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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #31: “Look to God and Live,” Alma 36-38 35:27

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July 29-August 4 We see many conversations in the Book of Mormon where fathers teach their sons and their impact changes not only their son’s life, but the generations that follow. The lessons are profound. The impact overwhelming. If there was ever scripture that calls out for fathers to step into their parenting role with power, the Book of Mormo…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #30: “Plant This Word in Your Hearts,” Alma 32-35 32:28

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July 22-28 Alma has a hidden message in this week’s readings. You all are familiar with the concept he teaches of having a particle of faith and planting a seed and nurturing it that it may grow. But what is that seed to grow into? What is the metaphor he wants us to understand? As we read and study this week’s material you might think Alma the You…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #29: “The Virtue of the Word of God”, Alma 30-31 36:02

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July 15-21 It is surprising that an idea can at once be so popular, attracting people to give it passionate devotion, and at the same time be completely false. Why are people so often crazy enough to jump on a trend that is destructive or just plain foolish against their own best interests? Again and again, the Book of Mormon presents us smooth tal…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #28: "They 'Never Did Fall Away,'" Alma 23-29 33:39

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July 8-14 It’s intriguing to me to ponder about why the great abridger of the ancient records, the Prophet Mormon, included some stories and not others in the text. No one in ancient times had the Book of Mormon. This book was written for us—for our day—for our time. So, why did Mormon include the story of the Anti-Nephi-Lehis? What possible applic…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #27: “I Will Make an Instrument of Thee,” Alma 17-22 36:37

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July 1-7 Can you imagine if today you opened a mission call and it was for a 14-year mission to a violent people whose aim was to destroy you? You might think twice about that kind of call. Yet, the sons of Mosiah, Nephite princes who could have had a very different life, chose to go to preach to the Lamanites, a people described as “wild and a har…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #26: “Enter into the Rest of the Lord,” Alma 13-16 34:42

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June 24-30 Have you ever thought about Alma and Amulek watching the believers in Ammonihah burn? It is not just the pain that these are their tender converts. Could it be that Amulek’s own family was among that group because he is in particular anguish after the event?

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #25: “Jesus Christ Will Come to Redeem His People,” Alma 8–12 33:09

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June 17-23 Here’s an irony. In our day, when someone wants to change everything that is wrong with the world, they run for president. In the Book of Mormon, Alma, hoping to pull down the pride and craftiness and contentions among his people, saw no way to reclaim them except to give up his office.

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #24: “Have Ye Experienced This Mighty Change in Your Hearts?” Alma 5-7 31:05

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June 10-16 I’ve always loved Alma chapter 5. It could be taken as the most introspective chapter in all of holy writ. Alma asks more than 40 questions of his listeners and really wants them to probe their spirituality in a deep way. But Alma wasn’t just talking to the people in Zarahemla—he is talking to us. So, to put it in our language and contex…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #23: “They Were Steadfast and Immovable,” Mosiah 29–Alma 4 35:48

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June 3-9 Hugh Nibley calls Mosiah 29 one of the most important treatises on political power ever written. In fact, the Book of Mormon has plenty to say about good and bad political leaders. Why does a spiritual book have so much to say about politics? We’ll find out today.

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #22: “They Were Called the People of God,” Mosiah 25-28 30:54

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May 27-June 2 When I was growing up and first learning about the story of Alma the Younger’s conversion in the Book of Mormon, I always pictured him as a rebellious teenager who hung out with the four sons of Mosiah and together, the five of them wreaked havoc on the Church. If you look closely at the record and put the facts together, you come to …

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #21: “We Have Entered into a Covenant with Him,” Mosiah 18–24 37:18

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May 20-26 I have often wondered what was on Abinadi’s mind as the fire that would engulf and kill him burned hotter and hotter. Did he wonder if he’d been a good missionary, because after all, there wasn’t a rush of converts from King Noah’s court.

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #20: “A Light … That Can Never Be Darkened,” Mosiah 11–17 33:19

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May 13-19 There are many times in our lives when we just have to stand up for the truth and, sometimes we stand alone. Has that ever happened in your life? Has it happened in the lives of your ancestors or the lives of your children? President Nelson said recently: “Why do we need such resilient faith? Because difficult days are ahead. Rarely in th…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #19: “In the Strength of the Lord,” Mosiah 7-10 32:31

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May 6-12 Elder Richard G. Scott said, “Help from the Lord always follows eternal law. The better you understand that law, the easier it is to receive His help.” The chapters that we are studying in this episode demonstrate just that.

