Show Notes Enroll in Institute Timestamps: 00:32 – Those searching for an eternal companion can learn valuable lessons from the story of Isaac and Rebekah. 04:27 – “He shall send his angel before thee to help” in Genesis 24.20. 06:55 – A caution: The Lord has not chosen one particularContinue Reading

Show Notes Enroll in Institute Timestamps: 00:26 – An overview of these sections. 02:05 – Abraham’s prophetic call and the symbolism of the mighty tree with sacred associations. 13:29 – “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” 14:04 – Hebrew word play with laugh, rejoice, and Isaac’s name. Doubts and hopesContinue Reading

Show Notes Enroll in Institute Timestamps: 00:26 – The blessings of the Abrahamic Covenant include preservation, protection, priesthood, power, a place, and posterity. 09:20 – The responsibility of the Abrahamic Covenant is to make Christ’s name known to the world and help all to obtain priesthood and temple blessings. 19:29 –Continue Reading

The slides for this podcast are in pdf format here. The podcast outline with notes is here. Correction! In our podcast, I (Mike Day) cited Westermann’s Genesis 12-36 Continental Commentary. In the podcast I believe I quoted the following excerpt: “The word Moreh as it is found in Gen. 12.6 isContinue Reading

Some have worried about God telling Abraham to lie about his wife. Certainly, it seems deceptive. Certainly, in conveys a falsehood. How can we come to terms with this? Well, one justification is that the life of this great prophet must be weighed in the balance. As Joseph Smith taught,Continue Reading

Abraham the Destroyer of Idols When President Nelson shared the story of his breaking the bottles of alcohol his father owned, I kept thinking about another prophet who also broke things. President Nelson shared the following story last April: “I adored my parents. They meant the world to me andContinue Reading

A good question! (Genesis 20:12 vs Leviticus 18:11, 20:17) If we assume that the Bible is a perfectly orchestrated book, in the words of some believers, “infallible”, something that is error free, written by the pen of an author who is basically quoting God from heaven, without his own viewsContinue Reading