December 26, 2022 - January 1, 2023 | We Are Responsible for Our Own Learning - Episode 1

Episode 1

December 26, 2022 - January 1, 2023 | We Are Responsible for Our Own Learning

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Question God

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Happy New Year, and welcome to Season 4! Join hosts Ganel-Lyn Condie and John Fossum on this episode of Talk of Him as we explore these important themes, topics, and questions:

Persistence over perfection

Is Come, Follow Me feeling burdensome or giving us rest?

Seeking and finding in the NT

How ASKING QUESTIONS can open us up to receiving some of the greatest insights and revelations from God

Why we must take responsibility for our own learning and discipleship

Likening the scriptures to ourselves and reading them as if for the first time (The CFM Challenge)

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Invitation:

Take the CFM challenge as we start the New Testament: DO NOT read what anyone else has said about the suggested blocks of scripture each week (including this show!) until you have first prayerfully read the chapters and taken note of what the Spirit has taught YOU PERSONALLY!

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Quotes & Links:

Link to FIND HIM New Testament Study Guide:

https://www.seagullbook.com/find-him-new-testament-come-follow-me-guidebook.html

“A learner exercising agency by acting in accordance with correct principles opens his or her heart to the Holy Ghost and invites His teaching, testifying power, and confirming witness. Learning by faith requires spiritual, mental, and physical exertion and not just passive reception. It is in the sincerity and consistency of our faith-inspired action that we indicate to our Heavenly Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, our willingness to learn and receive instruction from the Holy Ghost” (David A. Bednar, “Seek Learning by Faith,” Ensign or Liahona, September 2007, 64).

“We should not expect the Church as an organization to teach or tell us everything we need to know and do to become devoted disciples and endure valiantly to the end. Rather, our personal responsibility is to learn what we should learn, to live as we know we should live, and to become who the Master would have us become. And our homes are the ultimate setting for learning, living, and becoming” (David A. Bednar, “Prepared to Obtain Every Needful Thing,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2019, 102).

“Brothers and sisters, on very thin pages, thick with meaning, are some almost hidden scriptures. Hence we are urged to search, feast, and ponder. Especially, however, we should also do more of what Nephi did, namely “liken all scriptures unto [ourselves]” [Neal A. Maxwell, Lessons from Laman and Lemuel, 1999–O:6]

“We are each responsible for our individual spiritual growth.” (Russell M. Nelson, “Opening Remarks,” General Conference, Oct. 2018)

“In the home-centered, Church-supported portion of this adjustment, there is flexibility for each individual and family to determine prayerfully how and when it will be implemented. … We trust you to counsel together and to seek revelation for implementing these adjustments—while not looking beyond the mark or trying to regiment individuals or families.” (Quentin L. Cook, “Deep and Lasting Conversion to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ,” General Conference, Oct. 2018)

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Talk of Him is presented by Seagull Book and hosted by Ganel-Lyn Condie and John Fossum.