Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast

By Scot Facer Proctor

Religion & Spirituality

What's Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast about?

Each week Meridian Magazine’s founders, Scot and Maurine Proctor, will be giving a 30-minute podcast on the “Come, Follow Me” curriculum for the week. This is so you can listen with your scriptures in hand, or while you are about life’s many other duties. If you want some thoughts about teaching your family or in Church lessons, this can be a place to turn. If you live alone, let us study with you.

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05.07.2021

May 10-16 When you read Doctrine and Covenants Sections 49 and 50, it helps to have the rest of the story. Why should you care about Leman Copley or the Shakers and what’s this talk about false spirits? We will ...

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05.07.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 20, “That Which is of God is Light” -- Doctrine and Covenants 49-50 May 10-16 When you read Doctrine and Covenants Sections 49 and 50, it helps to have the rest of the story. Why should you care about Leman Copley or the Shakers and what’s this talk about false spirits? We will ...
04.30.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 19, “Seek Ye Earnestly the Best Gifts” -- Doctrine and Covenants 46-48 May 3-9 “We must remember that to every man [or woman] is given a gift by the Spirit of God. It is our right and responsibility to accept our gifts and to share them. God’s gifts and powers are available ...
04.23.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 18, “The Promises...Shall Be Fulfilled” -- Doctrine and Covenants 45 April 26-May2 The Second Coming is a topic of endless interest to us, especially in light of the worldwide pandemic we are still battling and the social unrest that is truly troubling. You probably feel as I do, that you ...
04.16.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 17, “My Law to Govern My Church” -- Doctrine and Covenants 41-44 April 19-25 We live in a time when the Church of Jesus Christ has been well established and we are used to talking in terms of large numbers, general conferences translated into scores of languages simultaneously, missionaries serving in diverse ...
04.09.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 16, “If Ye are not One Ye are Not Mine” -- Doctrine and Covenants 37-40 April 12-18 Robert Matthews said, “Many have supposed that the translation of the Bible [what we call the JST] was only a sideline, a matter of personal, but passing interest to the Prophet Joseph.” We agree that too many misunderstand ...
04.02.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 15, “You Are Called to Preach My Gospel” -- Doctrine and Covenants 30-36 April 5-11 Parley Parker Pratt was 16 months younger than the Prophet Joseph and he was born about 140 miles east of Palmyra, New York. Parley was born curious about religion. He said to his father one day when he ...
03.26.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 14, “I am He Who Lives. I am He Who was Slain” -- Easter March 29-April 4 Elder Jeffrey R. Holland said, “That first Easter sequence of Atonement and Resurrection constitutes the most consequential moment, the most generous gift, the most excruciating pain, and the most majestic manifestation of pure love ever to be ...
03.21.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 13, “Jesus Christ Will Gather His People” -- Doctrine and Covenants 29 By the time Section 29 of the Doctrine and Covenants was given, the fledgling Church was just over five months old. Rumors and false claims were circulating faster than convert numbers. What a strategic time for the adversary of all ...
03.13.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 12, “All Things Must be Done in Order” -- D&C 27-28 In August of 1830, Newel Knight and his wife Sally visited Joseph and Emma in Harmony, Pennsylvania. Since neither woman had yet been confirmed, they agreed to perform the ordinance and have the sacrament together. Joseph set out to buy ...
03.05.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 11, “Strengthen the Church” -- D&C 23-26 March 8-14 After the sacred gathering of nearly four dozen Saints in the Whitmer Home in Fayette, New York on Tuesday, April 6, 1830, this little, no, tiny band was given the commission to take the restored gospel of Jesus ...
02.26.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 10, “The Rise of the Church of Christ” -- D&C 20-22 March 1-7 When that group of 40 or more gathered in the 20 by 30-foot Whitmer cabin that April 6, 1830 to organize the “only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth” (Doctrine and Covenants 1:30), ...
02.20.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 9, “The Worth of Souls is Great" -- D&C 18-19 February 22-28 The Doctrine and Covenants is a book full of affirmations that individuals count—that each of us is important in the sight of God. Message after message is to individuals, some we have heard of like Oliver Cowdery or ...
02.12.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 8, “Stand as a Witness” -- D&C 14-17 February 15-21 How do we know about the reality of things we cannot see? How do we know about God whose face we can’t remember? How do we develop faith in spiritual things that are real, but invisible to our ...
02.05.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 7, “Upon You My Fellow Servants” -- D&C 12-13; JSH 1:66-75 February 8-14 The more carefully you study the translation and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, the more you are amazed at the gift and power of God that was given to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery as ...
