The Jackson Howell Podcast

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 in depth section 126, and the background that provides the context to this very short revelation given to Brigham Young.  Wait till you hear about the sacrifices his wife Mary Ann made while he faithfully served the Lord domestically and abroad.   From Come Follow Me Ma...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Uncle Andrew is back with us.   From Come Follow Me Manual: As difficult as the last six years had been for the Saints, things started to look up in the spring of 1839: The refugee Saints had found compassion among the citizens of Quincy, Illinois. Guards had allowed the Prophet Joseph Smith and other...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Better Late Than Never: From Come Follow Me Manual: The bottom level of the county jail in Liberty, Missouri, was known as the dungeon. The walls were thick, the stone floor was cold and filthy, the food—what there was of it—was rotten, and the only light came from two narrow, iron-barred windows near...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me Manual: There was reason to be optimistic about the Saints’ newest gathering place, Far West, Missouri, in July 1838. The city was growing rapidly, the land seemed bountiful, and it was revealed that a short distance to the north lay Adam-ondi-Ahman, a place of great spiritual sign...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Have you ever had a spiritual experience that made you feel confident and secure in your faith—but then life’s afflictions tried your faith, and you found yourself struggling to recover the peace you felt before? Something similar happened to the Saints in Kirtland. Less than a year after the spiritua...

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 wonderful visitations of Christ The Lord, Moses, Elias, and Elijah! From Come Follow Me Manual: The doors to the Kirtland Temple weren’t supposed to open until 8:00 on the morning of March 27, 1836. But Saints who were hoping to attend the dedication services starte...

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 personal conversion story of Warren Cowdery, the organizing of the priesthood offices and quorums, and Lyman Sherman's desire to receive comfort of full forgiveness.   From Come Follow Me Manual: At first glance, Doctrine and Covenants 107 might seem to be only...

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 continue to discuss the trials of the early saints and how we apply the principles of faithfulness to our lives.  Jackson takes the opportunity to share a personal experience of exercising faith in following the prophet.   From Come Follow Me Manual: The Saints in Kirtland were...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Yes, this episode is a couple of days late and we apologize.  But here it is.  Hope you enjoy!! For the Saints in the 1830s, Independence, Missouri, was literally the promised land. It was “the center place” of Zion (see Doctrine and Covenants 57:3)—the city of God on earth—which they were making grea...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us this week as Marcus and Jackson discuss the call of The Lord for Joseph to move the church forward in building a Temple, The House of The Lord.   When the Lord commanded Moses to build a tabernacle, He told Moses to “make all things according to the pattern shewed to [him] in the mount” (Hebre...

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 section 93 and say goodbye to Heidi....at least on a weekly basis.  She may make an appearance every once in a while down the road.  We thank Heidi for sharing her time, insights, humor, and weight lifting analogies with us!! “When you climb up a ladder,” Joseph Smith t...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Come Follow Me Summary: In the School of the Prophets, the Prophet Joseph Smith taught the elders of Israel about building God’s kingdom on earth. They discussed spiritual truths, prayed together, fasted, and prepared to preach the gospel. But there was something about the atmosphere that might seem o...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Every so often, the Lord gives us a small glimpse of His boundless “majesty and power” (Doctrine and Covenants 88:47) through sweeping revelations to His prophets. Doctrine and Covenants 88 is such a revelation—one about light and glory and kingdoms that can make our earthly cares seem insignificant b...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! oin us this week as we share some personal experiences as it relates to these sections of the Doctrine & Covenants.   Come Follow Me Section Summary: Christmas Day is usually a time to ponder messages like “peace on earth” and “good will toward men” (see Luke 2:14). But on December 25, 1832, Josep...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This week, we try to keep it between the lines in our new "living room" set up.  We discuss section 84, "the priesthood" section.  Many men are returning from their missions and sharing success stories.  They have much joy in The Lord and their labors.  The Lord reveals to them mor...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This week we discuss how scriptures that are specifically given to individuals at the time, can be applied to our lives and our circumstances.  For example, section 81 was originally given to Jesse Gause.  However, he later left the church and this revelation, when published substituted Frederick G. W...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! The Lord instructs Joseph to organize the "United Firm".  A group that would focus advancing the cause of the Lord in the following areas:  the publication of church revelations, the purchase of land to gather on, and the care for the poor.  Join us this week as we apply the scriptures to ou...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! The Vision, probably the most glorious and most important revelation that sets the church apart from other Christian religions since the coming forth of the Book of Mormon.  The vision was given in the midst of other brethren to Sidney Rigdon and Joseph Smith.  Join us this week as we discuss how &quo...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Joseph Smith faced critics all of his life.  He was used to it from the non believers, but it must have been extra difficult when facing criticism from within the church and former members.  This week we discuss the falling away of Ezra Booth and his criticism of the prophet Joseph Smith.  We also tal...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us as we discuss this weeks come follow me lesson.  The elders held a special meeting to discuss publishing the book of commandments, now known as the doctrine and covenants.  It was agreed upon that they needed to be published but needed a preface.  Many of the brethren were concerned with the i...

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 this weeks lesson on the commandment to forgive others and the struggles we face to have a willing heart and mind.  It's not always easy to drop what we are doing and to be on The Lord's errand.  Learning how to do that as often as possible will draw us closer...

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 signs from God, seekers of signs, and what signs do and don't do to our Faith in Jesus Christ.  Can we give a sign to God?   We also talk about the state of the church at this time in it's infancy.  It's only a little over a year old and the early saints...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This week we discuss the travels of some of the saints travels from Independence, Missouri back to Kirtland, Ohio and other areas.  The Elders that had been set apart to teach were not doing much preaching.  They were focused on other things such as getting back as well as being fearful of others if t...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This week we talk about the initial disappointment that was felt by many members of the church when they showed up in Independence, Missouri expecting to see a thriving community of Saints.  They later discovered it was not time for them to build the city of Zion.  In a revelation to Joseph Smith, The...

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 continued difficulties the saints had of building up the church.   All while having to move, purchase new lands and re establish themselves time and time and again.  The early saints were challenged physically and spiritually to build of God's Kingdom here on t...