Category: SS Lesson – Doctrine and Covenants

  • Literary DCGD #1: On the Latter-day Dispensation

    Literary DCGD #1: On the Latter-day Dispensation

    The initial lesson in the Doctrine and Covenants and Church History course of study points out that the revelations found in the text are meant for our time and cover our dispensation, while the history presented is the history of our people, as opposed to those who lived aeons ago. This course should, therefore, be…

  • Why Literary Gospel Doctrine Lesson Posts

    For the past year each Monday afternoon my “Literary BMGD” posts have appeared each Monday — perhaps confusing some readers who have wondered exactly what these posts were all about. And those who clicked on them to read what they had may have been surprised to find that they were… poetry. What exactly is BMGD…

  • How to write a revelation

    How to write a revelation

    I have been working on a paper looking at the Doctrine and Covenants, and my research has me thinking about how the texts of modern revelation were produced.  I think that there are a lot of Mormons who assume that the words of the revelations in the Doctrine and Covenants were dictated word for word…

  • Sunday School Lesson #42

    Here are my notes. I decided to focus on OD-2.

  • Sunday School Lessons

    Those who may have been using my notes for Sunday School lessons deserve an explanation, though a late explanation, to be sure.

  • Sunday School Lesson 38

    Lesson 38: Doctrine and Covenants 38:30; 42:30-31, 42; 44:6; 52:40; 56:16-17; 58:26-28; 88:123-125; 104:13-18 I owe an apology to those who have been receiving these by e-mail.

  • Sunday School Lesson 37

    Lesson 37: Doctrine and Covenants 1:38; 20:21-26; 21:1, 4-6; 43:2; 68:3-4; 101:43-54; 107:22, 91-92

  • Sunday School Lesson 36

    Lesson 36: Doctrine and Covenants 58:2-4; 64:33-34; 82:10; 93:1; and 130:19-21

  • Sunday School Lesson 35

    Lesson 35: Doctrine & Covenants 4:3-7, 18:10-16, 52:40, 81:5-6, 138:58

  • Sunday School Lesson 34

    Lesson 34: Doctrine and Covenants 136

  • Sunday School Lesson 33

    Lesson 33: Doctrine and Covenants 107:22-24

  • Sunday School Lesson 32

    Lesson 32: Doctrine and Covenants 135

  • Sunday School Lesson 31

    Lesson 31: Doctrine and Covenants 131 & 132:4-33

  • Sunday School Lesson 30

    Lesson 30: Doctrine and Covenants 2, 124:25-55, 127, 128, Joseph Smith — History 1:36-39

  • Sunday School Lesson 29

    Lesson 29: Doctrine and Covenants 124: 1-21, 87-90, 97-110; Doctrine and Covenants 126

  • Sunday School Lesson 28

    Lesson 28: Doctrine and Covenants 121:1-33; 122 Sections 121, 122, and 123 are each part of a letter written by Joseph Smith from Liberty Jail to the church leaders in Quincey, Illinois. Read about that experience in a good Church history.

  • Sunday School Lesson 27

    Lesson 27: Doctrine and Covenants 101, 103, and 105 For more understanding of these sections, read about Zion’s Camp in a church history.

  • Sunday School Lesson 25

    Lesson 25: Doctrine and Covenants 84:33-44, 121:34-36

  • Sunday School Lesson 24

    Lesson 24: Doctrine and Covenants 26, 28, 43:1-7, 50, 52:14-19

  • Sunday School Lesson 23

    Lesson 23: Doctrine and Covenants 88 Notice that section 87, on war, was given only a few days before this section, “an olive leaf [. . .] plucked from the Tree of Paradise, the Lord’s message of peace.” How is the message of section 88 one of peace to the Saints?

  • Sunday School Lesson 22

    Lesson 22: Doctrine and Covenants 89 Notice that this is the first revelation given after the School of the Prophets was organized. Is there a connection between that organization and this revelation?

  • Sunday School Lesson 21

    Doctrine and Covenants 29:9-29; 34:5-12; 45:16-75; 88:86-89; 101:22-34; 133

  • Sunday School Lesson 20

    Lesson 20: Doctrine and Covenants 76; 131:1-4; 132:19-24; 137 These are longer than usual.

  • Sunday School Lesson 19

    Lesson 19: Doctrine and Covenants 19:16-19; 76:40-42, 96-112; 88:14-16; 138:55-56

  • Sunday School Lesson 18

    Lesson 18: Doctrine and Covenants 95, 109, 110

  • Sunday School Lesson 17

    Lesson 17: Doctrine and Covenants 59:13-14, 21; Doctrine and Covenants 119; Doctrine and Covenants 120 Thought questions for D&C 59 were included in lesson 16, so I will not repeat them here.

  • Sunday School Lesson 16

    Doctrine and Covenants 59

  • Sunday School Lesson 15

    Lesson 15: Doctrine and Covenants 46

  • Sunday School Lesson 14

    Lesson 14: D&C 42:30-42; 51; 78; 82; 104:11-18

  • Sunday School Lesson 13

    Lesson 13: Doctrine and Covenants 5:10; Moses 1:40-41; 2 Nephi 3:11-15; Doctrine and Covenants 84:19-25; 88:15-24; 93:29; 107:23, 33, 35; 124:37-42; 128:16-18; 130:22