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The Prison That Became a Temple: God’s Tutoring at Liberty Jail - Doctrine & Covenants 121-123 Nov 04, 2025

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October 20-26

So, here’s a question: In the midst of all the challenges, trials, privations and difficulties the Saints experienced in Missouri, how is it that when the Church really needed the leadership of the Prophet Joseph, God allowed him to be put in an obscure and remote Jail, ironically called Liberty? Why would God do that? This is the Kingdom of God on the earth. Isn’t the God of the Universe watching out for His chosen Prophet? Let’s explore that question today.

Haun's Mill, Far West, and Faith: Enduring the Missouri Trials - Doctrine & Covenants 115-120 Nov 04, 2025

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October 13-19

I stand in Far West, a rather obscure place in northern Missouri, and as far as I can see, where once there was a bustling community of Latter-day Saints with homes, shops and a school, there are only empty fields. What happened to the people who once were here and why is only silence left behind? How could it possibly be that a sitting governor could order an extermination order on a group of people? Here in America? Unthinkable. It’s a human, heart-breaking story that gives us context for today’s episode.

Truth Will Prevail No Matter What the Opposition - Doctrine & Covenants 111-114 Nov 04, 2025

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October 6-12

As you begin this week’s reading assignment, and you don’t skip over the headnotes in Section 111, you realize this revelation was given in Salem, Massachusetts. Isn’t the central leadership of the Church in Kirtland, Ohio? What is the First Presidency doing in Salem nearly 650 miles to the east and a whopping 1,500 miles from Western Missouri? Isn’t this the same city of the famous Salem Witch Trials 144 years before in 1692? This will all make sense as we study together in this episode.

Come Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants Podcast #37: “After Much Tribulation … Cometh the Blessing,” D&C 102-105 Sep 12, 2025

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September 15-21

The material we talk about today gives us specifics about a dramatic, heart-rending series of events from the 19 th century, but is also so relevant for our times, as if the story was written just for us. It simply could not be more to the point.

Come Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants Podcast #36: “Be Still and Know That I Am God,” D&C 98-101 Sep 08, 2025

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September 8-14

How would it feel to move a thousand miles by foot and wagon, taking all your belongings you could carry—with a mission to gather to a specific place and build a community and society called Zion. You’ve barely been introduced to the concept of Zion—a people of one heart, striving with all their might to stay close to God and live the commandments He has given them. You’ve gathered in families and close-knit friend groups. You’ve purchased beautiful, verdant, fertile lands to build your homes and raise your crops. It’s truly an idyllic setting and situation. Except, what happens when opposition is introduced in the form of hundreds of people who don’t want you there are will do anything, including kill you, to get you out of their county?

Come Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants Podcast #35: “For the Salvation of Zion,” D&C 94-97 Aug 29, 2025

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September 1-7

How important are temples to the Lord? When Joseph Smith was on his first mission to Missouri in the summer of 1831, only 17 months after the Church was organized, on August 3, 1831, he received a revelation about a temple to be built in Independence in Jackson County. (D&C 57:3). Then, on December 27, 1832 in Section 88 (v. 119), the Lord revealed that a temple was to be built in Kirtland. So, the Saints had been commanded to build two temples, one in Jackson County and one in Kirtland, but, honestly, in mortal eyes, it was a task that looked impossible.

Come Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants Podcast #34: “Receive of His Fulness,” D&C 93 Aug 22, 2025

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August 25-31

In this marvelous book of scripture, the Doctrine and Covenants, we learn things that we can know from no other source, including in rich measure the doctrine of pre-mortality, that we lived with Heavenly Parents, before this world was. In this week’s lesson we will explore the purpose of mortality and this, one of the least known doctrines in the world of religion, the reality of a pre-mortal existence.

Come Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants Podcast #33: “A Principle with Promise,” D&C 89-92 Aug 15, 2025

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August 18-24

In Section 89, the Lord gave Joseph Smith the Word of Wisdom, which we often take to be a list of dos and don’ts about how to care for our bodies, but there is more deep doctrine there then we often see, and we will share some of those ah-ha’s and surprises with you today, two of which you may have never considered before.

Come Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants Podcast #32: “Establish … a House of God,” D&C 88 Aug 08, 2025

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August 11-17

I used to look forward to the tail end of our Thanksgiving and Christmas feasts in Missouri because my Dad, a brilliant and world-renowned geologist and geological engineer, and Darrell Ownby, part of our family and a world-class ceramic engineer, and Nord Gale, a celebrated, favorite professor and brilliant microbiologist and Harold Romero, also a brilliant physicist, would stay at the table and discuss deep gospel questions. Many times, the conversations would go way over my head, as they talked about creation, celestial worlds, spirit elements, atomic elements and the qualities of light—but I tried to follow along as best I could. Hey, I was only 12 years old! But this was the beginning of my yearning, thirst and hunger for knowledge. I could not get enough of it. These discussions around the table were amazing. And then I was introduced to Section 88 of the Doctrine and Covenants. I was blown away. This deep water is the subject of our podcast.

Come Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants Podcast #31: “Stand Ye in Holy Places,” D&C 85-87 Aug 01, 2025

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August 4-10

How distressingly human it is that some people want to build Zion and want an inheritance in Zion, but don’t want to keep the very laws that create Zion. That’s like saying, I want to live in the Lord’s kingdom, but I want to do it my way. That’s what was happening to some people who went to build Zion in Missouri, and that is the context behind one of the sections of the Doctrine and Covenants that we will look at in this episode.

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