This university conference address, entitled The Lord's Measures, was given on August 24th, 2026 by Justin Collings, academic vice president of Brigham Young University.

Well, thank you, Mike, for that overly generous introduction.

He was instructed not to do an introduction, so we'll forego the insubordination there.

I thought that I could trust Rich Osguthorpe to get through a technology announcement without emotion.

Earlier today, President Rees went off script for a moment to announce that I would be talking about the new general education proposal, and I'm going off script for a moment to say that that's not true.

I want to thank our GE steering committee for Herculean efforts to incorporate and digest feedback from so many of you.

After thinking about this topic for many years, it's nice to just pull back from a moment and marvel to think that wherever we end up going in this direction, I don't know that we've ever had a topic on which we had so many faculty members weigh in over such length, and really just grateful to everybody who's pitched in.

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entitled Imparting Our Double Heritage to Students was given on April 28, 2025 by Justin Collings, Academic Vice President of Brigham Young University.

Well, good morning.

Thank you for being here.

This gathering might be the first of its kind, and I'm grateful that you've responded to an unusual invitation.

Thank you for being here.

Thank you for your tremendous contributions to the work of this university, to its mission, and to our students.

I feel of your goodness.

This university conference address, entitled The Lord's Measures, was given on August 24, 2026, by Justin Collings, academic vice president of Brigham Young University.

Well, thank you, Mike, for that overly generous introduction.

He was instructed not to do an introduction, so we'll forego the insubordination there.

I thought that I could trust Rich Osguthorpe to get through a technology announcement without emotion.

Earlier today, President Rees went off script for a moment to announce that I would be talking about the new general education proposal, and I'm going off script for a moment to say that that's not true.

I want to thank our GE steering committee for Herculean efforts to incorporate and digest feedback from so many of you.

After thinking about this topic for many years, it's nice to just pull back from a moment and marvel to think that wherever we end up going in this direction, I don't know that we've ever had a topic on which we had so many faculty members weigh in over such length, and really just grateful to everybody who's pitched in.

the day."

We can move forward with that quiet confidence in God that He's gonna help us, which then leads to this beautiful discussion about miracles.

Sure, and I, I wanna talk about miracles, but I wanna point something out about verse 27.

Uh, so I'm gonna read it and then I'm comment on it in a moment.

He says, "Wherefore, my beloved brethren, have miracles ceased because Christ hath ascended into heaven, and hath sat down on the right hand of God, to claim of the Father his rights of mercy which he hath upon the children of men?" Now, uh, one of the things he's saying, I think, is that God has operated the same way in all dispensations, and at the very beginning, He sent angels, and He sent angels to prepare people for the coming of Christ.

And even after Christ came, it was the same process by which we were saved, and there's no reason to think that miracles would have ceased now.

But there's a teaching in here, in fact, a powerful testimony that we might miss because it's a dependent clause embedded in a question.

So I'm just gonna read this verse with that testimony as a, as a declaration of truth, and it's this: "Christ hath ascended into heaven, and hath sat down on the right hand of God, to claim of the Father his rights of mercy which he hath upon the children of men." Now, I, in my former life, I was a constitutional lawyer, scholar, and so talk of rights stands out to me.

I think those are pretty descriptive.