Denver Snuffer Podcast

Today Denver discusses the content and purpose behind his new book, The Testimony of Jesus: Past, Present, and Promise. The book is the culmination of five years of outreach to Christians everywhere and is now available as a hardback standalone addition to the Teachings of Denver Snuffer series of books. Transcript I have a number of books that are in print that are appropriate for people that und...

In this installment Denver discusses the persistent malignment of Joseph Smith and how it stacks up against the actual evidence in the historical record up to the date of his death. The discussion further addresses how, as well as why, the inaccurate narrative of Joseph Smith has been promoted and perpetuated since his death in 1844. Transcript My wife, daughters, and daughters-in-law have a book—...

This is the seventh and final part of a series about Shem, who came to be known as Melchizedek, one of the Patriarchal Fathers, who established a city of peace that ultimately achieved the status of "Zion" and was taken up into heaven. Transcript If we obey the commandments that have been given, we can qualify to inherit a land on which to build a temple. The objective of the covenant was to confe...

This is the sixth part of a series about Shem, who came to be known as Melchizedek, one of the Patriarchal Fathers, who established a city of peace that ultimately achieved the status of "Zion" and was taken up into heaven. Transcript There’s more about that subject in the Book of Mormon than anyone has ever bothered to talk about. When the people of Jared were brought to the Americas, they were b...

This is the fifth part of a series about Shem, who came to be known as Melchizedek, one of the Patriarchal Fathers, who established a city of peace that ultimately achieved the status of "Zion" and was taken up into heaven. Transcript These are the kinds of preparations that need to precede Zion. We are not going to get there in one step. We’re only gonna get there incrementally. And there’s a gre...

This is the fourth part of a series about Shem, who came to be known as Melchizedek, one of the Patriarchal Fathers, who established a city of peace that ultimately achieved the status of "Zion" and was taken up into heaven. Transcript There are two models that you can consider from the scriptures as possibilities for Zion in the last days. The one model is the Book of Mormon model in which Zion g...

This is the third part of a series about Shem, who came to be known as Melchizedek, one of the Patriarchal Fathers, who established a city of peace that ultimately achieved the status of "Zion" and was taken up into heaven. Transcript The reason why father Abraham had to go to Melchizedek in order to then rejoice and say, “I have gotten me a priesthood,” was because although the line may have had...

This is the second part of a series about Shem, who came to be known as Melchizedek, one of the Patriarchal Fathers, who established a city of peace that ultimately achieved the status of "Zion" and was taken up into heaven. Transcript ...this is in Moses chapter 6:  And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his own image, and called his name Seth. And...

This is the first part of a series about Shem, who came to be known as Melchizedek, one of the Patriarchal Fathers, who established a city of peace that ultimately achieved the status of "Zion" and was taken up into heaven. Transcript “And it came to pass that Enoch talked with the Lord; and he said unto the Lord: Surely Zion shall dwell in safety forever. But the Lord said unto Enoch: Zion have I...

In an earlier podcast (#106 – Forgiving Others), Denver and Stephanie discussed the mandatory condition that we forgive others in order to obtain forgiveness ourselves.   In this podcast, Denver and Stephanie discuss more about the mechanics of how we forgive others. Forgiving is a necessary step in the ascension process; without it, we are not qualified to receive the Second Comforter. Denver and...

This is the third part of a special series where Denver discusses what it is that makes God who and what God is, what that has to do with Godliness, and the power thereof, and how God governs on earth as it is in Heaven. Transcript Christ was born a King. In fact, wise men from the East came inquiring saying: "Where is he that was born King of the Jews?" Because that was His status, that was what...

This is the second part of a special series where Denver discusses ​what it is that makes God who and what God is, what that has to do with Godliness, and the power thereof, and how God governs on earth as it is in Heaven. Transcript It is our relationship to and our connection with God that matters. And you form that, not through me or through some other man, and not through the groups to which y...

This is the first part of a special series where Denver discusses what it is that makes God who and what God is, what that has to do with Godliness, and the power thereof, and how God governs on earth as it is in Heaven. Transcript The First Lecture on Faith is essentially asserting the primacy of faith as an operative principle of power, that exists with God and with all of us. Okay, you've left...

This is the second part of a special series where Denver addresses the question, "How can I commune with Christ?" Transcript There are some brilliant comments from some of you. Profound comments, even. But you must be careful about over-thinking things. Doctrine is not to be understood as an academic or scholarly undertaking. (Remember the chapter in Eighteen Verses on Moroni 10:5) It is supposed...

This is the first part of a special series where Denver addresses the question, "How can I commune with Christ?" Transcript I got an inquiry asking: “I am interested in any thought you would be willing to share about why we were willing to sacrifice to come to this earth. I don’t think that this earth is the only place in all of creation where one can learn to return to the presence of the Lord, s...

This is the second part of a special series on Equality, where Denver addresses the questions, "What is the transformation process we need to undergo, in order to establish and practice equality? What lack we yet, to become equal?" Transcript Original Christians had no professional clergy. They operated in a way akin to a method described in the Book of Mormon: "And when the priests left their lab...

This is the first part of a special series on Equality, where Denver addresses the questions, "What is equality in the eyes of heaven?" "How can we become equal?" and "What are the sources of inequality and barriers to equality that we currently struggle with?" Transcript The spirit of God is withdrawing from the world. Men are increasingly angry without good cause. The hearts of men are waxing co...

This is the second part of a special series on Adoption, where Denver discusses one of the lost ordinances that must be restored as part of the Religion of the Fathers. Transcript When the first temples were built, or inherited by ancient civilizations, the center of life, government, education, culture, and art was at the temple. This was handed down from the first generations. The temple was fou...

 This is the first part of a special series on Adoption, where Denver discusses one of the lost ordinances that must be restored as part of the Religion of the Fathers. Transcript In the immediate aftermath of Joseph’s death and the completion of the Nauvoo temple there were a lot of questions that could not then be answered because they simply no longer had the keys with which to get the answers...

This is part two of a special series on being harmless.

This is part one of a special series on being harmless.

This is the third and final part of an interview Denver did this past summer with Rick Bennett for his Gospel Tangents podcast.

This is the second part of an interview Denver did this past summer with Rick Bennett for his Gospel Tangents podcast.

This is the first part of an interview Denver did this past summer with Rick Bennett for his Gospel Tangents podcast. The entire interview will be presented in three segments.

This is Part 2 of a special series on Marriage. Transcript I have been thinking a lot lately about Abraham and Sarah and their relationship. Their story is one of the greatest in history. Little details in the story are touching.  The “ten years” that Sarah waited (Gen. 16: 3) before urging Abraham to father a child with Hagar is based upon a custom at the time.  Abraham’s willingness to follow th...