Matt McBride - Power from Unity

Latter-day Saint Women Podcast

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 670 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Savior continually taught His disciples and followers to be one, but developing unity as a family, ward unit or team can be a real challenge. Join us as we explore a 1962 discourse by former Relief Society board member Louise W. Madsen (1909–1987) about how working to develop unity with others and with God gives us power. Guest Matt McBride, director of publications for the Church History Department, shares insights on Madsen's life and contributions to the Church, including supervising the creation of the Nursery program for children. "What is this power we may obtain? Since it derives from our unity with God our Father and his son Jesus Christ, is it not in the words of Micah 'to do what is good, to do what the Lord requires of us, to do justly and to walk humbly with our God'? Is it not the privilege to serve we seek, the moving force of compassion to feel? Is it not the power of God-given strength and his blessing of knowledge we cherish? Is it not the power of unselfish thought and action, selflessness, the ability to rise above fault-finding and petty-mindedness we desire? The power to be instrumental in saving souls has been accorded to Relief Society. To build firm testimonies to the divinity of the Savior and of the gospel is our ultimate purpose. Charity, the true love of Christ, is our guiding principle." - Louise W. Madsen Full Discourse https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/at-the-pulpit/part-3/chapter-37?lang=eng

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0:00.0	Developing and maintaining unity can forever change a family, team, organization, and ward or branch and relief society.
0:17.0	This is because with unity comes incredible power to do good and accomplish exponentially more
0:22.3	than an individual could do on his or her own.
0:25.3	Today, we will learn from the life and teachings of a former Relief Society general board
0:29.6	member named Louise Madsen, who taught that unity with each other and with God gives us power.
0:36.2	Hello, and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we
0:40.1	share the inspiring stories and teachings of women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
0:45.6	I'm Carly Geiman, and I'm here with Shailen Back. We're your co-hosts. Thanks for joining us today.
0:51.5	As a reminder, in this season of the Latter-day St. Women podcast, we're learning from
0:55.8	the lives and teachings of women featured in the book at the Pulpit, which is a church
0:59.8	publication available online and in the gospel library app.
1:03.7	To discuss Louise Madsen's life and her talk, Union of Feeling, we're very excited to welcome
1:08.2	Matt McBride with us.
1:10.0	Hi, Matt.
1:10.7	Hello. It's great to be here.
1:13.2	Matt McBride is the director of publications for the church history department and a graduate
1:17.2	student in American history at the University of Utah. He's the author of A House for the Most High,
1:22.8	the story of the original Navu Temple, and co-editor of Revelations in context, the stories behind the sections
1:28.9	of the Doctrine and Covenants.
1:30.6	He has published in the Enzyne and also the Journal of Mormon History, and he lives in
1:35.1	American Fork, Utah, with his wife, Mary, and their four children.
1:38.8	So, Matt, thanks again for joining us.
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