January 2 - January 8 | “Be It Unto Me According to Thy Word” - Episode 2

Episode 2

January 2 - January 8 | “Be It Unto Me According to Thy Word”

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Join hosts Ganel-Lyn Condie and John Fossum on this FIRST New Testament episode of Talk of Him as we explore these important themes, topics, and questions:

Jesus Christ as our Savior from sin and His divine mission (help and healing)

Feared AND Favored – trusting God in your difficult stewardships

Acting in faith even when it may look crazy to others

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Invitation:

What message may God be teaching us about the mission of His Son by referencing four women in Jesus’s lineage that hailed from non-ideal heritages?

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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

Link to Come to Bethlehem and See by Ganel-Lyn Condie:

https://www.seagullbook.com/come-to-bethlehem-and-see.html

Mistakes are a fact of life. … “Success,” it has been said, “isn’t the absence of failure, but going from failure to failure without any loss of enthusiasm.” With his invention of the light bulb, Thomas Edison purportedly said, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” Charles F. Kettering called failures “finger posts on the road to achievement.” Hopefully, each mistake we make becomes a lesson in wisdom, turning stumbling blocks into stepping-stones. … Knowing that the strait and narrow path would be strewn with trials and that failures would be a daily occurrence for us, the Savior paid an infinite price to give us as many chances as it would take to successfully pass our mortal probation…. His grace and His loving eye are upon us throughout our entire journey as He inspires, lightens burdens, strengthens, delivers, protects, heals, and otherwise “succor[s] his people,” even as they stumble along the strait and narrow path. (2018–A:21, Lynn G. Robbins, Until Seventy Times Seven)

“When Gabriel appears, Mary is a young woman engaged to be married to Joseph (see Luke 1:27). Although we do not know how old Mary was at the time, in antiquity it was possible for marriage contracts to be arranged even before puberty. Gabriel’s appearance and declarations that Mary is “highly favoured,” that “the Lord is with thee,” that she is “blessed . . . among women” (Luke 1:28), and that, according to the Joseph Smith Translation of Luke 1:28, she was “chosen” (see also Alma 7:10) must have elicited a mixed reaction of confusion and even fear in Mary. We can only imagine what thoughts might have raced through her mind at that moment, but they could have included questions like, “Why does God consider me to be ‘blessed among women’?” “Why have I ‘found favour with God’ and what does that even mean?” (see Luke 1:30) (Gaye Strathearn, “Mary, the Mother of Jesus,” Ensign or Liahona, Jan. 2019)

“Do you feel troubled and uncertain about what is being asked of you? As you fall to your knees, pleading for help to do one more day, do you wonder if God is really favoring you in these blessings? Do you worry about

the capacity needed for the callings ahead?” (Come to Bethlehem and See, Ganel-Lyn Condie)

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