{"id":488,"date":"2004-03-03T13:57:11","date_gmt":"2004-03-03T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=488"},"modified":"2004-10-01T13:33:05","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T17:33:05","slug":"great-sermons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/03\/great-sermons\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Sermons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our casting about essential Mormon texts and our questing for Mormon literary achievement, I think that we frequently foget on of the great Mormon mediums and one that we have produced in huge quanties, with occasional examples of great quality.  I am talking about sermons.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhat sermons would everyone put on their list of &#8220;essential mormon texts&#8221;?  Here are some possiblities:<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byui.edu\/Ricks\/employee\/SATTERFIELDB\/Talks\/KingFollettDiscourse.HTML\">&#8220;The King Follett Discourse&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bruce R. McConkie, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lds.org\/nxt\/gateway.dll\/Magazines\/Ensign\/1985.htm\/ensign%20may%201985%20.htm\/the%20purifying%20power%20of%20gethsemane.htm?f=templates$fn=document-frame.htm$3.0$q=philosophies%20of%20men%20atonement%20gethsemane$x=Simple$nc=4068\">&#8220;The Purifying Power of Gethsemane&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gordon B. Hinckley, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lds.org\/nxt\/gateway.dll\/Magazines\/Ensign\/1991.htm\/ensign%20november%201991%20.htm\/our%20mission%20of%20saving.htm?f=templates$fn=document-frame.htm$3.0$q=Our%20Mission%20of%20Saving$x=Simple$nc=8849#LPHit1\">&#8220;Our Mission of Saving&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ezra Taft Benson, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lds.org\/nxt\/gateway.dll\/Magazines\/Ensign\/1989.htm\/ensign%20may%201989.htm\/beware%20of%20pride.htm?f=templates$fn=document-frame.htm$3.0$q=Pride%20the%20Universal%20Sin$x=Simple$nc=7010#LPHit1\">&#8220;Beware of Pride&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spencer W. Kimball, <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lds.org\/nxt\/gateway.dll\/Magazines\/Ensign\/1976.htm\/ensign%20june%201976.htm\/first%20presidency%20message%20the%20false%20gods%20we%20worship%20.htm?f=templates$fn=document-frame.htm$3.0$q=False%20Gods%20that%20we%20Worship$x=Simple$nc=3446#LPHit1\">&#8220;The False Gods that We Worship&#8221;<\/a> (not quite a sermon &#8212; it was published as a First Presidency Message in the <i>Ensign<\/i> &#8212; but still within the genre, I think.)<\/p>\n<p>B.H. Roberts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signaturebooks.com\/deity.htm\">&#8220;The Mormon Doctrine of Diety&#8221;<\/a> (Chapter 1 was first delivered as a sermon)<\/p>\n<p>Just a start and in no particular order.  Further suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our casting about essential Mormon texts and our questing for Mormon literary achievement, I think that we frequently foget on of the great Mormon mediums and one that we have produced in huge quanties, with occasional examples of great quality. I am talking about sermons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essential-texts-in-mormon-studies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}