Especially in recent years, prophets and apostles have assured that women as well as men can serve in the Church, the temple, and the family with priesthood authority and priesthood power. Following the Savior’s example, we can act within priesthood authority and covenants to fulfill our individual missions, to help save the human family, and to empower rising generations. By qualifying for the gifts of the Holy Ghost and the promises in the temple endowment, women can nourish, teach, serve, pray, lead, heal, parent, prophesy, minister, and testify with priesthood power.
Indeed, the very promises made by oath and covenant to those who bear the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods were extended by Joseph Smith to the Relief Society sisters. He organized them “after the pattern of the priesthood” and promised: “If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates…[You] can come in the presence of God.” These promises and privileges are ours.
This is what Wendy Ulrich’s book Live Up to Our Privileges: Women, Power, and Priesthood, is all about.
About the Author
Her books include Weakness Is Not Sin: The Liberating Distinction That Awakens Our Strengths, Let God Love You: Why We Don’t; How We Can, and Live Up to Our Privileges: Women, Power, and Priesthood.
She and her husband Dave Ulrich teach institute for the Provo YSA2 Stake, and were mission leaders in the Canada Montreal Mission.
They have three children and ten grandchildren.
Check out Wendy Ulrich’s other books:
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Let God Love You: Why We Don’t; How We Can
What have you learned about yourself from your past and current relationships? We learn who we are and what we can hope for from others in the context of our relationships with family, friends, and others around us. Some of what we have learned and experienced may even blind us to what is really true about God, leaving us both yearning for and afraid of closeness with Him.
Coupling the teachings of Christ and His prophets with gospel-oriented ideas from her counseling background, Wendy Ulrich probes faulty assumptions that we may bring to our relationship with God. By understanding and healing these false beliefs and then following the teachings of Christ about how we can ”come unto Him,” we learn to see God more accurately, rely on Him more trustingly, and become strengthened in His love.
Weakness Is Not Sin: The Liberating Distinction That Awakens Our Strengths
What is the difference between sin and weakness? And what difference does it make to distinguish between them? With keen doctrinal and professional insights, psychologist Wendy Ulrich helps us understand that sin and weakness have different origins, lead to different consequences, and call for different responses.
She teaches readers how to distinguish motivating guilt from debilitating shame; how to become genuinely humble; how to identify specific strengths; and how to build a life based on contributing from our strengths. Understanding the liberating distinction between weakness and sin sets us free to put more energy into building on our strengths, helping us to feel worthy and to find true joy in our redemption.
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