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Episode 11: Voidcast #11 – Music recommendations for pessimists 45:08

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In this episode Lenny shares some music recommendations with his fellow pessimists. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: I misspoke twice: • (21:20) Neofolk came into being in the mid '80s. • (33:35) Darkspace were founded in 1999; their demo was released in 2002. --------------------------------------…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #18: “A Mighty Change,” Mosiah 4-6 33:13

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April 29-May 5 Over our years of studies of the first 6 chapters of Mosiah we have all come to love King Benjamin and his marvelous teachings. We have the whole thing in our minds, don’t we? The aged King Benjamin; the anointing of his son Mosiah to be the new king; the innumerable hosts of tents surrounding the temple and families in breathless at…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #17: “Filled with Love towards God and All Men,” Mosiah 1-3 33:57

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April 22-28 Elder Neal A. Maxwell called the chapters we are studying today the “Manual of Discipleship”. Since Mormon could include only the hundredth part of the records he had available to him, this may be the reason he zeroed right in on King Benjamin’s address and gave us so much of it. He knew we in the latter days would want to learn discipl…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #16: “He Worketh in Me to Do According to His Will,” Enos-Words of Mormon 36:27

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April 15-21 I remember, following Enos’s example, of going to the woods to pray in my life, in fact, more than once. Then, I recently was talking about Enos with a friend, and he said he, too, had gone to the woods to pray. I know Scot took Enos’s example, but went to a mountain. I don’t think the location matters because it can be right in our own…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #15: “The Lord Labors with Us,” Jacob 5-7 35:57

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April 8-14 One of my favorite olive trees in the entire world is inside the walls of the BYU Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies in Jerusalem. I remember Truman Madsen telling us all about how it was long-lined from a helicopter all the way from the Galilee to the center. They were concerned about the shock of its journey, but they promptly p…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #14: “Be Reconciled unto God through the Atonement of Christ,” Jacob 1-4 35:59

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April 1-7 When Jacob speaks at the temple in the book named after him, it is with both anxiety and boldness, setting an example for all us who have to teach the people we love in this difficult world. It is not a time to shy away from the truth.

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Episode 10: Voidcast #10 – Cormac McCarthy: Blood Meridian 1:15:55

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In this episode Carlos and Lenny share their thoughts on Cormac McCarthy's 1985 Western novel "Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West": "Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian is an epic novel that traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #13: “He Shall Rise … with Healing in His Wings,” Easter 36:46

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March 25-31 I love the season of spring. I love the newness of life. I love the crocus, the daffodils and tulips just popping through the winter-hardened earth. I love the buds that magically appear on all the trees. I especially love the redbuds and the dogwoods that were the first to show in my home-state of Missouri on our forested farm. Most of…

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A Special Edition Podcast of Hope and Faith from Scot and Maurine Proctor 29:40

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We wanted to take a few minutes just to relax with you, our amazing and loving listeners, and talk about faith, peace, calm and listening to the promptings and whisperings of the Spirit.

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #12: “This Is the Way,” 2 Nephi 31–33 36:49

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March 18-24 Any returned missionary will recognize the chapters we are studying this week. We used. many of these verses when it came time to challenge a serious investigator to make the commitment to be baptized. In all our readings and studies of 2 Nephi chapters 31-33, have we possibly missed some critical teachings for our own spiritual progres…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #11: “A Marvelous Work and a Wonder,” 2 Nephi 26-30 37:04

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March 11-17 Nephi, of course is heartbroken because he has seen in revelation the destruction of his people. He says, “O the pain, and the anguish of my soul for the loss of the slain of my people” (2 Nephi 26:7). He says it consumes him. But he is given a promise of comfort. What is it? We’ll talk about it in this episode.…

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Episode 9: Voidcast #9 – An Antinatalist Experience (with Mark J. Maharaj) 1:29:46

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In this episode Carlos and Lenny speak with Mark J. Maharaj, also known as @EhQuestionMark on YouTube, about his past and ongoing projects, his experience with the antinatalist community, and the lessons learned along the way. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOIDCAST LINKS: Voidcast Linktree: https://li…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #10: “We Rejoice in Christ,” 2 Nephi 20-25 49:58

