing so we will create a kinder, more caring world.

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Mary Fielding Smith, the widow of Hyrum Smith (President Joseph Smith’s brother), was tasked with caring for eight children, including her son Joseph F. Smith (who would later be the sixth president of the LDS Church), two elderly people, her brother Jose

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Our debt to the early pioneers is enormous

Mary Fielding Smith exemplifies the best of our early pioneers with her willingness to cross the plains and sacrifice the things of this world for the cause of the Savior, Jesus Christ. Her valiant example is worthy of emulation.

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The United States Constitution was made the law of the land on June 21, 1788.

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The U.S. Constitution is a glorious standard for all

Founding Fathers and LDS prophets teach that the Constitution of the United States stands as our only real bulwark against tyranny and tyrants. As such, it deserves study and adherence if we desire to preserve the liberties and freedoms it enshrines

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Jesus comforts sisters Mary and Martha when their brother Lazarus had died in this scene from a Bible Video.

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Jesus educated Mary and Martha in a better way

When Jesus visited Mary and Martha in their home Martha complained that her sister wasn’t doing her share. The Savior used the incident not to chastise Martha but to educate her — and us today — in the importance of studying the words of Chris

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Kristine Frederickson writes about lessons from the parable of the seed growing by itself in Mark 4:26-29.

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Duties, assumptions and expectations about sharing the gospel

One of Jesus Christ’s little quoted, short and simple parables evocatively teaches us about our duties, assumptions and expectations with regards to bearing testimony of Jesus Christ to others.

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"Joseph Smith's First Vision" in the Palmyra Temple.

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God answers even small and simple prayers

One of life’s great miracles is not that God is active in the large and miraculous deeds of peoples and nations — of course he is — but that he hears and answers the small and simple prayers of his beloved children.

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