Category: Lesson Aids

  • What is the Old Testament?

    What is the Old Testament?

    The version of the Old Testament used by Protestants and Jews today contains 39 books. Catholic Bibles include 9 more books, as well as 2 additions to Daniel and 1 to Esther. At least some of those 9 additional books were used as scripture by Saints of the 1st century AD. For various reasons (mostly…

  • An Overview of Genesis

    It is daunting to be posting anything about scripture when Eric Huntsman is posting alongside. It ought to be daunting in any case, but it is easier to ignore the fact that I am a mere dabbler when my posts stand alone. In any case, I will be posting revised versions of my study questions…

  • The awesomest youth object lesson ever

    Want to really knock the socks off of your youth with a fun and very different object lesson? Then try out miracle berries.

  • Faith and Healing

    “And again, it shall come to pass that he that hath faith in me to be healed, and is not appointed unto death, shall be healed. He who hath faith to see shall see. He who hath faith to hear shall hear. The lame who hath faith to leap shall leap.” (D&C 42:48-51)  

  • Sunday School Lesson Links

    Owing to the fact that I am a moron, Jim F.’s excellent Doctrine and Covenants Sunday School lessons are inordinately hard to retrieve. Here are links to a few of them, and we’ll have the rest of them easy to get to by next week. Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 2 Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 3…

  • The Totality of Mortality

    When I picked up my manual to prepare to teach Gospel Doctrine this Sunday, I figured it would be a lesson about the spirit of Elijah (second week = section 2 = turning hearts, etc). I was surprised and delighted to find that Lesson 2 is instead about the atonement, highlighting powerhouse passages in Doctrine…

  • Sunday School Redux 2

    The Joseph Smith manual had one of my favorite quotes in it this week: “I say to all those who are disposed to set up stakes [limits] for the Almighty, You will come short of the glory of God. To become a joint heir of the heirship of the Son, one must put away all…

  • Family Home Evening Ideas

    After almost three years, we’ve just about made it all the way through the Bible in felt. These have been great FHEs for us. Now I need something new.

  • Sunday School Redux

    Three excellent quotes from this week’s Sunday School lesson: Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.

  • What We Didn’t Discuss

    The gospel doctrine lesson on Alma 43-52 proposed four principles of war as waged by the righteous:

  • Sunday School Inequality

    This week I went to an excellent lecture on inequality. Clayne Pope, retiring economist, pointed out that while income inequality in the U.S. has been pretty close to the same for the last 200 years, leisure-time is now concentrated more heavily among the poor, while education inequality and lifespan inequality have both dropped like a…

  • Sunday School Lesson materials

    Nothing exciting here, just an administrative note: I’ve been posting materials for studying the Sunday School lesson materials on Times and Seasons for a while. However,

  • Sunday School Lesson #48

  • Sunday School Lesson #47

  • Sunday School Lesson 46

    Lesson 46: Daniel 2

  • Sunday School Lesson #45

    Lesson 45: Daniel 1, 3, and 6; Esther 3-5, 7-8

  • Sunday School Lesson #44

  • Sunday School Lesson #43

    Lesson 43: Ezekiel 18, 34, and 37

  • Sunday School Lesson #42

    Lesson 42: Jeremiah 16, 23, 29, 31

  • Sunday School Lesson #41

    Lesson 41: Jeremiah 1-2, 15, 20, 26, 36-38

  • Sunday School Lesson #40

    Lesson 40: Isaiah 54-56, 63-65

  • Sunday School Lesson #39

    Lesson 39: Isaiah 50-53

  • Sunday School Lesson #38

    Lesson 38: Isaiah 40-49

  • Sunday School Lesson #37

    Lesson 37: Isaiah 22, 23, 24-26, 27, 28-30

  • Sunday School Lesson #36

    Lesson 36: Isaiah 1-6

  • Sunday School Lesson #35

    Lesson 35: Amos 3, 7-9; Joel 2-3

  • Sunday School Lesson #34

    Lesson 34: Hosea 1-3; 11; 13-14

  • We Did It

    We’ve finally read the entire Book of Mormon as a family, all of us (those that can read, anyway) taking turns verse by verse. It only took us four and a half years, and we’re ready to do it again.

  • Sunday School Lesson #33

    Lesson 33: Jonah 1-4; Micah 2, 4-7 This is another long set of study notes.