The Jackson Howell Podcast

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Elder Jeffrey R. Hollands facial expression says it all here.  We have no idea what's going through his mind at this point.  However, we do know that life does not always result in smiles and giggles.  Sometimes, it requires very uncomfortable situations.  Sometimes those situations are a result...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us this week as we discuss the Plagues placed upon the Pharaoh and his people as he attempted to keep the children of Israel under his reign.    From Come Follow Me: Plague after plague afflicted Egypt, but Pharaoh still refused to release the Israelites. And yet God continued to demonstrate His...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This week we discuss Moses' rise to biblical stardom.  Moses was raised as an orphan.  Kinda, but not really, as his mother decreed a plan that would save his life and allow her to be heavily involved in rearing him.  We discuss Moses taking the life of an Egyptian and the historical settings fro...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This week we explore the 2nd half of one of the most iconic biblical stories known to man.  Joseph was sold into Egypt as a slave by his brothers who were jealous of their father's favoritism toward him.  Joseph has had some time to work out the emotional trauma he experienced from it.  Surprisin...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This week Andrew and Jackson review the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors.  Why was he the most favored?  Why were the brothers jealous?  What do we do when we feel like we are doing everything right but everything is going wrong.  Trust in the Lord!   Sometimes bad things happen to good peo...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Chapters 28 and 32 of Genesis tell of two spiritual experiences that the prophet Jacob had. Both happened in the wilderness but under very different circumstances. In the first experience, Jacob was traveling to his mother’s homeland to find a wife and, along the way, spent the night on a pillow of st...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This week we discuss Rebekah's faith, service, and inspiring acts that made her a wonderful companion to Isaac.  We look into the details and possibilities behind Esau giving up his birth right to his younger twin brother Jacob.  We discuss the potential reasons behind Rebekah's decision to...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Saying it and Living it, are two different things.  It's really easy to say "nothing is too hard for The Lord" but when you have to put that into practice at a critical time in your life, that's where the rubber meets the road.   Join us this week as we discuss the trials of Abraha...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me Manual: Because of the covenant God made with him, Abraham has been called “the father of the faithful” (Doctrine and Covenants 138:41) and “the Friend of God” (James 2:23). Millions today honor him as their direct ancestor, and others have been adopted into his family through conv...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us this week as we discuss Noah's generation, the flood, the ark, and listening to the prophets then and now.  We discuss the Tower of Babel and what the people's purpose was in building the tower.  Marcus "the gunslinger" is quarantined due to a recent bout of "The Coron...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! I've had a certain though on my mind for quite sometime now.  It involves leadership in the home.  One of my thoughts on leadership in the home revolves around communication and the need for it.  I consider myself a below average communicator especially when it comes to discussing things of the h...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us this week as we discuss the amazing faith of Enoch, what he saw in his vision with God, and how he built a Zion people.  We also discuss the possibility of building a Zion people today and where we should start.   From Come Follow Me Manual: Throughout history, people have tried to achieve wha...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us this week as we discuss the story of Enoch and how the significance of remembering through record keeping helps us stay close to the Gospel of Jesus Christ! From Come Follow Me Manual: Most of Genesis 5 is a list of the generations between Adam and Eve and Noah. We read a lot of names, but we...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! 0:00 - 3:21 Intro and The Fall 3:21 - Transgression vs. Sin 6:52 - Was there any goodness in Satan's desire to save all of God's children? 14:38 - Spiritual Separation from God, The Atonement, Recognizing our mistakes 17:20 - Cain's offering vs. Abel's offering - Why didn't Go...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! 0:00 - 2:00 - Intro 2:00 - God's Council and Creation 10:45 - Creation from organized matter - 2nd law of Thermo-Dynamics and Quantum Mechanics 18:30 - All materials and substance created for the use of the earth - Are we and can we ever be over populated 23:30 - Sabbath Day - Career planning aro...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This year we study and discuss the great stories of the Old Testament.  From the creation of the Heavens and The Earth, to Moses parting the red sea and rescuing the children of Israel to David and Goliath, and the hard to understand words of Isaiah.  Please join us each week as we share some of our t...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us for our 1st episode of the year with Come Follow Me Old Testament.  We discuss our identity as Children of God and the difference between Foreordination and Predestination.   From Come Follow Me Manual: The Bible begins with the words “in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Ge...

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Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join Kenny and Jackson as they discuss New Years Resolutions and how they relate to the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Kenny shares with us some of knowledge and experience working with individuals and setting goals.  We discuss the reasons behind success and failures of New Years Resolutions.  Do they work...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us this week on our 100th Episode of our Come Follow Me Discussions.   President Dallin H. Oaks said: “I believe our attitude toward and use of the family proclamation is [a test] for this generation. I pray for all Latter-day Saints to stand firm in that test” (“The Plan and the Proclamation,” E...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us this week as we discuss the miraculous revelation received by President Joseph F. Smith and the back ground leading up to the revelation.  We also discuss a very special occasion for Sister Susa Young Gates, a close friend of Joseph F. Smith and how she was able to partake of the revelation pr...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me The afternoon of June 27, 1844, found Joseph and Hyrum Smith in jail once again, accompanied by John Taylor and Willard Richards. They believed they were innocent of any crime, but they submitted to arrest, hoping to prevent violence against the Saints in Nauvoo. This wasn’t the fi...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Barry and Emily Bennett take a trip down memory lane as they share their experience of adopting 4 awesome kids.  They were sealed in the Orlando, FL temple and had plans to start growing their own family just a couple of years after they were married.  After realizing their dreams would not be fulfill...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us this week as we discuss the following sections and really dial in on section 134 where the church pleads their case before the US government seeking for help and relief from the current mobs.   From Come Follow Me: When the Church was barely 19 months old, the Prophet Joseph Smith and other Ch...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us this week as we discuss the difference between righteous spirits and evil spirits.  We also discuss the revelation of polygamy and the struggles it caused for the early saints.   From Come Follow Me: Brigham Young once said of Joseph Smith, “He could reduce heavenly things to the understanding...