New Testament

For any parents or Primary teachers interested in showing a real-life example of this parable in action, an unoccupied house in North Carolina recently collapsed into the ocean.

Taylor Ricks has long considered unnamed scripture heroes to be her friends. So much so, in fact, she even wrote a book about them.

“In the life of Christ, [we can] see the devotion that was shown by woman. She was last to linger at the Cross, and was first at the Sepulchre.”

Russell Osguthorpe, former Sunday School general president, studied at length how learning to create healthy attachments can increase our capacity to give and receive love from both God and others closest to us.

BYU religion professor Eric Huntsman shares the grief he felt when his grandfather died and how the story of Simeon brought him comfort.

Editor's note: Our weekly Friday column, “Found in the Footnotes,” explores some of the footnotes from remarks given by General Authorities and General Officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

This week’s readings: Revelation 12–22

This week’s readings:Revelation 1–11

This week’s readings: John; Jude

This week’s readings: 1 and 2 Peter

This week’s readings: James

Only hours before Jesus made one of the great “I Am” declarations in John’s Gospel, He had fed five thousand hungry pilgrims and walked on the “rough seas” of the Galilee (John 6: 1-25). He had performed astonishing miracles. Yet when He came to the synagogue in Capernaum, the ostensible disciples who had followed Him demanded more, saying, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe [you are the promised Messiah]? What will you do? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ [Why will you not do the same?] (John 6:31 NIV).”

This week’s readings: Hebrews 1–6

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This week’s readings: 1 and 2 Timothy; Titus; Philemon

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This week’s readings: 1 and 2 Thessalonians

This week’s readings: Philippians; Colossians

This week’s readings: Ephesians

This week’s readings: Galatians

This week’s readings: 2 Corinthians 8–13

Everybody’s heard of Lazarus. You know the one—the brother of Mary and Martha who died and was left in his tomb for four days, even until he smelled bad, and was then miraculously raised from the dead by Jesus. He’s at the center of one of the most stunning and jaw-dropping of Jesus’s miracles.

This week’s readings: 2 Corinthians 1–7

I knew something was wrong when my friends started marking themselves “safe” on Facebook. I remember thinking, “Safe? From what?” Then the message from my brother: “Did you hear about the shooting back home?”

This week’s readings: 1 Corinthians 14–16

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This week’s readings: 1 Corinthians 8–13

Savior of the World

This week's FHE lesson topic comes from the Come, Follow Me reading in1 Corinthians 1-7. Check out this week'sCome, Follow Me study ideas on LDS Living for additional resources and suggestions.

This week’s readings: 1 Corinthians 1–7

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This week's FHE lesson topic comes from the Come, Follow Mereading inRomans 7-16. Check out this week's Come, Follow Me study ideas on LDS Livingfor additional resources and suggestions.

This week’s readings: Romans 7–16

At one point in our study of the four Gospels, we had been thinking about Jesus’s 40-day trial in the Judean wilderness. In only two verses, Mark tells us about those days (Mark 1:12–13). Matthew and Luke, on the other hand, make use of a time-honored literary structure to tell us of the tests put to Jesus as He prepared to begin His messianic responsibilities. All three accounts express Jesus’s perfect discipline in response to evil enticements that offended the laws of God. Matthew and Luke may clothe the testing in the elegance of traditional poetic forms, but the themes in all three accounts of Jesus’s experiences in the wilderness remain the same. Whether the accounts are cryptic or complicated, it became clear to us that the devil perverted what Alma described as the relationship between the principle of justice, our ethical responsibility to love God and each other, and the merciful application of His laws in an individual’s life.

This week’s readings: Romans 1–6

Archeologists have uncovered the Church of the Apostles, an ancient church built over the home of New Testament apostles Andrew and Peter.

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The setting was an institute class wherein some important dimensions about Acts 16–20 became clear to me. For example, it became apparent that in three instances the Lord had coated his believers with Teflon, so to speak. All instances involved the Apostle Paul in one way or another. Plainly, the Lord watches over his people and orders events for their good, whether they perceive it or not.

This week’s readings: Acts 10–15

The heavens filled with streaming light, angelic visitors appearing at critical moments, divine beings stripping away the veil between us and the celestial in the most dramatic fashion—who wouldn't want a conversion story like Paul?

This week’s readings: Acts 6–9

Acts 2 has frequently caught the attention of students of the New Testament, for it is here that the power of the Holy Ghost begins to show itself in the life of the nascent church. The apostles, whose number was newly completed with the addition of Matthias as the replacement for the fallen Judas (Acts 1:26), had gathered with other church members at the Jerusalem temple. They had probably assembled on the east side of the huge Court of the Gentiles under Solomon’s Porch, a favorite spot for church members to gather (Acts 3:11; 5:12). Precisely on “the day of Pentecost . . . they were all with one accord in one place” (Acts 2:1). At this moment, the Lord chose to seize the attention of everyone who would pay attention: “suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind.” This was not the whole event because, next we read, “there appeared unto them cloven tongues of fire, and it sat upon each of [the Twelve].” As a capstone, “they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues” (Acts 2:2–4). In effect, the Lord had set the table.

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This week’s readings: Acts 1–5

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This week’s readings: Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24;John 20–21

This week's FHE lesson topic comes from the Come, Follow Me reading in Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20–21. Check out this week's Come, Follow Me study ideas on LDS Livingfor additional resources and suggestions.

We begin with the unnamed, unknown persons in this story—the crowd. If modern Middle Eastern towns are a gauge, the crowd that followed Jesus was likely made up of men and, perhaps, a few boys who had squeezed in among the adults. If women or girls were present, we expect that they did not join the throng. Instead, typically, they hung back. This observation alone underscores the bravery and determination of the woman, unnamed in the accounts, who pushed her way into the clump of male bodies and reached out for Jesus’s clothing to gain relief.

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This week's FHE lesson topic comes from the Come, Follow Me reading in Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, and John 19. Check out this week's Come, Follow Me study ideas on LDS Living for additional resources and suggestions.

This week’s readings: Matthew 27; Mark 15; Luke 23; John 19

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President Russell M. Nelson issued the following challenge to the youth of the Church in 2017:

This week’s readings: Matthew 26; Mark 14; Luke 22; John 18