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OT Lesson 19 Study Notes: Judges 2; 4; 6-7; 13-16
The notes this time are shorter than usual, for which you may well be grateful. I’ve had much more difficulty thinking of verse-by-verse study questions for these chapters. Judges The translation “judge” is misleading, for it suggests that the person it describes had judgment as his or...
RS/MP Lesson 9: “Prophets of God” (Gospel Princples Manual)
Quick comment on the organization of these lessons. We have just learned about the Holy Ghost and prayer in the last two lessons, will learn about prophets this week, and scriptures next week. This is the nuts and bolts of how we communicate with God and how God communicates with us. Probably...
OT Lesson 17 Study Notes: Deuteronomy 6; 8; 11; 32:1-4, 15-18, 30-40, 45-47
Background Feel free to skip this background discussion if you aren’t interested in it. You can skip to the study questions without losing anything. Before taking up two points, however, let me say that I am not generally in favor of bringing much scholarly discussion into Sunday School...
OT Lesson 18 Study Notes: Joshua 1-6, 23-24
Joshua 1 Verse 1: Why is Moses referred to as the Lord’s servant, but Joshua as Moses’ minister, official, or aide? Why not call Joshua Moses’ servant or, even better, the Lord’s servant? Compare Exodus 24:13 and 33:11, as well as Numbers 11:28, but notice that in the latter two, though...
May 2010 LDS Primary Sharing Time Helps and Ideas
May Theme: Principles and Ordinances of the Gospel Lead Me to Jesus Christ. May Scripture: “We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of...
YW Lesson 2-16 "Journals" for the 21st Century
In the preparation instructions to this lesson, it suggests: "Bring several examples of books that can be used for a journal: a three-ring binder, spiral notebook, bound journal, or diary. Also bring several kinds of pencils and pens." Maybe those were the only options for journaling in the...
OT Lesson 16 Study Notes: Numbers 22-24; 31:1-16
Who is Balaam? All of a sudden a non-Israelite prophet appears. Who is he? Based on Numbers 23:7, Word Biblical Commentary: Numbers, page 263) suggests that he is a Syrian. Is he really a prophet? If no, why not? If yes, in what sense of the word? (Archaeologists have discovered an inscription...
How We Taught This Lesson in the Past: Lesson 16: “I Cannot Go Beyond the Word of the Lord”
This lesson is built entirely around Balaam, a man whose story we have seldom invoked in earlier Sunday School curricula. A narrative account of Balaam – complete with a subtitle that is identical to the title of the lesson in our current manual – was told for children in 1947. Balaam, the...
OT Lesson 15 Study Notes: Numbers 11-14; 21:1-9
Besides the chapters of Numbers assigned for this lesson, I also recommend chapters 16, 17, and 20. It is unfortunate that we have no lessons from Leviticus. Though it is not immediately obvious how we should understand those scriptures and apply them to ourselves, the exercise of doing so can be...
YW Lesson 2-15: "Temple Marriage"
Blogging about this lesson just got a whole lot easier since the YW broadcast on March 27. Now we have President Uchtdorf's slam dunk of a talk to work with, "Your Happily Ever After." I also really liked President Dalton's talk, in which she talked about being starstruck at meeting President...
Gospel Principles Lesson #8: Praying to Heavenly Father
Prayer. In a year where we are returning to “Gospel Principles,” this is THE gospel principal. It’s the earliest lesson in primary (“Fold your arms and close your eyes”) and yet as we grow older, the conversation only grows richer, deeper, and sometimes more painful and confusing. How...
Old Testament Lesson 15: ''Look to God and Live''
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This lesson will not follow precisely the format of the lesson in the manual for Gospel Doctrine. I want to provide some insights and background to the excellent material contained in the Church's publication. Please do not teach this lesson at the expense of that one. The manual...
Old Testament Lesson 15: "Look to God and Live"
Purpose of the Wilderness Journey As the Children of Israel trudged across the Sinai desert, they were acting out an archetypical pattern that is repeated again and again in scripture. This is sometimes called the Exodus pattern or the type of the wilderness journey. Though entire books have...
Old Testament Lesson 14: “Ye Shall Be a Peculiar Treasure unto Me”
After the Israelites left Egypt, the Lord invited them to come unto him and be sanctified. In the same way, we of latter-day Israel are also invited to come into his presence through our own faithfulness and through the ordinances of the priesthood. The journey of Israel toward the holy mountain...
OT Lesson 14 Study Notes: Exodus 15-20, 32-34
As ever, there is a great deal of material in this reading. Perhaps the overviews I provide of each chapter (including some material on chapters 21-21) will help put matters in context. As you read the chapters ask yourselves what kinds of parallels, types, and other meanings you see. How do these...
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