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TEACHING ACTIVITIES   LESSON #1 AGAINST HOPE, BELIEVE IN HOPE-THE ENDURANCE TEST (Genesis 12-21)   TRUTH: If I continue to trust God with hope when His promises seem delayed, then He will fulfill them in His time and way.   FIRE IN THE BONES: Now this lesson is going to be incredibly relevant to almost everyone because this is how God often works with his children while in mortality. We are all going to have endurance tests of faith in life. In fact, many of your students are

TEACHING ACTIVITIES   LESSON #1 THIS PROMISE IS YOURS ALSO (ABRAHAM 1-2)   TRUTH: God has great blessings and promises for the seed of Abraham—but they come with a sacred responsibility to bless the world without becoming like it.   FIRE IN THE BONES: A fire in the bones gets sparked in my heart for this lesson as I consider how fundamental the Abrahamic covenant is in understanding who the children of Israel are in the Old and New Testaments, and who WE are as part of God’s

Teaching Activities   LESSON #1 DON’T MISS THE BOAT (Genesis 6-7, Moses 8)   TRUTH: If we hearken to God, then He will provide a way for us and our families to rise above a corrupt world.   FIRE IN THE BONES: I find great relevance in this very, very ancient story. I’m sure that many of our students feel concern about trying to raise faithful families in a loud, confusing, and spiritually corrosive world.  Noah lived in a world like that, but God helped him to escape. Help yo

TEACHING ACTIVITIES Moses 7   LESSON #1 Building a People, Not a Place (Moses 7:1-27)   TRUTH: Zion is not a place first; it is a blessed people, built by unity, righteousness, and compassion.   FIRE IN THE BONES: I get a fire in the bones when I realize that this is a chance to inspire in my students a builder’s mentality. In the restored Church of Jesus Christ we are endeavoring to create a covenant community. So this lesson is a kind of invitation to become part of somethi

NOTE: And this is an interesting week because we basically only have one chapter to study. I really don’t do anything with Genesis 5 since it gives us so little compared to what Moses 6 gives us. Now, because of that, I always like to include a lesson from last week’s chapters this week, an additional lesson from a short 5 verse story from Moses 5. There was so much we had to look at last week that I felt this particular lesson would fit better into this weeks’ time frame. An

Teaching Activities   LESSON #1 The Greatest Magician: Avoiding the Adversary’s Tricks and Traps (Moses 4)   TRUTH: Satan deceives through lies, shifted focus, and rebellion, but God’s truth helps me see through his tricks.   FIRE IN THE BONES: The relevance of this lesson is what gives me a fire in the bones for teaching it. The temptations described here are not distant or abstract. We’ve all felt them. The story of Adam and Eve is the human story, and we’re meant to recogn

Teaching Activities   LESSON #1 IT IS GOOD-THE QUIET TESTIMONY OF CREATION (Moses 2, Abraham 4, Genesis 1)   TRUTH: Because the earth is good, I can enjoy it, care for it, and see it as evidence of God and His plan.   FIRE IN THE BONES: The purpose of this lesson is to help your students recognize the hand and love of God in the created world around them and how we should see and treat it. As someone who loves the outdoors, this is a truth that is near and dear to my heart. H

TEACHING ACTIVITIES LESSON #1 NOTHING OR EVERYTHING: THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR WORTH (MOSES 1:1-11, 27-39) TRUTH: I may be small in comparison to God’s creations—but I matter infinitely to Him. FIRE IN THE BONES: And this is a guiding principle for me in all my teaching, especially with these most distant of writings from our time. We must look for the most relevant of truths as we teach. So with this lesson, keep in mind that most people don’t wake up worried about ancient history

Watch the Insight Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/kh5V6GGqB1g Watch the Teaching Activities Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/O5S18_sEz-0 INSIGHTS   The first thing I like to do at the beginning of any new year of scripture study is to help my students get excited about studying that particular standard work. So this year, what do we have to look forward to in studying the Old Testament? In short? A lot. I LOVE teaching the Old Testament. In fact, if you pressed me

Watch the Insight Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/dACY7kkV9Uk Watch the Teaching Activities Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/eBI8lAyTiKo To purchase slides or handouts, go to: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TeachingWithPower INSIGHTS   For this week’s lesson, we’ll be taking a look at the document entitled “The Family: A Proclamation to the World”. This is not an official canonized part of the Doctrine and Covenants, but you know what, I think it should be. And I keep

Watch the Insight Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/3MPFI_af1NU Watch the Teaching Activities Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/nh8T6QP28-I To purchase slides or handouts, go to: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TeachingWithPower INSIGHTS   NOTE Official declarations 1 and 2 and the Articles of Faith this week. Wow! Talk about a tough week to teach.  Not because the subject matter isn’t good. It’s fantastic. Compelling. Relevant. Deep. Controversial even. It’s just that the

Watch the Insight Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/wt-NmnJ-XN4 Watch the Teaching Activities Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/dN6soO6uGjc To purchase slides or handouts, go to: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TeachingWithPower INSIGHTS INTRODUCTION The revelations that we find in sections 137-138 weren’t added to the official cannon of the Doctrine and Covenants until 1981 when the Church released its new edition. And we’re so glad they did. These two sections give us two

Watch the Insight Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/o5UBKqtVWzc Watch the Teaching Activities Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/jTFGvwQA1_s To purchase slides or handouts, go to: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TeachingWithPower INSIGHTS   INTRODUCTION To introduce the sections we’ll study this week I’d like to share a quote from a famous Victorian writer by the name of John Ruskin who said the following:   “Great nations (and we might add, great religions) write their au

Watch the Insight Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/7lvFUySSeDE Watch the Teaching Activities Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/KpJxjLnEg0M To purchase slides or handouts, go to: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TeachingWithPower INSIGHTS NOTE Sections 133-134 are not the type of sections that can be taught in detail in an hour. If you only have one teaching session, such as with a Gospel Doctrine class, or youth Sunday School class, you’re going to have to choose which of

Watch the Insight Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/E8T5zBIp2sY Watch the Teaching Activities Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/a0KzJMI94WA To purchase slides or handouts, go to: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TeachingWithPower INSIGHTS ICEBREAKER And for an icebreaker I actually like to key off that idea of going on a fun ride. So I ask my class: What’s your favorite amusement park ride of all time? And that question usually sparks some really fun discussion, especially

Watch the Insight Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/VIHbSOfP5co Watch the Teaching Activities Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/ll5B_l9mwwU To purchase slides or handouts, go to: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TeachingWithPower INSIGHTS   SUMMARY OF 125-126 Our first two sections, 125 and 126 are rather short and I really don’t do much with them. 127 and 128 really hold the meat of this week’s study. So I’ll just briefly summarize them here with a quick thought or two.  

Watch the Insight Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/jsueBCa65e8 Watch the Teaching Activities Video on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/xon3Q9__p-M To purchase slides or handouts, go to: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TeachingWithPower INSIGHTS   BACKGROUND Section 124 is revealed during the Nauvoo period of church history. Once again, quite a bit of time has passed since the previous revelations recorded in Liberty Jail-almost 2 years.  In that time, the Saints have once again es

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