The most impactful talk I have heard of late has been this message from Elder Kyle S. McKay titled, "A Sure and Certain Foundation." It is excellent and I have listened to it and read it multiple times.
(https://www.byui.edu/devotionals/elder-kyle-s-mckay)
"Is your testimony of Jesus Christ and His restored gospel strengthened
by, but not dependent on others? Is your foundation sure enough and
certain enough that you can remain unshaken even if someone you admire
in the faith makes a mistake now, in the future, or in the past? Is your
knowledge and testimony of truth strong enough that you can stare down
compelling reasons to doubt and choose to believe?"
"Please hear me and understand: there will always be some reason or another to doubt the truthfulness of this church and gospel. The existence of such evidence and arguments should neither surprise nor shake you. God does not give us doubts, nor is He the author of error, but He
allows them because it is absolutely critical that you and I choose for
ourselves to believe or not to believe. There will never come a time, at
least pre-Millennium, when God removes all reason to doubt, for to do
so would be to remove all agency in the matter of belief."
"Those who build upon Jesus Christ, will not, cannot fall. Those who do not build upon Jesus Christ, ultimately will not be able to stand or withstand."
"Brothers and sisters, I hope you realize that having perplexing
questions that arise from reasons to doubt is not a problem. But please
understand, finding answers to these perplexing questions ultimately is
not the solution. The solution is a sure and certain foundation whereon
if you build, you cannot fall. That foundation is Jesus Christ and His
gospel, the fullness of which is found and taught in this Church."
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