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March 4-10 I love that language of Nephi as he adds so much of Isaiah into his small plates. He says that he delights in the covenants of the Lord. (pause) That’s certainly a theme throughout the Book of Mormon. He delights in the Lord’s grace, justice, power and mercy. This is all code language for rejoicing in the atonement of Jesus Christ. And N…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #9: “His Name Shall Be Called … The Prince of Peace,” 2 Nephi 11–19 37:13

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February 26-March 3 There was a story told of a man in war and in the heat of the battle he was shot in the chest. By a miracle he was spared being killed. As he was taken back to the safety of the nearby camp, he was examined and he had a small copy of the Book of Mormon he had been carrying in his uniform. They opened the book and the bullet had …

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #8: “O How Great the Plan of Our God,” 2 Nephi 6–10 36:03

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February 19-25 Do you know how many times the word “plan” shows up in the Book of Mormon? 66 times! How about in the Old Testament—only three times, and none of these is talking about the plan of salvation. The New Testament has no mention of “plan” at all.

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #7: “We Lived after the Manner of Happiness,” 2 Nephi 3-5 38:27

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February 12-18 One of the most exciting discoveries in reading the Book of Mormon is when we come upon quotations and extracts from the plates of brass! This is that ancient, sacred record that the sons of Lehi returned to Jerusalem and risked their lives to obtain. This is a record much larger than our Old Testament and it contains the prophecies,…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #6: “Free to Choose Liberty and Eternal Life,” 2 Nephi 1–2 38:10

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February 5-11 How can Lehi who has suffered so much in the wilderness journey, including the murderous rejection of his own sons, Laman and Lemuel, possibly write that man is that he might have joy? Does he know something that we sometimes forget? We’ll find out as we study together.

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Episode 8: Voidcast #8 – The Antinatalism Magazine #1 57:29

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In this episode Carlos and Lenny share their thoughts on the first issue of The Antinatalism Magazine, edited by the late Jiwoon Hwang and published in September 2017: 1. François Tremblay: “The Non-Identity Problem”, 2. Andreas Nilssen Möss: “Interview with Tim Oseckas”, 3. Manu Herrán: “The Big Lie”. ----------------------------------------------…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #5: “I Will Prepare the Way Before You,” 1 Nephi 16–22 35:07

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January 29-February 4 A theme is so prevalent throughout scripture, and especially in the Book of Mormon, that you would think we would never miss it, and yet we do. What is that elusive theme? We’ll tell you in this episode.

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #4: “Armed with Righteousness and with the Power of God,” 1 Nephi 11-15 33:03

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January 22-28 After Lehi had his dream of the tree of life, his sons had some choices, and, based on those, in the next few hours had radically different experiences. Laman and Lemuel went to their tent and fought about the meaning of the dream, and Nephi was swept up to a mountain and given a vision. What Laman and Lemuel missed out on in insistin…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #3: “Come and Partake of the Fruit,” 1 Nephi 6-10 37:24

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January 15-21 I remember once being so tired as we made our way out of a remote area of the Sinai Desert in Egypt. It was night and we wanted to drive all the way back to Cairo but we were just too exhausted from having hiked Mt. Sinai at 2:00 o’clock that morning. We pulled over to rest. We got off the main road and pulled up onto a small hill. We…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #2: “I Will Go and Do,” 1 Nephi 1–5 36:52

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January 8-14 We all know the 1st book of Nephi so well, you may wonder if there is still more to learn. Welcome to the inexhaustible Book of Mormon that always surprises us with its spiritual richness and historical authenticity. You may know these stories, but we are about to enter a treasure room.

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Episode 7: Voidcast #7 – The Turin Horse 1:02:14

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In this episode Carlos and Lenny share their thoughts on the 2011 Hungarian movie A torinói ló (The Turin Horse), directed by Béla Tarr, based on a screenplay by László Krasznahorkai: "On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble wi…

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Come Follow Me Book of Mormon Podcast #1: “Another Testament of Jesus Christ,” Introductory Pages 31:58

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January 1-January 7 I was reading a very short notice this past week in a local newspaper that was just over 300 words long. This is not a well-known national periodical, in fact, it’s quite obscure—but the notice I read is probably the most important thing ever published in the news. The paper was The Wayne Sentinel and the date was Friday, March …

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Come Follow Me Podcast #49: “He That Overcometh Shall Inherit All Things” Revelation 12–22 30:14

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December 25-31 Here’s the latest breaking news: The major war that was going on in the pre-mortal world between the forces of Lucifer and the forces of Michael has continued—but it has changed locations. All of Lucifer’s forces have been moved to this earth and continue to wage war against the Saints and the followers of Christ and His Gospel.…

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Come Follow Me Podcast #48: “Good Tidings of Great Joy” Christmas 36:00

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December 18-24 For a few minutes you can leave the hustle of the season behind, while we take you to Bethlehem, a place we’ve spent much time. Come on an armchair journey.

