Building a Zion Culture of Nobility
Raising the Bar is an online resource and community of families who are coming together to share and uplift one another on this journey to “build Zion.” We are real families, with real struggles, real challenges, and real testimonies of REDEMPTION and HOPE. We are not perfect! But we hope you will join us and share your own experiences—lifting and building together to build a better future for the rising generation!
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Music Can Teach the Gospel More Effectively Than Some Sermons!
Excerpt from A Christ-Centered Home Chapter 8, It’s About Joy There are few things that…
How Family Table/Dinners Saved our Family
Reshare from Passing Down the Faith (See www.passingdownthefaith.org for more inspiring articles) As a child,…
Carol of the Other Sheep
A Nephite Christmas carol, commemorating the events described in 3 Nephi 1 and Helaman 14…
Is the movie rating system undermining the values in your home?
We have a good, conservative, active LDS friend who feels that it is her duty to…
Why Girls Should Read Boys’ Adventure Classic Literature
Repost from blog, Ballantyne the Brave Anna and Elizabeth Botkin — August 11, 2008 People…
Family Songbook
Family Songbook Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching…
Discover Music Fireside: The Forgotten Language of the Heart
Every feeling—every emotion—felt by man can be expressed through music. Can it be that while…
Dating/Courtship
During the mid to late 1900s, a growing number of Christian parents became concerned with…
Principles of Refined Dance
When Brigham Young entered the Salt Lake Valley, he and other early leaders taught the…
Dance
One of the first questions almost universally asked when someone is working to implement better…
Christ-Centered Uplifting Christmas Traditions
My family knows I am one of the ‘crazies’ who plays Christmas music all year…
Hanukkah: Filling our Homes with Light
Two thousand years ago, a small group of God-fearing Jews known as the Maccabees proved…
Why Raising the Bar?
The Prophet Joseph Smith restored the lost understanding that Zion and the gathering of Israel was a literal event—complete with rebuilding cities and restoring a culture of beauty.
Joseph Smith began establishing cities in Kirtland, Missouri, and Nauvoo complete with schools, dance halls, theaters, choirs, manufacturing business, farms, newspapers and more!
Brigham Young attempted to continue Brother Joseph’s vision in “Deseret,” the original name for the Latter-day Saint Utah and Idaho territory.
Many are longing for this inspiring view of Zion—a place to call home, a place to find their covenant family.
Raising a Higher Standard
Raising the Bar was founded to inspire a higher ideal, a hope, a vision for the future. Raising the Bar hopes to encourage independent individuals with independent stewardships working toward a common ideal. An ideal where no one is criticized for raising their personal or family standards. An ideal where each individual seeks to do their very best to live ever better and reach ever-higher toward becoming more like the Lord.
RECLAIMING A LOST CULTURE
“Culture is religion externalized” (Attributed to Henry Van Til)
Is it possible to restore our degenerate culture? How can we recover beauty from the ashes of a collapsing civilization? This is a call to reclaim our culture for the true King, Jesus Christ.
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- Family friendly database of clean movies
- Refined dance tutorials and music
- “Discover Music: The Forgotten Language of the Heart” free video fireside
INDUSTRY, ENTERPRISE & PROVIDENT LIVING
“It will be increasingly valuable to have vocational skills–to be able to use our hands. The most essential temporal skills and knowledge are to be able to provide food, clothing, and shelter. Increasingly, the Lord, through His servants, is trying to get us closer to the soil by raising our own produce.” (Ezra Taft Benson)
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- Preparedness & the Last Days FAQs (compilation of prophetic statements)
BUILDING A MULTI GENERATIONAL HERITAGE
We wish to restore honor and respect for fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers as well as our distant forefathers in obedience to the fifth commandment. We are striving to build a faithful posterity.
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NOBILITY, REFINEMENT & HOSPITALITY
“The Lord does not intend that the Saints shall live always in dens and caves of the earth, but that they shall build fine houses. When the Lord comes he will not expect to meet a dirty people, but a people of refinement.” (Lorenzo Snow, in Wilford Woodruff: History of His Life and Labors, ed. Matthias F. Cowley (1964), 468.)
“Let us . . . show to the world that we have talent and taste, and prove to the heavens that our minds are set on beauty and true excellence, so that we can become worthy to enjoy the society of angels.” (Discourses of Brigham Young, 424.)
CHANGE THE WORLD!
“When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed. . . .
“Christ changes men, and changed men can change the world. Men changed for Christ will be captained by Christ. . .
“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.” (President Benson)
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