The Jackson Howell Podcast

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Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "Nephi’s father, Helaman, had urged his sons to “remember, remember.” He wanted them to remember their ancestors, remember the words of the prophets, and most of all, remember “our Redeemer, who is Christ” (see Helaman 5:5–14). It’s clear that Nephi did remember because...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! There have been several recent updates to the General Handbook of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently.  One of the most prominent issues addressed in these updates deals with members of the church who identify as transgender.      The Saints in the South crew planned to address to...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:         "The book of Helaman records both triumphs and tragedies among the Nephites and Lamanites. It begins with “a serious difficulty among the people of the Nephites” (Helaman 1:1), and the difficulties keep coming throughout the record. Here we read about political intrig...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:         "When compared with the Lamanite armies, Helaman’s “little army” (Alma 56:33) of young men shouldn’t have stood a chance. Besides being few in number, Helaman’s soldiers “were all … very young,” and “they never had fought” (Alma 56:46–47). In some ways, their situatio...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "When we read these words at the beginning of Alma chapter 43—“And now I return to an account of the wars between the Nephites and the Lamanites”—it’s natural to wonder why Mormon included these war stories when he had limited space on the plates (see Words of Mormon 1:...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow me:       "When someone we love has made a serious mistake, it can be hard to know how to respond. Part of what makes Alma 39–42 so valuable is that it reveals how Alma—a disciple of Christ who once had his own grievous sins to repent of—handled such a situation. Alma’s son Coria...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode!       In this special episode, Jackson and Kenny got to sit down with Colton B. Miller, an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who has an amazing story to tell!  Colton experienced a faith crisis and rebuilt his faith from the foundation up, struggled many years with a por...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "When Alma saw wickedness around him, he felt deep “sorrow,” “tribulation,” and “anguish of soul” (Alma 8:14). “Wickedness among this people,” he said of the Zoramites, “doth pain my soul” (Alma 31:30). He felt something similar after returning from his mission to the Z...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "For the Zoramites, prayer consisted of standing where all could see and repeating empty, self-satisfied words. The Zoramites lacked faith in Jesus Christ—even denied His existence—and persecuted the poor (see Alma 31:9–25). By contrast, Alma and Amulek taught that pray...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: The accounts in Alma 30–31 clearly demonstrate the power of words—for evil and for good. The “flattering” and “great swelling words” of a false teacher named Korihor threatened to bring “many souls down to destruction” ( Alma 30:31, 47 ). Similarly, the teachings of a Nephite diss...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:        "Do you sometimes wonder whether people can really change? Maybe you worry about whether you can overcome poor choices you’ve made or bad habits you’ve developed, or you may have similar worries about loved ones. If so, the story of the Anti-Nephi-Lehies can help you....

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "Think of all the reasons people might give for not sharing the gospel: “I don’t know enough” or “I’m not sure they would be interested” or maybe “I’m afraid I’ll be rejected.” Maybe you’ve found yourself thinking similar things at times. The Nephites had an additional...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow me:       "In many ways, life in Ammonihah had been good for both Amulek and Zeezrom. Amulek was “a man of no small reputation,” with “many kindreds and friends” and “much riches” (Alma 10:4). Zeezrom was an expert lawyer who enjoyed “much business” (Alma 10:31). Then Alma arrive...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "God’s work will not fail. But our efforts to help with His work sometimes seem to fail—at least, we may not immediately see the outcomes we hope for. We might feel a little like Alma when he preached the gospel in Ammonihah—rejected, spit on, and cast out. Yet when an...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "Alma did not know about today’s lifesaving heart transplant surgeries, which replace a damaged or diseased heart with a healthy one. But he knew about a more miraculous “change of heart” (Alma 5:26)—one in which the Savior gives us a newness of spiritual life, like bei...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "Some might see King Mosiah’s proposal to replace kings with elected judges as merely wise political reform. But to the Nephites, especially those who lived under wicked King Noah, this change had spiritual significance too. They had seen how an unrighteous king had inf...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "After nearly three generations of living in separate lands, the Nephites were one people again. Limhi’s people, Alma’s people, and Mosiah’s people—even the people of Zarahemla, who were not descended from Nephi—were now all “numbered with the Nephites” (Mosiah 25:13)....

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "The account of Alma and his people in Mosiah 18; 23–24 shows what it means to “come into the fold of God” (Mosiah 18:8). When Alma’s people were baptized, they made a covenant with God to “serve him and keep his commandments” (Mosiah 18:10). While this was a personal c...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: Large fires can start from a single spark. Abinadi was only one man testifying against a powerful king and his court. His words were rejected for the most part, and he was sentenced to death. Yet his testimony of Jesus Christ, who is the “light … that can never be darkened” (Mosia...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "While King Mosiah’s people were enjoying “continual peace” in Zarahemla (Mosiah 7:1), their thoughts turned to another group of Nephites, who many years before had left to dwell in the land of Lehi-Nephi. Generations had passed, and Mosiah’s people had heard nothing fr...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "Have you ever heard someone speak and felt inspired to change your life? Perhaps you decided, because of what you heard, to live a little differently—or even a lot differently. King Benjamin’s sermon was that kind of sermon, and the truths he taught had that kind of ef...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "When you hear the word king, you might think of crowns, servants, and thrones. In Mosiah 1–3, you will read about a different kind of king. Rather than living off the labors of his people, King Benjamin “labored with [his] own hands” (Mosiah 2:14). Instead of having ot...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "Although Enos went to the forest to hunt beasts to satisfy physical hunger, he ended up staying there all day and into the night because his “soul hungered.” This hunger led Enos to “raise [his] voice high that it reached the heavens.” He described this experience as a...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "There are many, many people who haven’t yet heard the gospel of Jesus Christ. If you ever feel overwhelmed by the immensity of the task of gathering them into the Lord’s Church, what Jacob said about olive trees in Jacob 5 has a reassuring reminder: the vineyard belong...