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Episode 6: Voidcast #6 – Solar Sands: Voluntary Extinction 57:33

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In this episode Carlos and Lenny share their thoughts on the video essay "Voluntary Extinction" by @SolarSands. Request by @shujaatdhar9324. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOIDCAST LINKS: Voidcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/veganvoidcast Voidcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/veganvoidcast Voidcast ema…

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Come Follow Me Podcast #47: “Glory, and Power, Be unto … the Lamb for Ever” Revelation 1–11 30:48

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December 4-10 There is often a certain dread that comes over us as we approach a thorough study of John’s Book of Revelation. “How will I ever understand this book? How can I figure out all the symbols and mysterious beasts? Is there application in this book for me personally?” In this week’s podcast and in one more lesson on Revelation to follow, …

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Come Follow Me Podcast #46: “God Is Love” 1–3 John; Jude 32:52

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November 27-December 3 John is described as “the disciple whom Jesus loved”, and it may be no surprise that he gives us a deeper look into what it means to love and how it is done. Of all the things I want and hope for in this world, it is to learn how to be a person filled with love, but self creeps in at every turn. Let’s turn to John for help.…

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Come Follow Me Podcast #45: “Rejoice with Joy Unspeakable and Full of Glory” 1 and 2 Peter 30:35

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November 20-26 We know so much about the apostle Peter. He is a hero to many of us. He is the one who stepped so quickly forward to action. He is the one who boldly testified that Jesus is the Christ. He is the one who healed the sick and the lame and raised the dead. But how much do we know about the two epistles that he wrote before his martyrdom…

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Come Follow Me Podcast #44: “Be Ye Doers of the Word, and Not Hearers Only” James 34:01

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November 13-19 Of the three men named James in the New Testament, which one wrote the Book of James? And another question: Is James actually a Hebrew name anyway?

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Come Follow Me Podcast #43: “An High Priest of Good Things to Come” Hebrews 7–13 34:46

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November 6-12 When I was in college, my great desire was to develop an unshakeable faith, and so I tried many things. I went up the canyon hoping to be alone with God and pray for an hour, but I ran out of things to say in ten minutes. Then, a speaker came to my college ward who struck me as a woman with wonderful faith, and so I asked if I could g…

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Episode 5: Voidcast #5 – Émile P. Torres: Human Extinction 1:30:08

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In this episode Carlos and Lenny share their thoughts on the 2023 book "Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation" by Émile P. Torres. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Voidcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/veganvoidcast Voidcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/veganvoidcast Voidca…

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Come Follow Me Podcast #42: Jesus Christ, “the Author of Eternal Salvation” Hebrews 1–6 31:57

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October 30-November 5 Who wrote the epistle to the Hebrews—Paul or somebody else? It has been a centuries old debate that Joseph Smith had an answer for.

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Come Follow Me Podcast #41: “Be Thou an Example of the Believers” 1 & 2 Timothy; Titus; Philemon 28:02

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October 23-29 What would you say to your beloved friends and followers if you knew this was the last time you would ever speak to them? Such is the case with 2 Timothy as Paul has his last words penned by a scribe from a dungeon in Rome. Paul’s words to Timothy, and of course from his other letters, would change the entire world.…

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Come Follow Me Podcast #40: “Perfect That Which Is Lacking in Your Faith” 1 and 2 Thessalonians 35:14

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October 16-22 We have many sicknesses today in our tumultuous world, but Paul aptly labels one of the most pervasive and contagious. We’ll call it the “shaken in mind” syndrome. Being “shaken in mind” is as deadly as it sounds, like something that would make you really sick. It is where stillness and stability and a sure foundation have fled.…

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Come Follow Me Podcast #39: “I Can Do All Things through Christ Which Strengtheneth Me” Philippians; Colossians 32:20

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October 9-15 Paul’s letters, or the Pauline epistles, are arranged in the New Testament in descending order of their length—with the exception of The Book of Hebrews. These 14 letters comprise 173 pages, just about 43% of the entire New Testament. This week we will be looking at the small epistle of Paul to the Philippians—those converts living in …

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