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Highlights for Isaiah 1-12 The first chapter of Isaiah is one of my favorites. Some of Isaiah’s writings are pretty hard to understand, but chapter one is more manageable. First, Isaiah talks about how apostate and rebellious Israel has become, yet they keep all the traditional feasts and sacrifices as instructed by Mosaic law. Here…
5 Quotes Plus Discussion-Promoting Questions See also Teaching Helps The guidance and directives from this talk are eye-opening. President Nelson is speaking to us as a prophet, telling us what is to come and to “batten down the hatches.” batten down the hatches: prepare for trouble. This term originated in the navy, where it signified…
5 Quotes Plus Discussion-Promoting Questions See also Teaching Helps President Nelson shares a new understanding of what “Israel” means and what it looks like to gather Israel today. His recent October 2020 Conference talk offers words of personal encouragement and upgraded perspectives on the turmoil and chaos taking place around us, including Black Lives Matter….
Helaman 7-12 Funny how my spell checker wants to change the word ‘unwearyingness’ as I type to ‘unwillingness,’ which is literally the opposite. If you look up the word ‘unwearyingness’ online, Google will politely ask if you meant another word. One site, which pulls examples of a word used in sentences, pulled four references from the Book of Mormon and from nowhere else.
Alma 8-12 Alma sketches Christ with heart-felt words and they captured my soul. I love his powerful, poetic description of the Savior which could be a complete gospel doctrine lesson, all by itself. “And not many days hence the Son of God shall come in his glory; and his glory shall be the glory of the Only Begotten…