01.31.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 6, “That You May Come off Conqueror” -- D&C 10-11 February 1-7 As you read the Doctrine and Covenants, section 10 seems out of place chronologically. Since it talks about Martin Harris and the translation of the 116 pages, shouldn’t it come after Section 3? What happened? We’ll tell you ...
01.26.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 5, “This is the Spirit of Revelation” -- D&C 6-9 January 25-31 Just a few months after the 116 manuscript pages of the Book of Lehi were lost, a young man arrived in Manchester, New York. He was five feet five inches tall, with dark brown eyes, a slight build, ...
01.15.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 4, “My Work Shall Go Forth” -- D & C 3-5 January 18-24 Joseph does not shy away from humbly including Section 3 in the Doctrine and Covenants, where he is severely chastened by the Lord for a failing. He could have hid it or polished it up to preserve his ...
01.09.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 3, “The Hearts of Their Children Shall Turn...” -- JSH 1: 27-65 January 11-17 Do we know every scripture that Moroni told Joseph Smith on his September 21 visit in 1823? Our first answer is, “They are listed right here in Joseph Smith’s history.” Yet Oliver Cowdery told us there are many ...
01.03.2021 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 2, “I Saw a Pillar of Light” -- Joseph Smith History 1: 1-26 January 4-10 In every dispensation of the world a witness is called to testify to the people of that day and age that he has seen God and has talked with Him and has received instructions and guidance from Him. ...
12.27.2020 Come Follow Me D&C Podcast 1, “Hearken, O Ye People” -- D&C 1 December 28-January 3 Hasn’t this been a glorious year in carefully studying the Book of Mormon as individuals and families? Did you notice time and time again that the lesson for that week was just the answer you needed for ...
12.18.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 50, “He Shall Come into the World to Redeem His People” -- Christmas December 21-27 This year we have an event in the skies that hasn’t happened since March 4, 1226, nearly 800 years ago. People have been calling it the “Christmas Star” or the “Star of Bethlehem. We’ll tell you what it ...
12.11.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 49, “Come unto Christ, and Be Perfected in Him” -- Moroni 10 December 14-20 I think it’s fascinating that Moroni starts out chapter 10 by saying that he’d like to send these words to his brethren, the Lamanites. That is a fascinating view of Moroni’s heart. He has seen the Lamanites completely ...
12.05.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 48, “May Christ Lift Thee Up” -- Moroni 7-9 December 7-13 Moroni Chapter 7 is a powerful sermon on faith, hope, and charity given by Mormon, but when? You can't help but wonder. He was born in AD 310, was made a general at the age of 16 and ...
11.28.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 47, “To Keep Them in the Right Way” -- Moroni 1-6 November 30-December 6 Moroni did not know when he would die, attacked by Lamanites or some other deadly surprise, in his 36-year wandering. He tells his latter-day readers goodbye more than once on the plates. Yet even living with that ...
11.20.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 46, “By Faith All Things are Fulfilled” -- Ether 12-15 November 23-29 Moroni may complain about his weakness with words, but he has given us one of the most insightful chapters on faith in all of scripture. We will study it in this episode.
11.13.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 45, “That Evil May be Done Away” -- Ether 6-11 November 16-22 We go to a scene of spirits in the premortal world, anticipating. with perhaps some concern, their descent to a darkened world. We knew we would be taking a journey and must have wondered how we could make ...
11.06.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 44, “Rend that Veil of Unbelief" -- Ether 1-5 November 9-15 Moroni told us in Mormon 8, “Behold, I would write…if I had room upon the plates, but I have not; and ore I have none”, so there is an untold story between these verses and the book of ...
10.30.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 43, “I Speak unto You as if Ye were Present” -- Mormon 7-9 November 2-8 As we start our studies today on Mormon 7-9, Moroni has taken over the record from his father and is in a tragic position. He has seen his culture decimated and he is the last survivor of what ...
10.23.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 42, “I Would That I Could Persuade All … to Repent” -- Mormon 1-6 October 26-November 1 Every time I read the Book of Mormon and get to these chapters, I always hope that the Nephites will repent and that their civilization and people will be spared—and then it happens every time! They are ...
10.16.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 41, “There Couldn’t have been a Happier People” -- 3 Nephi 27-4 Nephi October 19-25 When President Russell M. Nelson taught us that we needed to use the true name of the Church going forward, he was teaching us something deeper than we might have understood at the time. Something, in fact that ...
10.09.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 40, “Ye Are the Children of the Covenant” -- 3 Nephi 20-26 October 12-18 If you knew that the Lord Jesus Christ would spend the day with you and all who would come to the occasion from your home stake, what do you think He would teach you? What do you think ...
09.25.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 39, “Behold, My Joy is Full” -- 3 Nephi 17-19 September 28-October 11 Can you imagine the joy that would fill your souls if you were witnesses to the visitation of the Lord Jesus Christ? How could you possibly describe your feelings? How could you even handle the happiness that ...
