Sunday School

At the opening session of general conference, President Dallin H. Oaks announced a new Sunday School General Presidency effective August 1, 2024.

“As great as a podcast you might [listen to is], ... the real magic is one person, the scriptures, and the influence of the Holy Ghost.” President Mark L. Pace

A single Book of Mormon manual for all ages and classes will be released for 2024’s “Come, Follow Me” study.

The Church’s newest “Come, Follow Me” manual for the 2024 study year is now available online and in the Gospel Library app.

What should we share in church meetings? These five ideas can help guide you on how to talk about your personal experiences in meaningful ways.

Beginning immediately, Sunday School, elders quorum, Relief Society, Aaronic Priesthood quorum and Young Women are to start with opening prayer.

Whether you’re a teacher preparing next week’s lesson or a ward member anxiously engaged in gaining more from your study this year, these books are great additions to your personal or family scripture study.

“I learned some of my most important lessons from these associations—not only about leadership but about life.”

The year 2023 will include a couple of firsts related to the Churchwide curriculum.

The children of Israel were well aware that the hand of the Lord was with Moses and He had sanctioned their exodus. Gratefully, the Lord did not leave them comfortless.

Who wouldn’t want to have a Sunday School lesson on Joseph in Egypt taught by Donny Osmond himself?

Do you know all the names of God or what the 10 plagues of Egypt are? Find out this and more with these awesome new resources for next year’s Gospel Doctrine Old Testament study.

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: Hebrews 1–6

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

This week’s readings: 1 and 2 Thessalonians

This week’s readings: 1 Corinthians 1–7

This week’s readings: Romans 1–6

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President Dallin H. Oaks of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the calls of 10 General Authority Seventies and 55 Area Seventies during the Saturday afternoon session of the April 2019 general conference. He also announced a new Sunday School General Presidency to replace Brother Tad. R. Callister, Brother Devin G. Durrant and Brother Brian K. Ashton, who have served as a presidency for five years. Brother Mark L. Pace is the new president, with Brother Milton Camargo and Brother Jan E. Newman as his counselors.

This week’s readings: Matthew 13; Luke 8 and 13

Don’t forget to record your impressions and read the ideas outlined in the new Come, Follow Me manuals on ChurchofJesusChrist.org.

This week’s readings: Matthew 8–9; Mark 2–5

This week’s readings: Matthew 6–7

This week’s readings: Matthew 5; Luke 6

This week’s readings: Matthew 4; Luke 4–5

This week’s readings: Matthew 3; Mark 1; Luke 3

This week’s readings: John 1

This week’s readings: Luke 2 and Matthew 2

This week’s readings: Matthew 1 and Luke 1

For advice from the general Primary presidency about how to apply the new curriculum to your family, click here.

With changes in Church curriculum and an emphasis on home-study, LDS Living will be presenting a new set of digestible lesson helps geared to aid families, couples, and singles in their efforts to implement this new way of learning the gospel at home.

This week’s readings: Hebrews 7–13

A curriculum and teaching style introduced five years ago will now play an important role in the newly announced, shortened Sunday worship schedule.

Statements about teaching by the Spirit have been made by various people. These illustrate that there are a number of misconceptions or misunderstandings about how the Spirit actually functions in teaching and learning settings. Some of these statements have elements of truth in them. Some can even be completely true at times, but if they are viewed as fixed rules or principles, they can be misleading.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell was a beloved disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. He served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for 23 years, from 1981 to 2004. The spiritual power of his teachings and his example of faithful discipleship blessed and continue to bless in marvelous ways the members of the Savior’s restored Church and the people of the world.

How many times have you gone to church, said hi to a few people, sat through class, maybe made a comment or two, picked up the kids from Primary, and headed home, only to feel the same as you did before you left?

On Friday, the First Presidency announced a series of resources to help members study the scriptures at home. The first of these resources will focus on the 2019 Sunday School and Primary curriculums.

Author’s Note: With this lesson, we come to the end of the Old Testament Manual. A time or two we have strapped on the aqualung and gone deep, but most of the time we have floated serenely on the surface of this marvelous reservoir of knowledge, experience, and power. Forty-eight lessons are hardly enough time and space to do justice to a book of this depth and complexity. I hope you will not assume that you have now studied the Old Testament. You have studied the parts of the Old Testament that the Gospel Doctrine Manual emphasizes, and (in these lessons) brief segments that I have highlighted. The Old Testament is worth revisiting many times in your life. As we study it with hearts opened and prepared to receive the lessons the Lord has taught us there, we will gain a broader understanding and greater depth of spiritual knowledge.

I have always enjoyed pointing out to my students verses in the scriptures that are about them. Last week as my New Testament students studied John 17, I suggested that certain verses in this great prayer were about them:

When I was young and silly, my parents used to take me to southern Utah to visit relatives almost every summer. We would spend a week or two in Kanab and I would devote hours each day to roaming the red hills and canyons in the area with my cousins. One of the activities in which we sometimes engaged was rock rolling. We would climb the K-hill, a small table-top mountain northeast of town and roll rocks down the side. It was awesome to see the largest boulders we could move crashing down the hillside, gathering momentum and speed, dislodging other great rocks and debris which joined the mad cascade to the bottom. There were times when it seemed as if the whole mountain was moving.

In the scriptures and in modern life we occasionally encounter people whose commitment to principle is so remarkable that they cannot be coerced, frightened, or bribed into doing something they believe is wrong. For example: