The Jackson Howell Podcast

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! November 11th, 1998, four missionaries and one senior missionary serving for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began a long trip to Las Vegas, NV from Elko, NV in a transfer van pulling a large luggage trailer.  They anticipated a long but easy drive down to Las Vegas.  During the night,...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: Shortly after His Resurrection, the Savior made a prophecy that must have been troubling to Peter. He foretold that Peter would be martyred for his faith, being carried “whither [he] wouldest not … , signifying by what death he should glorify God” (John 21:18–19). Years later, whe...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: Sometimes just one verse of scripture can change the world. James 1:5 seems like a simple bit of counsel—if you need wisdom, ask God. But when 14-year-old Joseph Smith read that verse, “it seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of [his] heart” (Joseph Smith—History 1:...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me Even faithful Saints at times suffer “reproaches and afflictions” that can shake their confidence (see Hebrews 10:32–38). Paul knew that Jewish converts to Christianity were experiencing severe persecution because of their new faith. To encourage them to stay true to their testimon...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: Each of us has to give up something in order to accept the gospel of Jesus Christ—bad habits, incorrect beliefs, unwholesome associations, or something else. For Gentiles in the early Christian Church, conversion often meant abandoning false gods. For the Hebrews (or Jews), conver...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: In the epistles Paul wrote to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon, we get a glimpse into the heart of a servant of the Lord. Unlike Paul’s other epistles to entire congregations, these were written to individuals—Paul’s close friends and associates in God’s work—and reading them is like...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: In Thessalonica, Paul and Silas were accused of having “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6). Their preaching angered certain leaders among the Jews, and these leaders stirred the people into an uproar (see Acts 17:1–10). As a result, Paul and Silas were advised to leave Thes...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me Paul wrote his epistles to the Philippians and Colossians while he was a prisoner in Rome. But these letters don’t have the tone you might expect from someone in prison. Paul spoke more about joy, rejoicing, and thanksgiving than he did about afflictions and trials: “Christ is prea...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: When the gospel began to spread in Ephesus, it caused “no small stir” (Acts 19:23) among the Ephesians. Local craftsmen who produced shrines to a pagan goddess saw Christianity as a threat to their livelihood, and soon “they were full of wrath, … and the whole city was filled with...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! The gospel of Jesus Christ offers freedom from spiritual bondage. But sometimes people who have experienced the freedom of the gospel turn away from it and “desire again to be in bondage” ( Galatians 4:9 ). This is what some Galatian Saints were doing—they were turning away from the liberty Christ had...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me:       "What would you do if you heard that a congregation of Saints in another area was struggling in poverty? This was the situation that Paul described to the Corinthian Saints in 2 Corinthians 8–9. He hoped to persuade the Corinthian Saints to donate some of their abundanc...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: Sometimes, being a Church leader means having to say some difficult things. This was true in Paul’s day just as it is today. Apparently a previous letter from Paul to the Corinthian Saints included chastening and caused hurt feelings. In the letter that became 2 Corinthians, he tr...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: Because the Church and its doctrines were relatively new in Corinth, it’s understandable that Corinthian Saints encountered confusion. Paul had previously taught them the fundamental truth of the gospel: “That Christ died for our sins … and that he was buried, and that he rose aga...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: In Paul’s time, Corinth was a wealthy trade center with residents from all over the Roman Empire. With so many different cultures and religions in the city, Church members in Corinth struggled to maintain unity, so Paul sought to help them find unity in their belief in Christ. Thi...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: As he opened his epistle to the Romans, Paul greeted Church members by calling them “beloved of God” who were “called to be saints.” He remarked that their “faith [was] spoken of throughout the whole world” (Romans 1:7–8). Even though Paul spent much of his epistle correcting fals...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: By the time Paul wrote his epistle to Roman Church members, who were a diverse group of Jews and Gentiles, the Church of Jesus Christ had grown far beyond a small band of believers from Galilee. About 20 years after the Savior’s Resurrection, there were congregations of Christians...

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 are on the Lord’s errand,” President Thomas S. Monson promised, “we are entitled to the Lord’s help” (“To Learn, to Do, to Be,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2008, 62). We are not entitled, however, to a smooth road and an endless stream of successes. For proof of this, we need...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: Among the Lord’s final words to His Apostles was the commandment “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19–20). While...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: During His mortal ministry, Jesus Christ often challenged people’s long-held traditions and beliefs. This didn’t stop after He ascended into heaven, as He continued to guide His Church by revelation. For example, during Jesus’s life His disciples preached the gospel only to fellow...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: If anyone seemed like an unlikely candidate for conversion, it was probably Saul—a Pharisee who had a reputation for persecuting Christians. So when the Lord told a disciple named Ananias to seek out Saul and offer him a blessing, Ananias was understandably hesitant. “Lord,” he sa...

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 wondered what Peter might have been thinking and feeling when he, with the other Apostles, “looked steadfastly toward heaven” as Jesus ascended to His Father? (Acts 1:10). The Church that was founded by the Son of God was now in Peter’s care. The task of leading the...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: To many observers, the death of Jesus of Nazareth may have seemed like an ironic end to a remarkable life. Wasn’t this the man who raised Lazarus from the dead? Hadn’t He withstood the murderous threats from the Pharisees time after time? He had demonstrated power to heal blindnes...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: In every word and deed, Jesus Christ exemplified pure love—what the Apostle Paul called charity (see 1 Corinthians 13). At no time was this more evident than during the final hours of the Savior’s mortal life. His dignified silence in the face of false accusations demonstrated tha...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: There were only three mortal witnesses to Jesus Christ’s suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane—and they slept through much of it. In that garden and later on the cross, Jesus took upon Himself the sins, pains, and sufferings of every person who ever lived, although almost no one a...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! From Come Follow Me: Today we call it the “Last Supper,” but we don’t know if Jesus’s disciples fully realized, when they gathered for the annual Passover feast, that this would be their last meal with their Master before His death. Jesus, however, “knew that his hour was come” (John 13:1). He would s...