→ Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2023/06/1-corinthians-14-16-ep-218-quotes-and-notes/ → Enroll in Institute: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/si/institute?lang=eng → Bryce Dunford’s Institute classes are now available on podcast apps. Sign up here: http://brotherdunford.org/ → Timestamps: 00:26 – A brief overview of these chapters. 03:50 – The gift of tongues. 13:21 – Let all things be done in order. The hierarchalContinue Reading

→ Show Notes: https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2022/08/02/psalms-1-46-ep-165-quotes-and-notes/ → Enroll in Institute: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/si/institute?lang=eng → Timestamps: 00:26 – The historical background and purpose of the Psalms. 02:24 – Many scholars assert that several of the Psalms were used in Israel’s temple worship, especially during the first temple period. They can be divided into hymns ofContinue Reading

The slides for this podcast are in pdf format here. The podcast outline with notes is here. To read p. 85-87 of Howard Schwartz’s Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism (Oxford University Press, 2004), go here. To view the two separate accounts of the betrayal of Joseph, with bothContinue Reading

This is for my Old Testament class that asked about Psalm 22.20-21. The language is somewhat tricky, and so I put this here to help unpack this a bit.Continue Reading

D&C 137 – January 21, 1836 This revelation was received in the west school room on the third floor of the Kirtland Temple. Church leaders from Kirtland and Missouri had assembled to be anointed as part of the endowment of power to be bestowed upon the “first elders” in connectionContinue Reading

2 Kings 18.4 reads: He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: For it was called Nehushtan.[1]The Nehushtan נְחֻשְׁתָּן was the serpent pole that Moses constructed in the wilderness in the episode with the fiery flying serpentsContinue Reading

D&C 133.3 Make bare his holy arm – Isaiah 52.10 D&C 133 quotes a great passage of Isaiah from the very start: The Lord shall suddenly come to his temple… for he shall make bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends ofContinue Reading

May 6, 1833 The historical background from Robinson and Garrett is insightful Doctrinally, Doctrine and Covenants 93 is one of the more informative and important revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants, yet the Prophet gives almost no historical information concerning its reception. He simply recorded, “May 6.—I received the following.”[1]Smith,Continue Reading

Anciently the Sacrament was a meal. These meals took place in what are commonly called “house churches.” (You might even call it a home-centered church). The early Christian community started as a house church, “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship… They broke bread in theirContinue Reading