Category: SS Lesson – Doctrine and Covenants

  • Literary DCGD #5: A Scene in Virginia

    Kent Larsen

    The spirit of revelation described in D&C Gospel Doctrine lesson #5 isn’t always credited with all that it deserves. During our lives, I think, we often receive inspiration that we don’t attribute to anything but our own decisions, while that inspiration makes subtle changes, pushing us towards the better. Other times personal revelation is very…

  • Literary DCGD #4: Interview with David Whitmer

    Kent Larsen

    I think that we often think of witnesses as something outside of the event, added to fill a particular need or satisfy the desires of the world. But I wonder if this perception might not be incorrect, if witnesses are not, in fact, an important part of the process of communicating truth. A testimony is,…

  • Literary DCGD #3: The Young Seer

    Kent Larsen

    [I am traveling for the 4th annual Brazilian Mormon Studies Conference — please excuse the delay in posting this.] Of our mythic founding stories, the First Vision is surely the most important. It appears regularly in manuals and conference talks, as well as in the missionary lessons, where it is among the first things that…

  • Literary DCGD #2: Praise ye the Lord

    Kent Larsen

    The second Doctrine and Covenants lesson makes the point that this modern scripture talks and teaches of Christ. That focus was easy to find in many Mormon poems and hymns, but the following poem has the advantage of talking about the Lord for what He has done for the Latter-day Church. Eliza R. Snow probably…

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

    Literary DCGD #1: On the Latter-day Dispensation

    Kent Larsen

    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

    Kent Larsen

    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

    Nate Oman

    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

    Julie M. Smith

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

  • Sunday School Lessons

    Jim F.

    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

    Jim F.

    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

    Jim F.

    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

    Jim F.

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

  • Sunday School Lesson 35

    Jim F.

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

  • Sunday School Lesson 34

    Jim F.

    Lesson 34: Doctrine and Covenants 136

  • Sunday School Lesson 33

    Jim F.

    Lesson 33: Doctrine and Covenants 107:22-24

  • Sunday School Lesson 32

    Jim F.

    Lesson 32: Doctrine and Covenants 135

  • Sunday School Lesson 31

    Jim F.

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

  • Sunday School Lesson 30

    Jim F.

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

  • Sunday School Lesson 29

    Jim F.

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

  • Sunday School Lesson 28

    Jim F.

    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

    Jim F.

    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

    Jim F.

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

  • Sunday School Lesson 24

    Jim F.

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

  • Sunday School Lesson 23

    Jim F.

    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

    Jim F.

    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

    Jim F.

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

  • Sunday School Lesson 20

    Jim F.

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

  • Sunday School Lesson 19

    Jim F.

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

  • Sunday School Lesson 18

    Jim F.

    Lesson 18: Doctrine and Covenants 95, 109, 110

  • Sunday School Lesson 17

    Jim F.

    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.