This is a video posted by SethAdamSmith a while ago… I just watched it and couldn’t help thinking of my dear children. I would do anything for them. As I see these pictures my heart just goes out to them. I feel like there is little I can do for them, but there is something I can do for mine. I can love them.

Note: You probably don’t want to watch this with your kids. There are a couple scary pictures of kids that are hurt.

This is Seth’s introduction:

This film is dedicated to the real victims of war, hatred and unforgiving hearts: Children.

This serves as but a part of my prayer for those who have suffered at places such as Columbine, Africa, Virginia Tech, Chechnya and other war-torn, hate filled places. Though we may not be able to cause the wars abroad to cease, we can cause the wars within our hearts and homes to end. Forgive and love others. Truly these small and simple steps can eventually cause great and powerful strides in the world.

Lyrics:

“The Prayer of the Children” by Kurt Bestor and Sam Cardon

Can you hear the prayer of the children?
On bended knee, in the shadow of an unknown room
Empty eyes with no more tears to cry
Turning heavenward toward the light

Crying jesus, help me
To see the morning light-of one more day
But if i should die before i wake,
I pray my soul to take

Can you feel the hearts of the children?
Aching for home, for something of their very own
Reaching hands, with nothing to hold on to,
But hope for a better day a better day

Crying jesus, help me
To feel the love again in my own land
But if unknown roads lead away from home,
Give me loving arms, away from harm

Can you hear the voice of the children?
Softly pleading for silence in a shattered world?
Angry guns preach a gospel full of hate,
Blood of the innocent on their hands

Crying jesus, help me
To feel the sun again upon my face,
For when darkness clears i know you’re near,
Bringing peace again

Dali cujete sve djecje molitive?
(croatian translation:
‘can you hear all the children’s prayers?’)
Can you hear the prayer of the children?

Great video, especially after this awesome month of studying the life of Christ from Seth Adam Smith

How grateful I am for my Savior and Redeemer this morning.

Great video about Missionary work. Good to share with some friends about what I did/the missionaries do.

This is GREAT!  He talks a bit about why we should use the internet to preach the gospel and the awesome new JesusChrist.lds.org website.

Great article on about using social networking for LDS folks here.  At the end of that the author references a great site: Mormonwebtv.com.  This is GREAT! :)  I wasted a good hour watching movies… some of my favorites:

This one makes me think about user generated content and the place it is playing in the church as well. If kids are spending their time making fun stuff online (which I would totally have done) they aren’t getting in trouble. Which leads me to this next one.

Seems like a great youth activity… or seminary. I don’t know where this one came from… but I felt the spirit at the end… good stuff… great seminary video.

And then this one was a preview for a video I didn’t even know existed!  I so want this…

Anyway… enjoy! This is so getting added to my RSS reader.

I just read that ldsWebGuy just put up a website dedicated to President Hinckley.  This is awesome!  Newsroom stories, video’s of President Hinckley bearing his testimony, a nice timeline, and even notable talks.  Great, great great!

Here are a couple of BYU-TV Stuff about President Hinckley (from morning study and today’s proceedings!)

• “Gordon B. Hinckley: Man of Integrity”
• “Remembering Presdient Gordon B. Hinckley” with:
• Professors Brent Top and Robert Millet
• Richard Cowan
• BYU President Ceicl O. Samuelson
• Sheri L. Dew
• Funeral Services

It appears that some of these links are not working exactly right, but they should get you close and give you an idea of what is there. 

This morning I was looking around for my Friday BYU TV Study and came across a mini-series entitled Joseph.  It is fantastic.  It plays every day at 3AM (which really isn’t a problem with the online version… you can watch it whenever).

When I was a missionary one of the most profound testimony building experiences of my mission was listening to Truman Madsen’s Joseph Smith, the Prophet.  Well, these video’s are the equivalent of these tapes for TV.  From BYU-TV Broadcasting Page:

“Joseph” features many faculty from BYU’s Department of Church History and Doctrine, Department of Ancient Scripture, and other scholars from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The project is a joint effort of BYU Broadcasting and BYU Religious Education. The series executive producers are Dean Andrew Skinner and Susan Easton Black. Dr. Black is also the series host.

The 6 hour television series and accompanying book was written by many of the same faculty that are interviewed and is a scholarly examination of the life and teachings of Joseph Smith. The series is not an exhaustive review of Joseph’s life but instead focuses on some aspects and events in Joseph’s life that have a lasting impact on members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today, two centuries after the birth of Joseph Smith.

The content includes Susan Black at the relevant church history sites introducing the topics to be covered, the expert interviews and quotes from Joseph Smith and his contemporaries. Hundreds of images of Joseph, artwork featuring events from his life, and footage of the relevant church history sites enhance the expert interviews.”

I highly recommend it!  Check it out!

1. “I Had Seen a Vision” 1805-1823 (Summary, Watch)
2. “The Most Correct of Any book” 1823-1830 (Summary, Watch)
3. “The Only True and Living Church” 1830-1832 (Summary, Watch)
4. “A House to Thy Name” 1832-1836 (Summary, Watch)
5. “Peace Be Unto Thy Soul” 1836-1839 (Summary)
6. “Calm as a Summer’s Morning” 1839-1844 (Summary)

Note: The last two episodes are probably going to be played today and tomorrow.. the other’s have been playing all week.  I’ll add links on Monday or so. 

Note 2: BYU still needs an easy way to embed their player on another page or share a link without having to send an e-mail… very difficult.

Oh this is funny… I’m glad we don’t have confessions in our church. Sometimes advancements in technology aren’t the best. Just because something is more productive doesn’t mean you should adopt it in the church. Enjoy!

Came across this list this morning via A Soft Answer.  Had some good ones on there like Big Fat Greek Wedding, The Rookie, and Return to Me that are part of our personal collection.  But it also had a bunch of PG-13 and R-rated movies. 

My wife and I decided long ago that if we didn’t want our kids watching it we wouldn’t watch it… it has been hard to stick to that over the years (Star Wars III, Harry Potter IV) but we have done our best to find edited versions of the movies to watch.

We also saw an AWESOME movie just a couple of days ago… Facing the Giants.  It is definitely not a Mormon movie, but I cried… then again… I cry a lot lately.  :)  5 Stars.

Below is a clip from the movie I saw before we bought it.  I can think of a million classes to use this in seminary with.  Enjoy!

So this morning my son woke up early again… yup, you know what that means, BYU TV study morning.  Well, this morning I was looking around for something to watch and came across “The Best Two Years.”  I love this movie! 

I didn’t know BYU TV had stuff like this.  It looks like they have a movie every Friday night at 8pm MT.  Of course, that means it’s like 10pm here in North Carolina, so we will have to have Saturday night date night.  Still… awesome!