S2 E84 James teaches us about Faith and Thinking Celestial Leading to Works (week of Nov. 13, first episode)

The Scriptures Are Real

Kerry Muhlestein

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Courses

4.8 • 540 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

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In this episode, Kerry and Lamar discuss what it means to ask in faith and not have wavering faith and having your heart straight and right and sincere before God. They also explore the relationship between thinking celestial and faith. They also grapple with the balance of faith and works in our lives and how those notions should interact with each other rather than be considered as opposing principles. They discuss the “superfluity of naughtiness” and how both faith and works tie into the pure religion of helping the afflicted. Then they go through how what we say and how we treat others is important and affects us and them, and is related to being double minded or not. Finally, the highlight the important principle of friendship with the world being enmity with God.

We are grateful for our sponsor, Lisa Spice, and for our editor, BJ Muhlestein, and for Rich Nicholls, who composed and plays the music for the podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Scriptures Are Real.
0:08.9	I'm your host, or co-host today, Lamar, and this is my co-host and also regular host, Carrie.
0:17.1	Hey, how are you all?
0:19.6	I'm doing it. It's been a while since we've been on. You've had some great guests and stuff. It's been a little while since we've been together. When I first was thinking of this podcast and I thought, well, I should have a co-host. And immediately who came to mind and I don't think it was just my own brain thinking. I think it was beyond that was Lamar,
0:44.8	who Lamar and I were in a singles ward together. We were clerks serving together. And then I think you were even in my very first Old Testament class, if I remember, right? Yeah, that's right. I was.
0:49.7	I was in that and I wrote a paper and I got to talk to Hugh Nibbley about what you know with your
0:56.9	papers say hey go over and this is a great topic and maybe he would talk to you and so you know when
1:01.7	he was alive and I also knew his granddaughter who was going to school at the same time so I had a great
1:06.0	time I wrote a paper for that that I really liked for your class and it's just been a lot of fun. I got a chance to
1:12.4	talk to him and to you and we kicked around some neat ideas. So yeah, it's been, it's been very
1:16.6	fun. So that was a long time ago. But that was like a mid to early 90s, not that we want to talk
1:24.0	about how old we are. And ever since since then we've kind of kept in touch about
1:27.7	scripture topics and things like that and plus lamar is a comedian and i need someone to make me see
1:32.6	more funny so uh but uh anyway so we did a quite a bit of co-hosting uh initially and then
1:40.1	uh your life got busy my life got busy it kind of happened a little less. And then I've kind of let that slip a little bit.
1:45.6	So I'm here to repent of that.
1:48.6	But anyway, we like to co-host together.
1:52.2	So I knew that there were a number of people who didn't know Lamar.
1:55.7	I guess I should also say Lamar lives in Arizona.
1:58.2	I think you run two businesses that you kind of started on your own. Just came up besides continuing to do stand-up comedy. Besides the stand-up and improv comedy, yeah, it's a pretty busy life. And I moved to Arizona, even though I moved away from the land of Zion, and now I'm in the land of exile. And Arizona is a great place. It's just harder than I'd like it to be. But it's nice
2:19.2	now. So if you want to come golfing now, now's the time to do it. From here, it'll like May, it'll be
2:24.4	good. Yeah, for half the year, Arizona's exactly the place to be. So yeah. Anyway, so that's just
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