Talking Scripture

→ Watch on YouTube → Detailed Show Notes → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (02:03) Alma describes the phases of a testimony and explains four ways of knowing spiritual truths. SEED acronym. (25:59) Negligence of the tree. (30:49) If you nourish the tree, it will nourish you. (33:26) C.S. Lewis re-evaluates his beliefs when his wife dies. (38:57) The Brass Plates represent a nor...

→ Watch on YouTube → Detailed Show Notes → Time Stamps: (00:00) Strategies for those who have loved ones who are fighting against faith. First, learn to recognize their tactics. (09:24) The arguments that anti-Christs make today can be defended. (20:58) Evidentiary equilibrium. There is no definitive evidence to prove or disprove God. Both approaches require a leap of faith. (26:02) Keep the perfo...

→ Watch on YouTube → Detailed Show Notes → Mike covers The Mosiah-First Translation in more detail in these videos: The Mosiah First Translation of the Book of Mormon Mike on the Overall Structure of the Book of Mormon → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (06:36) Being converted to the Lord and laying down weapons of rebellion. (11:50) The Anti-Nephi-Lehies bury their swords that...

→ Watch on YouTube → Detailed Show Notes → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (02:20) Ammon’s approach to missionary work. (14:00) Lamoni asks the golden question, “Who are you?” (Alma 18.18) (19:29) Aaron’s approach to missionary work. (23:25) Aaron is preaching to a more hardened group, the Amalekites and Amulonites. (25:13) Patience with people who choose another path. Likening...

→ Watch on YouTube → Detailed Show Notes → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (01:14) Priesthood power can turn the city of Ammonihah around. (14:51) What the scriptures and extra biblical texts teach us about Melchizedek. (32:53) Alma’s interpretation of priesthood authority. (34:17) Be humble, obey, and submit. The Savior will bring us into His rest. (37:15) The problem of evil....

→ Watch on YouTube → Detailed Show Notes → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (01:39) The power of increasing witnesses. The closer you are to someone, the more credible your testimony may affect them. (03:02) Amulek is a greater witness to the people of Ammonihah because he is one of them. (06:33) Zeezrom steps forward to trap Alma and Amulek in their words. (17:01) The earth as...

→ Watch on YouTube → Detailed Show Notes → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of Alma’s two sermons. (01:26) The power of remembering helps rekindle the flame of testimony. (14:45) Alma invites us to imagine if judgement were today. (20:18) God extends an invitation to choose him as our shepherd so he can save us. (22:02) The distinction in Greek between being “born again” and &#82...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=-23v1NXKQdQ → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2024/05/mosiah-29-alma-4-podcast-ep-271-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) The Amlicites marked themselves. How we mark ourselves today. (13:14) The collective view of punishment in the Bible. (20:08) Skins, curses, and marks. (25:41) We are all alike unto God....

→ Watch on YouTube → Detailed Show Notes → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (03:28) The prayers from Alma’s father made a difference in his conversion. (05:52) God remembers all His children. (10:40) Justification and sanctification in Christ. Alma’s experience typified both. (18:27) Alma was snatched by Jesus in Mosiah 27.29 and Alma 26.17. (23:40) The purpose of Church d...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=ZjoV3BvZRfg → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2024/04/mosiah-18-24-podcast-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (06:33) Alma’s message is one of healing. Repentance, redemption, and faith correct our mistakes. (14:26) Alma is haunted by his past. Beware of “the switch”. (18:...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=ifOlF2Wrw50 → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2024/04/mosiah-11-17-podcast-ep-268-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (07:55) How to take “Noah blinders” off. (10:18) Abinadi teaches how Jesus is both the Father and the Son. (16:59) Like Jesus, Alma yields to the will of th...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=I9v8Qn_dxQ4 → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2024/01/mosiah-7-10-podcast-ep-267-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (05:40) Limhi’s story. (07:10) Remembering past experiences with God invites revelation. (09:09) There remaineth an effectual struggle to be made. Personal chang...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=tHJZNnwma-4 → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/mosiah-4-6-podcast-ep-266-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) We can depend on the greatness of God. (08:47) King Benjamin stresses the importance of our covenant to take upon us the name of Christ. (16:47) Our three fathers. We will be called the chi...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch? embed=no&v=tmeF-MTFm1k → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/mosiah-1-3-podcast-ep-265-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) Remembering the greatness of God and showing Him gratitude helps us avoid pride, sin, and pain. (04:08) The setting of King Benjamin’s address was most likely the Fall Festival (Sukkot), a...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=t2nff8iQfFM → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/mosiah-overview-podcast-ep-264-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) The stories in Mosiah are not in chronological order. An important theme in the book of Mosiah is Noah blindness. (05:14) Noah blindness confuses us about who our true friends are. (20...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=dDDHVj8ObnQ → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/enos-jarom-omni-words-of-mormon-podcast-ep-263-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) Enos reminds us that what you teach your children really matters. Prayer can be a wrestle between what we desire and what we need. (09:05) Enos is familiar with the Law...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=fDFTF6xFtN8 → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/jacob-5-7-podcast-ep-262-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of Zenos’ Allegory of the Olive Tree. (02:08) The question that preceded the allegory can be found in Jacob 4.16-18. How can Christ ever become the Messiah of the people wh...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=t9cjgZ6q-bg → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/jacob-1-4-podcast-ep-260-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) Jacob is weighed down with anxiety for the welfare of his people. He was commanded by the Lord to deliver his message. (05:39) The group led by Lehi may have been part of a more extensive so...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=pNiQRWmvAQ0 → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/2-nephi-31-33-podcast-ep-259-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) Nephi describes the doctrine of Christ. (12:13) The gospel of Christ is abundantly illustrated throughout scripture. (13:08) We qualify for salvation, we don’t earn it. Salvation i...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=wqOVdxycDUQ → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/2-nephi-26-30-podcast-ep-257-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (03:46) Nephi gives advice to us, his latter-day audience. (06:40) A book will be delivered to an unlearned man. Like many of Isaiah’s words, this pr...

→ Watch Mike’s 6 Minute Overview of 2 Nephi 20-25 with pictures and maps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=USXH7A_vmx0 → Watch this full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch? embed=no&v=d5ydNvuXf_4 → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/2-nephi-20-25-podcast-ep-256-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters....

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=1AJ2v3i40RU → Watch our video detailing Isaiah’s call in 2 Nephi 16: https://www.youtube.com/watch? embed=no&v=ozGCpQbMXr4 → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/2-nephi-11-19-podcast-ep-255-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (03:08) Three tips to help us unde...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=0u6hzdlR3n4 → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/2-nephi-6-10-podcast-ep-254-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (03:37) Jacob sees the future struggles between the righteous and wicked. He quotes Isaiah, and explains that the Jews will return to Jerusalem following the Ca...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=W2IjAQWoLE8 → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/2-nephi-3-5-podcast-ep-253-show-notes/ → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (03:35) Joseph in Egypt prophesied of Joseph Smith, the Latter-Day Seer. (10:01) The Lord will be merciful to those who were not taught correct principles. Lehi...

→ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?embed=no&v=FGdas62wspQ → Detailed Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/12/2-nephi-1-2-podcast-ep-252-show-notes/ t → Time Stamps: (00:00) An overview of these chapters. (03:45) The book of 2 Nephi contains the writings of four prophets who have seen Jesus. (07:02) Lehi exhorts Laman and Lemuel to awake and rise from the du...