09.18.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 38, “I Am the Law, and the Light” -- 3 Nephi 12-16 September 21-27 If you were to do a survey to determine the most influential talk or sermon in history, surely the results would point to the Lord’s Sermon on the Mount. Here are contained the eternal “beatitudes;” here is contained ...
09.11.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 37, “Arise and Come Forth Unto Me” -- 3 Nephi 8-11 September 14-20 How can you not be just thrilled with this week’s readings? The entire Book of Mormon has been centered on one Person—Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer—and His coming to the earth and the promised visit to this ...
09.04.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 36, “Lift Up Your Head and Be of Good Cheer” -- 3 Nephi 1-7 September 7-13 I was just pondering very early this morning as I looked out the window: “What if at 4:00 in the morning on a fall day I looked out the window and it was as bright as day? Would ...
08.28.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 35, “Glad Tidings of Great Joy” -- Helaman 13-16 August 31-September 6 In the Book of Mormon, the Nephites always think of themselves as the good guys. In a movie, they’d ride in wearing the white hat or the gold star, signifying their goodness. Yet, the Book of Mormon ...
08.21.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 34, “Remember the Lord” -- Helaman 7-12 August 24-30 As Helaman chapter 7 opens, we see a prophet pleading with God for his people in great agony and heaviness of Spirit. The Gadianton robbers had usurped legitimate authority and taken over much of the government, the people ...
08.14.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 33, “The Rock of our Redeemer” -- Helaman 1-6 August 17-23 In Helaman chapters 1-6, the Lamanites become the righteous and the Nephites the wicked. How does this switch come about? And the new enemy are the Gadianton robbers, who capture the allegiance of many of the Nephites. Things ...
08.07.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 32, “Preserved by His Marvelous Power” -- Alma 53-63 August 10-16 The ten chapters that we look at today are about both the low and high points of the Nephite nation. This is a time of continual war, brought on in large part by the “contentions, and dissensions, and ...
07.31.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 31, “Stand Fast in the Faith of Christ” -- Alma 43-52 August 3-9 You may get to the so-called war chapters in the Book of Mormon and wonder why Mormon bothered to include so many of them. Yet, he was a prophet who’d seen our day and if ever there were ...
07.24.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 30, “The Great Plan of Happiness" -- Alma 39-42 July 27-August 2 With only 239 chapters in the Book of Mormon and only 531 pages, would you take four of those chapters and 8 pages just to talk about one wayward missionary’s story who committed a grievous sexual sin? ...
07.17.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 29, “Look to God and Live” -- Alma 36-38 July 20-26 We see many conversations in the Book of Mormon where fathers teach their sons and their impact changes not only their son’s life, but the generations that follow. The lessons are profound. The impact overwhelming. If there was ...
07.13.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 28, “Plant This Word in Your Hearts” -- Alma 32-35 July 13-19 Alma has a hidden message in this week’s readings. You all are familiar with the concept he teaches of having a particle of faith and planting a seed and nurturing it that it may grow. But what is ...
07.04.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 27, “The Virtue of the Word of God” -- Alma 30, 31 July 6-12 It is surprising that an idea can at once be so popular, attracting people to give it passionate devotion, and at the same time be completely false. Why are people so often crazy enough to jump on a ...
06.26.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 26, “They Never Did Fall Away” -- Alma 23-29 June 29-July 5 It’s intriguing to me to ponder about why the great abridger of the ancient records, the Prophet Mormon, included some stories and not others in the text. No one in ancient times had the Book of Mormon. ...
06.19.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 25, “I Will Make an Instrument of Thee” -- Alma 17-22 June 22-28 Can you imagine if today you opened a mission call and it was for a 14-year mission to a violent people whose aim was to destroy you? You might think twice about that kind of call. Yet, the ...
06.14.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 24, “Enter into the Rest of the Lord” -- Alma 13-16 June 15-21 Have you ever thought about Alma and Amulek watching the believers in Ammonihah burn? It is not just the pain that these are their tender converts. Could it be that Amulek’s own family was among that group because ...
06.05.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 23, “Jesus Christ will Come to Redeem His People” -- Alma 8-12 June 8-14 Here’s an irony. In our day, when someone wants to change everything that is wrong with the world, they run for president. In the Book of Mormon, Alma hoping to pull down the pride and craftiness and contentions ...
05.29.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 22, “Have Ye Experienced This Mighty Change in Your Hearts?” -- Alma 5-7 June 1-7 I’ve always loved Alma chapter 5. It could be taken as the most introspective chapter in all of holy writ. Alma asks more than 40 questions of his listeners and really wants them to probe their spirituality in ...
05.22.2020 Come Follow Me BofM Podcast 21, “They were Steadfast and Immovable” -- Mosiah 29-Alma 4 May 25-31 Hugh Nibley calls Mosiah 29 one of the most important treatises on political power ever written. In fact, the Book of Mormon has plenty to say about good and bad political leaders. Why does a spiritual book have ...

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